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I'm already at 8x8 TB Easystore shucked drives, and a couple of those drives were funded by older pc parts sales from free pcs. I don't see any server gear. I wish... But I do manage to sell some parts from those freebies, like hard drives, and an occasional video card and case. The real gems for myself have been three LG 4K ripping capable optical drives, with their older firmware that has never been updated.

What is a 2Tb used hard drive worth? At $10, you could flip out drives and buy larger capacity drives....

Just how far are you sitting from this hdtv? Are you close enough to a what is a relatively small screen, for the human eye to be able to resolve the extra resolution? Some other reasons to go 4K are for ATMOS soundtracks and HDR.

My UnRaid uses a used Antec 1200 V3 case, found local. I also sourced a beat up Antec 900 case on the cheap, via Ebay for additional bays + fans. I am now keeping an eye out for a second Antec 1200 V3, and plan to stack them vertically, as such, for 24 bays. A ssd will reside in an Origen pci ssd bracket, to avoid taking up any drive bay storage. I am starting out with 6 WD 8 TB EasyStore shucked drives plus a 2 TB and 3 TB pair of Seagate drives, that resided in my previous desktop.

The Antec 1200 v3 is now a sub $100 case on the used market. Interesting to see how the advice in this thread and how five years can change things..... I snagged a local case for $100 CDN, and a second, not so pristine case for $58 CDN shipped, which will simply be a spare upper fan and 2 more sets of triple drive bays and fan. Not too shabby, 12 bays at $120 USD. Quad core i3's are dirt cheap, while ram isn't. Eight Terrabyte BB Easystore shucked drives means that's potentially 88 TB of storage. An ssd cache drive could use velcro or a pci bracket and not touch a drive bay.

Acquired.

Anyone sitting on at least one set of these, and preferably a pair, looking to sell? Ideally with the long screws... I am in Ontario Canada, but have a US mailing parcel receiving service in Niagara Falls, NY.

Haven't dropped the project. Got a little side tracked though... Front end just added, for a stereo based media room. NAD C 390DD Server hardware upgrade pile of parts: P8Z77 mobo, Intel G620 cpu, 2x4G ram, SATA3 60G ssd boot drive, 2x240G SATA2 ssd, and 2x120G SATA ssd (so far... -loving the drop in ssd prices).

Still waiting on more drives.... but I picked up a couple of these bay adapters

I bought two Habey rackmount cases via ebay. A Habey RPC-410 and a DS600S. They are pretty much identical except the DS600-S has six SATAII hotswap bays instead of six internal 3.5" bays. (Both also have three 5.25" and one 3.5" open bays.) Eighteen inches deep.

I decided to check with Bryston, since I began to wonder if I was overlooking something. "The BDP-1 can playback from a shoutcast server so he could setup a shoutcast server on his linux storage server. Also the NAS feature on the BDP-1's firmware would allow the BDP-1 to connect to any samba share. "

If you skip the optional factory remote, you need a wireless access point for control.

Oh I got the reasoning behind the FLAC suggestion right off. Four letters, $150 bucks a letter. I also fully understand the "don't argue with an audiophile" statement. But I also know, and can appreciate, the huge price/performance factor of pairing a 2TB hd with a Logitech Squeezebox. Hardware: $5-600 "out of pocket" ssd 1 TB-ish UnRaid. I'm good with that! Bryston BDP-1 with Ipad as remote touchscreen. then it's decision time: Buy a Classe CP-800 or buy a Bryston BDA-1 and use the second zone of the Integra 80.2 in the rack. $4K gulf there. Leaning towards the Classe but the 80.2/BDA-1 should be impressive in it's own right. Ohlwider, there's an ethernet port on the Bryston for networking. It needn't be networked if you are simply going to use usb jumpdrives and the factory remote. My Bryston will be networked since I didn't buy the optional remote, as I wish to use my IPad as controller.

you mean like FLAC? Pretty sure the Bryston doesn't accept FLAC. I'm also not convinced FLAC is sonically identical to the original wav file.

