MattHirschfelt

Thanks Decto. In the spirit of my original build, I continued recycling parts from other computers I had access to to 'modernize' the build. The plan is as follows: Unraid: 6.8.3 (Plus Key) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3400G Motherboard: ASUS Prime x370-Pro RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) DDR4 3200 Case: Fractal Define 7 XL Power Supply: CORSAIR CX430M (If it can handle initial boot, this should be barely sufficient. I may need to upgrade it.) Parity Drive: 10TB Western Digital Red Plus (5,400RPM) Cache Drives: 2TB Western Digital Blue SSD, 480GB Inland Professional SSD (may be decommissioned) Data Drives: 2 x 10TB Western Digital Red Plus (5,400RPM), 3 x 4TB Seagate (5,900RPM), 2 x 4TB Hitachi (7,200RPM), 2 x 4TB HGST (5,400RPM) PCIe Card: LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA 9240-8i IT Mode Total Drive Capacity: 48TB Array, 2.5TB Cache Hopefully from the CPU side of things, this holds for another 7-8 years like my first Franken-build. But with the space, I'll shove more drives in there and stop being so conscious about my data hording.

Hello Unraid Family! The time has come that I need to start looking to upgrade my current Unraid server, but I feel so lost with what the recommendations are for builds these days or what I should even be looking at. When I made my current build, Frankunraid, 7.5 years ago this seemed so much simpler. I'm hoping someone can point me down a path with some recommendations so I can get an upgrade planned and purchased before my current machine bites the dust. My current equipment is as follows: Unraid: 6.8.3 (Plus Key) CPU: AMD A10-6700 Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) RAM: 2 x 8GB Patriot Memory Signature (DDR3 CL11 PC3-12800 (1600MHz)) Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B Power Supply: CORSAIR CX430M Parity Drive: 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM) Data Drives: 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM), 2 x 4TB HGST 0S03359 (5,400RPM), 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000NC001(5,5900RPM) Cache Drive: 480GB SSD (Inland Professional) Total Drive Capacity: 8 (All Used!) Currently running: Shinobi, Sonarr, Radarr, Bazarr, Plex, SABnbzd (VPN), Deluge (VPN), OMBI, Tautulli, Jackett, Unifi-Controller, JDownloader, InfluxDB, Glances This build as served me well since July 2013, but there is no room left in it for me to experiment with new things or even run what I currently have without occasional hiccups. The four cores are basically running at full utilization at all times which is generating a ton of heat and stressing the rest of the system as well. When I build the server originally it was supposed to just be Plex storage and playback, but my usage has changed. Here is what I'm hoping to accomplish with my upgrades: The server will primarily function as downloaded/storage of media files for playback via Plex, ROM storage for usage with emulators on the network, CCTV via Shinobi, Database storage to make pretty graphs for all of my little projects floating around on my network, and basic storage. With the upgrade I'd like to have a new CPU so that I have more overhead to play with and more storage capabilities. Right now I'm maxed out on SATA usage on my current Motherboard and case. I'd like to be able to support 12 to 16 drives in the long run so that I have an SSD Cache Pool, the main Array with at least one parity drive (probably two in the future). Bonus points if the face fits in a server rack. I have no understanding of all the VM talk on the forums so I don't have any requirements for that, but maybe if I understand it in the future I'd want to try it? With all that said, what route should I be looking at? I assume AMD if not my best route anymore because of the need to also add a GPU to the case with most of the builds. So should I believe looking at like an i7, i9, or Xeon build? How do I get the number of drives that I want to work with the boards I find? Thanks!

I got pinged that one of my followed posts (DirtySanchez's Landfill build) had a new post and I thought I'd come back and update my build. Since building this back in 2013, it received almost no upgrades (just changes in cache drive as I swapped in drives with less hours) until this month. Current Build (bolded the updates): Unraid: 6.6.7 (Plus Key) CPU: AMD A10-6700 Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) RAM: 2 x 8GB Patriot Memory Signature (DDR3 CL11 PC3-12800 (1600MHz)) Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B Power Supply: CORSAIR CX430M Parity Drive: 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM) Data Drives: 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM), 2 x 4TB HGST 0S03359 (5,400RPM), 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000NC001(5,5900RPM) Cache Drive: 480GB SSD (Inland Professional) Total Drive Capacity: 8 (All Used!) Currently running: Let's Encrypt Home Assistant Zoneminder (with 5 cameras, expanding to 8 soon) Sonarr Radarr Plex SABnbzd Deluge OMBI Tautulli I just upgraded the hardware and I am getting back into using the server more so I'm reconsidering the docker's running and looking if I want to add or remove anything.

I used the CX430M in my Frankunraid build. garycase will recommend a Silverstone SFX power supply.

The CX430M fits fine. I use it in my own Frankunraid build.

THO I had the same problem as you using 5.0-rc16c. I removed SimpleFeatures and upgraded to 5.0 and the new WebGUI and things are working as the should be again.

