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I was just wondering if the cpu/memory type mattered as much for parity like the speed of the pci slot does? I don't want to buy another motherboard and processor down the road because it takes 400 hours to rebuild a drive if one should fail.

I think its going to take some time to come up with the money to afford one of these server boards. The more i look at them the more im convinced they are a better way to do things than repurposing an old desktop. I suppose for now i can get some of those pci-e 1x cards just for handling the drives. How much processing power would this unraid need? I suppose i would need at least DD2/3 or better for faster processing?

The laserdiscs I have are movies like stand up comedy, george carlin, etc. For about a year or so i went on a laserdisc collecting spree, didn't realize that they would be so heavy to move, but they look nice on the shelf stacked there. Most everyone confuses them with vinyl, to which i tell them, 'well your close enough'. So would a PCI-X motherboard be worse than having the 4x pci-e slots if i was going to eventually have an unraid server? Alot of these boards seem to have a lot of pci-x slots, and a good majority of sata cards seem to be pci-x.

Raidmax Seiran is a good case with 9 bays top to bottom. Hard to find the white version, its more expensive than the black/red ones.

Wow some of them have a massive amount of SATA connectors making a card almost pointless. You know of any similarly good/decent previous generation boards? I'm not doing enterprise here, im just setting up a place to put dumps of my movies from bluray/dvd/hddvd and a few laserdiscs. (Yea i know, laserdiscs are old, but so is vinyl.)

The problem is that all of the 'server' motherboards are eATX and the cases I can use, at this time, are ATX. Is there any motherboards that are ATX compliant, ie fit into an ATX case, that would be able to support better cards? I do have an LSI card that is 8 port thats eATX and i taped off the last part of it so that it wouldnt touch anything. Only case, with 9 bays down the front, I could find was the Raidmax Seiran. Assuming I don't use the raid, the PCI-E card the other person pointed to should be fine for reading and writing to the drives until I have the capacity to have a rack type setup? NOTE: Forgot to mention the PCI-X card only supports 2TB drives.

Does a 4 port pci-e 1x card exist that can handle 3TB/4TB drives? I'm not raiding them together, all JBOD. I ask because I've been trying to find 4 port cards for my two pci-e 1x ports and a card that can do 4-8 for my normal PCI slot. I have a Raidmax Seiran case, thats white, that I have been trying to fit potentially 15 drives into. The motherboard i have is salvaged from an old gateway machine, it has 5 SATA ports and 1 SATA/ESATA port. So i either need to get 2x2 port PCI-E cards and find a 8 port PCI card. Havent been able to find any, except one that has 4 ports but two are PATA which is confusing since PATA doesnt come in a SATA form factor. Any help would be great.