fwadiver

Like i said i'm starting from scratch, i dont intend to use 6-10 year old hard disks in the new build, I will start with new probably 3TB red drives seems to be a price sweet spot based on amazon searches. The only thing really being retained is the unraid license as of right now, the old case and drive cages are so caked with dust its crazy.

So my mobo has been tweaking out and the sas cards no longer are working and my current server is almost 10 years old now so I figured it was time for an upgrade, is there a current 'meta' build like there used to be as far as good recommended hardware? It seems like the blueprints and stuff in the wiki is the same stuff that was recommended back in 2011. I have about 20TB of a mix of 1 and 2TB WD red and green drives on a zotac server motherboard with an I dont remember what celeron server cpu. is the norco 4220 still one of the better cases to get if i want to go rack mount now? original server was 4 norco drive cages in a full tower. I'd like to upgrade to unraid 6 (still running 5) and do something with plex or other media/stream ad ons and maybe run it as a torrent download box... I'm pretty sure I know what drives i'm going to get, was just wondering whats the commonly recommended for mobo/cpu/ram and SAS/SATA expander cards for 2018 that will be compatible and work with unraid. any other advice for the upgrade (its really gonna be build basically a whole new server and migrate over not a true upgrade)