Brian B.

http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/10/19/13329232/seagate-barracuda-st5000-5-tb-hard-drive Time to rethink my next server... As for these maybe not being NAS quality, isn't that why we are running Unraid?

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When you factor the cost of a mother board, processor and Sata cards, this has the potential to be a great alternative for building a home media server!

Another idea would be a new security permission level: Read & Append Users could read files, and add uniquely named files, but not overwrite or delete existing files. This would be good for our media shares that are mostly cold storage, as well as being a good fight against malware. One would stay logged in at this level for day to day activity, then switch to a higher level login for cleaning and file maintenance.

So far, i haven't found a good solution either. Short depth 10+ drive enclosures just don't exist for the DIY market. (you can buy a https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS2415+ if you want a whole predone NAS) I'm thinking of starting with 4 of these: http://amzn.com/B00DGZ42SM and building a custom case around them.

So late last year/early this year I bought 2 external toshiba 5TB drives. Shucked 'em. Learned a few things in the process: * Their cases are really hard to open. * They change the drive model number on the HDD label. The warranty website won't acknowledge it. AT ALL. * One drive had 0 bad sectors, the other had 16. It's stable, which is good, because it has no warranty. * The questionable drive makes A LOT more rotational and head access noise. I just swapped it out and will use it as a secondary backup drive. I'd warranty exchange it but... Since then switching back to buying bare 3.5" HDDs, yeah, it's an extra 10 or 20 bucks, but I'll pay that for warranty exchange privileges. ALSO - black Friday HDD prices are coming. Might be best to wait a month if you can.

Based on the drive prices we've seen so far this spring and summer, what do you guys think will be the drives and prices we see Black Friday weekend this year? Bonus question, what price level (per gig?) gets your cold emotionless heart to break open the wallet and buy more storage this holiday season?

That fixed it. Seems kinda silly that file server software ships with a hidden option that enables major functionality, and it's OFF by default.

Searched the forums but couldn't find anything relevant. 2 servers, same problem: No way to create a user share in 6.0.1 Upgraded a 5.bsomething to 6.01 by throwing away all settings, making a clean install of unraid, and firing up the server. Works fine but it won't show existing root level folders (shares) or allow me to create a new one (all the data is safe, and i can access each drive individually) On a separate testing microserver, did a fresh clean install on 4 precleared 1tb drives. again, after the server starts, i can set up drive shares, but the GUI to set up user shares is missing. Am I overlooking something obvious? thanks!

You're going to love this answer: Although Apple has committed to moving away from AFP to SMB, they dropped the ball on getting sparsebundles to work on SMB shares. Short version: You can't create / reliably use (especially encrypted) sparsebundles on an SMB share. i wasted about a day trying to make that work. CCC's documentation talks about why. if you want to use CCC with unraid, share a disk out via AFP and it'll work. Time machine works, but I found it's reliability to be problematic. Personally I use time machine to backup to local USB disks, and CCC to make redundant copies to unraid.

As a follow up, the GUI preclear status seems to work significantly better with the preclear plugin, and it is amazing! So amazing in fact that this should be an included feature of the core file server, and not a 3rd party add-on (this applies to the preclear script and the plug-in functionality) Back to the speed displayed. I think the GUI is right, and the script (CLI) display is wrong. I say this because a drive took 6 hours to preread (120ish MB/sec) 6ish hours to zero, (again 120ish MB/sec) and 12 hours to post read (which would be 60ish MB/sec) The GUI showed the correct number, the CLI showed much higher read speed (120ish MB/sec) Not that it really matters, it got the job done no matter what was displayed. More helpful to humans would be an estimated time remaining. (doing a little creative math as most drives tend to slow down the further they get along inn the read or write process)

Title says it all. Was using the GUI to keep on eye on a 5TB preclear, the MB/sec seemed way low, connected via screen and everything is normal.

I have two I'm shucking this weekend. I'll post anything of note back to this thread.

FWIW - There is strong evidence that Seagate's external 5tb drives are SMR. Seagate does not offer a internal 5tb "desktop" drive, but they do offer an 5tb SMR archive drive. Based on tests done by other users here on the forums, it sounds like that doesn't really matter for use with unraid.

I think commercial software can't just tell you to go pirate a feed from <redacted> tv listing provider. So they have to pay $1 or 2 a month per subscriber, and they mark it up and sell it off as a yearly subscription. This appears to be how EyeTV (which is what I use) works. Some commercial software allows you to bring your own guide data in via XML, in which case, you can do what you want without them encouraging you to pirate guide data. I'm quasi interested in this, as certain things EyeTV does really annoy me; but EyeTV's very easy way to edit out commercials is a compelling feature I don't see in Silicon Dust's feature set.