March 12, 201214 yr Welp, being married with kids and not enough time to deal with this stuff, I've basically decided I've gotten myself into a less-supportable situation than I'd prefer. I realize this is going to cost me, but it is what it is. I have a freshly booted box with the following specs: Case: Nexus Prominent 9 PS: CoolerMaster Silent Pro Gold RS800-80GAD3-US 800W MB: SuperMicro X8SIL-F-O Proc: Intel Core i3-540 Clarkdale 3.06ghz CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12P SE2 120mm SSO CPU Cooler RAM: 2x4gb Samsung M391B5273CH0-CH9 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147097 SAS cards: 2xSuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 (each with 2x 1-into-4 SAS->SATA cables from Monoprice) Hotswap trays: 3x SuperMicro CSE-M35T-1B (15 total trays) with 3x Noctua fans USB: Lexar JumpDrive Firefly 8gb I've spent $1330+ in parts in Feb/March on this machine and after spending most of the day fiddling with getting it to boot (HP usb formatter uber alles, OS X FAT32 format didn't work at all...) I'm sorta burnt and considering moving on. Anyone interested in a quick discounted buy? If I could get $1k + shipping for the whole thing I'd be interested. I have receipts from Newegg in the last month, if anyone would like to see, and can ship using an HP server box from work so it should arrive safe and sound. I have *not* yet registered with LimeTech so the USB key is installed, bootable and ready, but you'll need to pay for the software and add your own HDs -- I'm likely going to get a Synology to move the drives into. Let me know.
March 12, 201214 yr That is a hell of a box!! At this point it is all built... why sell it? and go to something like a Syno?
March 12, 201214 yr That is a hell of a box!! At this point it is all built... why sell it? and go to something like a Syno? +1
March 12, 201214 yr Author That's exactly my thinking, move to a Synology DS1812+ -- this is largely my fault for not thinking things through. I had expected that 5.0 would be out by now, allowing me to run 2 parity drives as well as having native AFP support -- I'm a primarily Mac environment, so I'd prefer to run AFP over NFS. Basically an expensive hobbiest mistake
March 12, 201214 yr That's exactly my thinking, move to a Synology DS1812+ -- this is largely my fault for not thinking things through. I had expected that 5.0 would be out by now, allowing me to run 2 parity drives as well as having native AFP support -- I'm a primarily Mac environment, so I'd prefer to run AFP over NFS. Basically an expensive hobbiest mistake Did you test out the 5.0 beta?
March 12, 201214 yr That's exactly my thinking, move to a Synology DS1812+ -- this is largely my fault for not thinking things through. I had expected that 5.0 would be out by now, allowing me to run 2 parity drives as well as having native AFP support -- I'm a primarily Mac environment, so I'd prefer to run AFP over NFS. Basically an expensive hobbiest mistake 5.0b14 is stable for most, and with the hardware you listed you should be fine. I have run a number of different version of unRAID and save for a couple they have been stable. At this point 5.0 is waiting for a stable Linux kernel with some fixes for LSI controllers and the like. You did not list any of those parts above so your hardware should work just fine.
March 12, 201214 yr Author I'm admittedly somewhat sketched out about running Beta software for my primary media library. I'm currently split between an older ReadyNAS and a Drobo, and want to consolidate my music/film libraries into one box to make it easier to manage. If the box dies (due to software issues) I'd probably snap. Running beta software RAID seems... a bit risky.
March 12, 201214 yr I'm admittedly somewhat sketched out about running Beta software for my primary media library. I'm currently split between an older ReadyNAS and a Drobo, and want to consolidate my music/film libraries into one box to make it easier to manage. If the box dies (due to software issues) I'd probably snap. Running beta software RAID seems... a bit risky. I have 3 different boxes running 3 different 5.0beta version right now. My main production machine is running 5.0b6a (but will probably be getting an upgrade soonish to support 3TB drives), I have a Crashplan dedicated machine I am setting up this week which will be running 5.0b14, and I have a physical dev/test machine running 5.0b12a. I have 2 virtual box VM's one that runs 4.7 and the other is running 5.0b14. Both of the VM's are used for unMenu package testing purposes at the start and then the testing is moved to the physical dev/test machine. I do not think you will find any issues in running a beta, but even then you could run unRAID 4.7 without issue (so long as you do not need 3TB drive support).
March 13, 201214 yr I have been running similar hardware with beta 5 for months. i have yet to have any issues. as long as you have it. you might want to try it.
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