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I finally had the time to move my kill-a-watt off the whole rack and onto the unraid server itself while a thunderstorm was going on outside. Here are the results I observed: 51w at idle; all drives spun down 126w peak while spinning up drives 80w after all drives spinning I have 3 Samsung HD203WI (2TB EcoGreen F3), a Seagate ST31000528AS (1TB 7200.12 Barracuda), a Seagate ST3500630AS (500GB 7200.10 Barracuda), and a WD5000AACS (500GB Caviar GP).

I haven't tested any sleep modes, but maybe you could try changing the ACPI version to 3.0 instead of 2.0? If you're concerned about energy usage, here is an overview of my setup's power draw: I have an AT&T Router/Gateway, a 24 port gigabit switch, a 1U Atom server (hardware firewall), and the UnRaid server itself in a rack all on one outlet. Using my kill-a-watt, the rack is pulling 128W from the wall. If I spin up all 6 drives (three of which are low power) that are in the UnRaid server, it draws up to 180W.

Wow, has it been over a month already? Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I've been busy and wanted to answer your questions. At least I have a good amount of testing in now . WannaTheater, Rajahal: My observed drive temps during normal operation are low to mid 30s (Celcius) with an ambient temperature of 25-30C for my low-power drives. During parity checks, temps get up to just over 40C. I do have one 7200RPM drive that gets quite hot during parity cheks (trips my temp alarm every time), but during normal operation it hovers around 35C. My server is in a rack with 5 other servers in an upstairs living room. As a note, my AC went out for a couple of days where it got to be 35C ambient and none of my drives triggered the temp threshold (luckily I wasn't scheduled for a parity check those days ), so I'd say that's pretty good. jespeed: I would highly recommend my configuration, I haven't had any problems in the month+ it's been running. The stock fans really are gratingly loud. I bought a replacement fan board from http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4816&start=34, but there's a fan board available from Norco now: http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=258. Other thoughts: I can stream two 1080p movies, a 720p movie, a 720p TV show, and copy files up to the server with no hiccups in any of the streams. Overall, I am completely satisfied with what I've put together. I believe I was able to get level 2 testing done for this motherboard: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=8112.0. If I were buying this again, I would get the Norco RPC-4224 chassis for maximum expandability.

I've had my UnRaid server going 24/7 for a bit over a month now and thought I'd share my log. If I'm not mistaken, this should be good for level 2 tested. If I'm lacking something, please let me know so I can get it there. I've had zero problems so far! FYI, it takes about 6.6 hours to check parity. See full system specs here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7512.msg72715#msg72715 Screenshot of disk stats: http://imgur.com/ptcJs syslog-2010-10-01.zip

I also have a Compaq 9000 series rack and I was able to get them installed, but only with using some spare parts from another rail set and mounting it to the inside facing holes of the post. Not sure as to what others are using, but possibly a universal kit that doesn't slide or a sliding rack shelf of some sort?

The backplane on the RPC-4220 uses SFF-8087 instead of individual SATA connections (reduces cable clutter quite nicely), so I have the 3 2TB drives all on one controller. This is because I've since added an additional 1TB drive and two 500GB drives since I received my pro license and put them on the other controller. I'm not sure if I want to put them all on as data drives, or use one of them for a cache. I haven't had much time to try different allocations for performance, but I may just have to do that , Is there a standard way everyone here tests read/write performance?

The motherboard itself is great. I love the features (on-board USB port, 3 PCI-E 8x slots, IPMI). It's pretty sweet using a low cost i3, but still using ECC memory (non-ECC isn't supported. You can use either unbuffered or registered RAM, however). The BIOS is fully featured, and I believe you could even overclock with it, if you wanted to. IPMI has its own dedicated NIC port configurable through BIOS or IPMI. It works with Supermicro's own IPMIView 2.0 pretty well, but I haven't really extensively tested it. Do you know of any other clients that would be better? I'm quite new to IPMI. The 530 seems speedy enough for UnRAID. The 550 is $35 more for an extra 270MHz/core. If you want more speed, the 540 is just $10 more (@newegg) and will give you an extra 170MHz/core. The 530 is still the cheapest $/MHz-wise.

First off, hello! I have been looking at various solutions to safe-guarding my media data and UnRAID seems like a perfect fit. So I backed up all my data and have UnRAID up and running to see how everything goes. Your community seems excellent from what I have seen so far and I hope I can contribute. Now, on to the good stuff... Parts list and links to where I purchased them from: Chassis: NORCO RPC-4220 4U Rackmount Server Chassis http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033 (with 3x120mm fan mod: http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4816&start=34) Picked due to high amount of space in a (relatively) small footprint. I happen to have a 36U rack in the house for various servers, so this was ideal Fans: Scythe SY1225SL12M 120mm "Slipstream" Case Fan http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835185058 Much more silent than the included 4x80mm screamers that were included Rails: NORCO RL-20 20" http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811997302 These were not fun to install onto my 4 post square hole rack, I don't really recommend them... HDD: 3x SAMSUNG EcoGreen F3 2TB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152202 Cheap, lower power, large size drives with a good rating. Also, I don't like to support WD because of their stance on TLER USB Drive: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171374 Cheap, recommended by Lime-Tech Controller Card: 2x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Ports SAS http://nextwarehouse.com/item/?820745 8 devices on one PCI-E slot? Yes, please. Also highly rated Cables: NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 Internal Multilane SAS Cable http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133034 Cheap; they work Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O Xeon X3400 / L3400 / Core i3 series Dual LAN Micro ATX Server Board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182211 On board USB port (not header) means I plugged the flash drive directly into the board. 3 8x PCI-E slots combined with the Supermicro addon cards means plenty of room for expansion (could fill the RPC-4224 [24 bay] without using any of the on-board SATA) CPU: Intel Core i3-530 Clarkdale 2.93GHz 4MB L3 Cache LGA 1156 73W Dual-Core Desktop Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115222 Low power, high speed quad core. Supprised it can be used on a server-class motherboard RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Server Memory http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139041 Motherboard requires ECC RAM. It was actually fairly inexpensive considering PSU: SeaSonic S12D 850 Silver 850W ATX12V V2.3/EPS 12V V2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified Active PFC Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151083 High wattage with good efficeincy at a good price Thoughts so far: This is my primary media server used to share with various XBMC installs in the house for movies and TV with some music. It's used daily. This used to be a FreeNAS box. I moved to UnRAID for the parity protection as a first line of defense. I have a copy of all of my files on the two data drives and am using about half (2/4 TB) of space. UnRAID booted right up and was able to build parity with no apparent problems (took just over 5 hours to complete). Initial file write/read tests using Windows 7 file copy put it at about 10MB/s slower on writes and twice as fast at reads vs. FreeNAS (near 35MB/s write/85MB/s read over gig ethernet). I was able to stream two 1080p movies to two different media PCs simultaneously without issue. Overall, I'm quite satisfied. I'm currently performing a parity check (estimated speed is 80-105MB/s, time is estimated at around 300 minutes). As this motherboard is not on the hardware compatibility list, I'd appreciate it if someone would help me verify that this build is indeed functioning correctly and tips on what to look for problems-wise. Thanks, Brian