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unRAID: The Free NAS That Recovers Data If A Drive Fails!

Monday, June 15th, 2009 – running time 28:20
Build the ultimate DIY network storage machine using free software, a mix of hard drives and an old PC.

We love a good FreeNAS... who doesn't? A Network Attached Storage box solves a problem lots of folks have: there's never enough space for all your data. Whether your storing documents, digital photos, music, movies or games you'll always need and want more space.

FreeNAS is a great free too for building a NAS... but today's build, LimeTech's unRAID softare adds a nifty twist. If one of your storage drives dies, it can replace the lost data.

All you need is a machine with an Ethernet card that can boot off a USB thumbdrive, and the free free unRAID software.

For a comprehensive list of your hardware options, check out the compatibility list.

For tons of helpful unRAID ideas, tips and tricks, check out: Getting Started with unRAID and unRAID Server Community.

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" Force base of the rally -- any serious media collection right -- right well past. That story is the way to go -- hard drive in your network so every PC gadget happy you're good. -- losing your prices audio video or pictures and hard drive dies. Socks you dropped serious gaps in Drobo raid five past we certainly have -- yourself raid five with some type. Or you could learn how to build it. -- you DIY data protection it's infinitely expendable. That's about what today deficit of system."

" Well the system up Patrick Norton and I'm Roger king speech from my ardent. City yes so well what the hell is they -- that absolutely. Put titles that -- have customers managerial audiences here we -- to have higher at a brought him through it. Your frog in my throat it's actually -- Be honest with cool and it's actually quite an audible. Just like me but I understand that they were doing something called and read is that what this is an unrated a non raid system what. You would think -- its its -- it's it's kind of a cousin to a pre cast box rights just because -- I'm sorry -- has -- kissing cousin island that is it can do that are battling neighbors or other in the case line technology. His company put together. This product they call parade upgrade server is a network attached storage server operating system -- the -- USB flash drive and specifically designed for digital media stories like video and pictures. Audio and stuff believe I did this several months ago was obscene that yes you get a free yes it's like it kissing cousin just because or a badly neighbor French kissing cousin or it. Would you called what's -- them fighting words for Dextre rose. And and deep fighting -- fighting words are indeed a program district any case this is the Lennox is very. If they essentially. It -- with drive all configuration data is on the flash drive that boots from secret for six megabits a larger drive work hard drives. Only store your stuff your user -- what sets it apart that is how it handles the drive one technology calls it underage. Because it's not really -- it's kind of like -- for where I don't like it's kinda like it is similar to -- for. One drive is used for parity data only your largest drive. And then it's towards the parity data that allows it to resuscitate other drives are basically replicate -- create another drive a single drive on your machine if it -- semi -- Well basically on the basic version you can do three drives. Lion. The flaws -- cells. They sell they sell hardware at this --"

