I am a first time poster on this, I have been reading off on since I build my unraid system in Dec 2015. I am installing 2 new WD 4Tb Red drives, 1 for replacing current parity drive and adding a 2nd parity drive. Last weekend I installed everything in a new case and upgraded the power supply. This is used as a back up server only that has been up 24/7 since 2015. When I built this back in 2015 everything was used spare parts except the WD Red drives those were all NEW.
My question is should I leave my motherboard, CPU and motherboard alone or upgrade it? I don't had a ton of $ to put into this at the time, I am leaning towards changing the 1 drive that is getting full with a new 2Tb or 4Tb WD Red Plus.
I have never had an issue with any of these parts but they were used when I installed them in 2015. Side note is I have a identical spare MB, CPU & memory on a shelf.
Current build:
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H
CPU - AMD Athlon 5600+
Memory - 4GB ddr2 667Mhz ( 4 - 1gb sticks)
USB - PNY USB 2.0 512Mb (I tried to install a new cruzer 8gb one in 2015 but the MB did not see it)
NEW Cache Drives - (1) 4Tb WD Red Plus ( I have one I installed finishing preclear today) ( I have not purchased 2nd one yet)
OLD Cache Drive - (1) 2 GB WD Red Plus (Retire or use for data drive?)
Drives - (3) WD Red Plus 1Tb drives data (only 1 is getting full 89%)
Power Supply - Seasonic Focus+ Gold SSR550FX (new just installed)
Case - Fractal Design Define R4 (new just installed)