hasemike

Ok thanks ! Found the 528 for sale here in Germany for about 10 euro's so i'll get one just to be sure with the rest of the stuff

Would that dlink be the DGE-530T pce gigabit adapter ?

I have been reading up on unraid, and would like to start building a server using this system. However the documentation on unraid is very little, no up to date hardware list no screenshots from the interface, and quite some problems in the forums with nic's. Normally i test stuff like unraid on vmware, but as unraid boots from usb this did not work for me. Most important question before i plunge a lot of money on a server is : Does unraid support the RTL8111b realtek lan chip that is on most motherboards at this moment ? The motherboard list on this forum lists all kinds of old hardware that is very difficult to find. For unraid to gain more acceptance it would really help if there was a list of supported >current< hardware.

After trying freenas i stumbled upon unraid, this looks like the solution for me. One question : would the asrock conroe1333-d667 board with a 945 chipset and intels ich7 work with unraid ? This board is very very cheap, it can run the new celeron 420 and it has 4 sata and 1 ide port for 2 devices, making a total of 6 possible. This would make the unraid setup very cost effective with only about 120 euro for the pc, excluding the harddisks.