" source devices. Let's start with like fifteen days to for the free version you get three drives one of these repair negated the other entries for storage is open sorcerers of just free. This is free. Elements of it are open source. And beyond that I just don't want to get the whole -- not give you win X -- slow in this he's BSD whose first posits. Yeah. In any case. It's pretty interesting how that -- basically they charge you for the sort of a mock version that expands to whole -- drives and a lot of people running like the twelfth fifteen drives in a box it's pretty interesting. You can rebuild a single failed hard drive your largest drive she's prepared me like you mentioned before. Similar to that drove it can mix hard drives of any size and speed which is really nice I like the Drobo IB drive to work along with SATA drives. Now here's one of basic Tenet takes it away from -- it doesn't stripe data across multiple drives so does this mean there's a performance it exactly. And so it's gotta be slower. Basically it's gonna lag a little behind raid five especially raid five this is fomented in hardware. And but the flip side is unlike -- every five via satellite multiple drives all the same drive. All the same speed all the same interface and what's also interesting unlike raid five you can upgrade individual drives are larger drives and so is cries. Price keep pushing down you can take your smallest drive -- swapped the larger drive so what's kinda. The united it was kind of funny or it is a few pages are you know searching around the city -- forums and other places when the most common complaints online for this is that people didn't. Basically by big enough case to hold -- twelve hard drives are getting these huge massive at a controlled media taxes. Now the thing is that what's kind of like the downside of this compared to raid five or Drobo if multiple drives sailors missing Drobo. You only lose the data on those too well its its mobile drag you can recreate one drive. Okay -- multiple drives fails you're gonna lose the data on those drives are like the second third fourth whatever project. However you're only gonna lose the data. On -- drive because each individual drive has its own file system and all of the file data is on each individual drive us really just kind of a giant storage repository get that -- storage card that repository beckoned. You recreate lost data on a single to drive. It's free I mean it's free and you bundled together drives of any size in your own giant personal. -- media servers you you get yet you're you're taking a performance it is not raid five -- in there. But it's a pretty cool concept any copy yes anything's gotta look out for me. I like -- well. I dressed because tonight we all help a drawer full of all hard drives that we would like it. Cycle someone what are the things I've noticed is a lot of -- you'll -- I'd I'd. I got 8230. Gigabyte hard drive to work and want -- or really giant raise that so they do for fun and amusement. You're using like five year old hard drives have been rattling around -- at least parts stores probably not a good idea for storing your precious data. One thing you can't -- is hardware configuration problems with the components on the computer you're building things -- We'll talk about that in the next block we talk about installation. It's time to thank one of our sponsors the --"

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" Yes before about open source the GPO yes the -- code which is actually built on the GPO raid five. Is the code is available you can't download it we're gonna compile yourself. Interest it yet it's if it's basically appear to function every five without the story and its its moment builders have about it. But. The hundred server plus goes to six drives 69 dollars. The hundred server -- the sixteen your eyes for a 119 dollars and this is just suffered no part of the software written. Well. Well case -- today I ain't got no money it let's go through the actual basically the free version covers three -- If you want to go and it with the body for extra thirty bucks you get two keys now. Politics but nobody's. -- Nobody with project. Since there's nobody's gonna -- installation you check your hardware compatibility. Like technology's great -- he. Mostly until motherboard should be fine you can't get kind of squirrelly. He jammed up -- issues at least -- widget and also one of our configurations. In -- gigahertz or faster gigabyte of ram ram's cheap buys them. -- thumb drive to of his six megabytes or bigger I mean these things are so cheap kicker is they're pretty nice. In case with lots of space for drive or leave space for three drives is very useful again the basic version only works with three drives. And the biggest thing now. For this is. That the machine you write it -- has to be able to boot from USB thumb. If you can't if you can't boot from USB on the machine what we're on this you're not gonna right I -- your Linux hacker on yeah. After its initial problems that he seriously unix hacker. In any case. You're getting access to windows machine to set this up. -- text he's still a lot better -- issues were actually with security access on the on sort of a in major manufacturers Vista thing -- lettuce access -- right thumb drive. Windows seven won't blind us is clinics that he exe which installs between the basic food system on here your mileage may vary XP work pretty good for us. You're gonna need -- downloads from the line -- technology dot com site has download page you're gonna need the latest set of binary files and be -- The latest ones are at the bottom in the last few that are available are actually beat us once at the top of the page kind of -- gives you for the older versions which have less driver support. Girls can -- be six when X dot. The latest final as of this taping was -- afford to use a really good place to start drops -- on you're seeing."

" Drive they're gonna format the thumb drive. Right click format to whatever the standard is on that and you're gonna change and you want that to underage so this is perfect. -- need to take off he. You three's software you know I met mixed results with that his quick format so you -- this. And the full format war removed the U three stuff I thought the precept was creating problems of booting but then on the second drive and put together -- you through stuff on and it worked just fine yeah so we'll test again. There it -- if you need to remove the U three software by the way from a thumb drive. Basically search for remove U three software piracy it. In application you can download from the thumb drive manufacturer -- we have that software of the master boot record cool so. You've opened up a command line between them. This. And want to make it it -- clinics that EXE. Space dash. MA it. Ethical it. Space at -- Cool T do anything that's pretty much what it's posted earlier this evening we're gonna drag the files. Trials to remember those downloads there as the Florida -- TV so open that up. And you're gonna drag all of those files down onto your underage thumb drive. Putting two hours and sixteen minutes remaining to copy. Two megabytes of files."

