November 28, 201114 yr I started using unraid with an old dell, described in another post as frankenserver. That case/mb combination can support 6 drives with the onboard connectors. The case could hold maybe two more, and that's it, so I decided to makeover the hardware; the dell xps610 is a BTX board and I didnt have much luck finding a case - decided not to look real hard due to the power consumption of the 2.4 Ghz Core2Duo processor. Because my new m/b has realtek nic's, I was forced to, at the same time, upgrade to unraid 5.0b13. Here's the build: Case - Antec 300 mb - Supermicro C7P67 cpu - Intel G620 ram - 4 gb of cheap microcenter DDR3 1333 ram SATA controller - AOC-SASLP-MV8, PCIe x4 video card - 8 mb ati rage =), PCI ps - Corsair 550 W 80plus builder series boot drive - Sandisk 4 mb Cruizer blade Unraid 5.0b13 Drives: 2 Hitachi HDS5C3020 2 TB, 1 Samsung HD204UI 2 Tb, 1 WD20EARS 2 TB, 2 Seagate SD2000 2 TB, 1 Hitachi HDS7210 1 TB, 1 Samsung HD102UJ 1 TB, and 1 WD10EADS 1 TB The server seems to run well under 5.0b13, although I can't run the memory test. I tested it under windows 7 memory tester. I got no reportout, so I guess that means the memory passes. I was unable to get this mb to recognize my netgear pcie nic (??) so this necessitated my moving from a stable 4.7 build to 5.0b13. I hope to report in a month the level 1 and 2 certifications for this mb; I have already transferred some 400 gb of data over my network. I used this server to preclear three drives; the two new seagates and the 10eads, which had lived in my tivo for about two years. Sorry tivo =) I'm not too happy with this case. I got it at microcenter because I like my Antec 100 and it was on sale, but it doesnt hold enough drives. The internal 3.5 bays are too far apart - there is almost room for two drives per drive slot; lots of space is wasted, even though there are fan mounts for in front of the drives. . . . I have a 3 into 2 drive cage that has a fan in front; I placed that into two of the external 5.25 bays and mounted 3 drives in it. I have a spare 5.25 bay but every other drive bay is full. I am thinking about trying to return it; if not I will eventually drill some new holds and remove the fins that the drives sit on. Otherwise it is a nice case, but the 100 is better in just about any given way; truth is they are very similar cases though.
November 30, 201114 yr Got the same CPU and was pretty astonished to see that it's capable of transcoding Blu-ray on-the-fly to an iPhone with AirVideo, subtitles included. Good choice dude.
November 30, 201114 yr The i3 Sandy bridge and the G620 are the same processor except the G620 doesn't have hyper-threading which isn't going to be missed on unRAID. I'm thrilled to see Intel come out with some decent budget cpu's for a change.
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