Recent content by etekberg

Or use Rufus to customize the boot disk and have it create a local account automatically.

I have a pair of older dual-tuner models that don't do the transcoding that I've had laying around for a few years. Don't have them in front of me but they are probably the HDHR3-US. The first version of Plex DVRs didn't support them so I upgraded to a pair that does the transcoding. I wasn't...

Yes, badblocks is good and that satisfies my critique. It accomplishes similar things in that it forces a read of all sectors. In addition with the -w write mode it would clear pending sectors, where SMART would not. That would move them to the reallocated sector count in the report, I think...

Not a buyer, but just wanted to say nice job including the smart reports. I would feel confident enough to buy them if I were. One critique: On the sampling I looked at, it looks like you only ran a test to prepare them for sale and only short tests at that. Short tests aren't worth that...

Me too. Last I checked on the forums (weeks ago), no notifications went out yet.

Not sure what you mean by safe. I don't think it is going to start a fire or damage equipment if that is what you mean. The tape is just on pin 3, although I can't imagine why it wouldn't work on all 3 pins.

I just used scotch tape for a while.

Did you check that 3.3v is disabled from the power supply connector?

No point in a hot spare for a raid 1, which freenas calls a mirror, just add the disk to the mirror resulting in a 3 disk mirror. You'll be better protected that way.

WD says warranty is 2 years http://products.wdc.com/library/AAG/ENG/4178-705859.pdf

Someone should really come up with an ultra low fee ebay competitor and put them out of business. I would think at 1 or 2 % surcharge and high volume there should be plenty of profit to be had. BWTHDIK?

The plex layout is one of the things I like. I don't have a roku. I use fire sticks and the windows plex player. If the roku is similar to other plex clients you can control it remotely from the phone or web app. Just something else to try. But generally if you don't like the interface, I...

Yes the epg is deficient without a grid view. But they are widely available on the internet. I use zap-2-it to browse shows then find them on plex.

I went from WMC->Myth->Plex DVR (very briefly in early Beta)->Myth->Plex DVR over the years. I really like Plex DVR now. It's the first setup that I've actually been happy with. It's not perfect but it's good enough for what I want and they seem to be continuously improving it. I have a...

my last drive to fail was a WD red pro 6TB due to recurring ATA errors. Drive was 1 year into the 5 year warranty. I RMA'd it, got a refurb, same model. Within a month it was having the same ATA errors. RMA'd again. This time got a new drive as the replacement, and a newer model number. So...