November 16, 20169 yr I'd like to share my unRAID server, I'm very happy with it, specs in sig. Nice clean layout. Mine started like that LOL. Now its a rats nest.
November 17, 20169 yr I'd like to share my unRAID server, I'm very happy with it, specs in sig. Nice clean layout. Mine started like that LOL. Now its a rats nest. Wiring is a pain, with so many cables there's no way to do back wiring, hope I don't have to deal with cables again 'cos I've put all SDDs and HDDs into bays.
February 4, 20179 yr Ok, lets bump this topic! Those fractal cases are popular. I had one for my previous server. Too bad they don't sell a hot-swap backplate. Here's my humble unraid server: Cheap €30 case - MS-Tech CA-0210 Icy Dock (black vortex something something) 4in3 5.25" drive cage. The ultimate server room! Specs in sig. Post your rig. I'ts very interesting to see what hardware other people are using. Please keep this topic alive!
February 13, 20179 yr My build: Supermicro X10SL7-F MB Intel Xeon E3-1246 v3 @ 3.50 ghz 32GB Kingston ECC Emmory Intel 82576 Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Controller Nvidia GeForce GT710B Video Card 5 x Western Digital 3TB HDD 2 x Kingston 120GB SSD (Cache) Runs Windows 10VM, PFsense router as a VM with OpenVPN, and PlexMedia Server. Looking to upgrade to: ASUS Z10PA-D8 Dual LGA2011-3 ATX Workstation Motherboard 2 x Intel Xeon E5 2630 v4 8 x Kingston ValueRAM KVR24L17Q4/32I 32GB 2400MHz ECC Buffered D4 1 x EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 FTW GAMING ACX 3.0, 8GB 1 x Intel 82576 Quad port Gigabit Ethernet Controller 1 x Nvidia GeForce GT710B Video Card 5 x Western Digital 3TB HDD 2 x Kingston 120GB SSD (Cache) All is currently houses in a rack mount Chenbro RM42300 case. Hoping to run my existing PFsense VM, Windows 10 VM, Plex as well as adding a Windows 10 gaming VM.
February 13, 20179 yr Pics please! I decided not to use pfsense as a vm because when your server is down, you lose your internet connection.
March 13, 20179 yr On 6/15/2016 at 4:26 AM, NeoDude said: My first ever UnRaid build, specs in my sig... Do you use this as a server and desktop computer in your office or is there another computer I'm not seeing?
March 13, 20179 yr Nothing special or 'pimped' out here, just a 36 bay Supermicro chassis. Unfortunately you can't see the 12 bays in the back, sorry I'll have to get around to taking a pic of that. 30 drives in total for 108TB of space.
March 23, 20179 yr Is this thread still alive? Here's my "Gaming/HTPC/NAS"-Build, its running my main Windows Gaming VM, Plex, Sync and soon a second HTPC-VM (sadly there is no possibility to pass-through onboard sound on my board) Drives: 1 Western Digital WD Red 3TB, 3.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD30EFRX) 1 Western Digital WD Green 3TB, SATA 6Gb/s (WD30EZRX) 2 Western Digital WD Red 1TB, 2.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD10JFCX) 2 SK Hynix Canvas SL308 250GB, SATA (HFS250G32TND-N1A2A) HW: 1 Intel Core i7-6700K, 4x 4.00GHz, boxed without cooler (BX80662I76700K) 2 Crucial Ballistix Sports LT red DIMM 16GB, DDR4-2400, CL16-16-16 (BLS16G4D240FSE) 1 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X 6G, 6GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, 3x DisplayPort (V328-001R) 1 ASRock Z170 Extreme4 (90-MXGYJ0-A0UAYZ) 1 Noctua NF-A14 PWM 1 Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B white, noise-insulated (NXDS5WB) 1 SilverStone SFX Series SX500-LG 500W SFX12V-L (SST-SX500-LG) Additionally, I've ordered an AOC-SASLP-MV8 for 30€ on ebay… hopefully it works
March 23, 20179 yr Is this thread still alive? Here's my "Gaming/HTPC/NAS"-Build, its running my main Windows Gaming VM, Plex, Sync and soon a second HTPC-VM (sadly there is no possibility to pass-through onboard sound on my board) Drives: 1 Western Digital WD Red 3TB, 3.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD30EFRX) 1 Western Digital WD Green 3TB, SATA 6Gb/s (WD30EZRX) 2 Western Digital WD Red 1TB, 2.5", SATA 6Gb/s (WD10JFCX) 2 SK Hynix Canvas SL308 250GB, SATA (HFS250G32TND-N1A2A) HW: 1 Intel Core i7-6700K, 4x 4.00GHz, boxed without cooler (BX80662I76700K) 2 Crucial Ballistix Sports LT red DIMM 16GB, DDR4-2400, CL16-16-16 (BLS16G4D240FSE) 1 MSI GeForce GTX 1060 6GB Gaming X 6G, 6GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, 3x DisplayPort (V328-001R) 1 ASRock Z170 Extreme4 (90-MXGYJ0-A0UAYZ) 1 Noctua NF-A14 PWM 1 Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B white, noise-insulated (NXDS5WB) 1 SilverStone SFX Series SX500-LG 500W SFX12V-L (SST-SX500-LG) Additionally, I've ordered an AOC-SASLP-MV8 for 30€ on ebay… hopefully it works [emoji3] The thread is alive now! Looks good. I'm thinking about using that same case, how do you like the case? Also when you get the money upgrade that WD Green drive to a Red drive.
