I finally got around to getting the new port multplier adapter, enclosure and drives added to my unRAID set.  Everything went pretty smooth except I had found that all of my TB drives were jumpered for 1.5Gbps operation (default on the Seagates and new Maxtor drives).  You’d think this would be a good find except that after removing the jumper, enabling them for 3Gbps operation, the server would hang during POST.  I tried countless times, but no luck - always with a 5B BIOS POST code, which is within the range assigned to the I/O buses.  5B is specifIc to ATA.  I’ll mess around with it some more later as all the 500GB drives I added hum right along at the 3Gbps setting.

I’m now trying to get everything rearranged to best utilize the new space while also cutting down on the need to move files down the road again.  I want to be able to just upgrade a 500GB and not have to do all this moving between disk shares again.

I’ve also started using a new Media Center plugin called Video Library+.  It’s an XML metadata-driven (from theTVDB.com and movie-xml.com) MCML-based plugin for Vista only that was designed with TV series in mind, but also does movies.  It requires some fairly specific naming conventions due to the ruby scraper embedded, but it’s not all that bad.  I had to rename most all of my TV episodes, breaking them in MyMovies, but I never used MM for that anyway.  If renaming episodes scares you, then check out EpNamer - it’s the greatest little application ever (for this purpose anyway).

I had some difficulties getting it to work with my movie collection and eventually gave up, but if you’re just starting out or have a small collection, it’s definitely worth a try.

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