Mav359 Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 (edited) Hi peeps I have aquired or already owned the following that i am cobbling together for a self build NAS to replace an old Thescus.... Xeon E5-2680v3 12c24t ASUS X99-s Motherboard 32gb RAM Fractal Design R5 Corsair CX750 750w PSU 3 x PERC H310 RAID controllers (These have been flashed toi IT Mode LSI 9211) 30 x 6TB SAS HDDs (Tested and working) So i can get 16 drives into the case & 2/3 SSDs. What i want to do is setup unRAID with the drives & have a fast storage pool with the SSDs that i can run a couple of VMs on..... Does that sound viable in unRAID & what file system should i use (they will be shares used by windows PCs)? I have a 1060GTX spare i would like to install as i believe i can now pass the GPU through for the VM to use, can i do that with unRAID? Any advice would be welocme Edited August 4, 2021 by Mav359 Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted August 4, 2021 Share Posted August 4, 2021 What are you using 16 HDD or 30? At 30 drives, you're really pushing the limits of the P/S since it can handle 62.5A on the 12V rail, and the drives probably have a startup current of 1.8 -> 2A each. If you're using that supply and 30 drives, then you would have to disable spindown in Unraid and enable spinup groups in the HBAs so that you don't burn out the supply. Quote Link to comment
Mav359 Posted August 4, 2021 Author Share Posted August 4, 2021 im only using 16, the rest can sit there as cold spares Quote Link to comment
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