2014-01-17, 16:44
Finally had some time to test. One of the things I already about unraid is the totally out of date documentation. Everything is out of date, the wiki, the unofficial wiki, the forums, everything. The devs should really spend more time on it.
I was scared of slow write speeds since the wiki or forums talk about 20-30 MB/s with Parity drive but I tested with an without parity drive and it didn't even made a difference. In both cases I had 60-70 MB/s. That's something I can live with. So apparently a cache drive is really not needed.
I don't understand why the server has no running ssh client but a telnet server and no password to the root account from the start.
Also good news for anyone who needs Time Machine - works right out of the box in the current version (tested 5.0.4) - so again forget the forums and the wikis! No need to install those old scripts / plugins that don't work.
The only weird thing I haven't figured out yet is that the Dynamix additional plugins are gone after a reboot. The WebUI is still there (and really needed when you look at the original one) but the other plugins have to be re-installed everytime. Again no documentation from the dev of dynamix available as to why that is.
So I started with two drives without parity and later added a parity drive. The parity had to be calculated and even though my drive was almost empty it had to calculate the parity also for the empty parts. So for 500 GB it started at 60MB/s and later on went down to 40MB/s and almost took 3 hours - I wonder how long it will take for a bunch of 4TB drives.
Anyway, I copied some files to disk1, shutdown the server, pulled the disk out and restarted. The array came online and I could still access all the data that was on the drive that I was currently holding in my hand. Impressive
As for the S3 Sleep plugin, you can configure it (again no documentation wth) to monitor the disk drives - if there is no activity suspend. Also you can ping a host apparently (maybe even multiple?) or watch logged in users. I haven't had time to fully test it due to some issues with the S3 sleep, but that might be related to my old hardware. There is an email notification plugin too, so that seem's covered as well.
Now I only need to test if the airvideo server and the other plugins I need can be integrated into dynamix.
I was scared of slow write speeds since the wiki or forums talk about 20-30 MB/s with Parity drive but I tested with an without parity drive and it didn't even made a difference. In both cases I had 60-70 MB/s. That's something I can live with. So apparently a cache drive is really not needed.
I don't understand why the server has no running ssh client but a telnet server and no password to the root account from the start.
Also good news for anyone who needs Time Machine - works right out of the box in the current version (tested 5.0.4) - so again forget the forums and the wikis! No need to install those old scripts / plugins that don't work.
The only weird thing I haven't figured out yet is that the Dynamix additional plugins are gone after a reboot. The WebUI is still there (and really needed when you look at the original one) but the other plugins have to be re-installed everytime. Again no documentation from the dev of dynamix available as to why that is.
So I started with two drives without parity and later added a parity drive. The parity had to be calculated and even though my drive was almost empty it had to calculate the parity also for the empty parts. So for 500 GB it started at 60MB/s and later on went down to 40MB/s and almost took 3 hours - I wonder how long it will take for a bunch of 4TB drives.
Anyway, I copied some files to disk1, shutdown the server, pulled the disk out and restarted. The array came online and I could still access all the data that was on the drive that I was currently holding in my hand. Impressive
As for the S3 Sleep plugin, you can configure it (again no documentation wth) to monitor the disk drives - if there is no activity suspend. Also you can ping a host apparently (maybe even multiple?) or watch logged in users. I haven't had time to fully test it due to some issues with the S3 sleep, but that might be related to my old hardware. There is an email notification plugin too, so that seem's covered as well.
Now I only need to test if the airvideo server and the other plugins I need can be integrated into dynamix.
