jmv

thank you for your very helpful reply...I'll build it and report back!

tried posting in pre-sale report...but there were crickets...trying here: I am considering unRaid as a new network appliance. I am really most interested in having it run SageTV now that it is open source and the SageTV open source developer community seems most focus on enabling it to run on an unRaid server. I don't need unRaid's raid feature, as I have a spare Areca 1680-16 RAID card. I saw some posts about using Areca cards to give you more sata ports but, I am wondering if I can just let my Areca card manage the RAID6 array and just expose it as a single large disk to the unRaid OS? If the answer is yes and it will just treat this as a 1 Port, single data disk, then great. But will it instead see it as 8-16 ports if I have that many devices in the Areca Array? Lastly, if I expand the Areca RAID 6 array by adding more disks, will unRaid be all well and good when the "single" RAID6 data disk grows from 10-->14 TB or will it ignore the additional capacity, or worse some how stop working? thanks, mv

I am considering unRaid as a new network appliance. I am really most interested in having it run SageTV now that it is open source and the SageTV open source developer community seems most focus on enabling it to run on an unRaid server. I don't need unRaid's raid feature, as I have a spare Areca 1680-16 RAID card. I saw some posts about using Areca cards to give you more sata ports but, I am wondering if I can just let my Areca card manage the RAID6 array and just expose it as a single large disk to the unRaid OS? If the answer is yes and it will just treat this as a 1 Port, single data disk, then great. But will it instead see it as 8-16 ports if I have that many devices in the Areca Array? Lastly, if I expand the Areca RAID 6 array by adding more disks, will unRaid be all well and good when the "single" RAID6 data disk grows from 10-->14 TB or will it ignore the additional capacity, or worse some how stop working? thanks, mv