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This is what ive been wondering as well. will i just lose 2tb in an array of 2tb discs or is this not like unraid at all and thus far more expensive ? because i did read somewhere it can handle losing 2 drives even so this confuses me even more.

Great! Thanks prostuff1! you are always so amazingly helpful.

Just wanted to make sure before i go ahead. if i want to do a clean re-install of unraid i can just delete everything on the usb stick and then just install unraid on the usbstick again and then just setup my drives as they were before and all will be fine correct? no data loss?is there any specific file i need to backup?

I'll make it short, I have a bunch of japanese music files with Japanese characters in the file name. they don't display correctly in subsonic, just a bunch of ?'s. I have looked around in the subsonic forum and tried editing the subsonic.sh file, but so far no luck. has anyone been able to figure out how to solve this problem?

Ohshi-- I feel like such an idiot. forgot i replaced a broken switch with a non gb one. let this be a lesson dont post at 3 in the morning : P thanks anyway.

I get a max of 11mb/s when copying stuff to the array. from what i understand the norm is 20-30mb/s. is there any easy way to tell which drive is causing this issue? [assuming a single drive is causing this issue] while preclearing each drive i got the max of each drive. [around the 100mb/s] thanks

For some reason the transmission package is gone from the Pkg Manager. is this just me?

And to think I was thinking of just skipping the preclear before i put together my server : P ill be a good boy and do my preclear's. thanks for the help again and the sympathy.

*sigh* if i must. im going to preclear again, then hopefully that will solve the problem. thanks a lot for the help. see you in around 30 hours when the preclear finishes T_T

done. here are the 3 smart files. i replaced the sata cables and reconnected everything. what should i do now? smart.txt smart2.txt smart3.txt

Just finished preclearing my 3 drives but now after starting an array with them i saw it was stuck on formatting for more then a couple of minutes. then after a couple more minutes i noticed ihave 3,509 errors on one of my data drives only after a few minutes and it was reported as disk invalid. at first unmenu was very slow in loading the pages and now i cant access it at all. for a while after that i could access the reguler menu slowly but now even that is lost. i can still telnet but not sure if i should restart or wait it out. before i lost unmenu i noticed it said it was doing a rebuild but since its still stuck on formatting i dont really understand this. but looking at the console it seems to be doing a parity chec. [ Biostar A760G M2+ is my motherboard] my syslog is over 1mb and i wasn't sure what was relevant so i uploaded it to mediafire http://www.mediafire.com/?aydjb3mcdz7xwm0 please help : <

I believe I should be able to get my hands on a CM 590 case, I see plenty of local online stores that carry it here for cheap. Regarding the motherboard though...not sure how I feel about spending so much money[its really the heavy taxes that make the importing process so expensive] on importing a motherboard without any kind of warranty or something like that. Today I found a local store that sells the BIOSTAR TA790GX 128M for a somewhat sane price which I have seen a few people build with, just need to check on the store's stock. Thanks for responding Rajahal and for the offer. Now that I have your response I feel fairly confident to proceed as planned.

Server will be for pretty much what you use it for, audio and video media. I have around 20-30tb of data in internal and external drives around the house [i do not plan to use any of these drives for the server]. I dont know if I plan to start right away at 10-12 but I was planing on starting at 4-6 and expanding every month with a drive or two, as much as I can afford till I reach the limit. Thank you for your help and interest PeterB its nice to see someone who is so willing to help

While I appreciate the response PeterB, I already mentioned my requirements. How does a 3 drive server made from old hardware answer those requirements? If you are trying to say that im better off using old hardware until I can afford a more expensive scalable setup then thats something else, and its an option im willing to consider if someone can give me a reason why my plan isn't a good one and why a scalable setup that will cost 3x as much is so much better. Thanks again.

Thank you for your responses. I do see people here prefer to invest in more expensive parts that will scale with their future needs. but in my case such parts are more expensive then usual. An Antec 1200 case would cost here 300$ and a single 5 in 3 enclosure [the cheapest] would cost around 200$ to import and a Super Micro C2SEE would cost 300$ to import, I cant afford that right now. So in my case I think it would be better to either get a cheap motherboard and case and later expand into a case like an Antec 1200 and a motherboard such as the Super Micro C2SEE or something like that or I could just buy a 2nd cheap server with a cheap case and motherboard like the first server.