" There's the first thing you see via radio as he hit better make it go faster it'll boot in a few seconds and you get pages and pages of gibberish as Lennox installs. If you're not familiar with -- figuring your -- boot from USB thumb drive check the manufacturers. Support pages for information on that and also actually is want to biased we hear ideas on the agreed server installation guides that are highly valuable if you're having issues getting. Giving your thumb drive to boot your machine. So we have pages and pages and pages of stuff as he keeps going up and you get power log in powers that be the name of this machine. The log in is going to be -- ROT. Brooke and there's no password no trouble cause when -- security folks out here to start hyperventilating with rage. And so -- tower pound until the pound and type in this agreed to find out what your IP addresses now you can manually configure IP address -- into the configuration file for this. On the thumb drive itself. You can assign an IP address in -- basically saying noted he ACP type in an IP address this case recently ACP and taken I have. Config. And yeah today we have an IP address when idea -- eight 20 dot ones are one perfect. Perfect so basically now you can unplug the keyboard and yank out monitor and basically -- machine run forever."

" Unless you're gonna add more hard drives to not a question freed if you somehow lose power can you have to be do all this automatically. You actually. What's interesting about what's nice about the -- rate is is data held in the -- phone that doesn't damage. An academic problem reconfiguring this. Inside the bios on your machine. You can actually have an auto restart on sort of a power of non power failure so if you want it to automatically restart never power fails which might be a good idea depending on how power failures working here especially lightning storms or something. So technically you do not need to log in once it's now the -- know what's once once you have configured. It just runs. And you access it remotely over the -- to -- case call to take a look at that yet but I think we need to do sponsored --"

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" who -- look at the screen is up on the monitor right now. Hey this is in on configured on -- machine there are no drives Thurston nothing. Exactly -- which is commanders stopped go to prices don't start -- is gonna happen to him configured anything it could about it anyway be that you could go over on devices devices so. Now which is this device is your parity device is gonna be your largest drive one drive is bigger than others just pick one of those. The top ones did. And then your disk one device is gonna be your first appeared in address -- is basically other undecided as such exactly. You basically have two additional drives in this case they're all when he might -- when you -- one terabyte drives -- that -- that one on there. And with -- back to the means section. And we can do ahead of its -- stuff we do you know are we gonna goes out any of the data that turning on it well we're gonna find -- had a generally speaking don't reconfigured drive security update on the notice that this -- up there or is basically mean temperature and smart monitoring information to go ahead and gets. It's -- let's get them going because. That means they're doing happy things as keywords alleged actually. It's been opposite manners are being. We reboot it with an original. Configuration he is because you had all your music and video on there."

" So shares are basically divisions of the space it's available in the entire -- we have audio one setup and video ones that are these essentially folders or is that an incorrect to description I'm thinking of them as folders because that seems to work for me so. If you see how if you scroll way to the bottom when add another -- while at the bottom we'll see what 14. Pictures of weasels or whatever you were just typing and chunky monkey like that comments. Chunky monkey video audio supreme. -- he gives you the allocation method I've just -- it -- high water high water what is interesting though if if you have multiple this you can choose which disk this gets excited to or which if you don't want this data placed on. -- scroll way to the bottom. You'll export information expert read write and basically control whether or not people have write access to this. And so basically you know Monica likes like you read only write only read write relieved to read right it's were all friends on this server. And go ahead and good and the bottom that Ann had her share. Then when you didn't that's. When you map onto this network drive from of that network -- drive the map -- this network drive. And that's that's going to be chunky monkey section of the city. Will be very exciting. If you're at a map that drive people I've I've got appointee to the internet's -- and you mr. Cheney refuses to each weekend. And I believe unfortunately he refuses teach you book. Why it. I usually mean me. As this guy here."

