Hello
What a great forum! I've been a long time lurker and now getting close to pressing the buy button. My current setup is a QNAP TS-219p II NAS with 2 x 3TB drives.
I need more power, space and speed and was about to purchase a Synology 1815+, the cheapest I can find one is £671.90 with a 4GB ram chip.
For this kind of money I though that I would look at alternatives, I had heard and read about unraid before and I think it will fit my needs as I can expand when required.
Case - Fractal Design R5 - £77.40
Motherboard - Supermicro X10SL7-F - £207
CPU - Intel Xeon E3 1231 V3 - £210.97
Ram - Crucial CT2KIT102472BD160B ECC DDR3 1600 x2 8GB - £85.73
PSU - Newton 600W 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply - £82.99
Functional hardware subtotal - £664.09
SSD - Samsung 850 Evo 250GB - £68.99
HDD - 3TB WD Red - £90.99 each - £181.98
Unraid License - Pro key - £42.00
Grand total £957.06
I've got a USB2 thumb drive somewhere already that I can use, is there a befnift to using a USB3 drive?
Can I build my array with the 2 new WD reds then once working I will add the 2 drives from my QNAP?
I've read so many posts and I think this motherboard will suit me as I can expand to 14 drives without an additional PCI expander, once I flash the LSI on the motherboard to IT mode can I then use the blue sata ports directly to my hard drives?
Do I use the SSD as a cache drive or just for Apps and Dockers?
Will this all work together, can anyone shed some light on the wattage this will use? I've seen many posts with some that say 18w idle and others 35w?
Thank you