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Hey Bill, I'm glad you got your network gear on the UPS... I have my phones (VoIP/ATA etc) on it to ensure I have dial tone all the time. Also, glad you didn't get a CyberPower or a Belkin. I purchased a CyberPower off ebay simply it looked nice and it was cheap however the batteries are not the traditional replacement batteries... As for the Belkin, I had 2 go bad in 2 yrs and think they're a POS compared with APC. I still long to get Tripp Lite's, maybe slowly replace as they're more durable and musters out more juice, duration from similar specs as APC. Only thing I hate about UPS where I live is when it beeps from a brown out in the middle of the night and wakes me. I get little sleep as it is.

I'm not going to be the best person to reply but I have a suspicion or a gut feeling I might have had similar symptoms. Could you run dmesg next time you telnet over and post the results? Mola

Hey Jeremymc7, I see many of your points and indeed it is about finding the right solution at a comfortable cost like many have expressed along with your self. I know many organizations that has to maintain and protect sensitive information spend a good penny on their infrastructure including but not limited to load balancing, data warehousing and server clustering. For a medium level data protection, RAID 0+1 could provide the redundancies one would look for however when we get far, it's not just about the hard drive but the up time where the switch, cpu, memory, motherboard or power supply failing and for those who have dual hot swap power supply, what if both PSU goes out at the same time. Is there another standby server w/ mirrored data that can go online. I even know companies that have mirrored NOC facilities in a different states in case of natural disasters or is that going to far in ones view. For what we need is simply data protection without the uptime being equal. It is of course plausible to have two things fail at the same time but remote. The way I use my unRaid is to use it as my backup from my laptops and desktops data. These core data files is less than 20GB so pretty easy to have it in a single folder. I do have folders w/ critical data sync up using small apps like the synctoy from MS. So my critical files and folders are copied/sync'd to unRAID so if i loose my desktop copy, i have a back on unRAID. For my laptop, I use a different sync tool that i got off download.com as the SyncToy requires .Net framwork to get installed and didn't want to add that on my laptop. This method works well as it provides a mirror (folder mirrors) of critical data. I could take it one step further to run another sync on the \\disk1\archive folder to \\disk1\arhcive2 folder if i am in fear of two drives going down at the same time however that would be giving me three mirrors but i'm ok with just having 2 so far. As for the rest of the remaining TB of data is my movies, mp3 and pictures. Oh yes, i do sync up my picture folder on this desktop to unRaid so i can view pictures from my xbmc in the living room. If I'm using unRaid as my mapped out folder on this desktop then I would have it sync to another disk to have a second backup. I'm not exactly sure of how much data is critical, maybe mirroring folders could help for you as well? Good Luck, M

Hey Billy, Curious to know if there were any speed difference from the 1GB, 2GB, 512MB USB Sticks? I've been using a 64MB USB 2.0 and 128MB USB 2.0 stick that I had from my prior company, lol. I can't tell any difference in speed that I could tell. Only con I can think of w/ the 64MB would be if the unRAID OS doubled it's size in the near future then I might be out of luck but so far, so good.

Hello jgs2n, I use xbmc as well but I'm not sure if I'm reading your post correctly. You take around your xbmc when you travel? I don't see why you would carry around an XBOX with you during your travels over a laptop? If this is the case, then the usage of intent would be to stream movies and i doubt this will be a viable solution as your broadband connection would need to have enough UPstream speed to sustain a movie feed out to the internet. Max xbmc cache is 16MB and wouldn't think that would be hardly enough. I have my xbmc on a wifi bridge and i've capped it's speed to 5.5Mbps before and it was not fast enough to stream divx movies, at 10Mbps it was fine but I started to see Chops when i used FF using 2X. 48~54Mbps provides a smooth stream up to 8X speeds so some of my divx movies is needing 6Mbps for a proper stream. If you're traveling, you could consider getting a USB2 - 2.5" USB Hard Drive with a few movies on them and play it off your laptop instead. I don't think it's the best option to pursue having your unRaid DMZ's off your router to pull movies off of, most upload speeds off of home broadband is not enough to play any movies from. if it's for mp3 files, then I would just copy a few to the laptop for travels as well. Take Care, M

Hey Daytona, I read about the product info and it seems to be an win app, so you could only see your encrypted disks using a windows os that's running truecrypt, correct? Regards, M

This is my current method, I d/l into a mapped folder on unraid nas and par & rar the files there using windows. Then I move it into a more structured folder for easy archive, since it's on the same disk, it's a quick move and not a network copy. I thought tafkap might have found a faster/better method but the above steps works fairly well so far.

Those are sweet looking...

Hey tafkap, Were you able to get quickpar and unrar installed and working? I would like to obtain your notes, steps on how you've went about this for other UX Noobs like me ;-) Thanks, M

Yeah there is a way, there's home router/gateways that have VPN's now days. here's a few examples http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WirelessVPNFirewallRouters/FVG318.aspx http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/WiredVPNFirewallRouters/FVS318.aspx Or VPN + SSL http://www.netgear.com/Products/VPNandSSL/SSLVPNConcentrators/SSL312.aspx I use the linksys VPN wifi/ap/gw but i dont recommend and others i know use the above without issues. Once you VPN using the client software from the respective equipment maker, you can browse your home network as if you are connected inside your homes firewall/router. This method also does not expose your Nas to everyone on the internet.

Hey Bill, I noticed the first option is the biggest bucket in the poll, maybe a deeper poll drilling down a bit futher? Sometimes people buy/get/build for one reason but end up using it mostly for another. Might be good to identify that. That was the case for me, I originally built this for mirroring folders and backing up files but I end up using it more for the movie collection after. i.e. Q: Which item was the key driver for getting unRAID A: 1) HTPC 2) MP3 3) Backup Files 4) Mirroring folders 5) Shared folders Q: Which of the following do you use the most today A: 1) HTPC 2) MP3 3) Backup Files 4) Mirroring folders 5) Shared folders Q: Which of the following is the critical use for the software RAID in unRaid A: 1) HTPC 2) MP3 3) Backup Files 4) Mirroring folders 5) Shared folders etc