SchedulesDirecte in v7.1.9?

[wayner]

That being said, there are reasons to remain on Windows, like the ability to use all three zones of a USB-UIRT and you may want to run other software that only runs on Windows.

I have been happy moving to unRAID and I have installed a bunch of other dockers like Air Video for playing back files to iOS devices, Plex, Unifi for my networking, rutorrent for downloading new Linux distros, Letsencrypt/nginx for managing secure web connections, etc. I have installed Ubuntu in a VM on my unRAID server and I use that for various other things.

[PeteCress]

Originally Posted by Taddeusz

That and with the drive array unRAID makes nearly the perfect media server.

What happens when one of the drives in unRAID's array bites the big one?

i.e. Can the array be set up with single or dual-drive redundancy?

[Taddeusz]

Originally Posted by PeteCress

What happens when one of the drives in unRAID's array bites the big one?

i.e. Can the array be set up with single or dual-drive redundancy?

Yes, of course. When a drive dies it will continue to run degraded. You just shut it down, swap out the drive, start it back up, and tell unRAID that the drive will replace the bad one. It will then rebuild the data on that drive just like a RAID 5 array would.

The difference between unRAID and standard RAID is that if you end up having a parity error you don't lose the entire array. I've never had a parity error but I imagine with the way unRAID works unless the problem was really severe you wouldn't lose everything. You'd just end up with bit errors in some of the files. You should never just lose everything even in the event of a multi-drive failure since data is not striped across drives as in RAID 5.

[Taddeusz]

In fact, since each drive is formatted XFS, or Btrfs for older installs, each drive could be individually connected to a different system to retrieve data.

[davidk21770]

Thanks for all of the info.
I preinstalled the latest 32 bit Java (8.0.131), ran the install 2x as recommended (install/repair) and my system was up and running. It took me less than an hour to tie into Schedules Direct, correct my lineups, and tie up the other upgrade loose ends (like update out of date modules).
And it's all working amazingly well!
Great Job!!!