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This will be used as a server with pled and that is it. I want a total of 6 drives and this unit will stay on 24/7. Is ECC worth it? i3-3225 in an Asus P8H77-I motherboard or Xeon E3-1230 V3 in an Asrock E3C226D2I

Ok I know a lot of people on here went with the Asus H87I-PLUS with an i3. The reason I didn't was because of the ECC and thought that this would help me with future problems. Am I correct in thinking this?

Yeah the SSD is going to be the cache drive for plex. I have heard bad things about the fail rates on the WD Red drives. That is a good price on those drives, I am going to go ahead and get 3 of them. Still makes me nervous because they only have a 3 year warranty though.

Oh wow, thanks for the heads up. Will this memory work? Thanks again. Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600 Server Memory Model KVR16E11/4

Everyone has said that when you run plex, that drive never spins down so the power usage is more and the life of that drive is less. So why not spend a $100 to save the hassle of having a drive fail real quick. This is just what i have learned while researching this build.

To further clarify, this will be in the hub of my house where all the internet is ran. It will be nice and cool tucked away so size and noise don't matter. My budget is around $1200 but that isn't concrete. I am looking for 6 drive expandability but starting with 3 2TB drives. The reason I am going with the seagate enterprise drives is because of the 5 warranty.

That's great let me know how it goes.

Ok the purpose for this build is to be used as a whole home server to stream using Plex. I have 3 kids so I needed something that can handle multiple people streaming. I want to rip all of my media down to this server. I have a media room and will be building a small HTPC to stream to my Theatre Room. This is my first computer build. unRaid OS with plex server CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: ASRock E3C226D2I Mini ITX LGA1150 RAM: 2 Kingston 4GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Server Memory Model KVR16LR11S4/4I Storage: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB 2.5" Solid State Disk Storage: 3 Seagate Constellation ES 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Case: Fractal Design FD-CA-NODE-304-WH Mini ITX Desktop Case Power Supply: Corsair Builder 430W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply I have set this up as a mini-ITX and realized that there aren’t many options with ECC and multiple SATA-6 ports. If you think I should switch to a larger format please let me know what you think. I would like to have this unit for a long time and make it expandable because I am sure my large media collection will get bigger.