" I'm so up connected look at little chunky monkey will step -- so let's. Like that share. Why haven't -- point nine. It doesn't like you and that you can drag drop -- on that or there's data -- that's. Come in -- easy we'll go back up to the year drive here's a quick and on the audio drive share of -- So there's while. What do these notices you know. Even ethernet lot faster then. Steve Miller Band what -- Yeah actually -- a big fan of of that particular album the greatest hits collection that -- impeaches. You know maybe. -- looking at stiff little fingers straight there. Aren't you so much but I. My musical taste aside essentially that's how you configure and set up the basics. There are a total additional lazy humans this one and actually something we should talk right now. Is if you add another drive. -- Adding drives. Replacing drives replacing dead drives all kind of have the same. Process now question for you if I were to replace one of the existing drives would say I have a 500 now and replace it with a terabyte -- will I have to copy that data over they can get all these what was interesting right is is if you're adding another. Districts going to be the same size or smaller than the -- parity drive always -- to be your biggest drive has a pretty normal. So what you're gonna do never the go to the configuration page report. So whenever you're gonna change -- drive you go to that command area and you hit stop. It's. It's not up. And with that logic innate power in the server. You install you take out today this is a good time to think about what these are the guys even like sixteen -- these boxes you probably want to label. Each drive it is inside the machine that way when you replace it with a new drive you accidentally take baby photos and think your great music. But but these so. When you treat assured you'll created over not any number of drives -- want to make sure that. You know which drives have which data or it doesn't matter because the parity travel picture compared that would happens right this is the period direct case here all of the other drives. It doesn't magic. There. How does that magic is for people who understand the programming neither of which are included my basic skills that I do -- if you. Stop -- right. Power -- server. You can swap out the old drive and swap -- in new drive and when you restart it. The system is actually gonna format that new drive then it's gonna reconstructed -- on the drive in it has to drive fails or you upgraded drive. It's the same basic process if you add additional drive it's basically the same thing. Let's say. One. That would take drive B which is. One point five terabytes and replace it -- per gigabyte drive."

" So basically to stop the -- Power down your machine. You replace a smaller this with the bigger disk you power the unit you start the array. And then essentially the system should automatically start replacing the you know we can certainly contents of the original disk on the new disk. And basically it'll -- it suited to bigger mission to bigger drives you have more space and drive. It's. Magic that's gotta go. So we can really get into a user accounts delighted basically control access to set up security setting up to securities -- you -- a huge change in the root password since there is no password on this that is not. Good -- X security. There are a ton. Add ons configurations. Performance tweaks you can make. -- technology dot com go to the Wiki page for underage there're there're just links upon links to place you can go to you start -- how to configure this tweak it. Make it faster better stronger. Make it lead. I think Steve Austin afraid. -- raids actually speaking of Steve Austin of rates make sure especially if you start you make a big one with a lot of hard drives make sure you pack a lot of good. Here flow inside that machine whose hard drives when they're when they're moving data get hot yes so you don't pack."

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" You my friend -- hot heavy about freed -- yes I am a lot of people are -- heavy about Drobo Windows Home Server. What we're gonna try to do is put together the long fabled benchmarks that we talked about Windows Home Server is of the DIY versus the want to came from HB. Basically home server versus the Drobo offers the free gas box versus non raid box retrieve that together. Probably it's probably the -- few weeks -- July that's actually gonna come up in Tekzilla. And there's a reason it's gonna come up in Texas yes we do have a very important announcement making this is regarding not only the show but and it worked as a whole. Well this is basically this is the last weekly episode for system. Don't worry -- the show isn't going away you're gonna have to me is over Tekzilla for your dose of system system along with that David Calkins myself perhaps mr. -- Perhaps. Actually mr. -- But it's gonna be a part of tax altered you're gonna see system -- to -- project plus get information and links and we'll get that in there. That's not the only change for making Ross going to be launching a completely showing July talking about basically the home -- something you diet. In our buddy Robert heron are pretty passionate about. And Barack is passionate about that Sarah CNET news he's in the control over right now we're out here. You haven't. He is it's it's great we're gonna beat we're gonna be talking about each species TV's HD content everything about -- home theater in his from high Def titles of the players. Software you know both PC based and you know remote and all sorts of really cool stuff basically everything to make your home theatre experience. Be easy especially finding the best confidence really to make your home theater system. Impress you just that good stuff you definitely check -- was we hope you will secure drastic revision3.com. For more details. That's speaking abilities if you're a budding filmmaker -- you just want to know how to make movie effects happen. What to imagine you're shooting -- me with a gun in in you want to have a -- fact -- us."

