mcdonagg

Ok maybe I should have looked into it a bit more, I only read 3 threads about it but then on the fourth I found this: and it worked perfect

I have a system with all 2TB drives running 6 beta 10. One of my drives started throwing errors and I am going to replace it. I just got a 4tb drive and decided to do the swap-disable way. I swapped out the parity with the new drive, and the broken drive with the parity. The server booted up fine and actually had pre-selected the right divers for the right spots (4tb in the parity and the old parity in the old broken slot) but both drives have a red dot that says WRONG and the server says "Too many wrong and/or missing disks!" Did I do something wrong? Is there a way to force the system to do a swap-disable? I am basing my actions off of this wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Manual#Replace_a_failed_disk

It is is an ok price if you are looking for a good 4TB drive, it is still less $/GB than the 5tb and 6tb drives, so if $s are your limit yes it is a good deal, if slots are your limit then no not really

lol well I guess it is a bit off, price drop went active and how it is $155, so $10 off, not as good as I thought it would be

The deal dosent kick in for another 15 min or so so I am not sure the deal but right now it is at $165 and is going to go lower which will be a great deal. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EHBERSE/ref=gb1h_img_c-2_7042_866d6db0?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0VA00G9FM1HVMZHYXN2X&pf_rd_i=5550342011&pf_rd_p=1990147042

How would I do this through the web app, I am not sure how to use it? Thank you so much

I havent done this but I think what you should have done is a "rebuild" not a sync, but your data should still be on the 3TB drive you removed so you should be able to put that back in and do a sync then do the swap and do a rebuild.

Basically you will loose the storage of your largest drive. if you have a 4tb HD and a 2TB HD you will only have 2TB, but every hard drive you add after that is added to your pool, so if you add 2 more 2TB drives you are up to 6TB of storage.

The instructions are in here: http://download.lime-technology.com/dnld/beta/unRAIDServer-5.0.1-rc1-i386.txt So what I did on my windows machine was type Run in my search bar from the start button, then connect to the server "\\tower", then opened my flash drive and draged over 'bzimage', 'bzroot', and 'readme.txt' from the release zip file. Then rebooted.

All WD hard drives 15% EMCNBHG38 All Seagate notebook HD EMCNBHG39 Select Portable HD http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Depa=0&Description=portablehdAug12&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL082312&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL082312-_-EMC-082312-Index-_-MECH-_-PortableHardDrives-L1A EMCNBHG37 All Netgear Desktop NAS EMCNBHG42

I was reading Engadget and saw that WD just came out with a new line WD Red, these are focused for NAS and home server use. I think this would be perfect. I need a new 2tb should I go ahead and buy this or stick with the green till it has been tested out more. Here are some links http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/wd-red-hard-drive-official-launch-nas-soho-storage/ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236343

I think this would work but have very little idea on how to set it up. I currently have 2 servers, currently synced up, I am moving one off site soon and would like to be able to rsync it if possible. could anyone help me with how to set up a secure tunnel?

lol, thats fine I actually had that window open because I am preclearing 5 disks right now as well

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial#Preclearing_With_Screen Walkthrough

I am running preclear on 5 hard drives, they are all the same, and all plugged into sata ports on the motherboard. 4 of them are sda-sdd but the fifth one is hda and when running the preclear is going about half the speed. Does anyone know why?