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Hi Lazant, Apologies, I only noticed this reply now. A couple of life type things came up like buying a house and getting engaged so I haven't had time or funds to invest in the original plan. The current list of equipment I have assembled stands at: Fractal Designs R2 XL case 2 x SanDisk Extreme 480Gb SSD 2 x Samsung EVO 500Gb 1 x CM 1000w V series 3 x WD Red 4Tb NAS 1 x Noctua NH-U12DX i4 1 x X10SRL-F 1 x Icy Dock hot swap cage for the SSDs So as you can see I've abandoned the plan for dual sockets and that particular board, that was purely financial, a lot happened very quickly! Everything I have is assembled, I just need the CPU and RAM to complete the picture to and iron out any build niggles. I am planning the following to finish. E5 1650 v3 32Gb ECC RAM (4x8Gb) A couple more 4TB drives and a 6Tb drive for parity over time. Sorry I can't be of more help! R.

The one I settled on is the SM X10DRi. It's a dual socket board, but surely they must have single socket ones with the desired spec. You might struggle to get the sfp+ though. I haven't bought it yet though so can't feedback on performance. I'm still saving for it as it's so damn expensive this side of the pond.

That settles that so!

Is it possible to tap out the cages in line with the mounting holes on the drives? You can usually pick up cheap kits in a superstore. You wouldn't need anything heavy duty for the thin steel on the cages.

Hi all, I've been lurking a fair while on this forum and feel that I have a fairly good handle on what will work for Unraid. My present parts list (all sale/reduced items) consists of: Fractal Designs R2 XL case 2 x SanDisk Extreme 480Gb SSD 2 x Samsung EVO 500Gb 1 x CM 1000w V series Overkill on the PSU I know but of all the types of kills you can have, I usually go for the 'over' type. Undecided on CPU and RAM at the mo. Certainly 2 x E5 v3's and 64Gb RAM, but what flavours I do not know yet. Disk wise, I will probably go with 2 x 6Tb WD Red pro for parity, along with 4Tb WD Reds for data. Hopefully dual parity should be live by the time I piece everything together. I'm just wondering if there is anything glaringly obvious that would make the X10DRi a poor choice? http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X10DRi.cfm I definitely intend to have a Win 10 VM with GPU pass through for photo editing. Apart from that, a couple of Linux VMs for playing around with, probably will try tie a weather station in to one of them, various docker instances for media (sickrage/beard, Plex, OpenVPN etc). I may well also try to tie back home security cameras to the box too. It's quite open ended as for final purposing. Thanks for many hours interesting reading so far. This project is the first in a long absence from any tech related personal stuff. Looking forward to getting stuck in.