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" Force base of the rally -- any serious media collection right -- right well past. That story is the way to go -- hard drive in your network so every PC gadget happy you're good. -- losing your prices audio video or pictures and hard drive dies. Socks you dropped serious gaps in Drobo raid five past we certainly have -- yourself raid five with some type. Or you could learn how to build it. -- you DIY data protection it's infinitely expendable. That's about what today deficit of system."

" Well the system up Patrick Norton and I'm Roger king speech from my ardent. City yes so well what the hell is they -- that absolutely. Put titles that -- have customers managerial audiences here we -- to have higher at a brought him through it. Your frog in my throat it's actually -- Be honest with cool and it's actually quite an audible. Just like me but I understand that they were doing something called and read is that what this is an unrated a non raid system what. You would think -- its its -- it's it's kind of a cousin to a pre cast box rights just because -- I'm sorry -- has -- kissing cousin island that is it can do that are battling neighbors or other in the case line technology. His company put together. This product they call parade upgrade server is a network attached storage server operating system -- the -- USB flash drive and specifically designed for digital media stories like video and pictures. Audio and stuff believe I did this several months ago was obscene that yes you get a free yes it's like it kissing cousin just because or a badly neighbor French kissing cousin or it. Would you called what's -- them fighting words for Dextre rose. And and deep fighting -- fighting words are indeed a program district any case this is the Lennox is very. If they essentially. It -- with drive all configuration data is on the flash drive that boots from secret for six megabits a larger drive work hard drives. Only store your stuff your user -- what sets it apart that is how it handles the drive one technology calls it underage. Because it's not really -- it's kind of like -- for where I don't like it's kinda like it is similar to -- for. One drive is used for parity data only your largest drive. And then it's towards the parity data that allows it to resuscitate other drives are basically replicate -- create another drive a single drive on your machine if it -- semi -- Well basically on the basic version you can do three drives. Lion. The flaws -- cells. They sell they sell hardware at this --"

" source devices. Let's start with like fifteen days to for the free version you get three drives one of these repair negated the other entries for storage is open sorcerers of just free. This is free. Elements of it are open source. And beyond that I just don't want to get the whole -- not give you win X -- slow in this he's BSD whose first posits. Yeah. In any case. It's pretty interesting how that -- basically they charge you for the sort of a mock version that expands to whole -- drives and a lot of people running like the twelfth fifteen drives in a box it's pretty interesting. You can rebuild a single failed hard drive your largest drive she's prepared me like you mentioned before. Similar to that drove it can mix hard drives of any size and speed which is really nice I like the Drobo IB drive to work along with SATA drives. Now here's one of basic Tenet takes it away from -- it doesn't stripe data across multiple drives so does this mean there's a performance it exactly. And so it's gotta be slower. Basically it's gonna lag a little behind raid five especially raid five this is fomented in hardware. And but the flip side is unlike -- every five via satellite multiple drives all the same drive. All the same speed all the same interface and what's also interesting unlike raid five you can upgrade individual drives are larger drives and so is cries. Price keep pushing down you can take your smallest drive -- swapped the larger drive so what's kinda. The united it was kind of funny or it is a few pages are you know searching around the city -- forums and other places when the most common complaints online for this is that people didn't. Basically by big enough case to hold -- twelve hard drives are getting these huge massive at a controlled media taxes. Now the thing is that what's kind of like the downside of this compared to raid five or Drobo if multiple drives sailors missing Drobo. You only lose the data on those too well its its mobile drag you can recreate one drive. Okay -- multiple drives fails you're gonna lose the data on those drives are like the second third fourth whatever project. However you're only gonna lose the data. On -- drive because each individual drive has its own file system and all of the file data is on each individual drive us really just kind of a giant storage repository get that -- storage card that repository beckoned. You recreate lost data on a single to drive. It's free I mean it's free and you bundled together drives of any size in your own giant personal. -- media servers you you get yet you're you're taking a performance it is not raid five -- in there. But it's a pretty cool concept any copy yes anything's gotta look out for me. I like -- well. I dressed because tonight we all help a drawer full of all hard drives that we would like it. Cycle someone what are the things I've noticed is a lot of -- you'll -- I'd I'd. I got 8230. Gigabyte hard drive to work and want -- or really giant raise that so they do for fun and amusement. You're using like five year old hard drives have been rattling around -- at least parts stores probably not a good idea for storing your precious data. One thing you can't -- is hardware configuration problems with the components on the computer you're building things -- We'll talk about that in the next block we talk about installation. It's time to thank one of our sponsors the --"

