June 18, 201214 yr Hello! I'm new here but have a few questions that need squashing before I take the plunge and spend my £££s! First let me start by saying I have never researched anything so thoroughly in my life to come up with an almost uniform answer across the entire Internet which pointed me towards unraid as being the best solution for a home media box. Congrats, it must be a great product and as such my question isn't whether I should use unraid (I'm decided on that), moreover what hardware is recommended for the requirements I'll list next. The unraid box will serve content to 3 screens around the house running various flavours of xbmc. Quality minimum is 720p, but usually 1080p. Further to that I would like the ability to be able to run air video server to transcode media for ios on the fly, up to 2x streams concurrently. Potentially up to 5 streams at once then. I already own 3x 3tb drives, 2x 1tb, 1x 1.5tb and several other smaller drives including a spare 60gb ssd (cache drive?). Case : Fractal Design XL - already own so this was an easy choice CPU : intel core i3 2120 - Must be able to handle 2x simultaneous air video streams Motherboard: no idea yet, ideally support uefi for quicker booting Ram: how much? 8gb enough / too much? Drives: already purchased USB flash drive: capacity? 4gb ok or can I skimp and get a 2gb one? Licensing is my next query. For now I have 9, maybe 10 drives for inclusion in the system, what's the cheapest licensing option for me here? Budget? As cheap as possible without comprising the requirements. Ideally CPU, main board and ram will come under £200. Not essential but if someone would like to explain the mechanics of unraid to me then that would be great. I'm migrating from a raid5 system and I understand how the parity there can recovery an entire drive as its striped evenly. But, what I don't understand is how 1 drive of say 3tb can hold enough parity to recover any random other drive from an array of 10 disks. Doesn't make sense to my little brain yet... I'm at your mercy forums - flame retardant jacket, assemble!
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