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Agreed! It screwed right into the 120mm fan spot, like it was always meant to be there* *However, with the X10SL7-F motherboard, it's super tight/impossible for some styles of SATA cables to fit since the back of the cage is right up against the SATA ports on the motherboard. What I did was move the cage away from the motherboard about a cm and screwed the cage to the bottom of the case through the metal fan holes. Its's very solid and hasn't been an issue.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=63600 http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html

I built my server with an emphasis on silence and I recently expanded the server with a drive cage after seeing this build: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25401.0 It's just a perfect, cheap expansion solution! The server is quiet, isn't huge, runs cool and has been very reliable! CPU: Intel G3220 Motherboard: Supermicro X10SL7-F Ram: 4GB ECC Fans: 3x Antec TruQuiet 140mm for the case 1x Noiseblocker M12-S1 120mm under the drive cage Power Supply: Corsair RM650 Drive Cage: Caselabs MAC-101

Ask and you shall receive "The WD Red 6TB is quite a surprising solution and if we analyze our test results, I can really see where this purpose built solution will fit in. First off, it is obvious this drive does not really care for workload testing, as it did not perform too well in any of that, nor did it perform too well with random read testing. Where it did fare quite well is where it counts. The WD Red 6TB was the quickest in both sequential read and write by a good 30 MB/s, and at the same time had the lowest latency in both tests as well, coming in at 23ms over the 28ms turned in by the Seagate NAS 4TB and WD Red 4TB." http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/6535/western-digital-red-6tb-nas-consumer-hdd-review/index.html

Ohh, 5TB and 6TB greens too! 5Tb for 229.99 and 6TB for 269.99. Two year warranty vs three on the reds.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8273/western-digital-updates-red-nas-drive-lineup-with-6-tb-and-pro-versions Newegg has the 5TB at 249.99 and the 6TB at 299.99.

Don't even think about it. No no no, especially for unraid *Edit: For more details see this thread about our experiences: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=32647.0 I've never had more trouble with a motherboard. From major issues like buggy disk controllers to silly issues like buggy pwm fan controls, it had it all. It turned out to be a really expensive mistake..

@ Newegg business: http://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-22-178-520 44.62/TB Getting a little easier to swallow..

Another thing to think about is price per drive slot in your server, I think. I can't figure out how to calculate it all out, though. 150/4 = 37.5 per TB while 290/6 = 48.3 per TB. Factor in electricity, how many slots are in your server, and who knows what else. I do know that I'm done buying 4TB drives though. Once a higher capacity drive comes out, I always opt for it. Higher density means lower heat, noise and hastle for me. I'm willing to pay a small price premium for that. That being said, this drive is too untested at the moment..

I'm still waiting on a review of one of these drives. It would be nice to know about noise, temperatures and performance.

The DS380 also runs the drives a little hot too, so keep that in mind. Some people worry about that more than others, just a heads up.

SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O uATX Server Motherboard LGA 1150 Intel C222 DDR3 1600 + USD $15 off w/ promo code CMPNTSALE118, ends 6/2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182821 It's not a crazy deal, but nice if you're in the market.

The only mini ITX with more than 6 sata ports (seven on the board): Asrock FM2A85X-ITX. Well, the Asrock C2550d4i and C2750d4i both have 12 sata ports, but they have serious issues with unraid and just in general..

In terms of more drives in that case, this is pretty clever: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=25401.0

I was transferring files and the server restarted half way through for some unknown reason. 59 04/23/2014 19:50:12 Unknown System Event System Reconfigured,OEM System Boot Event,Undetermined System Hardware Failure,Entry Added to Auxiliary Log,PEF Action - Asserted 58 04/23/2014 19:50:12 Unknown System Event System Reconfigured,OEM System Boot Event,Undetermined System Hardware Failure,Entry Added to Auxiliary Log,PEF Action - Asserted 57 04/23/2014 19:50:16 Unknown System Event System Reconfigured,OEM System Boot Event,Undetermined System Hardware Failure,Entry Added to Auxiliary Log,PEF Action - Asserted 56 04/23/2014 19:50:16 Unknown System Event System Reconfigured,OEM System Boot Event,Undetermined System Hardware Failure,Entry Added to Auxiliary Log,PEF Action - Asserted *Edit: I'm not the only one: http://forums.tweaktown.com/asrock/56730-c2750d4i-stability-problems.html I'm running a parity check since there were replayed transactions and then I'll md5 check everything to make sure there isn't any corruption. Frustrated. Edit: ASRock tech got back to me. Apparently that is what gets logged after a crash. Unfortunately, I don't know the cause of the crash yet.

