HappyChubbs

Ikea for the win.

Yea, 4 SSDs in a cage above the PSU.

There were not too many issues with mounting. Everything lined up on the left and bottom of the motherboard. For the other sections where the mounts did not align I installed rubber mounts. Mounted the extra drives to the other side of the case. Two are mounted to the back grill. Two are in the 5.25 bay with the Evercool Dual 5.25 to triple 3.5.

Hello everyone, After following the post about cheap Xeons I decided to jump on the bandwagon and get access to power far more than I currently need. But it is nice to have that wiggle room. Going to share a small build log. Below is the current setup. Top system is the unRaid is a DS380 case. Bottom system is the Windows 7 server in a Corsair 540. Going to tear both systems apart just to salvage the hard-drives and video card. unRAID (DS380) CPU/Motherboard: ASRock Intel Avoton C2750 RAM: Crucial 16GB Kit ECC Power Supply: SilverStone Technology 500W SFX-L HardDrives: Samsung Evo 840 - 250GB x2 Corsair Force LS - 60GB Western Digital RED - 6TB Seagate - 4TB x4 Windows 7 (540) CPU: Intel i7-930 Motherboard: EVGA FTW3 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 12GB Video Card: EVGA GTX-580 Power Supply: Season Platinum 860W HardDrives: Samsung EVO 830 - 120GB x2 Western Digital Blue - 250GB x2 I was planning on using the power supply but I had an issue with getting a second EPS power connector. These are the new parts that are going into the system. CPU: Intel Xeon e5-2670 x2 CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO x2 Motherboard: ASRock Rack EP2C602-4L/D16 RAM: Hynix 64GB (8x8GB) Registered ECC Power Supply: EVGA 850W P2 Teardown of DS380 Can get a nice view of the board here. Gutted HDDs and SSDs Teardown of 540 Not really much here. Putting it all together CCOOOORRREEESSSS Now time to get the minecraft server on there and everything else. For anyone that folds, what program do you use?

Just to bring in more air. They do not add more noise to the system so it doesn't hurt.

AHHAHHAHHAHA it LIVES!!! I feel the same way. All this power will sit idle 80% of the time, might as well use it for good. What do you guys use to fold? VM or Docker?

Oh. Would I be able to move the appdata to the cache after the move and have the /config in the dockers point to the new location?

Oh sweet, liking unRaid more and more. My app share is on the array so I should be good. Thanks.

Hello Everyone, I am doing a system rebuild and I am curious on what happens when I change cache disks and what happens to my dockers. I know the first step is to take an image of all the disk locations before the move so you can put them back in the same location. However, not a 100% sure what I am suppose to do with the docker image. Currently have 2-240GB a 1-60GB SSDs as cache. The new system will have 2-240GB and 2-120GB SSDs. Is it as simple as just copying the image over or is there something else I need to do? Thanks.

Just use Windows 7 with Spigot MC.

If you are talking about the connector itself, look on the other side (Opposite of print). There might be a small engraved arrow that is pointing down. That should be +.

Roughly the same thing. NAS and media server (Hopefully I can jam 4 more HDDs into my case). Biggest reason for the dual socket is that I plan on merging my minecraft server with this system. Then adding more VMs for testing purposes.

Just got the board mounted in a Corsair 540. Can't wait to start testing. EP2C602-4L/D16

Pretty nice setup. I just ordered the board recently and should be getting it tomorrow. Have you tried using the SCU ports that are on it?

Oh nice. So it works in a sense of RAID 5(6) where the tolerance is 1(2) but doesn't write the parity across all disks. This in turn would reduce the workload of said disks since not all of them have to be active for the parity to be written or be rebuilt. Might make the switch over to unRAID sooner than I thought. Just need to some research on filesystems. Thanks.

Thanks, I will need to look into those. I watched that earlier, pretty interesting. My biggest concern is what happens when a drive fails, or when multiple drive fails. Reading some documents now, but I guess the data on that particular disk becomes inaccessible until that disk is replaced.

Had a feeling that was it for devices, just had to ask. Wasn't expecting much out of that Atom. Thanks. That is actually pretty interesting. Is there any documentation on the file system that unRAID uses? Guess now I have some use for my extra SSDs. Thanks

Hello Everyone, New here and I am very interested in unRAID and have some questions. [*]The device limits for the licenses is storage devices? Amount of drives that can be connected to the system? [*]How well do Atom processors work with unRAID? I don't plan on doing anything heavy, at most Plex with 2 users streaming and some form of owncloud. Processor in question is Intel® Atom™ Processor C2750 with 16GB ECC memory. [*]Is Raid 5 their only option for redundancy? Is it possible to add another parity device? I get slightly overprotective of my data, so in my current setup I am using RAID 10. Unless there is something I am missing about unRAID Array setup, it's basically a Raid 5 right? [*]When the cache becomes a cache-pool, does it gain redundancy? [*]Is it possible to replace the parity disk? I currently have 4TB drives to initially start the array. When I start adding 6TB disks, will I need to replace the parity disk without losing data? The biggest reason I am asking these questions is because I am planning to move away from FreeNAS. Works great, but the GUI and the amount of work needed to expand a zVol is a pain. Jails were ok, always had issues with networks. Thanks for all the help.