April 19, 201214 yr Hey, I'm a 19 years old computer enthusiast and I'm building my very first server, which also happens to be the first PC I build from scratch as I have a laptop as a main rig. (Easier for transport between school, home and parents home) I'm very eager to get all the parts together. I'm a student so I'm on a budget therefor not buying everything at once. But I'm getting close. So anyway here's my build so far and what I plan on buying. Maybe it's a bit overkill some would say but whatever Bought already: Case: Fractal Design Define R3 Pearl Black- 110$ and had $5 shipping - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=63334 PSU: Antec HCG-520M 520W Modular - 70$ and provided $5 shipping for entire order - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=67324 Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3 - 154$ - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=61002 RAM: 2XPatriot Sector 5 8GB - 43$ each - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=54174 Cache drive: Seagate Momentus 7200 320gb - 64$ - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=42252 Lan adaptater?: Intel PRO/1000 CT - 29$ - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=37926 (Possibly will make traffic go by one port in and other port out (motherboard) just for fun) Extra USBs: Startech High Speed USB 2.0 Controller - 8$ - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=39908 (Will be used to put my flash drive INSIDE the case, I'd hate it if it was outside) Flash Drive: Patriot Xporter XT Rage 8Gb - 14$ - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=54557 Not bought yet: CPU Heatsink: Noctua NH-D14 - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=47090 Extra fans: 3XNoctua NF-P14FLX - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=45800 CPU: Intel I5 2500k 3.3ghz - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=57962 DVD Drive: Any really, could come in handy Fan Controller (eventually): NZXT Sentry 2 Touchscreen 5 channel - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=42881 I will by then have the necessary to experiment, so I will build and experiment with unRaid until I have cash for hard drives. Hard drives: most likely Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=62047 I will buy 3 at first, then will later buy 2 more for a total of 6 drives. Any thoughts/recommendations just leave them down here. It will also be my first experience with unRaid and I have little to moderate experience with linux.
April 19, 201214 yr I'm new to the forums, so I wont have much to add other than I love your case. I also hate the idea of my USB stick being plugged in externally.
April 19, 201214 yr Just as a side not why such a beffy processor for unraid? I have an i3 with a 35w draw and that is more then enough for Unraids meager uses. Plus the mobo I understand you bought, but you may have been better off getting on that was a wiki approved do to the internal lan not working with UNRAID kernel. The mobo and cpu combo that you are looking at you could have had your self a supermicro setup like mine plus the ability to run headless and access the server BIOS via IPMI. Just a suggestion.
April 20, 201214 yr Author I'm new to the forums, so I wont have much to add other than I love your case. I also hate the idea of my USB stick being plugged in externally. I received the case the day of the original post and unpacked it to see it and it is pretty damn neat. And yeah the 8$ is worth it considering I'm hiding the USB Stick. Just as a side not why such a beffy processor for unraid? I have an i3 with a 35w draw and that is more then enough for Unraids meager uses. Plus the mobo I understand you bought, but you may have been better off getting on that was a wiki approved do to the internal lan not working with UNRAID kernel. The mobo and cpu combo that you are looking at you could have had your self a supermicro setup like mine plus the ability to run headless and access the server BIOS via IPMI. Just a suggestion. Well to be honest I plan on OCing, maybe not for unRaid as it would be unessecary, but rather for other things, I do plan to multi-boot. I initially thought my cache drive was 640gb when I read about dual booting with the cache drive. Then I checked again and saw it was 320GB, I'll figure out something, or just simply buy another hard drive to be used as a normal drive completely out of unRaid. Also this processor might be OVERKILL for the current uses of unRaid, but if in some years it is still enough then I won't have had the need to change the CPU and everything else to run unRaid at its fullest. As for the LAN not working properly with the unRaid kernel may I kindly have a link to this info? I just looked but couldn'T seem to find that, I do know about the HPA issue, but it is also said that by default Gigabyte cards is now on disabled, and other users have used it before. And that last sentence was pretty much chinese to me at the moment, I'm still a noob to this actually lol
April 20, 201214 yr http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility Well good luck my friend. Unraid is a very durable platform for storage. Check Speeding ants post in regards to the plugins in order to run other programs.
April 20, 201214 yr Author http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility Well good luck my friend. Unraid is a very durable platform for storage. Check Speeding ants post in regards to the plugins in order to run other programs. Yeah while I won't have my storage disks I'll have plenty of time to experiment with everything
April 20, 201214 yr Instead of giving up a port to adapt your USB I used one of these and plugged directly into my USB slot on the motherboard. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header-USBMBADAPT/dp/B000IV6S9S
April 20, 201214 yr Author Instead of giving up a port to adapt your USB I used one of these and plugged directly into my USB slot on the motherboard. http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header-USBMBADAPT/dp/B000IV6S9S I had no idea this existed. However I'll have more than enough ports than I need so giving up a slot doesn't bother me much, I also gain 4 external ports if I ever need that lol.
