turning old pc into unraid server

[villian512]

thanks for taking the time...

 

just asking for compatibility using my old pc guts as unraid server.

 

GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103194

SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052

 

any issues ?

 

appreciate the help>>>

[vca]

thanks for taking the time...

 

just asking for compatibility using my old pc guts as unraid server.

 

GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128034

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103194

SAMSUNG SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052

 

any issues ?

 

appreciate the help>>>

 

The Athlon is plenty powerful enough for unRAID.  This Gigabyte board uses the nvidia chipset, there were issues with the SATA ports on some nvidia chipset versions so you might want to do some searching through the forums to see if this is one that has problems.  Also, some of the gigabyte boards have a feature where they save a backup copy of the BIOS directly to one of the hard drives, this can cause problems with unRAID (look for "gigabyte HPA problem").

 

Regards,

 

Stephen

[S80_UK]

Also, some of the gigabyte boards have a feature where they save a backup copy of the BIOS directly to one of the hard drives, this can cause problems with unRAID (look for "gigabyte HPA problem").

 

True - but many of them allow the feature to be disabled in the BIOS settings so that the feature cannot cause a problem.  In some Gigabyte board BIOS builds it is disabled as the default setting.