My apologies upfront, I have spent the better part of the last 3 days searching these forums as well as xbmc forums for some build advice, and was hoping for some help. I am running into to many posts/builds with discontinued parts. So, with that being said, if this has been posted somewhere else please accept my apology and point me in the right direction, otherwise, all help is much appreciated!!!
A Little background info:
I am looking to start from scratch on my HTPC setup, and I would like to start correctly, or hopefully correctly I want to setup a 12HDD unRAID server that I build and work from their. I have no experience with unRAID beyond reading up on it the last week or so, but decided that is seems to be what I am looking for! That being said, after reading this forum, the Greenleaf builds and the XBMC builds I decided to "try" to follow this build:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid=886478%23pid886478#post886478
Now to answer the questions this forum asks:
What is your budget? $300-$400 without unRAID license (PRO)
How many drives do you want your server to be able to support and how much capacity do you need? 12, I plan to use about 6 at the beginning
Is expandability important to you? If so, what's your long term goal? 12, possibly swapping out everything to 3TB drives if I ever need it
Are you interested in running any unRAID Add Ons (see here)? SABnzbd, SickBeard, CouchPotato, MySQL (for xbmc)
Do you want to run green/low power drives or faster 7200 rpm drives? Mixed drives, but anything I buy would be green drives moving forward.
Do you have any spare parts laying around that you would like to apply towards your build? 2x2TB (one for parity), 2x1.5TB, 2x1TB HDDs, 500GB 7200RPM drive for cache. Nothing else
If you already have parts in mind, please oh pretty please post links to them so that we don't have to look them up.
1. Case: Xigmatek Utgard CPC-T90DB-U01 Micro-ATX (Doesn't exist anymore, an replacement ideas?)
2. Mobo+iGPU: ASUS M4A88T-M LE AM3 HD4250 Micro-ATX (Doesn't exist anymore, an replacement ideas?)
3. CPU: SEMPRON 145 SDX145HBGMBOX 2.8GHz Single-Core AM3 45W (Still exists, but it is powerful enough to run SAB, Sick, Couch and MySQL? If not, thoughts?)
4. PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-430CX 430W 80Plus certified ATX12V (Still exists, is this fine with upgraded components?)
5. RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 1GB (1x1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1066Mhz CL7 (Doesn't exist anymore, I was thinking about 4GB, any reason to go 8GB or is 2, 4 sufficient for what I am looking for?)
Hopefully the above is at least a starting point, and if I am missing anything PLEASE let me know. The part thing is killing me and I want to make sure I don't get to low of parts to do what I want, and would love to be able to find parts that still exist.