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@testdasi, I’m wondering if the PSU I chosen is actually good. The Be Quiet Pure Power 11 CM has two rails it seems +12V1 (A)24 and +12V1 (A)20, and the unRAID wiki advices to use a single rail PSU. Then again the Seagate Ironwolf’s are 5900 RPM discs and only need 4,8 W to spin up so I guess this is still OK ? Unfortunately cannot find a diagram which rail feeds what. If I had to guess is that the fixed part is one rail and modular part is another, but off course without a diagram this is guesswork. https://www.bequiet.com/en/powersupply/1539

Picking in here with a question, so I suppose enabling Turbo Write is a good practice when first setting up unRAID and you have to copy a lot of data from another system/disks? And then to preserve power consumption and disk wear turn it back off afterwards as in most cases less data is written to the array?

Nice addition @Alexander, but in my case with the Fractal Design Node 804, ATX motherboards don't fit.

Default warranty period in Europe is two years, but on the D3H GSM board there's a 3 year extended warranty so I went with that board. Only 2€ more expensive than the DS3H board, so not bad for an extra year 😀 Final order is in, so now waiting on the parts. Part list now looks like this Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Motherboard: Gigabyte H370M D3H GSM CPU: Intel Core i3-9100 Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 SSD: Gigabyte UD PRO 512 GB (this one even dropped to 66€ instead of 74€) PSU: Be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 400W Disc: Seagate IronWolf 6 TB for parity

Is there any advantage to go for Gigabyte GSM motherboard instead of a regular one? Thinking of choosing the H370M D3H GSM instead of the H370M DS3H. Read somewhere that the D3H GSM has an extended warranty and lifespan compared to normal models, and also I see the connectors are slightly different than on the DS3H board. But then again the DS3H has one extra PCI 1x port compared to the D3H GSM model. Apart from that there isn't much else different (actually don't care much for a DisplayPort)

Sorry, already figured out. Seems the Gigabyte board has one cable included, the rest I need to buy. And of course the PSU provides the power cables, duh ☺️ The PSU I have on the list is semi-modular so that also helps to only need to use the cables I'll need.

Ah OK understood. One other, and actually for me quiet embarrassing question. Regarding SATA cables, I'll need one to power and data for the drives, but I guess only power is supplied with the PSU, is that correct ? What the data SATA cables concerns, what should I look out for?

OK understood. Probably also going to swap out the PSU and change it to a Be Quiet Pure Power 11 CM as that has a 80+ Gold certificate compared to the Bronze for the Corsair. And also changed changed the SSD to a Kingston A400 480GB model as that cuts cost a bit more.

Once again thanks for your excellent advice on this @testdasi. So I've changed my build list to the i3-9100 with iGPU, it comes slightly above the price of the non-iGPU but indeed leaves me open a PCI slot for future use so that beats that price difference any day. The CPU I checked is a boxed version so it should come with a fan. Could get the Gigabyte SSD for 74€ so I suppose that's a good price and was on the lower price end in the pcpartpicker list. And it's a Toshiba BiCS3 3D TLC so I should be good there. Will all parts and also fully loaded with eight HDD's pcpartpicker estimated 300W so I guess I'm safe with a 450W PSU. Either way I'll start out with three of my existing discs and a new bigger disc (8TB) for parity. So all in all with the current parts I can make a build just below 550€ which is way cheaper than an 8-bay 1000€ Synology NAS. And pretty sure that self-build will run circles around that Syno regarding performance 🙂 Off course to be fair I also need to take into account the unRAID license and most probably will go with the Pro license.

I'm stepping down from IPMI for the moment, as this that brings me into another price category. So I used PCpartpicker and got to this list; CPU: Intel Core i3-9100F (so different CPU and a bit cheaper in NL compared to the previous one) CPU cooler: Noctua NH-L9x65 33.84 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte H370M DS3H Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 (on the Gigabyte board support list this is listed as DDR4-2133, so not sure this memory is OK) SSD: Gigabyte UD PRO 512 GB (guess 512 GB for a cache drive is plenty enough ?) Videocard: MSI GeForce GT 710 PSU: Corsair CX (2017) 450 W Estimated wattage for the build would be 300W so guess I'm safe with a PSU of 450W Fans I still need to check, but will go with Noctua fans Did I make a big mistakes with the above list? I did check the Gigabyte support files to make sure it matches.

@testdasi, thanks for the thorough advice 👍 Did a quick check on Gigabyte motherboards but oh boy they have a lot of them, also with 1151 sockets. Which one would you recommend if i also would like to have IPMI? Follow you on the flexibility so the Asus board seems limited in that way. Think the Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H is good one, but doesn't have IPMI when checking the specs for it. So I'm curious which one you would advice. Great tip on the LSI IT mode board, especially since i intend to keep my Seagate HD's but buy an extra 8 TB for parity, don't like to live life on the edge like you do 😁 Noctua is indeed great, saw a video once from someone who swapped out the stock fans in a Unifi 24 port switch and it was a lot quieter after the swap.

Thanks for the answer. Guess I'll leave the Dell route behind and go for a self-build server, created a thread for it here.

So coming here as i want to replace my Synology NAS with a self build server. Mind you never build my own server before, so this is my first time and might reflect in what follows 😉 What will it be used for, well next to storage some Docker containers will be run and also maximum 2 VM's. No transcoding is actually needed and also at maximum only one stream will be running at anyone time, so there my marial status is out there 😀 Regarding the case i'm in doubt between two Fractal Design cases, the Define R5 and Node 804. Guess with the Define R5 it's easier to make a more quiet build than with the Node 804, is that correct ? For the motherboard and CPU i'm leaning towards the ASUS PRIME B360M motherboard with a Intel i3-8100 CPU Would it be better or what are the advantages for a server motherboard compared to a consumer motherboard? As i have zero experience with motherboards, are there better alternatives for the ASUS motherboard out there? Regarding SATA connections (really at a loss here what connects where actually), the ASUS has 6 but i would need 8, so guess would be better to use a SATA board, but i have no idea what i should pick here, so tips are more than welcome? Also does it matter which SATA cables i pick? For the PSU i'm looking at the Corsair SF450, hope this is OK for drives up to 8 drives (possibly more in the future) and a SSD drive? What fans are recommended for an as quiet as possible build? Was thinking about be quiet! Silent Wings or some Noctua fans, but maybe there are other options? Memory and HDD's (will be 8x Seagate 4TB IronWolf from my NAS) will not be a problem to pick the correct ones. Anything else i forgot to make a complete build? Either way looking forward to the comments

First post here, so a total unRAID noob. Also I'm only used to all-in-one Macs for the moment so probably silly questions ahead 😉 Have the chance to get a Dell PowerEdge T710 but i'm not sure if a Dell PERC RAID controller card is actually needed in that machine, to be able to use it as a server for unRAID? If that Dell PERC RAID controller card is needed, then well i already checked the forums and it seems a flashed H200 in IT-mode works, but the H700 seems to be a different story. So if that RAID controller is needed guess i best go for that flashed H200.