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Good day formites, The switch from my HTPC to Raspbmc has left me with a pile of hardware. After pulling the old HTPC apart and running across an Amazon sale of 4 4TB drives on Mar 5th - Now I have enough items to build an always on UnRaid machine to replace my power hungry video encoding/storage desktop (I own over 1200 dvds and dozens of TV series on DVD. Currently using the Raspbmc is not wife friendly due to the time consuming nature of booting up the encoding machine. Question 1 – Does anyone forsee issues that I may have using some of the following hardware? Question 2 – Would it be better to use the brand new PSU, or the one from 2009? Question 3 – with 4 onboard SATA ports, should I just skip using the AOC-SASLP-MV8 until I need to add more drives? Question 4 – should I even use the 30 GB SSD for anything? Question 5 - do I need an independent intel NIC or should the onboard NIC suffice? Date Purchased Switch TRENDnet TEG-S50G 2013 May http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156250 Case Fractal Design Define R4 2013 May http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352020 PSU New SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold 2013 May http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151088 PSU Used ENERMAX REVOLUTION85+ ERV1050EWT 1050W 2009 Sept http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817194039 cpu AMD Athlon II X2 250 2011 Oct http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Z4PB3O/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 cpu cooler Scythe Shuriken Rev.B 2011 Oct http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002AIS97Q/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 mobo BIOSTAR TA785GE 2011 Oct http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138167 mobo BIOSTAR TA785GE 128M 2011 Oct http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138155 ram Kingston 2 GB - 1 Stick 2011 Oct 4 4 TB HD Seagate Backup Plus 4 TB 2013 May http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00829THLE/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Spare SSD OCZ Technology 30 GB Vertex 2011 Oct http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NPCTB4/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 SAS AOC-SASLP-MV8 & cables 2010 June http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002KGLDXU/ref=wms_ohs_product?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I thank you All! edit: MOBO Goof

BIOSTAR TA785GE ingston 2 GB (1 stick, 3 slots still available) AMD Sempron 140 Sargas 2.7GHz 45 Watt Good day crew. Our machine recently began to lock up randomly (no video, no telnet). When we go to restart the machine and the video only randomly comes up (we have tried multiple monitors) - no bios, welcome, or boot display of any type. The board has 2 LEDs on it. When these come on (immediately) the machine boots up OK. When they do not, no video is displayed. We ran memtest86+ with no problems. We needed to run '--rebuild-tree' on a disk. After "pass 1 ( will try to insert 328097 leaves:)... looks like a hardware problem (perhaps memory). We ran this a second time and the mark_block_used number was different. Does this sound like a MOBO problem to you? Has anyone else had similar issues? I need advice as this is our production machine! Thank you all! Chris

That would be adequate. Thanks Joe!

Good day everyone. I am in the process of building using a recommended build and have run into an interface issue that is very import for me to solve in order for this to be a viable solution here in the office. Two Icy Dock MB454SPF-B (4 in 3) Biostar TA785GE Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 8-Port SAS/SATA Card The Icy Dock has a hard drive failure indication light on the front plate. Now that we have the unit we see that it has 4-2 pin jumpers on the back that need to be fed from the motherboard or a controller card, and it must be supported via the 'host' (I'm assuming the unRaid OS). How would I go about enabling this feature? Thank you greatly!