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I am shocked and awed by how you were able to fit that board in that case. That thing is tiny, but nonetheless a really cool case. Props to you if everything fits. Thought I'd share the case I have and will use once I receive the Intel board and all other parts: http://www.nanoxiausa.com/collections/full-tower-case/products/nanoxia-deep-silence-6-nxds6ww-hptx-full-tower-case

Interested in purchasing a motherboard as well. Any recommendations? I'd like as many usable SATA ports as well as one or two PCI-E slots. Dual processor board with space between the sockets sufficient to accommodate the dual-fan Noctua heatsink fans with the sockets either inline or slightly offset. Cost is important as well and keeping it under $200-$250 would be great as well. I have no need for SAS. VT-d/VT-x capable or enabled, yes.

Going to buy the processors and possibly memory now. Is there any specific seller I should be giving the business too or any who are selling the SR0KX should be fine?

I tend to buy supermicro boards over any of the others if it's going in a server. The E5-2670 @ 2.6Ghz isn't the best gaming cpu. It will work but there are better (higher clocked) chips to buy if you are serious about gaming on it. Sata3 = 6 gbps. So basicly sata3 is sata6. Thanks Tums. I mistakenly typed SATA3/6. Most of the boards I have looked at support more SATA2 versus SATA3 ports. As said before it probably doesn't matter as you can allocate PCIE SATA3 cards if you want to take advantage of the faster SATA3 connections. I run a i7-5820K right now for gaming so don't think that makes me a serious gamer but I do tend to purchase the better GPU's on the market every few years. So far my current gaming rig runs all games at the Highest settings although there might be a few out there that will force me to run it a notch lower. For me being able to develop a Windows Lab environment would be much more important than gaming so I can see where the extra memory and cores could be beneficial. My current Unraid box has an i5 3570K so putting together this Xeon setup will definitely exceed my gaming PC. Passmark for my 5820K is ~13000 and the Xeon 2670 is ~12500/dual is ~18500. I'd say that would be better than my gaming rig unless I am missing something else.

What's the general consensus on motherboards? Which do more of you like best? I'd love to put together a UnRaid box capable of delivering all of my Plex Media Center media as well as VDI my desktops to dumb clients. Not sure if using VDI would allow me to also be able to game from said dumb client but if not then just running KVM from the server box and gaming that way. I currently have a purposed gaming PC but if I can consolidate all into this one server and still game without a huge impact on the performance then I believe this is the solution I am looking for. Do any of the boards running this Proc handle USB3 and multiple SATA6 connectors? The majority I have looked at are using SATA3 but I suppose I could add in SATA6 PCIE cards.

I stand corrected. I work in an IT environment and come across many Procs/Memory/Drives/etc. A lot of these type of Procs etc. are being thrown away. I will start to scavenge the memory and Procs and sell them. I'll see what I am available to grab. If I wanted to setup up a dual processor UnRaid box using server equipment would I be able to get the server to be whisper quiet and still maintain cool temperatures? If I set one up I would be using it within my home. Currently I have a i5-3570K running my UnRaid box as well as a dedicated gaming box running a i7-5820K. I wouldn't expect the Xeon to produce better results than the i7 but I'm sure a dual proc would easily out pace the i5.

Are these processors E5-2670 still worth purchasing for UnRaid even though there are newer versions (v2, v3)? Wouldn't it be better to put your dollars toward the latest versions versus these older chips and hardware or am I not going to see that big of a performance difference?

This is correct. Didn't really know how to phrase the question, but, yes, I want to anonymize the Docker traffic from my UnRaid box by using a VPN connection. This should provide additional comfort and security for NewsGroup and Torrent traffic originating from those Dockers and the UnRaid box. I didn't know that Dockers didn't have interfaces? that were not configurable. I was running on the assumption that they did and mainly because of Dockers that have the capability built in, ie. SABnzbd+VPN and Deluge+VPN. I now see the error in how I was looking at this. Knowing this...could I then instead add an additional NIC card (I only have one NIC currently) and then assign that new NIC to the Dockers I want to always be connected to a VPN Service? Would this work without making the whole UnRaid box part of that VPN network? I am familiar with Tomato but use Merlin currently with my Asus router although I know Tomato and DD-WRT are both supported on my router. I like the idea of having the router create and maintain the VPN Service Providers session and even more so that I can select specific IP's, such as the UnRaid box, that way the rest of my network is not tied to the VPN service as well. The only device I want using the VPN service is the Dockers/UnRaid box. Again as suggested above, could I use what you've suggested but instead using a separate NIC on the UnRaid box that is assigned specifically to the Dockers I want using the VPN service without forcing the whole UnRaid box to be on that VPN service? Thanks for answering my questions all. Much appreciated.

