I've seen it mentioned many times that AMD based boards aren't the ideal solution for unRAID. I'm just using one of these motherboards just for experimental testing. I did a quick build on Newegg and was quite surprised at how cheap an unRAID solution would be to build. A whole system, including case, motherboard, cpu, memory, video card, and even 4x750GB drives comes to about 850 shipped. Not bad at all for over 2TB storage with parity.
The MozartTX isn't actually a spare case. I'm using it right now as my main computer. The main reason I got it was I wanted the room for all the hard drives I have. Overall, I have 1x500GB, 4x320GB, 1x300GB, 2x250GB, and 3x200GB hard drives between my main computer and my HTPC. This is why unRAID is so attractive for me. I can just put 1 or 2 drives in each computer and throw the rest in the unRAID server.
I do have another question that Weebotech got me thinking about. Since the MozartTX also has the capability to have both an ATX board and an ITX board, how well would an ITX board work with unRAID? Would I be quite limited in drives? Are there any good ITX boards that work well with unRAID? Other than being limited in drives, I would think that would be a great low power solution.
Unfortunately, I have a concert tomorrow night and its going to basically shoot my whole day for Sunday. I'm hoping that through the week, I have some spare time to get this built and let you guys know how it works for me. Thanx for all the help so far.