I noticed in the first few days of running this server I would frequently get errors in the log indicating poor connections to one or more of the drives even after double checking all the connections. Part of the problem is that the parity drive being at the bottom of the case doesn't have enough room to securely plug the power and SATA cables in. So I popped a SATA 22 Pin Male to 22 Pin Female Right Angle Adapter on the back of the drive and replaced all the cables with new (non-latching) cables. I've now got this server running full steam ahead with SABnzbd, uTorrent, Couch Potato, Sickbeard, MySQL, and Plex. The Seagate drivers are usually running at 30 to 31 degrees and the Hitachi drives run at 33 to 34 degrees when they're spinning. The CPU/MB fluctuates from 35 to 45 degrees depending on the load. Unfortunately, after RMAing the RAM I received now I'm in the process of RMAing the cache drive which is showing bad sectors after being in use (even though it passed multiple preclears).

The memory that I ordered was bad (failed Memtest at the 19% mark every time) so I ended up pulling 8GB out of my Desktop computer to get this new box up and running. A few quirks that I ran into with this motherboard that I'll need to tweak further once I establish stability. First, by default all fans connected to the motherboard are set to 'full on' in the BIOS. I plan to adjust this to allow the fan to spin down when such high speeds aren't needed. My plan is to set the target temp at 50 for the CPU (45 is the lowest setting on the board), even though I haven't seen it break 40 yet (not did my old tower). However, since I'm pre-clearing two new 4TB drives, I'll let the fans run full tilt to break them in. Second, AHCI is enabled by default, but a second setting still caused some of the drives to run under IDE emulation. I can't remember the exact BIOS setting right now, but it had a pretty obvious name. Finally, the last change I've made, though not a quirk, is setting the memory allocated to video down to 32MB instead of Auto (which was using 512MB). I'm going to start adding plugins this weekend once I've had the box up and running successfully a few days.

UPDATED 2/26/19: Current Build: Unraid: 6.6.7 (Plus Key) CPU: AMD A10-6700 Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) RAM: 2 x 8GB Patriot Memory Signature (DDR3 CL11 PC3-12800 (1600MHz)) Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B Power Supply: CORSAIR CX430M Parity Drive: 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM) Data Drives: 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM), 2 x 4TB HGST 0S03359 (5,400RPM), 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000NC001(5,5900RPM) Cache Drive: 480GB SSD (Inland Professional) Total Drive Capacity: 8 (All Used!) Currently running: Let's Encrypt Home Assistant Zoneminder (with 5 cameras, expanding to 8 soon) Sonarr Radarr Plex SABnbzd Deluge OMBI Tautulli I just upgraded the hardware and I am getting back into using the server more so I'm reconsidering the docker's running and looking if I want to add or remove anything. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So a few months back I wanted to find out what all this talk about unRAID was over on the XBMC forums. I didn't really want to spend money if this wasn't going to work for me so I pulled out all my boxes of computer stuff and cobbled together Frankunraid. That build looked like this: OS at time of building: unRAID 5.0-rc8 Free License CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.0GHz Socket 939 Single-Core Processor Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4/SLI 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard RAM: 3GB 184-Pin DDR 400 (PC 3200) Case: ATRIX CSCI-L8005-C43 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case Power Supply: Antec earthwatts EA430 430W Parity Drive: 4TB Seagate 5900RPM (ST4000DM000) Data Drives: 2 x 4TB Seagate 5900RPM (ST4000DM000) Total Drive Capacity: 8TB Primary Use: Home media center storage for XBMC and RaspBMC clients. Likes: Love that it was built all from spare parts (except drives)! Dislikes: That the system is likely nearing 50,000 hours (power on time) on most of the parts and has difficulty booting and could fail at any moment. Further, it has a dedicated graphics card which is wasting energy. Add Ons Used: SimpleFeatures, unMenu. Future Plans: Put it out of it's misery. Replace it! It's absolutely amazing to me that unRAID runs, without any problems, on parts that I've had since 2005. However, the time has come to upgrade so I can expand the server uses (Sab/SB/CP) and avoid the inevitable failure that I'm afraid could happen any moment. That brings me to upgrading to a small form factor box inspired by dirtysanchez's Landfill and spencer's SFF Unraid. The parts are ordered and I'm just waiting to put it all together now: OS at time of building: unRAID 5.0 RC-16c Plus License $69.00 CPU: AMD A4-5300 $39.99 Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) $99.99 RAM: 2 x 4GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 240-Pin DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) $50.99 Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B $95.99 Power Supply: CORSAIR CX430M $29.99 Parity Drive: 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM) Data Drives: 2 x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000 (5,900RPM), 2 x 4TB HGST 0S03359 (5,400RPM) Cache Drive: 250GB Western Digital Blue WD2500AAKX (7,200 RPM) Total Drive Capacity: 16TB Total cost without drives: $428.72 I got each of the drives for $150, except for the WD Blue which was an old spare. Add Ons Used: SimpleFeatures, unMenu, SAB/SB/CP, uTorrent, Plex

I'd say Tapatalk 2.

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I'm looking at doing a very similar build so I'd be interested to hear if someone does have some feedback on SAB/Sickbeard/Couch Potato running with this CPU/MB combo.

I really love this build! Do you think I'd have the same success if I swapped the Motherboard and CPU for AMD parts? [MOBO] ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 HDMI Mini ITX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS [CPU] AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz (3.6GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Dual-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) Also, I have a spare Antec earthwatts EA430 430W. Can I use that? Or no because it's not a single +12V rail?