June 18, 201214 yr So I'm starting down the road of building out an unRaid server and I'm wondering if any of my old equipment is up to snuff. I'm mainly concerned with my mobo as it's not on the compatibility list. I have plenty of drives lying around, but know I'm going to need to get some PCI adapters if I keep this mobo. I don't mind dropping a few more bucks to replace, but don't intend to spend more than $50 on any one part (if i don't need to). Here's my HTPC that i'm currently assembling if you're interested http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=133044 MoBo: Intel D865Perl E210882 CPU: Intel P4 3.2ghz SL7E5 CPU Fan: Zalman 2-ball bearing Quiet CPU Cooler RAM: 2 sticks of Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G PSU: Apex AL-A400ATX 400w Case: Cooler Master Centurion 5* I'm 90% sure that's the case i have, it's about 8 years old, so if it's not that one, it looks identical.
June 18, 201214 yr In the end it might be cheaper if you got a new motherboard that has some additional SATA-ports and a GB NIC. It would probably work out more reliable too. Continue reading here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20890.0 There are some parallels with your situation.
June 18, 201214 yr Indeed, investment in PCI adapters for an obsolete board does not seem, to me, to be justified. Much better to buy a new mobo with PCIe bus, six SATA ports and, preferably, an Intel Gbit ethernet interface. You say that you don't want to spend more than $50 on any one part, but if you buy a sensibly-specified mobo (and appropriate CPU), it will save you immediate expenditure on obsolete adapters - assuming that you can 'make do' with six drives for the initial build.
June 18, 201214 yr IMO you'd be better off swapping your HTPC equipment and your unraid equipment. All an HTPC needs to playback everything up to and including blurays a cheap video card. You can even use the TV tuner in your unraid server with the new tvheadend plugin and stream TV from the server to XBMC. And if you ever need to do on the fly transcoding or anything like that you're going to want the power in your server, not your HTPC.
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