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Hey everyone, I have had unraid for over 5 years now, but for the last 6 months or so my server has been down for some unknown issue (tried second PSU, replacing BIOS battery, etc.). I was about to scrape the unraid idea and just move to multiple external harddrives, but I realized it would be cheaper to just replace the mb, cpu, and memory than buy more HDs. So I have a question, what is the cheapest cpu/mb combo that can run unraid at maximum read and write transfer speeds not using a cache drive and parity checks? I only use this for document back up so don't need plex or vm. All the other recent questions asking for hardware suggestions seem to need much beefier cpus than me. Thank you! One last unrelated question. I might have to ask in a different forum though. If I don't map the unraid to my computer as a network drive and have to manually type its location to access it, can ransomware still encrypt it?

So I built my server a while ago and just found out about this HPA disaster. But it think I found a work around. I don't want to buy new hardware as I would need a new cpu, mb and ram, and the stuff I have still functions fine. Apparently the MB puts the HPA on the first HD that initializes. I read how that becomes a problem if you have a failure then try to put in a parity drive and it is too small. So a crude work around is the following: 1) Remove the unraid flash, disconnect all HDs. 2) Connect one HD at a time and power on. 3) Repeat for all drives. 4) Reinsert unraid flash, install all HDs. 5) When adding new HD or replacing failed ones rinse and repeat the above for the new drive. Basically this is sacrificing the HPA space and forcing HPA to be on all drives, thereby equalizing them. No parity drive is small problem should occur. Any problems with this logic?

I checked the board. I have Rev 1.0, so this agrees with me that I built this a while ago I read the following post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3894.msg34327#msg34327 Sound like there is a work around for this HPA issue. I haven't had a problem yet and one of my drives does show up a tiny bit smaller so it looks like the board has already selected it drive to place the HPA. So does anyone know if the GA-MA74GM-S2 can support 3 TB with unraid 5.0? The only other motherboard that Newegg still sells that supports my CPU and Ram is the ASRock A785GM-LE

I built my unraid a while using unraid 4.5. I recently lost a drive and need to replace it. I have been using all 1 TB up to this point; however, 3 TB drive have fallen in price a lot since I built this server. I have my eye on a 3 TB WD Red but I don't know if my MB will support. I know others on this forum use the GA-MA74GM-S2 so I am hoping someone will have an answer. In terms of Unraid, all I need to do is update from 4.5 to the newest 5.0 release candidate to support > 2 TB right?

I have been putting my harddrives into the unraid system one at a time to move data over to the unraid computer. Today I just put the parity drive in to make all my data safe and the parity drive is showing up smaller than one of the others. They are all the same drive though. Disk 2 is showing up to big. Parity HD: 1TB Size: 976,761,496 Disk1 HD: 1TB Size: 976,761,496 Disk2 HD: 1TB Size: 976,762,552 How do I fix this? It there a way to format the parity disk to fix it? It is still in wondows format. I can't format it with unraid cause it won't let me start up the array. If I can't fix the size issue is there a way to transfer data from disk 2 to parity and switch their positions? It took like 6 days to move all this data into the unraid box and I don't want to have to start from stratch. (Going to have to get a 1000 mbit router but I don't have the time to right now.) Thank you.

I got unraid up and running. Thanks for the help. I had to use HP flash formatting tool and use the -ma option of my flash to get it to boot.

Hey guys, I just bought this board and set it up with one harddrive for testing but I can't get it to boot from the usb drive. I am using a transcend jetflash drive. Anyone have any ideas? How do you have your bios set up?

I am looking to start my first unraid server and I need a motherboard that will work that is fairly inexpensive. So far I am planning of getting a BIOSTAR TForce TG31-A7. It is $60 at newegg. I contacted their support to confirm it can usb boot and they confirmed that it can. You think this board will work? I am also open to suggestions. If anyone knows of an amd cpu/mb that is 100% going to work that is fairly inexpensive I would love to hear it. I haven't been keeping up to date with the AMD side of things and don't know what is compatible and what isn't. My only request is that the MB have at least 3 PCI slots as I need that many to some day reach 16 HDs using the inexpensive 4 port sata hd controller.

I know the recommended cpu is 2 ghz or higher but this was written during the P4 days. Would a newer architect core such as the conroe 1.8 ghz celeron be good enough for an unraid server?