January 17, 201214 yr Hello All. First timer here. Slowly building my 20 Bay Server. I am generally following the Budget 20 Bay Build. Shopping the deals while still following the Wiki Build hardware. My question is. I would like to get the server up and running asap. I already have a pro-raid 4 drive box that is nearing full capacity. I decided that the case (Norco 4220 or Norco 4224) will last me awhile. Just plop drives in as needed. With that being said... If I build the server and use the 6 SATA ports on the Supermicro C2SBA+II w/ Pentium E5500 CPU http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/G33/C2SBA_II.cfm without the SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controllers installed (or bought for that matter) http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358 Can I add the SAS Raid Cards later on and the system will pick them up without much difficulty? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Cheers! Chuck "The Canuck"
January 17, 201214 yr absolutely. can buy 2, 1 or 0 HBA cards now. then toss them in when you need them. just add your HBA card and then follow the wiki instructions on how to add a single drive when you get to that point. I did that myself and now have 3 cards in my box. i even changed motherboards at one point. no data lost.
January 20, 201214 yr unRAID is not like Windows where it does an initial installation and saves the hardware configuration data for future restarts. instead, the Linux kernel basically re-installs itself each time you start the server, then its instructed to run the actual unRAID software (emhttp). at this point unRAID loads your saved environment settings from the config directory and voila. you could theoretically, take the flash drive and all hard drives, move across the world, put them inside a different PC, boot it up and bingo, up and running.
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