SDKTheater

For sale are a Supermicro X8SIL-F Micro ATX Server Motherboard with 16 GB ECC RAM and a Xeon X3470 CPU. Asking $70 + shipping PayPal only

Thank you @Energen. I appreciate the input! I am very, very new at this server stuff. My thought process was to keep the file server cost low as I am spending a decent amount on the media PC as that has a specific use for my home theater as far as dynamic frame by frame tone mapping and upscaling. I chose Unraid as it seemed to get a lot of good feedback from the community. I definitely want something with some redundancy in case a drive or two fails I don't want to be out of luck with all my data. Again, I am very new at this and learning every day.

Thank you for the replies! My plan is for this to be a file server (mainly MKV files) for the foreseeable future. I am going to be building another system based on an i7 7700 with RTX 2080 that will take the files and feed them through MadVR to do tone mapping and on to the projector in my theater. My thought was that using the file server I would be able to access it from an Apple TV in another room for playing media files as well as devices in other rooms. Hopefully the hardware I have chosen will be plenty for that purpose?

Hey All, I am new here and looking to build my first Unraid NAS. Here is what I have so far: SuperMicro X8SIL-F Motherboard Intel Xeon X3470 CPU HYNIX 16GB (4X4GB) PC3-8500R 1066MHZ ECC REGISTERED CL7 QUAD RANK X8 DDR3 SDRAM Planned LSI 9240-8i 6Gbps SAS HBA IT Mode ?? Power Supply ?? Case (prefer rackmount) Here are the start of my questions: I am planning to use 3tb SAS drives; should I purchase the "new" drives that are supposedly old unused stock, or purchase used SAS drives? I am planning to start with 6 drives to give me 12tb of pool drives with 2 parity drives. I look forward to all your advice as I learn and work through the design of this build.