ONI Assassin

Hello, Please be gentle with me on this, i'm not as experienced as a lot of you are. I've been testing unraid for about two years now on an old Dell R710. It's been a great experience so i've now taken the plunge to move all my real life data to unraid and use my synology for backups. So what did i buy? Well i have a FD Define 7XL, ASRock x570 Taichi, AMD 5950X, Kingston 2x32GB ECC RAM, H100X AiO, HX1000, GTX1080Ti (Plex transcoding). I have plans to buy two 9201-8i HBA's, but for now i'm planning on connecting 4x8tb hdd and 2x1tb ssd via the mobo sata ports. Ok, now the problem, the mobo has 5 or 6 headers for fans but my setup has 4x120 NF-F12 (120mm @ 3000rpm max) at the front, three NF-F12 at the top (two if which are for the H100X and a single NF-A14 (140mm @ 3000rpm max) at the back. As you can appreciate thats more fans than headers. I have the AIO connected to CPU_fan1 (fan splitter) and CPU_fan2 (pump). That leaves me six fans and four headers. So the question is what would be the best way to connect the remaining fans? Should i buy a fan controller? If so which controller would be best for unraid compatibility? Could i use y fan splitters to connect multiple fans to the mobo? What are the ramifications\risks of such a move and how many can you have on a single port? Appreciating any help i receive. Thanks Also as an afterthought, does anyone have any advice on the best pci configuration for the 1080ti and two 9201-8i cards? I suspect the gpu should go in pcie slot 1 and the remaining cards in the remaining slots? Would just like someone to confirm i'm doing the right thing there.

So the good news is this server is sat on the third floor and has a UPS so very little worry on that front. However i get your point on user error. Thats why i use duplicati to backup the data to my synology.

Would you like to elaborate on the much more probable problems? Any knowledge is always welcome.

Thank you, I apologize, I didn't mean to rant, I was incredibly frustrated with the lack of simple yes no questions which result is yes or no to ECC ram, eg is your data critical, is stability an important factor etc. Don't get me wrong, I still have a lot of reading to do but certainly from a number of YouTube videos, forum posts etc. there is no hard answer (exactly what you said) which I find really surprising because I don't consider computers an art form, but a science, so surely there's a logic diagram which helps you reach this decision. Anyway.... OK, so with regards to backups, if you're backing up a file which suffered bit rot, your backup would be compromised too over a period of time. You wouldn't know you were suffering bit rot until you accessed the file. The question then becomes how do you identify the early onset of bit rot on a file and restore it from healthy backup? Lastly by my definition, the data is not critical, however I'm sure my partner would disagree as it contains a whole bunch of home pictures and videos. Based on that i need to take the appropriate actions to ensure the data is protected. With this in mind, I can take a local backup to a local NAS (my old one pre UNRAID), but I was also looking at using CrashPlan via docker as an offsite backup, but I'm still concerned about the horror stories I've read relating to bit rot. Your thoughts and guidance would be appreciated.

@Lolight My objective was a better understanding, you presume I had any preexisting knowledge. In your example, knowing what auto insurance or roadside assistance is in relation to a car when all i know is a car exists (it has four wheels and moves and turns and requires fuel), but noone has taken the time to explain i require at least one of the other items to drive the car. Assuming because someone runs unraid they already have an understanding of all the concepts from disk encryption to docker to gpu passthrough and even to ecc vs non ecc ram is short sighted. However, I thank you for highlighting my shortcomings in this subject and this only inspires me to learn more and try harder so i might help someone else in a similar predicament. Lastly i wish you an awesome day. @FlyingTexan thanks for your support, it really is appreciated. I have found this thread which helps provide some insight, and this comment seems to be the one which helps the most on my initial understanding (i still have a lot to understand in this space before i pull the trigger on my purchase, but i'm currently considering a 5950x, x570 taichi, two sticks of ksm26ed8/32me as the core of the new build): Thanks again both of you

I have an old enterprise grade server (Dell R710), but i'd like to upgrade it as its running DD3 RAM, SATA 2 etc. I want to move from rack mounted to a tower (thinking Define 7 XL as it will provide space for additional drives). I currently have 4HDD's and 2 SSD's plus the usual USB stick. I've been doing some research but can't seem to find definitive answers on the following: 1. Does ECC RAM really help that much, or is it a gimic? I suspect the former. 2. It seems some mobo's unofficially support ECC memory (asus strix + amd) and mention it is subject to CPU, should i steer clear of this unsupported configuration? 3. Does anyone have any recommendations (based on the below performance information) on CPU/RAM/Mobo combinations which are known to work and would fit correctly in a tower without modification. 4. Any recommendations on a good HBA? Additional notes: I plan to install a 1080ti , 2080ti and an additional 4 hdds. Workloads: 32 docker containers 1 windows 10 vm (2080ti will passthrough) Would also like to achieve 4k transcoding for plex (1080ti) Current performance: 2 x x5660 = low 2% average 13% max 79% 72 GB DDR3 = average 19% max 56% Any questions let me know. Thanks in advance for any help.

Hey, Did you complete this build? I'm curious about your experience with ECC support for that board and cpu. Thanks

Did you manage to resolve this?

Can you tell me what was wrong? I have the same issue.