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" Yes before about open source the GPO yes the -- code which is actually built on the GPO raid five. Is the code is available you can't download it we're gonna compile yourself. Interest it yet it's if it's basically appear to function every five without the story and its its moment builders have about it. But. The hundred server plus goes to six drives 69 dollars. The hundred server -- the sixteen your eyes for a 119 dollars and this is just suffered no part of the software written. Well. Well case -- today I ain't got no money it let's go through the actual basically the free version covers three -- If you want to go and it with the body for extra thirty bucks you get two keys now. Politics but nobody's. -- Nobody with project. Since there's nobody's gonna -- installation you check your hardware compatibility. Like technology's great -- he. Mostly until motherboard should be fine you can't get kind of squirrelly. He jammed up -- issues at least -- widget and also one of our configurations. In -- gigahertz or faster gigabyte of ram ram's cheap buys them. -- thumb drive to of his six megabytes or bigger I mean these things are so cheap kicker is they're pretty nice. In case with lots of space for drive or leave space for three drives is very useful again the basic version only works with three drives. And the biggest thing now. For this is. That the machine you write it -- has to be able to boot from USB thumb. If you can't if you can't boot from USB on the machine what we're on this you're not gonna right I -- your Linux hacker on yeah. After its initial problems that he seriously unix hacker. In any case. You're getting access to windows machine to set this up. -- text he's still a lot better -- issues were actually with security access on the on sort of a in major manufacturers Vista thing -- lettuce access -- right thumb drive. Windows seven won't blind us is clinics that he exe which installs between the basic food system on here your mileage may vary XP work pretty good for us. You're gonna need -- downloads from the line -- technology dot com site has download page you're gonna need the latest set of binary files and be -- The latest ones are at the bottom in the last few that are available are actually beat us once at the top of the page kind of -- gives you for the older versions which have less driver support. Girls can -- be six when X dot. The latest final as of this taping was -- afford to use a really good place to start drops -- on you're seeing."

" Drive they're gonna format the thumb drive. Right click format to whatever the standard is on that and you're gonna change and you want that to underage so this is perfect. -- need to take off he. You three's software you know I met mixed results with that his quick format so you -- this. And the full format war removed the U three stuff I thought the precept was creating problems of booting but then on the second drive and put together -- you through stuff on and it worked just fine yeah so we'll test again. There it -- if you need to remove the U three software by the way from a thumb drive. Basically search for remove U three software piracy it. In application you can download from the thumb drive manufacturer -- we have that software of the master boot record cool so. You've opened up a command line between them. This. And want to make it it -- clinics that EXE. Space dash. MA it. Ethical it. Space at -- Cool T do anything that's pretty much what it's posted earlier this evening we're gonna drag the files. Trials to remember those downloads there as the Florida -- TV so open that up. And you're gonna drag all of those files down onto your underage thumb drive. Putting two hours and sixteen minutes remaining to copy. Two megabytes of files."

