I have been running unraid for little over a year now. Recently had a little disaster upgrading from 4.5.4 to latest and did not realize gigabyte boards had issues with new system. When I upgraded I had a drive not mount because of the infamous "the drive to small" ect.

 

When I reverted back to 4.5.4 another drive would not mount. I pulled the drive an it came up with the first two blocks damaged.

 

To make a long story short my syslog had a lot of hardware errors and the only fix was to switch two drives from two sata ports that had somehow gone bad during this episode to the two last ports open on my board which has 8 total.

 

Needless to say I have lost confidence in my MB and I reviewed my PSU which is a cheap dual rail design probably destined for failure or maybe the cause of this high quality MB to have issues.

 

I decided to dump both and go with this motherboard and PSU as an upgrade. Any advice is appreciated.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182145R

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139020

 

 

That power supply is nice. i run a few of the 750 watt versions of it.

 

It does have a rats nest of cables.

If you you dont have a lot of room in your box. it could be fun to cable manage.

 

for the mobo, I think We still have a few of those  running at work on some dev boxes. They are pretty solid once you get them running. The 8gig ram is to low for us to use in production..  but  i think they'll do for home   especially if you already have the rest of the parts.

 

also, as i recall going back a few years, you had to upgrade the bios to get it to see the later LGA775's like the quad cores and later Xeons. obviously you cant do the upgrade without a "supported" CPU, we had to use a celeron we pulled from a desktop to flash the bios. then put the xeons back into the server... I would assume they now ship with a newer bios.

 

As far as unRAID, I see no red flags from what i know of unRAID. ICH9, Intel nics, LGA775 for older CPU's.

Whats not to like except the lack of IPMI?

 

EDIT:

 

I guess where i said Later, I should have said newer? I meant later in the sockets lifespan, that equals newer chips.

 

Thanks for responding.

 

It's a home server.  I will just swap it with my current CPU, a Celeron 450 2.20 GHz. Should be a direct fit. As far as IPMI no need for this home server.

 

I also Just ordered a proper back plane cage http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993016

 

I am trying to make it more reliable. I was dirt poor when I started it a year ago. Now I have learned a few things and know where my weaknesses are. lol 

 

 

The Norco SS-500 costs only a little bit more than the SNT, but gives you 5 drives instead of 4.

The Norco SS-500 costs only a little bit more than the SNT, but gives you 5 drives instead of 4.

 

Raj/ anyone else - When did Norco change the design of the SS-500?

 

I bought one of these a few months ago... but now they seem to look like this

 

Very irritating not to have a consistent look to the front panel

I actually just saw the new design today, so it is news to me too.  I've got one of the older designs sitting around that I would be willing to sell if you can't find one elsewhere.

This makes me wonder if the new RPC's will get the new sleds.... they said the new model was due soon.

I wonder too.  I really like that they are currently interchangeable.

I actually just saw the new design today, so it is news to me too.  I've got one of the older designs sitting around that I would be willing to sell if you can't find one elsewhere.

 

That's very kind - thank you.  

 

I think I may get one of the new ones and see if it stands out too much (I've got a Antec 1200, so got three more bays to fill!).  If it looks bad, I'll probably sell the old style one and get a new one... then hope that they don't change them again before I complete my setup!  The new ones do look better designed I have to say.

 

It's ridiculous that Norco's own website is still showing the old version!

....then hope that they don't change them again before I complete my setup!

 

This is why I'm trying to purchase three backplanes all at once, even though I currently only have four array drives plus cache.