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  1. I think I see the problem. /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do/* should be /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/2do/* according to your working directory.
  2. Could you try: mv `ls -t /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do/* | tail -2` /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/test Otherwise, perhaps this will work: cd /mnt/disk3/Movies/Handbrake/2do && mv `ls -t | tail -2` /mnt/disk3/Movies/HandBrake/test
  3. Price: $350.07 Weight: 3.00 KGS Shipping: $49.21 (Fixed shipping cost) Do you see the currency converter on the right hand side? That should allow you switch to USD. The pricing seems to default to Euros as I'm in the US and got the Euro pricing same as you. Anyhow, looks like a very nice streamer/HTPC. $400 is a little more than I'd care to drop on one though since I'd only use XBMC and I think it'd be overkill just for that. Also, what's the HDD support? I'm assuming it supports an internal drive but I can't find any specs on it.
  4. It's more like unRAID for VMware. Or specifically, running unRAID in a VM under VMware. The reasons are mostly so you can take advantage of virtualization without having to dedicate a machine to unRAID.
  5. I dunno about WMC, but 2GB is plenty on my Revo w/W7 and XBMC. Does it? I know some models do but this one lists only one slot per the specs and user feedback.
  6. Yes but anything on the cache (besides the hidden directories of course) is moved every 24 hours by default. Depending on your usage patterns, that could be a couple of gigabytes to a couple of terabytes. That's why it's important to do manual backups of any data that is permanently kept on the cache drive.
  7. Yes, you can use a cache drive but it is outside of the parity protected array. That's how you get the speed benefits. Any new data you add to the share will actually be written to the cache drive and then later moved to the protected array. Anything in a hidden directory on the cache drive will not be moved (and thus not be protected).
  8. but if you are using the cache drive, you don't get any parity protection, right? At that point, what is the point? no you don't so you need to have a decent backup plan in place. Should be easy enough since you just have to copy to the array.
  9. exporting a hidden directory on the cache drive may very well be viable. I'll have a go at that also when I get a few minutes. It might make a nice, occasional use extra datastore.
  10. Have you tried turning off auto-negotiation on both sides and using fixed speed?
  11. I'd still separate the datastore from the unRAID array if at all possible. Use the unRAID array as a place to backup your VMs.
  12. Actually, due to the nature of unRAID, you can take a data disk from the array and mount it in another machine if need be. The filesystem used is ReiserFS so most any linux distro (or I suppose Windows if you have the right driver) can mount/manipulate it.
  13. I don't think it would matter a whole lot. Both will load to RAM and I doubt you'll want to reboot much once you have everything set up. In fact, I would almost suggest giving the faster key to ESXi. Passthrough USB takes a performance hit so the unRAID key is rather slow to boot (roughly USB 1.1 speeds). Not a real big deal since I usually don't reboot it too often and once it's loaded, there is very little r/w from the key itself. There are other things you can do such as clone the unRAID key to a VMDK and boot from that instead, but you'll still need the key for licensing purposes. I think that method is outlined on the first page of this thread. Of course, YMMV so I would experiment till you are satisified with the performance.
  14. On my setup, reading/writing directly to the protected array yields roughly 35-40MB/s. With a cache drive (I'm using a 2TB Hitachi as a warm spare/cache drive), you can easily double those figures. Although I'm sure it's trivial to dual-boot ESXi and unRAID from the same key, if you wanted to use unRAID as a VM you'll have to give it exclusive access to the USB controller that they unRAID key resides on. I'm fairly certain ESXi doesn't allow the primary install device to be shared. I have ESXi installed on a 4GB key while unRAID resides on a separate 2GB key.