March 23, 20179 yr All the drives are old ones. Some day all of them will be red – hopefully the case is very nice. cant say anything bad about it.
March 24, 20179 yr All the drives are old ones. Some day all of them will be red – hopefully [emoji4] the case is very nice. cant say anything bad about it. Yeah I'm looking at that case since it's really quiet and has a lot of expandability. Can't wait to pull the trigger.
March 24, 20179 yr IMHO its the best white* Case for up to 8 drives (7x 3,5" + 2x 2,5" cache SSDs with this). You can squeeze up to 17(!) 3,5" drives in it (11x 3,5" + 6 in 5,25" slots) but I'm not sure if its possible to keep the whole thing silent and cool then… NZXT 440 or Fractal Refine are good ones too… * I had to buy a white case which really limits the choice, there are plenty good black ones out there (maybe even better ones then the DS5)
March 24, 20179 yr IMHO its the best white* Case for up to 8 drives (7x 3,5" + 2x 2,5" cache SSDs with this). You can squeeze up to 17(!) 3,5" drives in it (11x 3,5" + 6 in 5,25" slots) but I'm not sure if its possible to keep the whole thing silent and cool then… NZXT 440 or Fractal Refine are good ones too… * I had to buy a white case which really limits the choice, there are plenty good black ones out there (maybe even better ones then the DS5) Ok I'll keep an eye out for other cases. Thanks.
March 24, 20179 yr On 3/13/2017 at 11:38 PM, jrd680 said: @NeoDude? Really curious!! Yep, Server, Windows 10 VM and PfSense VM all running from one box (The router is no longer there). Edited March 24, 20179 yr by NeoDude
March 25, 20179 yr On 3/23/2017 at 0:06 PM, jrd680 said: Also when you get the money upgrade that WD Green drive to a Red drive. Dont rush to it, I've got 2 reds and 2 greens in my server. The greens are pushing 4.5 years of power on hours and have 0 issues, perfect SMART reports. Now that i've said that out loud, they'll both burst into flames within a week.
March 25, 20179 yr 42 minutes ago, mr-hexen said: Now that i've said that out loud, they'll both burst into flames within a week. But you're right, it doesnt really matter which color the drive is, all WD drive are more or less the same. And I've also seen reds dying after a few weeks…
March 28, 20179 yr Figured Id share as well. This is my Son building his first server ever. Here is the list of parts https://pcpartpicker.com/list/kRnpJV I can post some of the completed project pictures when I get back home if anyone is interested. I really just thought it was a cool father son build.
March 28, 20179 yr Figured Id share as well. This is my Son building his first server ever. Here is the list of partshttps://pcpartpicker.com/list/kRnpJV I can post some of the completed project pictures when I get back home if anyone is interested. I really just thought it was a cool father son build.Sick! Would love to see more pictures. What will it be used for?
