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It's primarily an cleanliness issue. I've long since given up trying to keep my cases attractive looking, but the splitters never seem to help. Not a technical issue at all. If they don't exist, so be it Thanks!

Howdy all! Looking to change computer cases, and the case I have in mind has a backplane that needs 12 4-pin molex plugs connected into it. No SATA plugs will be needed. In the interest of not having to use splitters, which I'm not a huge fan of, does anyone know of any particular models of PSUs that have 12+ molex plugs? I've been scouring Newegg, but with no search function to tighten the search, it's a pain in the butt Thanks for any advice!

For free? I'd take it, if only for the simple reason it's "better" in every sense of the word, will use less power, and is just better. unRAID doesn't currently exploit multiple cores, but it may in the future.

Will do. As I've never done it, if I move some of my current data drives to the new port multiplier box, will I need to set up anything in unRAID? I won't be moving the parity drive, so they should all pop up, righto?

A way to get around this, as well as a feature I'd like to see (if it's not there already; waiting on a 1TB drive to come in so I can replace a 400GB drive and use it as the cache drive ), is a way to manually force a "cache dump" to the array itself, instead of waiting for the scheduled mover.

This controller: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132011 Along with this multiplier: http://www.addonics.com/products/host_controller/ad5sahpm-e.asp From my reading: , it looks like it'll work, as the card is SIL3124, and unRAID has support... but, just wanted to check

What benefit does adding more RAM to the system do? Is there a noticeable improvement in copying speed, read speed, etc? I have no qualms with maxing out my RAM (well, not maxing, as I can go to 8GB), but what does it provide?

Howdy folks. currently, I'm using one of the "slow" Western Digital 1TB drives as my unRAID's parity drive. While I have no complaints about it, it is a "slower" drive in pure performance. I have recently purchased an Hitachi 1TB drive, and am wondering if it'd be worth it to switch out the WD for the Hitachi, as the parity drive, for the increased performance? And, if it is worth it, how difficult is it? Is it just remove WD drive, put in Hitachi, and have it rebuild itself? Thanks for any advice.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8355497&productCategoryId=abcat0504003&type=product&id=1177112455081 External, but SATA internal. Not 100% sure of how the warranty works with the internal drive, but since it is a Hitachi-branded unit, my bet would be it's handled through Hitachi: But I'm honestly not sure if it's 1/3/5 year, etc.

It'll all depend on the state of drivers for the SATA ports; I honestly have no idea if it's supported atm, but I'd bet no, since it's fairly new. I think you'd be better off sticking with an Intel board, just for simplicity's sake, but I'm a simple man... Plus, the most notable features for that board, in the Intel realm, is the accelerated BD/HD-DVD playback, HDCP, HDMI audio... all sorta useless for unRAID.

Deep urge, mostly. No real reason, the more I think about it, just knowing it's going to be filling up one drive for awhile now, hehe.

Howdy. Added a new drive to a share today: All of the old disks were 400GB (4), about 1/2 of them used (using high water management), so each had ~200GB of data. The new drive is a 1TB drive. Highwater will fill it, basically, to 500GB and then switch. My question is this: Can I move files from, say, disk1 (400GB) to the new TB drive, to distribute stuff a little more evenly? And not screw up the file system, that is. Say I move folder "Bob" to the new drive, will "Bob" still show up under my share, and be accessible? Sorry if I did a really piss-poor job of describing what I want to do, lawl. Thanks!

In a few months or so, everything might change Just the one thing I noticed, no one seemed to really be advocating a high powered CPU for unRAID, so I just choose a low power Celeron, hehe.

If the price difference is negligible enough, go for the larger one; no harm, no foul. The max spike of CPU usage I've seen on mine so far has been 25%... so I wasn't too worried *shrug*. The 1.8 or 2.0ghz model would work fine, though: Just use slightly more power. Memory wise, in a build like this, I see no reason to go with more expensive memory, assuming you're not going with a cheaper, off brand to save money. And since both sets seem to be Kingston, I'd go with the lower priced Kingston: The added bandwidth of the 667/800, I doubt, will make much difference.

65 dollars/euros seems expensive for 1GB of DDR2, but I have 0 idea how prices are in anywhere but the US, heh. In the US, we can get 2GB for about 65 dollars, so it may be expensive. The timings on it are awfully agressive for lower end memory, for sure. The BIOS is stupidly easy on that board: Just download the BIOS from Asus, put it on a flash drive, go into the BIOS, go to "Tools", and select the EZ-Bios. It boots into the tool, looks at the USB drive, and voila, good to go.