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The site is back up now. The cards name is: Dawicontrol DC-3410 Raid PCI The old computer is just as a quick and cheep solution for a couple of years. I will of course try unRAID on it before I buy the controller card... As I move to another place with a sattelite dish I think i will upgrade the Mobo + CPU to take full advantage of tvheadend and PCI-E tuner cards. But for now can anyone tell me if the 512MB RAM is enaugh for SD tv signals over dvb-t? And are dvb driver that are in kernel supported or do i need to compile/install them manually? edit: If everything is set up, can i remove the video card to save some power?

Thank you both. Okay, the capacity problem is solved. For the hardware: The board has no sata ports thats why I would need a raid-controller card. Even if unRaid can not use the special raid features on it(why not?).I just saw that Sata Controller cards without raid features cost the same as the ones with those features... I would only run tvheadend with DVB-T so there is no HD and the driver for my card is in kernel. Does that solve the problem or do i still need to compile and install the driver myself? Are 512 MB enaugh for that if I let sabnzb and sickbeard go? @marcusone: So you say it would waste money to buy an additional ethernet card because the speed of all PCI slot together is not high enaugh for both, 3 or 4X SATA and network? Is the 10-12 MB/s enaugh to stream HD movies? (My calculations would say yes: 20GB = 20480 MB for a 90 minute film = 5400 seconds, would be 3,79 MB/s ...)

Hi, I have a 2TB and a 3TB drive. I want to buy another 3TB drive and see where i can get with unraid free. The thing is: RAID 5 would suggest that the maximal capacity of that array is 4TB, 2 TB parity and 2 TB wasted. I have heared about some companies (synology) using a more advanced system. They divide the drives in smaller partitions so that the wasted space can be minimized. If i calculate at their RAID Calculator with 2TB + 2x 3TB I get 5 TB capacity, 3 TB parity and nothing wasted... Can unRAID do something similar? Or do I have to get 2 new 3TB drives if I don't want to waste any space (although the 2TB drive would be useless in that case ) About the hardware requirements: I have an old computer with an Intel Pentium 4 with 2.35 GHz and I think 512 MB RAM. Do you think it works if i purchase - PCI Raid-controller and - PCI Gigabit Ethernet card for faster networking ? And: would the hardware be enaugh to host tvheadend + usb tv tuners, or sabnzbd or sickbeard? Thank you in advance