An idea for hardware compatibility listing


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Hi Guys,

 

Was just perusing these forums and it came to me that there are some that are concerned about compatible hardware.

 

I know I just had stuff lying around that I wanted to use and luckily that worked out well so far. I can imagine that many others are in the same boat.

 

So I had a thought about how we could get a master list going: "how about have unRAID create a hardware list file on each system, and then we can submit that file to an online parser that would submit the details into a database."

 

The main components to consider are:

Motherboard

Network Card

RAID card

Hard drives

 

Case/PSU/CPUs etc. don't really affect unRAID.

 

We could have a screen that lists the components and next to each screen, people can tick whether it works or not and beside that have a small space for comments.

 

Users then press the "create file" button and a file is created ready for us to submit to the online webpage. I am assuming that most people don't leave their unRAID boxes open to the interweb and so have positioned this as a manual process.

 

Would this be achievable? Thoughts... comments.. criticisms?

 

Thanks for reading.

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