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Well, FYI, Torrent is alive and well. Even for Comcast users. Other than the download limit, any decent VPN or VPS provider can get around those restrictions.

When did torrenting die? I must have missed that saga.

A mixture and Seagate the WD Black 7200k SATAs 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 092 092 000 Old_age Always - 56443 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 093 093 000 Old_age Always - 54116 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 093 093 000...

Yes, it states 3 year warranty, plus standard 30 day return to newegg. Even if the drive is DOA, I have no intention of returning to the seller. I have used Seagate's advance return countless times and find it way more efficient than dealing with resellers.

Anyone jumped on the HGST 8TB sale on newegg. The HUH728080ALE600 is being sold by Bluefish Worx as new (nothing indicating that is referb or used) for $149 + $5.99 shipping. The HUH728080ALE604 is being sold by goHardDrive and is listed as referb. I have never dealt with any of these sellers...

DO NOT use SSD for backup! I lost all my data because of freak accident. My coffee was above my SSD Crucial external drive and a stack of CDROM. I turned around my fat ass knocked over my coffee onto the SSD drive and the CDROM. The SSD never functioned properly again. SSD drives are easily...

3x4TB remaining NO 1TB available

Sure, if you have a recent dual CPU (Hex Cores or higher) server laying around. Sans HDD of course, I have tons of those.

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These are all 7200 RPM drives. Price is in US $ and shipping is extra. 1 x Seagate Barracuda 500GB: $20 2 x Seagate Barracuda 2TB: $40 each - SOLD 5 x Seagate Barracuda 3TB: $60 each - 1 Remaining 1 x HGST Deskstar 3TB: $60 5 x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB (still under manufacturer's warranty): $110...

IPC is the official Norco distributor. They can be a bit pricey, so I usually get the model number and shop around.

5xSeagate 1.5TB 7200 RPM drives at US $50 each or all for US $200 5xSeagate 3TB 7200 RPM drives at US $90 each or all for US $400 Seagate 500GB 7200 RPM drive free with 5 or more drive purchase Shipping extra Paypal payment preferred. Will ship only to verified addresses. Contact me...

I can speak for WD as I have not bought any since WD started doing their rainbow thing. However, I have a few 6TB HSGT NAS drive running without issue on 9240 firmware.

The default of 256 for cache size is way to low. You can change it on the fly with the above command. Try it and see if performance improve. You can play around with different cache sizes to find the right number. There are tons of non-GUI tools to monitor and test network performance. Check...

The stripe size cache can be tuned for RAID5/6. No sure if it applies to RAID10. Here is what I have for my RAID6 arrays. echo 8192 > /sys/block/md2/md/stripe_cache_size

Why use partition as oppose to the entire disk? Do you have reference for the difference in performance? I thought partitioning was pointless for RAID disk these days.

Need more details on your rig, network setup and nfs export options. I had a similar issue where everything paused when my PVR fired up multiple recordings to my NFS. No amount of tweaking could resolved the problem. I had to put the VMs with high IO on their own RAID volume. That meant...

What is the layout of your RAID volumes? Are you using the same disk in multiple RAIDs. If you VMs are going over NFS, then network could be your bottleneck. The NFS protocol can lockup disk access to ensure data is committed to disk. Look up NFS tuning, as there are a few mount flags you can...

It's not a matter of the cost to produce. It's a matter or the return on sale. 1000 external drive with a profit margin of %5 per drive is a lot more that 10 internal drive with a profit margin of 50% per drive, assuming the cost to produce the external drive is always greater than the...

This has been a big frustration of mine as well, however this is why external drives are cheaper. It has nothing to do with warranty. Firstly, only techies by OEM drives and there just isn't enough techies in the world to push the volume required to churn big profits. Techies are also willing to...

Why not use mdadm on your Linux box? It offers a lot more flexibility over the RAID card you are using. For your current challenge, you will need to completely destroy the RAID1 array and have it recreated with 2x250GB drives. 1. Backup your OS drive on the RAID1 array to the 2TB drive you...

If don't already own the card, stay far, far away for Highpoint products.

Works fine in practice as well. A lot of [H] users are super paranoid about data lost (not that this is a bad thing). The "Linux RAID autodetect" partition type was required back in the day when the Kernel could only detect MD disks using the partition type. The current Kernel reads the MD...

I do the same steps your are suggesting when expanding my mdadm RAID. See here for details. I have never had issue with creating degraded partitions. Any reason you are partitioning the disks? If the disks will not be used for multiple RAIDs, there is no need to partition.

With modern hardware overhead is negligible. Not an issue if the data is backed up properly. Considering the OP is running RAID0, it would be dumb not to have a good backup. If that is the case, why bother wiping the drives? Since a home system does not need data protection, why not sell the...

Any reason you do not use drive encryption in the first place?

Yes, you can mix different speed and size drives. However, speed and size will be limited to the slowest and smallest drive respectively. No, for hardware RAID it is all or nothing, you have to use the entire drive. If the controller supports it, you can create a RAID 1 array from the 2x4TB.

Yes, this is a major complaint. I really hope there will be some traction for the feature requests. A lot of users are satisfied with filesync as a suitable replacement. What device and connectors had difficulty with self signed certificates? I have been using self signed certificate and all...

Happy owncloud user here. Been using it for a few months now and happy with it. Syncing all my devices to it. No need for google, dropbox, etc. Couple if issue: 1. The Android client needs some work. You cannot specify a folder to sync so you can't really backup your device. Other users have...

This should not occur unless the system is rebooted with the 2nd hd removed. If that is the case, it is an issue only if you are mounting each hd by the device name (eg. /dev/sdc), which should not be required in a RAID setup. I cannot comment on ZFS, but mdadm will identify all devices in the...

I would think 1.42.9 would be better as well as per the above release notes. I will be holding off on my upgrade until this is fixed.

It should not take that long to grow a filesystem. Either your filesystem tree is corrupt or you hit regression bug. You have not provide the kernel version. I suggest you ask about this issue on the kernel mailing list and see if any of the devs have suggestion. Yes. I recently resized an...

Joerg, Have you tried it without the -S option? I have resize ext4 many times and some twice as large as yours without issue. The only difference is I have never used "-S". resize2fs is fine determining the RAID stride on its own. What kernel version are you on? I am in the similar situation...

Everything looks in order so resize2fs should work as expected. You also have 64bit support for your filesystem which will address the 16TB limitation. It should only take a few minutes to increase the size of the filesystem since only the inodes are updated and no data is moved. Try another...

See the norco thread. Tons of suggestions there.

SEs are targeted at enterprise.

For WD Green+TLER = RED Black+TLER = RE

A few of the main differences are: 1. The RE4 is marketed for RAID setup and certified by WD to work in multi-disk environment 2. The RE4 has a slight advantage when using hardware RAID due to added TLER IMO, all RE disks are created as a marketing scheme so the manufacturers can charge...

What brand UPS do you have? Any reason you do not want the agent installed on your VM? If you have APC UPS, the *nix utility (apcupsd) can run in server/client mode. The workstation with the UPS connected would run the utility in server mode. The VMs would run as clients. During a power...

This is a very good idea. Have you actually tried this? I never actually thought of resizing mdadm in degraded mode. This is not the shrinking I would like to go to n/2 disks, but at least it's another option.