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Yes, I bought 6 NESN's and 2 of them are white label WD80EMAZ drives. The other 4 are WD80EFAX Red drives. Once the Reds pass a WD full drive scan and a preclear, the 2 white labels will be returned to Best Buy. Here's a chart that explains what the model numbers mean:

I managed to pickup 2 of the NEBB drives yesterday for $129.99 each. They were one of the doorbuster deals, so I think they went quickly. I also picked up 2 of the NESN drives for $159.99 each. I don't need all four drives, so now I have to figure out which ones to keep. What's the deal with the 3.3v reset thing on the white labels? Is this a problem with the shucked NESN (Reds?) drives, too?

I was mainly concerned that the extra "reads" might be slowing down my file transfers, but I won't worry about it; I'm almost done anyways.

Background: I'm running 5.0.6 on a HP Microserver N54L with 8GB of memory, Hitachi 4TB NAS parity drive, and three WD 4TB Red data drives (formatted ReiserFS). I went a little crazy around Black Friday and bought three more Hitachi 4TB NAS drives to replace my WD Reds. After reading up on v6, I decided that I wanted to convert to XFS, so I setup the three new Hitachi drives in a spare HP Microserver N40L (4GB memory), loaded 6.1.8 with my second Plus license, and created a new array with the three drives all set as data drives, no parity. Instead of copying the data from one server to another over the network, I shutdown my 5.0.6 server, pulled one of the data drives, added it to my 6.1.8 server as a fourth data drive, and started copying the data using the command-line at the console. Once I have the data moved to the new XFS-formatted drives, I'm going to put the four Hitachi drives in the N54L and rebuild parity. I'll keep the WD Red drives on hand as backups for a bit. Now, the weird thing that I noticed is in the Web GUI, the read count on the ReiserFS drive is double the write count on the XFS drive that I'm writing to. I would expect numbers like that if unRAID was calculating parity, but I'm not running a parity drive yet. Is this working as expected or is this a bug? tower-diagnostics-20160223-2046.zip

My issue turned out to be an odd glitch. Just before I lost the Web GUI, I attempted to stop the array and it got stuck syncing and/or unmounting the disks. Before that I was copying files disk to disk using the console and didn't logoff. Once I logged off of the console, the Web GUI came back and I was able to shutdown properly. Thanks for the help.

I might be experiencing the same issue. Can you post the link on how to properly shutdown?

I'm going to keep the v5 server with its disks until I complete the data transfer. The only disk that I plan to permanently move to the v6 server is my parity drive, which I'll do once I transfer all the data. I understand that I'll have to rebuild parity, but I'll have a copy of all of my data on my v5 server while it rebuilds on the v6 server.

I'm still running 5.0.6 on my primary server and instead of upgrading it to v6, I opted to use my second unRAID license to setup a separate server running a clean install of 6.1.8. I have a couple of brand new drives in the second server formatted as XFS, but I have NOT setup a parity drive yet; I'll do that once I copy my files from my v5 server. Can I put one of my v5 data drives (ReiserFS) in my v6 server without it triggering a reformat? Will I be able to copy the data from the v5 drive to one of the v6 drives? I think I'll be able to do this, but I just want to be sure I'm not overlooking some small detail.

Oops, I was looking at the BX200, not the BX100. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crucial-bx200-ssd,4351.html I'd still pay the extra $10 for the MX200 over the BX100.

I'd rather pay the extra $10-15 for the MX200. The BX series have horrible reviews.

I asked my question on the Video Redo forum as well and one of their developers replied. Basically, as long as I have TiVo Desktop installed on my editing PC, I'll be able to continue using a similar workflow. Now I just need to decide if it's worth the $300...

I'm considering getting one of these to replace my Windows 7 Media Center setup. I currently edit my WTV recordings with Video Redo and save them to unRAID for playback on Raspberry Pi Kodi media players. Will I be able to mimick this workflow with the Roamio?

I wish this was for the 4GB stick that came with my N54L.

Thanks! I called and got them to credit me the difference; they would not do it via their online chat, though.

Newegg had them on sale yesterday for $259.99 and I ordered one thinking it was a good deal until I saw it on Tiger Direct today. Luckily, I was able to cancel my Newegg order before it shipped.