HellDiverUK

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  1. AsRock design great boards. They just can't make them properly, nor check them before they send them out the door. I've had one AsRock with a totally mangled socket (box was factory sealed), one went on fire on first power on, two were just plain dead, and more than one worked for a few weeks then gave up. Needless to say I wouldn't touch another AsRock if I got it for free, or if you paid me. They're not worth the hassle.
  2. E5-2xxx are the lowest dual-CPU capable Intel chips. Unless you go back to Socket 370...
  3. 850 EVO is a TLC SSD. TLC SSDs are a bad idea for an unRAID cache, they wear out far too fast.
  4. Still hard to beat the Q25 case. I still use one for my backup unRAID box (PC-Q25A, H87-I Plus, i3-4350, 8GB DDR3L-1600, Silverstone 300W SFX, Noctua Redux 140mm, 256GB elcheapo Intel 5400s SSD cache, 3x6TB Seagate Ironwolf, 1x8TB Seagate Enterprise NAS). Basically the same rig as yours, and it's been solid for years, though the drives were recently upgraded.
  5. There is no built in GPU on AM4 boards. There are however, video outputs to allow you to use the GPU built in to the A12 APUs and the not-yet-released Ryzen-based APUs.
  6. Emby is still a bit janky compared to Plex. The client end of Emby isn't as good, and the web client is pretty terrible. Looks great, but playing videos isn't anywhere near as reliable as it is on Plex (which is pretty poor state of affairs for a program used to play videos).
  7. Most Asus server/workstation boards take a cheap plug-in module for IPMI. I have one on a P9D, and it works great. AsRock's IPMI seems to use an ancient version of the same software, but they don't seem to be bothered updating it. The king of IPMI has to be HP's iLO, though. Worth the investment in their servers.
  8. No, they definitely will NOT. No Ryzen has built in video yet. You can get old Bulldozer/Kavari APUs that are AM4, but you don't want to use those for much of anything as they're only sort of quad core. Ryzen-based APUs won't be along until well in to next year.
  9. Seagate's drives fitted to external boxes tend to have slightly different firmware than the 'proper' drives. Two of my ST4000DM000 drives were shucked, and they head park much more than the ST4000DM000 I bought as a normal bare drive. I tried upgrading the firmware on the shucked drives, but the original firmware wasn't recognised by the firmware update utility, so couldn't be done.
  10. If it supports 2TB, then it'll support 10TB. It must be 10 years since boards didn't support more than 2TB...
  11. A dual core Pentium or Celeron will do fine for the stuff you've listed. The i5 will be perfectly fine, possibly overkill.
  12. I was going to get one, but availability of the quad-core version is limited/no-existent in the UK, and the dual core version is a little too slow for my Plex transcoding needs.
  13. Asus will say on the specs "ECC* or Non-ECC RAM" with the "*ECC function not supported" footnote. AM4 doesn't have this footnote, so that to me says ECC is supported. Also, if ECC didn't work, why would they have an ECC RAM QVL list? https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/ROG-STRIX-X370-F-GAMING/HelpDesk_QVL/ So, I can find more claims that it is supported and does work than you can speculate that it can't.
  14. ST8000DM004 is a good drive. It's basically the 8TB version of the venerable ST4000DM000 - slow and reliable, and readily available by shucking.
  15. Could you rephrase the question in English, please? I don't have a clue what you're trying to ask.
  16. Marvel issues? I blame Iron Man. Marvell issues on the other hand are probably the binary blobs or bad firmware versions. For example, I have issues with an elcheapo Marvell card, yet the identical chipset soldered to a Supermicro board has no issues at all.
  17. Yes, Asus' web site. I'm pretty sure Wendell @ Level1Techs has confirmed it in one of his many Ryzen videos, too.
  18. Asus' X370 boards support and run ECC on Ryzen CPUs. The AM4 APUs don't support ECC.
  19. Ok, current release version doesn't support 4Kn drives.
  20. Two things. unRAID has been 64-bit for years. unRAID doesn't support 4Kn drives.
  21. No, not in the slightest excited. The only reason to upgrade from even SandyBridge is better motherboard features like M.2, USB-C, etc. Intel's CPUs have basically stagnated for close to 10 years. Heck, at work I'm still using a Core2-era Pentium, and it still runs Outlook/IE/Word fine. No issues with it at all, even using the chipset video driving a 1080p screen.
  22. Nice post. A few things to consider: 1. Get your downloads on to your cache drive as soon as you can. Running downloads to the array is a terrible waste of time, and indeed power. 2. Rather than add drives, why not swap out some of your smaller drives for bigger? 8TB drives are quite affordable if you don't mind shucking - the WD EasyStore 8TB contain Red drives, and the MyBooks contain a white-label EZZX drive which is basically a Red without the name. 3. Give the Plex plugin for Kodi a go - I use it and it's brilliant. No need for messing about with SQL and the issues that causes when you upgrade Kodi. Basically the plugin gives you the standard Plex front end running in Kodi, so you get the better video playback of Kodi with all the media browsing benefits of Plex.
  23. Pretty much what I do with my system - the Asus H170M-Plus I have has been perfect. 6 SATA, 1 M.2, Intel NIC, 3 fan headers, 4 DIMM slots. I run an i5-6500T with an Arctic passive cooler, 16GB RAM, and a 256GB Samsung NVMe SSD for cache/VMs.
  24. To actually answer your question, just plug your drives in to the new machine and turn it on. unRAID won't even notice.