March 30, 20179 yr On 3/28/2017 at 5:28 PM, jrd680 said: Sick! Would love to see more pictures. What will it be used for? Thanks JRD680, My son appreciated the comment greatly. He named the Server Rubix Cube. (yes I know cable management could be a bit better but nothing interferes (most importantly) and the cube kinda stays outta sight) He is very proud of his first computer build This is an HTPC/Media server/VM machine/Personal Cloud/ and so many other things. (Audio outputs drive studio monitors, Sounds amazing:-)) Just love the flexibility of Unraid. By the Way, "EVERYTHING" just worked on its initial power up, could not have been more pleased with that. The processor is an AMD 7860K with Stock cooler with provides more that enough oomph to transcode and do what I need it to without gobbling up too much energy. Beats the pants off of my old ReadyNas NV+ v2 Extremely happy with this build and it has not crashed or hiccupped or anything since building. By the way the UPS is the Just released APC BX1500M. Gonna do a review on it but gotta break out the Oscope, and meters to fully test. (need time) Thanks and have a great one
November 29, 20178 yr Hey all, long time lurker, first time sharing what I've learned and built over the years. This all started at the tail end of 2015, I was helping a friend clean his car out and he had a mobo and processor in his trunk he was going to throw in the trash. It was a Asus P5q Pro Turbo with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 and stock cooling fan.Me, being a borderline technology hoarder, decided to keep it and find out what I could do with it, or at least overclock it til the chip blew. I started searching online for fun things to do with the motherboard and initially stumbled upon freeNAS. Thinknig about it I had some DDR2 ram laying around (remember that thing I said about about hoarding ;)) and a few spare spinning 3.5" disks. I was set on giving freeNAS a try. Luckily some post on reddit or small net builder informed me of Unraid and the ability to add any size disk to the array at any time, which really grabbed my attention. I think back when I looked at it, there was no Free trial option or it was limited to only a few disks. I tried the trial and it was good enough demo for me to grab the basic version. I ran the basic version with 4 disks for about a month or two, playing around with dockers and moving all my media over. The dual core did a fine job of serving up Emby (i didnt want to pay for plex, but in the end, Im a lifetime plexpass subscriber) streams to all the devices in the house. As time went on, and I kept reading UCD posts, I found the E5-2670 pricing and began the hunt for an upgrade to my unraid hardware. First up on the docket was a HUGE case. I contemplated a 4U case to fit in to my 45U rack, but after the move to my new house, the rack never got put back into service and with the space available, I opted for a silly big desktop case in the form of a Thermaltake CoreX9. Soon after I secured a new mobo, 2 E5-2670s, and 128GB ECC RAM. I went overkill and installed two Noctua U12dxi's and added pull fans on each. Fast Forward two years and here is how the system sits today: Thermaltake Core X9 Case + 4 Bay SATA HD Enclosure + Case FANS Gallore (1x 200MM, 4x 140MM 4x120MM) ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 Motherboard 2x Intel E5-2670 Xeon 8c/16t CPUs 2x Noctua U12DXI CPU Coolers + Noctua F12 PWM Pull Fans 128GB Nanya 1333 ECC RAM (16x 8GB) EVGA 980ti Kingpin GPU EVGA SuperNova 850 PSU 2x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD 7x HGST DeskStar NAS 4TB 7200RPM HD 2x Samsung 2TB HDs 2x WD Green (YUCK) 1.5TB HDs Edited November 29, 20178 yr by cptnyehy0
November 29, 20178 yr Hey all, long time lurker, first time sharing what I've learned and built over the years. This all started at the tail end of 2015, I was helping a friend clean his car out and he had a mobo and processor in his trunk he was going to throw in the trash. It was a Asus P5q Pro Turbo with an Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 and stock cooling fan.Me, being a borderline technology hoarder, decided to keep it and find out what I could do with it, or at least overclock it til the chip blew. I started searching online for fun things to do with the motherboard and initially stumbled upon freeNAS. Thinknig about it I had some DDR2 ram laying around (remember that thing I said about about hoarding ) and a few spare spinning 3.5" disks. I was set on giving freeNAS a try. Luckily some post on reddit or small net builder informed me of Unraid and the ability to add any size disk to the array at any time, which really grabbed my attention. I think back when I looked at it, there was no Free trial option or it was limited to only a few disks. I tried the trial and it was good enough demo for me to grab the basic version. I ran the basic version with 4 disks for about a month or two, playing around with dockers and moving all my media over. The dual core did a fine job of serving up Emby (i didnt want to pay for plex, but in the end, Im a lifetime plexpass subscriber) streams to all the devices in the house. As time went on, and I kept reading UCD posts, I found the E5-2670 pricing and began the hunt for an upgrade to my unraid hardware. First up on the docket was a HUGE case. I contemplated a 4U case to fit in to my 45U rack, but after the move to my new house, the rack never got put back into service and with the space available, I opted for a silly big desktop case in the form of a Thermaltake CoreX9. Soon after I secured a new mobo, 2 E5-2670s, and 128GB ECC RAM. I went overkill and installed two Noctua U12dxi's and added pull fans on each. Fast Forward two years and here is how the system sits today: Thermaltake Core X9 Case + 4 Bay SATA HD Enclosure + Case FANS Gallore (1x 200MM, 4x 140MM 4x120MM) ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 Motherboard 2x Intel E5-2670 Xeon 8c/16t CPUs 2x Noctua U12DXI CPU Coolers + Noctua F12 PWM Pull Fans 128GB Nanya 1333 ECC RAM (16x 8GB) EVGA 980ti Kingpin GPU EVGA SuperNova 850 PSU 2x Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD 7x HGST DeskStar NAS 4TB 7200RPM HD 2x Samsung 2TB HDs 2x WD Green (YUCK) 1.5TB HDsGreat post! What are your storage needs now? Will you be upgrading and getting rid of those green drives soon?
November 29, 20178 yr My storage needs are not too high tbh, im only using about 1/2 of the 29.5TB in my array. Currently I am just hosting all my homes multimedia data, along with a few VMs for a home lab and dev zone. The 1.5 greens will be phased out eventually, along with the 2 2tb samsung spinners. Looking to go to all 4TB or even upgrade parity to larger disk to allow for larger than 4tb drives within my array.
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