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51-53C is a little on the high side, but not unexpected. Similar to what I see with my 4TB HGST Deskstar NAS drives when rebuilding an array. My Toshiba MC04 5TB (which are 'proper' enterprise level drives) tend to run in the low 50C area all the time. 7200rpm drives with 4 or more platters do run pretty warm compared to 5900rpm drives like the WD Red and Seagate Green.

You can get 5x 3.5" drives in a TS140. There's two bays with caddys, one floppy/HDD bay and a 3.5" bay in a frame in each of the 5.25" bays. If you're using 5 HDDs, the DVD won't work as there's only 5 SATA ports on the board. The Xeon E3 is more than powerful enough for what you need IMHO. I bought a TS140 when they were ultra-cheap and eventually gutted it for parts, but I did run Plex on it and it performed really well. You will need to put an addition DIMM in to get dual channel memory working, which improves performance. I used Kingston ECC RAM and it worked a treat.

/dev/null is full. That's impressive.

I've two UPS at home. APC SmartUPS 750 LCD (about 5 years old) : idle with nothing connected - 42-46W floating Cyberpower ValueUPS 600 (just over a year old) : idle with nothing connected - 20W exactly The APC's efficiency is terrible at no/low load. Once load goes up the efficiency is much better, it goes up in to the mid-90% once you've got a few hundred watts of load on it. The Cyberpower is a "GreenUPS", and seems to have similar efficiency with no load compared to high load. I've no idea how that works, but it does seem to. Really, like power supplies, you need to size your UPS correctly - too big and it's way out of it's efficiency sweet-spot. The APC also hums annoyingly, though it is much better since I replaced the two leaking caps on the board.

It's a huge shame the Q25 is more or less end of line. They're nearly impossible to get now in EU, and they're expensive if they are in stock. I've had two of them in the past, and sold them both. I still sort of regret that. In fact, my old unRAID 5 box was in a PC-Q25B with an Asus P8-H61I Plus and a Pentium G620. It was a solid little machine.

ST3000DM001 - those are the drives BackBlaze has nearly 50% annual failure rate with. Don't waste your time, just get those drives swapped with something that isn't crap as soon as you can.

Cache drive should be a cache drive. If you want to start cramming stuff on there, or running apps and Docker and god knows what else, stick in another drive and mount it using SNAP and use it for all your junk. That's the way I run it, and I've NO issues with stuff getting stuck or going missing off cache.

You've two choices, really. i3-4350 or similar, that's dual core 3.6GHz with HT. Stick it on a B85 board, and you'll end up with something that idles around the 22-24W mark. You'll need to add a HBA for 10 drives. AMD FX8320E, 8 core 3.2GHz turboed to 4GHz. Stick that on a decent 760G board (I like the Asus M5A78L-M/USB3). You can have ECC if you want then. Idles around the 45W mark. Again, you'll need a HBA. The AMD uses more power, but it's fast. Also a little cheaper, the board is about £33, the chip is around £100. That's board and CPU for the price of the Intel chip alone.

You've confirmed my suspicions that the DS380's drive bays suck. Not enough holes...

Few points. You need a A4/A6/A8A10 APU on FM2 for integrated graphics. The FM2 Athlons don't have a built in GPU. ECC only works on AMD on the AM3+ platform, and only on certain boards. Asus tend to work OK. Edit: Check out this thread - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=38361.0

To be fair, on some TFT panels the difference is nearly impossible to see. The s***ty screen I have on my old work laptop makes it difficult to see the difference unless the brightness is maxed out.

That'll work fine. My other unRAID box is on an Asus B75 board, with a G1610T, and it works fine. The G1610T is dual core 2.3GHz at 35W. Idles at about 24W at the wall. I'm seriously considering making it my production box if LT can't sort out the Haswell issues soon.

I have Plex/Sonarr/NZBGet/Transmission running on an Intel SSD mounted via SNAP. The cache drive is a 320GB WD Black 2.5" and only does cache. works well enough, apart from manually mounting the SNAP drive at boot, then starting Docker. Other than that it works perfectly. If you want to run a 3.5" drive 24/7, I'd certainly be going for a 7200rpm drive like a WD Black or RE4. I did use a 500Gb WD Blue and it worked just fine, I only moved to the SSD/Black combo to save a 3.5" bay.

There's a few AMD FM2+ boards that have 8x SATA6 connections on the board. Slap in an APU, job jobbed.

By the look of that case, it has SFF8087 connections on the backplane, so you'll need three M1015 cards and 6 SFF8087 to SFF8087 cables. Seems expensive. Or you could use a SAS expander with one M1015 which should work out cheaper.

The E6500 is a bit slow for Plex transcoding if you need to do that. Just a bit, though. You might get away with 720p content OK. You'll need 4GB RAM at least for decent performance, too, which I recon is probably the most you'll get on that board. It's hard to better the IBM M1015 flashed to IT mode for a cheap, solid HBA. I have the 'real' LSI board, the 9210-8i. Works well for me.

TS440 is basically a TS140 in a bigger box. I don't think it's much louder. Do you have to go prebuilt? There's plenty of decent cases out there that'll take lots of drives, and then just add an AMD board and CPU. Something like a FX6300 on a M5A78L-M/USB and 2x4GB ECC DIMMs makes a very fast, safe unRAID box. Add in a cheap HBA and you've got a great machine for less than $400.

Odd, I used to run sabnzbd, Transmission and Sickbeard on a Synology 213j with a massive 256MB RAM. It worked fine?

BackBlaze are the kings of FUD, and have pretty much scuppered Seagate already. WD and HGST are laughing. I'll go for 8TB when HGST/WD start shipping normal 5900rpm units. I'm still pretty much relying on 4TB drives.

Mine's set to "Host" and works perfectly.

On Intel, overheating CPU isn't really an issue, the CPU just throttles down until it cools enough, and if that doesn't work it'll pause. They don't really crash and burn like AMD.

Yeah, seems slow. Even on my test rig, a G1610T (dual 2.3GHz) with 2GB RAM it'll build partity on a 5TB disk in a little over 8 hours.

5 posts and not a syslog to be seen...

Unless you want to learn Cisco IOS, those old 2950s are pretty much scrap. They're noisy, they drink power, and they're slow. Not terribly reliable, either. I had a few at work, and they even sucked running printers. They're 90's technology that should be left in the 90s.

Docker is the way forward. Period. Running a VM on top of unRAID just to run something like Sickbeard is a total waste of time and resources.