tibonhom Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 Hi, I am reading this forum almost every day since last year. On the first couple weeks my plan was to build a small budget box using one of the Rajahal’s prototypes. After that I saw the add-on page and I realized I would probably need some more power and ram so I can play with these plugins. When I was almost ready to push the order button I saw this thread from johnm talking about his “Virtualized unRAID”. I am still unsure if I am going to go with ESXi at the beginning but I really want to start this build and I want to be ready for ESXi when I will be out of regular unRAID and plugins to explore. I would like to show you my plan so you can help me confirm that my parts are compatible together and with unRAID and also confirm these parts will work when I am ready to go for ESXi. OS at time of building: 5.0 b12 CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O RAM: Kingston 16GB 2 x (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1333 Case: Zalman MS1000-HS2 Black Tower Case Drive Cage(s): Zalman ZM-HDR1 3-Bay HDD Rack Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 x SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) I will use some drives I have for the testing period. Parity Drive: 7200 RPM drive I already have. Data Drives: WD 1TB green drive I already have Cache Drive: 7200 RPM drive I already have. Total Drive Capacity: Primary Use: Media storage, centralized file server, computer backups, virtual machines... Likes: Dislikes: Add Ons Used: SABnzbd, crashplan,… not sure yet. I want to play with many plugins but will maybe go with VMs instead… Future Plans: Add new drives as needed. Questions: 1 – With this case I have 10 drvies capacity and I plan to have max 4 7200 RPM drives (1 Parity, 1 cache, up to 2 ESXi data store, 6 green drives). Is my PSU ok for this build? Edits: 1/5/2012 Changed CPU from E3-1220 to E3-1240 for hyperthreading. Changed unclear description of RAM. So do you think this plan works? Any comment? Things I missed? thanks for your comments tibonhom
Johnm Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 It looks good. the only thing you might have overlooked that the E2-1220 is a quadcore without hyper threading. the E2-1230 and up all are quads with HT. It is not needed, but I did want to point that out.
Ford Prefect Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 ...I'll second what Johnm said. In addition, 8GB of RAM might be too much for an unRAID box, even with a good bunch of add-ons maybe 4GB will do. In an ESXi build 16GB plus is what you'll probably want (where 32GB is a very pricey endeavor ATM).
tibonhom Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 It looks good. the only thing you might have overlooked that the E2-1220 is a quadcore without hyper threading. the E2-1230 and up all are quads with HT. It is not needed, but I did want to point that out. Oh tanks! I missed this. I am gonna change it. ...I'll second what Johnm said. In addition, 8GB of RAM might be too much for an unRAID box, even with a good bunch of add-ons maybe 4GB will do. In an ESXi build 16GB plus is what you'll probably want (where 32GB is a very pricey endeavor ATM). Yes. I wanted to order 16gb now so I am ready for ESXi. But I see my description is not so clear. I will adjust it. You didn't say anything about the PSU and this is where I am less comfortable. May I ask you to confirm my choice? or maybe suggest another one... Thanks for your revision. I am now more comfortable to start ordering the parts. tibonhom
Johnm Posted January 5, 2012 Posted January 5, 2012 The PSU should be fine for 10 drives. I have a Seasonc gold 750 for a 24 (green) drive build.
tibonhom Posted January 5, 2012 Author Posted January 5, 2012 Thank you very much! I am now ready to order tibonhom
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