They are already plugged into the 9230 and I really don't want to remove the drive cage again if at all possible..

Have you sorted out any of your problems? We'll see. I just installed an additional 3 hard drives (this time 4tb seagate nas drives) and I just got my replacement WD Red. Currently doing parity sync with unraid 6 right now. Seems to be doing fine. I don't know if I mentioned it, but I bought 8 of those slimline silverstone sata cables ($10 each), and those cables are so much easier to work with. I had problems with the intel sata 3 ports because they were so close to the ram slot, but the cables are pretty flexible. My old sata cables put a lot of stress on the ports, especially the ones on the cage. One kind of wiggles, but seems to be working for now. Sounds better than the last report! Which SATA controllers are you using and how many drives on each? I now have all 6 intel ports being used without issues, I'm adding the first drive to the 9230 later this week and I don't anticipate problems. The second drive on it though might be interesting, though I hope not

Have you sorted out any of your problems?

I bought it a month ago for 259.99, it's a great drive, especially for that price!

If you want to save money, I'd just take the fan filter off. That thing just kills the airflow..

It's just two molex cables to power the backplane and thus all 8 drives. Since your power supply will have those, no additional cables are needed.

Ewww. Double ewww. All I can add is I'm currently running with the Coboc cables in 5 of the intel ports next to the fan without problems. My first build went without a hitch as well, this one has been a patience tester to say the least. Since you're testing the CPU and ram, and barring they are fine, I do know that Unraid can get pretty fussy with bad drives, so I'd start there, which it seems like you're doing. I hope you get it all sorted out, let me know if I can help! I see one SMART error like I was getting, but the WRITE FPDMA QUEUED isn't one I saw. Have you run a SMART test on ata9? I sure hope that two drives on the 9230 isn't the problem, but at this point, nothing would surprise me, and I'll know in a week when all 8 drives are in *Edit: Similar errors to yours, bad disk: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1183411 *Edit 2: Looks like ata11 gave you some of that too, it's looking more likely to be a 9230 problem if that drive was on it too. I guess you can still get to 8 drives with 1 on 9230 and 1 on 9172 or 9 drives if the 9172 can have two drives on it. This is getting confusing I'll let everyone know how it goes when I try 6 on intel and 2 on the 9230..

Welcome to the deep end I've now transferred ~4TB over and everything is MD5 hashing right and no SATA errors. Also as a FYI, I have hot swap and ALPM enabled.. I'd say that 50C is certainly too high. I'm using Noctua NF-S12A fans, but I think the "high impedance" NF-P12 fans might be a better fit for this case because the fan filter and especially the drive cage add a ton of impedance. I'm just running mine without the filter. Please remember that I'm going for the lowest noise possible, so keep that in mind. With the magnetic fan filter removed and at full speed ~1300RPM, the drives run in the low 30's during a parity check. It's pretty quiet, but I'm going for as close to silent as possible. With the fan filter removed and at 40% speed ~700RPM, the drives run in the low 40's during a parity check. During normal reading and writing of a few drives, it's in the mid 30's. Individual drives vary a lot depending on where the drives are in the cage. Not a great design, cooling wise. I'm happy with this fan speed compromise due to the very low noise and I'm running it at this level. I'm putting another drive in today and after transferring more data over, another one this weekend. I'll keep an eye on the temperatures with the additional drives in and let everyone know. What were the exact errors?

Not enterprise or as expensive as I anticipated at $299.99.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178520

Level 1 tested. Apr 10 01:26:10 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=30916sec Apr 10 01:26:10 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 Apr 10 03:37:12 Tower kernel: mdcmd (44): check CORRECT Apr 10 03:37:12 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ... Apr 10 03:37:12 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread checking parity... Apr 10 03:37:12 Tower kernel: md: using 1536k window, over a total of 3907018532 blocks. Apr 10 12:26:45 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=31773sec Apr 10 12:26:45 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 syslog.txt