yossarian86

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  1. Right now I've got three boxes running in the office. My old daily driver tower, an old gpu mining rig repurposed into a headless storage box (not even in a case it's pvc pipe and wood), and my current daily driver tower. Each one has a 4 disk single parity snapraid array in it and they're all pretty much full. Ideally I'd like to consolidate all of that into a single storage box and set it up with enough unused capacity that I won't find myself stuffing disks into something else in a few years. You make a good point about the mismatch though. If the goal is to consolidate putting this into a Node 804 or something would still let me decom the other boxes and end up using less space in the end just the same. If I'm honest with myself the rackmount thing is more of a want than a need. I've wanted to have that for years so I could pilfer old hw from work and maybe move to rackmount ubiquiti network gear, etc etc. I also just have general shopping problems. I've already been considering going with a lg1200 board and a 10/11th gen cpu because I haven't pulled the trigger on the cheaper stuff yet Thanks for the feedback, I should definitely go give some of the standing cases some more looks.
  2. Not absolutely, but I'm leaning heavily that direction. Office already has multiple towers in it and I'd like to get a cabinet and start stacking vertically instead of having pc's scattered about. Edit: I think I might see where you're going though. If I'm going to go with a 4u better to go with the 15 bay and a board that can take 2 HBAs. Make use of the big ass space?
  3. I'm looking to make the move to unraid but figured it might be wise to let others eyeball my plans first to make sure I'm not about to step in something with my build. My needs are pretty tame, I've got about 25TB of data spread across a couple of snapraid arrays. I'd only be using this unraid box for the media storage and to run plex. At absolute most I'll only ever be transcoding 3 streams at once, and realistically it will only be doing one at a time 90% of the time and two at a time occasionally. With this in mind I'm going pretty budget for the board/cpu, this is primarily to get everything consolidated, move from multiple single parity snapraid arrays to a single double parity unraid setup, and to give me some room to grow storage wise. Case: Rosewill RSV-R4000U 4U Server Chassis Rackmount Case | 8 3.5" HDD Bays, 3 5.25" Devices MB: ASRock H310CM-HDV/M.2 LGA 1151 (300 Series) CPU: Intel Core i3 9th Gen - Core i3-9100 RAM: G.SKILL Aegis 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 HBA: H310 PERC flashed to IT mode Power Supply: EVGA 650 B5 Drives: Seagate IronWolf 12TB NAS Hard Drive x 8 (2 for parity, 6 for data) Cache Drive: Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 2280 Unraid OS Drive: Sandisk 32GB Cruzer Fit CZ33 USB 2.0 Misc: Cable Matters Internal Mini SAS to SATA Cable x 2 StarTech - PYO4SATA .com 15.7-Inch (400mm) SATA Power Splitter Adapter Cable x 2 As you'll see I'm being pretty cheap with everything I can. The only thing I'm already sitting on is the flashed HBA and a few of the IronWolf 12TB's. Everything but the drives is looking to only be about $700. My main points of doubt are: Should I shell out the little bit of extra cash to go with a i5-9400 considering my low # of transcode requirements and that I don't plan on running any VM's or dockers other than Plex. Am I making a bad call going for a cheaper board and older CPU, or am I just building to my actual needs. Of course if anybody see's anything wrong other than that, any input would be much appreciated!