April 21, 201214 yr It sounds more like you should have built a server capable of doing virtualization. It would have been only slightly more in cost. You could have then installed several OS's at once and run them all at the same time. I would not overclock any server. the key is stability. This looks more like you were building a Gaming PC. It will most likely work with the latest beta's though.
April 21, 201214 yr Author It sounds more like you should have built a server capable of doing virtualization. It would have been only slightly more in cost. You could have then installed several OS's at once and run them all at the same time. I would not overclock any server. the key is stability. Overclocking wouldn't be done in the server environment as stability is important. However it would probably be stable in terms of heat as there will be 5 fans (2 stock 3 noctuas) and a massive heatsink. I have not thought of what you just said, what would have been different? maybe it ain'T too late to actually return some items and get what you are talking about.
April 21, 201214 yr I had no idea this existed. However I'll have more than enough ports than I need so giving up a slot doesn't bother me much, I also gain 4 external ports if I ever need that lol. You may not be able to boot from the USB slots in your controller http://ncix.com/products/?sku=39908. Odds are only the MB USB slots will be bootable.
April 21, 201214 yr Author I had no idea this existed. However I'll have more than enough ports than I need so giving up a slot doesn't bother me much, I also gain 4 external ports if I ever need that lol. You may not be able to boot from the USB slots in your controller http://ncix.com/products/?sku=39908. Odds are only the MB USB slots will be bootable. Didn't think of that, I'll just hope it works =/
April 21, 201214 yr I have not thought of what you just said, what would have been different? maybe it ain'T too late to actually return some items and get what you are talking about. See my Atlas build or google ESXi for more info
April 21, 201214 yr Author I have not thought of what you just said, what would have been different? maybe it ain'T too late to actually return some items and get what you are talking about. See my Atlas build or google ESXi for more info As I can see it requires a totally different system than what I have. It is an interesting solution, however I'll have to save that for a future project in a later future =/. The suggestion is appreciated though. One last question for you though, how does it look like it is a Gaming PC? It is true that just by popping a video card I'd be able to play games it isn't really my goal. Although multi boot could be interesting in the future for that reason, but I don't really see that happening. I didn't buy server parts as those are much more expensive, I'm in college and funding is kinda limited for me that's why I'm sticking to desktop parts. I'd agree they are more focused on performance rather than stability, I'm not looking to make this setup run 24/7. I will enable wake on lan and set up a vpn or something like that, which will let me boot up the machine remotely when I need it.
April 21, 201214 yr I'm in college and funding is kinda limited for me that's why I'm sticking to desktop parts. Spending $154 on a mobo, which isn't really ideal for server set up, and buying an i5 processor...you kind of contradict yourself being on college funding. I would of gone for a micro mobo and i3 just like the Atlas build.
April 22, 201214 yr Author I'm in college and funding is kinda limited for me that's why I'm sticking to desktop parts. Spending $154 on a mobo, which isn't really ideal for server set up, and buying an i5 processor...you kind of contradict yourself being on college funding. I would of gone for a micro mobo and i3 just like the Atlas build. As said earlier I'm a noob obviously Might not have made enough research before hand
April 22, 201214 yr See here for prototype builds: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7998.0
April 24, 201214 yr Author With the multiple tips I got from here, I deduct that for what I would want to ultimatly do, I'd need a much higher budget and completely different parts. I have settled my mind and decided I'd continue in the direction I'm going as a learning experience for both Unix, unRaid and server configs. In a couple of years if technology didn't change much, I'll go for something along the line of EsXi build or something similar. Thanks for all the tips
April 25, 201214 yr Author Sorry for the double post but I'm now wondering something. The motherboard I have has 5 Sata II ports on the motherboard chip and 2 Sata III ports on the marvell 88SE9172 chip. Is Sata III even compatible with unRaid? If not then before buying additional drives I'll have to wait for it to be supported I guess?
April 26, 201214 yr Author Sata 3 is supported Ok thanks some info is not completely up to date in some parts of the wiki and you must check other related pages or forums to get a clear answer. Like in the memory section links are from 2008 where unRaid was 32 bits and didn't support over 4gigs of ram so I was all oh my god I got 16gb for nothing? then after more research saw it supported up to 64gb
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