HellDiverUK

What makes you say that? All the Atheros (and Qualcomm Atheros) drivers are included except for the "Atheros L2 fast ethernet" driver - which is for old 100Mbit nics. Every search here or on Google led me to believe that it wasn't included.

Does 6.1 support the Altheros 8171 NIC? I'm really taken by AsRock's boards, but they all use the AR8171, and it would seem UnRAID doesn't have the driver? What's the chances of getting that driver included?

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My setup of a pair of 500GB Crucial BX100 is working really well. The BX100s are running off the Intel chipset SATAs. All the array drives run off a LSI card. Performance is great in Plex, instant browsing and it transcodes pretty well.

Xeon D seems very niche. It's expensive for the board, and it must have ECC DDR4 which is also expensive. I don't see any reason to go for it over an E3/DDR3 machine.

btrfs is younger, but it's being worked on a lot. It's not what I'd call in infancy. More like stroppy teenager.

With the X10SL7-F, the integrated GPU will be disabled totally, so you're wasting your money buying a Xeon with the GPU.

I replied to your thread on Reddit, but basically, too much RAM, add another SSD, and perhaps the motherboard isn't the best choice.

Bigger SSDs are becoming available, with Samsung selling 2TB units. Bigger drives on their way. HDDs are going to have to get bigger to compete. 4K video uses a lot of space, and it's becoming more and more popular.

It's HyperDuo, which means it's a Marvell chipset. Startech stuff is OK. I use one of their Marvell cards in my CCTV server and it works just fine.

Given the recent SNAFU with performance drops on the 840 line, I'm not sure I'd trust Samsung or indeed TLC flash at all. I had the bad performance issue with the SSD in my laptop (the OEM mSATA version of the 840 Evo), which didn't get a firmware update and probably will never. I ended up swapping it out for a Sandisk X110 which turns out is quicker than the Samsung anyway...

Try the uefi version of the LSI flashing util. I had issues flashing my LSI card until I used that.

I've tried all the various boards, but I have to say Supermicro boards are just so much nicer, especially when used in a Supermicro case (you get the LAN LED, and fan fail LED working). I'm very pleased with my X9 - works like a champ, the IPMI works well, and it was very cheap. £100 for the board, and the CPU was used off eBay. Even power consumption is good.

Why do you say that? I'm pretty sure this is the most popular power supply for this case around here. Since you just registered to post this I have to ask, do you use unRAID? Troll post? First time poster with a username "brawler"? Hmm...looks like it, smells like it...definitely BS.

UnRAID has linux under the hood. If linux supports it, UnRAID supports it.

Depending on the Xeon you buy, it's either an i5 or an i7. I have two Xeons, one is a E3-1225v3 which is basically an i5 with VT-d and ECC support. It has a GPU (P4600), and it's quad core. My other Xeon is basically an i7, it has no GPU and it's quad core with Hyperthreading. I must say I'm pretty happy with my rig - I only got it last month. The board was new, but it was cheap. The CPU was used off eBay. I had change from £200 for both including delivery. It's very, very fast. The old E3-1240 is 3.3GHz, 4 core with HT (so 8 logical cores). It turbos to 3.8GHz. It was excellent value for money.

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7003.0

I think you need to take that machine out to the field and shoot it. Put it out of it's misery.

I use a pair of 500GB BX100 for my cache pool. They're quick, cool running and sip power. No regrets at all with them. I have them in one of these, so only 1 SATA power required, and it fills an otherwise empty external 3.5" bay: http://www.amazon.com/MB992SK-B-2x2-5inch-Mobile-3-5inch-Device/dp/B009QX4BPC/

If the machine is stable, I don't see any reason for IPMI. I've got board that have it, and for my uses all the IPMI is add 2-5W of power consumption and eat a port in the switch for no reason. Once I have my UnRAID box up and running I never need access to the console. On the very rare occasion I do, I just plug a VGA and USB in to the back, job jobbed.

Personally, I like the S models. Lower normal clock speed, but tend to turbo up as fast as the normal chips. http://ark.intel.com/compare/80812,80811,80810 There's NO need for a K in an UnRAID box IMHO, even if you're doing the whole gaming VM nonsense.

All I get in that case is "you wasted money twice!?!?!"

Sonarr is designed to search for, download, and then manage TV shows. You wanting to keep those torrents seeding is sort of breaking the whole operation. I've had a long think, and I don't think it's possible to do what you want unless you have duplicates (IE the original downloaded files, and the renamed and copied file).

Kerrrr-ching! That'll be a quick machine.

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