" There's the first thing you see via radio as he hit better make it go faster it'll boot in a few seconds and you get pages and pages of gibberish as Lennox installs. If you're not familiar with -- figuring your -- boot from USB thumb drive check the manufacturers. Support pages for information on that and also actually is want to biased we hear ideas on the agreed server installation guides that are highly valuable if you're having issues getting. Giving your thumb drive to boot your machine. So we have pages and pages and pages of stuff as he keeps going up and you get power log in powers that be the name of this machine. The log in is going to be -- ROT. Brooke and there's no password no trouble cause when -- security folks out here to start hyperventilating with rage. And so -- tower pound until the pound and type in this agreed to find out what your IP addresses now you can manually configure IP address -- into the configuration file for this. On the thumb drive itself. You can assign an IP address in -- basically saying noted he ACP type in an IP address this case recently ACP and taken I have. Config. And yeah today we have an IP address when idea -- eight 20 dot ones are one perfect. Perfect so basically now you can unplug the keyboard and yank out monitor and basically -- machine run forever."

" Unless you're gonna add more hard drives to not a question freed if you somehow lose power can you have to be do all this automatically. You actually. What's interesting about what's nice about the -- rate is is data held in the -- phone that doesn't damage. An academic problem reconfiguring this. Inside the bios on your machine. You can actually have an auto restart on sort of a power of non power failure so if you want it to automatically restart never power fails which might be a good idea depending on how power failures working here especially lightning storms or something. So technically you do not need to log in once it's now the -- know what's once once you have configured. It just runs. And you access it remotely over the -- to -- case call to take a look at that yet but I think we need to do sponsored --"

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" who -- look at the screen is up on the monitor right now. Hey this is in on configured on -- machine there are no drives Thurston nothing. Exactly -- which is commanders stopped go to prices don't start -- is gonna happen to him configured anything it could about it anyway be that you could go over on devices devices so. Now which is this device is your parity device is gonna be your largest drive one drive is bigger than others just pick one of those. The top ones did. And then your disk one device is gonna be your first appeared in address -- is basically other undecided as such exactly. You basically have two additional drives in this case they're all when he might -- when you -- one terabyte drives -- that -- that one on there. And with -- back to the means section. And we can do ahead of its -- stuff we do you know are we gonna goes out any of the data that turning on it well we're gonna find -- had a generally speaking don't reconfigured drive security update on the notice that this -- up there or is basically mean temperature and smart monitoring information to go ahead and gets. It's -- let's get them going because. That means they're doing happy things as keywords alleged actually. It's been opposite manners are being. We reboot it with an original. Configuration he is because you had all your music and video on there."

" So shares are basically divisions of the space it's available in the entire -- we have audio one setup and video ones that are these essentially folders or is that an incorrect to description I'm thinking of them as folders because that seems to work for me so. If you see how if you scroll way to the bottom when add another -- while at the bottom we'll see what 14. Pictures of weasels or whatever you were just typing and chunky monkey like that comments. Chunky monkey video audio supreme. -- he gives you the allocation method I've just -- it -- high water high water what is interesting though if if you have multiple this you can choose which disk this gets excited to or which if you don't want this data placed on. -- scroll way to the bottom. You'll export information expert read write and basically control whether or not people have write access to this. And so basically you know Monica likes like you read only write only read write relieved to read right it's were all friends on this server. And go ahead and good and the bottom that Ann had her share. Then when you didn't that's. When you map onto this network drive from of that network -- drive the map -- this network drive. And that's that's going to be chunky monkey section of the city. Will be very exciting. If you're at a map that drive people I've I've got appointee to the internet's -- and you mr. Cheney refuses to each weekend. And I believe unfortunately he refuses teach you book. Why it. I usually mean me. As this guy here."

