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I do realize this is way overkill for what my initial goal is for UnRAID, but I wanted to future proof the build. I belabored the idea of going with the Kingston ECC ram, but decided to go with Crucial. I'll probably end up upgrading the Kingston ECC anyway 😞 in the future 🤔. I have a 775W Thermaltake Toughpower XT PS (still probably overkill) from my dead UnRAID install that was running continuously since 2015, back when everything was still Lime Tech branded. It died sometime during my retirement move from the Mid-Atlantic to the South 😞. I'll probably go with some form of eGPU in the future but for now I'll use the MB's iGPU. But I disgress. I do appreciate the review server components and the recommendations. I have most of the parts in, so sometime soon I'll start the build.

I have been following this thread and the other threads in reference to the Asus Pro WS W680-ACE IPMI motherboard with great interest. So much so, that I pulled the trigger on purchasing it today. Of course the motherboard appears to difficult to source right now, so I ordered directly from Asus. Starting a new build. My old UnRAID server is toast, no signs of life, and it's been down for almost 2 years now (retirement and life got in the way 🙂 ). Anyway my build will be as follows: Fractal Design Define 7 Case RMx Series™ RM850x — 850 Watt 80 PLUS Gold Fully Modular ATX PSU Asus Pro WS W680-ACE IPMI Intel Core i7 14700K Noctua NH-U12A chromax.Black 64GB Crucial DDR5-4800 UDIMM - CT2K32G48C40U5 WD_BLACK 4TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD 3 Seagate IronWolf NAS 12TB drives, 1 for parity, 24TB's for storage. Haven't quite decided on what I'm going to use for a cache drive yet 🙂 My requirement is basically backup and storage. I have a Synology NAS doing primary backup and storage now. Once the UnRAID server is up and operational, it will become my main backup/storage and the Synology will be relegated to a backup role. I have no real requirement for "remote management" but from reading through the threads it looks like the IPMI card provides some valuable stats. I'm not a PC gamer, so the onboard iGPU should be plenty for my needs. I will spin up a Windows 11 VM, a few docker containers and install some of the plugins available. Anxiously waiting for the parts to arrive, so I can get the build started. The posts I read through so far, will hopefully make my install as painless as possible, but that remains to be seen. It's been a minute since I built a PC from scratch. Should be interesting, to say the least.

Thanks for the reply and the info. Guess it's time to start purchasing hardware 😀.

Greetings All. First let me clarify the title. I am a longtime UnRAID user with a Pro license. Unfortunately, I current UnRAID server is dead, so I'm in the midst of building a new one. Hopefully, the registration usb stick will work in the newly built server, I realize it's going to be several versions behind. I don't remember how the registration worked before, is it email address based, user name based? My email address has definitely changed. I retired, moved to a new state 2 years ago, and that server has been powered off since I moved. I'm just using UnRaid as a backup/storage server. But as I have been reading through some the forums, I see there so much more that can be accomplished with UnRAID. My apologies for being all over the place, just trying to reestablish my bearings, as I take on this quest to rebuild a new UnRaid server. Any help or information would be highly appreciated. Thanks.