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Just had a drive go out today, and Unraid is rebuilding a new one without a problem. In my last independent disks mediaserver, I would have just lost the data. Unraid rocks!!!
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2010-08-08, 00:38
(This post was last modified: 2010-08-08, 01:08 by snuffy1pro.)
I have been using Unraid for about 2+ years with no issues. Check out my sig for build pics and wire management ideas. I use a 4020 norco and have about 25+TB of storage. The pics are a bit older but they may be of help. The only real change from the pics is all my drives are in or updated. An example of a norco 4020 trick is the Mainboard stand offs are a bit longer than norm so you can route the power supply cables under the M/B. Also, the front panel cable can be routed along the side trough gapes in the frame steel. (see sig unraid link) Depending on which version of the case you got, you only need to plug power into one row (verticaly) on the backplane.
RE: WD drives. True the EARS drive will need to be jumped on pins 7-8 but if you have other WD drives in the array you will find the EARS a bit slower on media access. I have two and they are much slower than the EADS family and EACS family of drives I have. Newegg has the WD EADS again so pick them up before they are gone.
Use a non Green cache drive like a WD black or the like, and connect it off the main array. ie if you use a 16port card for your array drives connect the cache directly to the main board not the riser card. This will increase your speed a lot on transfers to the unraid box. Also set up your mover script in unraid to make moves through out the day. This way 40-100GB(whatever) of data is not unprotected waiting till 3:00 in the morning to move to the shares.
If electricity is not a real issue in your area or you have a brand new energy star home, or like me all of the above and you just don't care.... set the drives to not spin down. Mine have been spinning along for two years now.. no issues.
The best part about unraid is you can actually talk with Tom via email for support.
25+TB unraid
1400+ movies
3600+ tv episodes
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Some views hit the disk to check for fanart and the like - particularly if you have things _without_ cached fanart.
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How do we cache the fanart?
Kodi: Kodi 17.4, with Transparency!
50 TB Unraid Server: Docker Apps: SABnzbd, Sickrage, mariaDB
HTPC: Win10 (cause Steam), i7, GTX 1080
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Anyone had an issues with there library not updating using unraid? Xbmc can see the video files and it has all the nfo's but when I update library it doesnt find it.
Just thought it ask in this thread as well just incase its something to do with unraid.
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I haven't had a problem (using EMM to generate my nfo files).
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I'm really interested in building an unraid server and have been doing a lot of reading on the subject. There's one thing I haven't found out yet ( I probably missed it though) regarding HDD's. I have a few lying around and want to use them, but they all have data on them that I don't want to lose. So my question is, is it possible to use drives that already have data on them or would it be better to get new ones so I don't lose the data?
Thanks
Treefour
Asus Essentio CS5110, Intel E8300, 2 GB Ram, 8600M GT
