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Thanks garycase. Any thoughts on my other two threads below? Thanks.

Hello. The Plus Licence says that it allows 7 Drives - One Parity, One Cache, And 5 Data. Does one of these have to be a cache drive? Can one just use One parity and 6 Data? Is this allowed? Thanks.

Morning All. A quick query before buying my Unraid Licence. Is there any particular USB memory stick I should be using for Unraid? Currently using a 1GB Freecom Data Bar which is working well. It is showing 10% useage after installing Unraid and the Screen package and the Mail package. I will also want to install Plex and PlexConnect packages shortly. Not sure what else I might need in the future, maybe a package to allow external access to my Unraid server (is this even a good idea?). I have some brand new 8GB Sandisk Cruzer Facet sticks here. Should I be using something like this for future expansion, or is 1GB ample? I don't want to commit to registering the Freecom Databar for Licence purposes and then run out of space. Many thanks,

Hi Folks. I'm new to the forum and am just building my first Unraid server. I have done quite a bit of research and realise that the correct hardware is Key....... However....... Was made an offer I couldn't refuse a few days ago and purchased a mobo, processor and 32GB memory at a silly price. The MoBo is an MSI Z77A GD65 with 8 SATA ports and 4 PCI Express slots to take 4 more controller cards. On paper an ideal Motherboard for future expansion. I must say the build quality looks good also, plus it has an Intel network implementation. Its installed and fired up and I am currently Pre clearing 3 disks. I have checked the Sys Log and am getting some error messages though. If I am about to trust my lifes work (Photos, Documents, Movies, Music) to this server, then it has to be right! Do I bin the Motherboard, or do I / can I fix the issues. First I am getting ACPI Namespace Lookup errors. This seems fairly common with several motherboards so I am about to download the latest Bios from MSI. Assuming this does not cure the problem, Can I just turn off ACPI either within the Bios or within Unraid? Will this then cause any problems? Does Unraid actually use the ACPI function? Next, I am showing (during the boot-up phase) a couple of messages to the effect that write cache has been enabled but that DPO and FVO are not supported. This is not peculiar to the MSI Mobo, I have experienced it on two other (very nice) Gigabyte boards. Is this something I should be worried about? What is DPO and FUV? Can this be fixed, or is it a Hardware limitation that cannot be fixed without changing Motherboards? Sorry about the long post, but I only get 2 days home per week and am trying to get this project up and running and finalised whilst juggling a multitude of other stuff at the same time. Thanks in anticipation for any help.