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OK, it is running! The pre-clear took alost 36hrs for a 4TB WD red. A long time to test my patience... I have not been game to cut the excess wiress off, at least not until I am sure I got it all right. here some pictures, hope this helps anyone: the components: disk cage (front) - I have moved the disks down a bit since I took this picture) disk cage (back) wires ... I had one problem, the front fan started touching the filter net resulting in a lot of noise. It just started out of the blue. Anyone seen this before? As a short term solution I removed the filter... next steps: - plex - transmission - rsync maybe flexget / filebot - parity !

Current Setup: ( I will keep this section up-to-date) Hardware: Case: Lian Li PC-Q25 Black Hot Swap Mini Tower Case Board: ASUS H87I-PLUS Motherboard CPU: Intel Core i3 4130 RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM (2x4GB) DDR3 PSU: Silverstone ST45SF 450W SFX Disk: 3x 4TB WD Red (2 data xfs, 1 parity) (+1 as hot spare, pre cleared, waiting) Cache: 250 GB Samsung SSD 850EVO Cache Pool: 2x 500 GB Samsung SSD 860 EVO (added 1/12/2018) USB: Cruzer Fit (8GB) UPS: CyberPower Value SOHO UPS 1000VA/550W (had to replace the original in Nov 2018) running: - unRaid Plus 6.5.x - a collection of plugins and dockers May 2024 !! Finally, the system has given up and got replaced with this build: Some of the disks are still the original 4TB WD REDs with more than 8yrs of runtime, these are next to be replaced, as they surely will break at some time now. Original Post: Team, I have started to build this: - Intel Core i3 4130 - ASUS H87I-PLUS Motherboard - Lian Li PC-Q25 Black Hot Swap Mini Tower Case - Silverstone ST45SF 450W SFX - G.Skill Ripjaws X F3-12800CL8D-8GBXM (2x4GB) DDR3 as suggested I am using a Cruzer Fit (8GB) usb stick. now here is my problem, when I try to boot from USB I get a "machine check error" and constantly rebooting. I plugged in the USB to my laptop and it boots to unRAID I plugged in an old Windows disk to the "Tower" and it started to boot windows. So my suspicion is that there is a problem booting from USB. I have not changed any drivers or flash but I have played in the BIOS. This is my first attempt to build a computer in a long long time. Last time it was a 486 maybe ... So I am a bit out of touch on how to proceed from here. EDIT: Found a few references suggesting BIOS needs to be updated. So I flashed to version 1005 (6/1/2014) and it boots now. EDIT: Added one more data drive to change from reiserfs to xfs due to instability of the server. Keep you posted. Roland