I think I've seen those hot swap bays but they were 4 (2 high by 2 wide) in a 5.25" bay. I do have three 5.25 bays but I'm leaning cheap and use what's on hand, and aim the cash at the ssd storage. The OCZ drives I just bought, came with shallow U shaped brackets so I was thinking back to back mounting in each bay if the 3.5" bays have suitable double slots. Just checked, no such luck. But the cage is 6 drives wide. A little 3.5" bay modding is in order.

Just acquired a pair of 120G ssd SATA2 drives to go with a 60G I already have. $1.10 per Gig, ssd bay adapters included. I was thinking my next ssds need to be 240G mimimum, as the motherboard has six SATA2 ports. But I'm kind of leaning to add a controller card to add ports now. That way I contain parity drive cost, have cheaper storage cost per Gig (by sticking with 120-128G capacity drives), plus have a few ports left for future expansion room. Seven more 120G ssds should get me below the $1.00 per cd mark (wav files). Recovered cash from upgraded hardware should half that expense. If one 3.5" drive bay can handle two ssds back to back, all the ssds can end up in the 3.5 bay cage. Nice and simple.

I was wondering when that issue would also get mentioned... It's not about transfer rate, it's about a silent server, in the listening enviroment, feeding a high end stereo system. A 6TB music collection on ssd, would be a bit of an expense. Now if I had some out of the way, server "friendly" space, life would be simple and I'm just a 2TB drive away from a 6TB+ Unraid.

Peter, the BDP-1's ethernet port connects to the wireless router and the router's ethernet ports are the cable modem/computer(s)/server connectivity. Wireless for IPAd control/navigation of the BDP-1, or front buttons, or optional remote. The usb ports are still an option for media playback. The computer parts are suitable. The cpu heatsink and fan are aftermarket. And it's a 4U rackmount case, not a 1U or 2U. Changing out the motherboard/cpu/ram is an option. Gotchya on the picopsu, but I can see this server growing with time. (I also just realised I wrote 6-700M, and not 6-700G...) Pretty sure I'm around 1TB in music at this point. Nice to know a ssd server is viable, Rajahal. I was guessing a cache drive would be pointless.

Never used a Picopsu. I doubt one could power any of the htpcs I've built, which don't fit today's common profile of a htpc. The BDP-1 is actually a task specific Linux computer. That task is a high end music streamer, to output stereo music files to a DAC. The most commonly used media input is an external usb hard drive attached to the rear usb ports, or music on usb jump drives. Definately a different animal, but one that sounds better then my Asus Xonar and RME 9632. The ethernet port is for a wireless router, and IPad as remote. As for ssd's, is a buck or two, for storing a ripped cd, really all that expensive? As for hardware, it's all in place, leftovers, zero expenditure. And there's other pc hardware to sell off, and re-invest in ssd drives. Out of pocket will start around the 600-700M storage mark. As for unRaid, very simple attached storage would work, with multiple backups. (just exploring UnRaid at this point...) Ripping isn't so bad, but proper tagging is time consuming. Some redundency to protect that time investment is one goal. As for storage needs, 900 cd library and a growing high resolution stereo music files. Bluray will stay disk based. There's no storage area, save for the Middle Atlantic slim5 rack in the basement familyroom area.

Definately an audiophile system component. But it's more of the av rack is "in the room" thing. That said, I could hang the case vertically on the back wall of the av closet. I've done many htpcs over the years. I've used three passively cooled PSU's in the past, and all failed. No luck there... Add in one PMI SDI capture card, and that's every htpc related hardware failure I've had. Do I even need to assign a parity drive with unRaid? Could I use unRaid as a simple jumpdrive server in this manner? I'd back up to a hard drive elsewhere on the network.

Hardware I have: Supermicro C2SEE motherboard with Intel dual core processor (don't recall what model) 2G ram rack mount case with Thermaltake TR2 430W power supply 64G ssd 4G jumpdrive more then enough SATA2 cables

A little off the beaten path. I know the ssd drive cost will be a cash hit... I have all the computer hardware except storage drives so that helps. I'm thinking three 500-640 ssd drives would get me started and more then cover my cd library and allow me some high resolution files storage. I am envisioning a silent dedicated stereo music server to pair with a Bryston BDP-1 and Ipad as a front end.