" I'm so up connected look at little chunky monkey will step -- so let's. Like that share. Why haven't -- point nine. It doesn't like you and that you can drag drop -- on that or there's data -- that's. Come in -- easy we'll go back up to the year drive here's a quick and on the audio drive share of -- So there's while. What do these notices you know. Even ethernet lot faster then. Steve Miller Band what -- Yeah actually -- a big fan of of that particular album the greatest hits collection that -- impeaches. You know maybe. -- looking at stiff little fingers straight there. Aren't you so much but I. My musical taste aside essentially that's how you configure and set up the basics. There are a total additional lazy humans this one and actually something we should talk right now. Is if you add another drive. -- Adding drives. Replacing drives replacing dead drives all kind of have the same. Process now question for you if I were to replace one of the existing drives would say I have a 500 now and replace it with a terabyte -- will I have to copy that data over they can get all these what was interesting right is is if you're adding another. Districts going to be the same size or smaller than the -- parity drive always -- to be your biggest drive has a pretty normal. So what you're gonna do never the go to the configuration page report. So whenever you're gonna change -- drive you go to that command area and you hit stop. It's. It's not up. And with that logic innate power in the server. You install you take out today this is a good time to think about what these are the guys even like sixteen -- these boxes you probably want to label. Each drive it is inside the machine that way when you replace it with a new drive you accidentally take baby photos and think your great music. But but these so. When you treat assured you'll created over not any number of drives -- want to make sure that. You know which drives have which data or it doesn't matter because the parity travel picture compared that would happens right this is the period direct case here all of the other drives. It doesn't magic. There. How does that magic is for people who understand the programming neither of which are included my basic skills that I do -- if you. Stop -- right. Power -- server. You can swap out the old drive and swap -- in new drive and when you restart it. The system is actually gonna format that new drive then it's gonna reconstructed -- on the drive in it has to drive fails or you upgraded drive. It's the same basic process if you add additional drive it's basically the same thing. Let's say. One. That would take drive B which is. One point five terabytes and replace it -- per gigabyte drive."

" So basically to stop the -- Power down your machine. You replace a smaller this with the bigger disk you power the unit you start the array. And then essentially the system should automatically start replacing the you know we can certainly contents of the original disk on the new disk. And basically it'll -- it suited to bigger mission to bigger drives you have more space and drive. It's. Magic that's gotta go. So we can really get into a user accounts delighted basically control access to set up security setting up to securities -- you -- a huge change in the root password since there is no password on this that is not. Good -- X security. There are a ton. Add ons configurations. Performance tweaks you can make. -- technology dot com go to the Wiki page for underage there're there're just links upon links to place you can go to you start -- how to configure this tweak it. Make it faster better stronger. Make it lead. I think Steve Austin afraid. -- raids actually speaking of Steve Austin of rates make sure especially if you start you make a big one with a lot of hard drives make sure you pack a lot of good. Here flow inside that machine whose hard drives when they're when they're moving data get hot yes so you don't pack."

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" You my friend -- hot heavy about freed -- yes I am a lot of people are -- heavy about Drobo Windows Home Server. What we're gonna try to do is put together the long fabled benchmarks that we talked about Windows Home Server is of the DIY versus the want to came from HB. Basically home server versus the Drobo offers the free gas box versus non raid box retrieve that together. Probably it's probably the -- few weeks -- July that's actually gonna come up in Tekzilla. And there's a reason it's gonna come up in Texas yes we do have a very important announcement making this is regarding not only the show but and it worked as a whole. Well this is basically this is the last weekly episode for system. Don't worry -- the show isn't going away you're gonna have to me is over Tekzilla for your dose of system system along with that David Calkins myself perhaps mr. -- Perhaps. Actually mr. -- But it's gonna be a part of tax altered you're gonna see system -- to -- project plus get information and links and we'll get that in there. That's not the only change for making Ross going to be launching a completely showing July talking about basically the home -- something you diet. In our buddy Robert heron are pretty passionate about. And Barack is passionate about that Sarah CNET news he's in the control over right now we're out here. You haven't. He is it's it's great we're gonna beat we're gonna be talking about each species TV's HD content everything about -- home theater in his from high Def titles of the players. Software you know both PC based and you know remote and all sorts of really cool stuff basically everything to make your home theatre experience. Be easy especially finding the best confidence really to make your home theater system. Impress you just that good stuff you definitely check -- was we hope you will secure drastic revision3.com. For more details. That's speaking abilities if you're a budding filmmaker -- you just want to know how to make movie effects happen. What to imagine you're shooting -- me with a gun in in you want to have a -- fact -- us."

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