Thanks for the answer gundamguy. I believe I didn't do a very good job of explaining myself well. SSL is absolutely a wonderful addition and makes me feel warm and cuddly knowing I have some protection from prying eyes, but I'd like to extend my protection even further and layer this with a VPN connection provided by any one of the many providers who are marketing the capability of securing yourself and your activity. That being said, I'd like to use one of these providers VPN services to further secure the particular dockers that have incoming traffic I'd like to further protect. I believe this set up of SSL encryption with the VPN layer would be akin to using IPSEC/VPN. I don't really know how to approach setting this up and am considering making the connection from my router, which would essentially connect my whole network to that VPN provider meaning all my Internet traffic would flow through that service as well, or isolate that VPN connection within a Docker and then somehow force the Dockers I want to protect to use that VPN exclusively for Internet connectivity. By doing the latter I can then maintain the norm on all other devices on my network as well as having the UnRaid server still being accessible, which would allow me to still access, maintain and edit all Dockers. Again I've tried the second option once before and while those Dockers were on the VPN connection their respective web consoles were not accessible. I'd like to still be able to access them while they are connected to the VPN. Not sure how to do that.

I'd like to add that the end result I am looking for with my own set up is for all Dockers, ie. Sabnzbd & Transmission to be connected to a secure VPN network so that all of that traffic is secured but also leaving me with the capability of being able to still access the Dockers from within my local network. Not sure if the easiest way to do that is to use the aforementioned Router or to use one of the available VPN Dockers and then route the other dockers to it. My previous attempts have left me with the inability to access the Dockers unless I disable the VPN service by editing the Dockers. I'd like less cumbersome, if possible.

Specifically, I am looking at VPN. For the most part I have my UnRaid server setup and automated and I use SSL encryption with my Usenet connections but I'd like additional security and need further insight into the best approach on how best to deploy VPN. The easiest setup of a VPN connection would be to use the router I have that is capable of supporting OpenVPN connections, but ideally I would prefer to not have my whole personal network connected to the VPN connection. Not completely sure how big of an impact being connected to the VPN 24/7 would be on my bandwidth (155/15). Also thinking of installing DD-WRT on my router so I can take advantage of VLANs and potentially be able to place the UnRaid on its own separate VLAN and then VPN that VLAN and all devices connected to it. Not sure if this is possible. So please enlighten me on how you've succeeded in securing your UnRaid environment.

Any idea if Silicon Dust will have a Lifetime subscription for the TV Guide service alongside the HDHomeRun DVR software? I am considering trying this over potentially purchasing a Tablo. If the HDHomeRun DVR service will extract all metadata with the recording and allow me to dump it anywhere then I believe this could be a better solution over the Tablo, which is quite expensive.

I realize this is an old thread but I'm sure I am not the only one who is experiencing this issue and doesn't fully understand how to turn off or set Cache User Shares to "No" as suggested above. The only place I know where Shares have the capability to interact with the Cache drive is within the Share window and by selecting "Yes" for "Use Cache Disk:" setting. Is this the same as the CacheDirs setting mentioned above?

Thanks a million CHBMB. You have been very helpful and its been educational for me.

I did as you suggested and even with the new bzroot file the card is still not recognized. I added the TVHeadend docker and I can see my HDHomeRun listed but not the Hauppauge card. I may just go along with your first suggestion and use the HDHomeRun. I finally got it configured on my network and am able to stream OTA TV but I can't make sense of TVHeadend. Haven't tried MythTV yet. Any good tutorials that you can recommend? Just looking to record OTA TV in my area and nothing else. TVHeadend needs a cookie from the TV.com website since it's one of the Sites that can be used to configure Channels and those Channels need to be applied to the WebConfig file. Isn't there any easier way of doing this where the docker/plugin application just uses the HDHomerun and Antenna to find sources and then add them to the application?

Which do you like better? TVHeadEnd or MythTv and how do you run them? VM Mythubuntu/TVubuntu or Docker?

I will take you up on your offer and take the script. I have a HDHomeRun Extend right in front of me right now and will start playing with that right now and see if I like it better but I'm sure even if I don't end up keeping the Hauppauge card there might be someone else that will want to take advantage of it or possibly be able to refine your script so there won't be a need to rerun it with each Unraid update. I really appreciate all of your help.

I have zero files in my cache directory/disk. The MediaTreeCheck shows the following: Media Tree: Detected DVB Adapter: Not Detected

Hav you got a cache drive? Yes I do. I have a Cache pool.

I thought this was interesting... I will look at Media tree right now and post what I find.

We are good to go, although now what's next?

Okay I copied the latest OpenElec files over as well as installed the Plugin you mentioned. I also have all the .fw files on my flash drive in the folder named Firmware. Before I restart I also included the following in the Go file: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & #Copy DVB firmware cp /boot/firmware/*fw /lib/firmware Should the Copy DVB firmware preceed the start of the management utility or is this fine?

I added the line above to my Go file as well as created the firmware file with one of the .fw files. I still need to place the others in there as well. Do I also need to change the bzimage & bzroot files and use one of your configs instead?

After reboot still not seeing the card. Could that be because I have all of those .fw files in the /lib/firmware folder? Maybe all I needed was the single firmware ending with 10.1.fw?

Sorry to be pain... I figured it out. I followed your initial code: cd /boot wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/4019072/NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw cp cp *fw /lib/firmware/`uname -r` With a tweak though since the last line was not working: cd /boot wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/hvr22xx/firmwares/4019072/NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw cp *fw /lib/firmware This took and I can see the firmware is in the /lib/firmware folder. Now just to reboot and see if it recognizes the card. Thanks for all of your help CHBMB.