VARN Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 •What is your budget? $1000 without drives •How many drives do you want your server to be able to support and how much capacity do you need? 15 drives 3 to start •Is expandability important to you? If so, what's your long term goal? long term goal is 15 drives. •Are you interested in running any unRAID Add Ons (see here)? No •Do you have any spare parts laying around that you would like to apply towards your build? This includes drives. No •If you already have parts in mind, please oh pretty please post links to them so that we don't have to look them up. The parts I have in mind are: Norco RPC-470 4U Rackmount Server Case Cooler Master STB-3T4-E3 3X5.25IN to 4X3.5IN Drive Bay Convertor Seasonic Power Supply SS-560KM Western Digital Red 3TB Western Digital WDTV Live Streaming Media Player I plan on setting up as a raid 5. I am having trouble choosing a motherboard; If some drives are pluged into the motherboard and some into a raid card can they all be on the same raid array? Are there any problems putting all 15 drives on the same raid array? These drives have sata3 6Gb connectors I guess I need that on the motherboard? Should I just get a basic motherboard and a good raid card? I will need to transcode on the fly, does that requires a video card? I am planning on putting another harddrive in separate from the raid for converting media or anthing else I may need. Any suggestion are appreciated I am very new to this. Quote Link to comment
jimmyhelu Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I'm looking to buy maybe 5 or 6 harddrives to run in RAID 5 for a home media server, and while the description of the WD red drives sound nice. Quote Link to comment
wreck Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I plan on setting up as a raid 5. If that's the case then this has nothing to do with unraid, unless you are talking about version 5. Also, I don't know much about that case (and there weren't a ton of pics in the link), but I don't think you need the drive convertors like you also linked to. Quote Link to comment
VARN Posted October 30, 2012 Author Share Posted October 30, 2012 Ok never mind about the hardware raid, seems too complicated. Based on the feedback I changed the case. Fractal Design Define XL Black Seasonic X-560 80PLUS Gold ASRock Z77 EXTREME9 Intel Core i7 3770 Quad Core Kingston 16GB 2133MHZ DDR3 This should come to about 1065 before tax. I may have to put something else on this to rip blurays and dvds and convert them, I do not see anything on the plugin list to do that. Quote Link to comment
batt01 Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 Ok never mind about the hardware raid, seems too complicated. Based on the feedback I changed the case. Fractal Design Define XL Black Seasonic X-560 80PLUS Gold ASRock Z77 EXTREME9 Intel Core i7 3770 Quad Core Kingston 16GB 2133MHZ DDR3 This should come to about 1065 before tax. If you are building a unraid server, most chose to go with low cost hardware. My Mobo cost was $59.00. You dont need a top of the line ower hungry cpu/mobo just to store and serve files. That mobo/cpu would make one hell of a gaming machine, but IMHO, be a waste in a media server. You might want to have a look here. http://greenleaf-technology.com/10-15-drive-prototypes/ This info maybe somewhat dated, but would be a good start. You could probably build something that fits your needs for under $700. For around $350 you could build a server with one 5 in 3 rack, easily expandable to 15 drives when needed. Which is the route I have taken. That would give you the 5 or 6 drives initially and you get to keep, more money in pocket. I may have to put something else on this to rip blurays and dvds and convert them, I do not see anything on the plugin list to do that. I dont think you will find a plugin for this. Most would rip on another pc and just transfer the files to the server. Quote Link to comment
BLKMGK Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 UnRAID provides network storage with some capacity to do other things as plugins. It's primarily storage however and I'd start planning from that standpoint - think of the server as an appliance not general purpose computer... Quote Link to comment
VARN Posted November 1, 2012 Author Share Posted November 1, 2012 Well I have this computer: ASUS P5N32-E SLI Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad Core Processor OCZ Gold XTC PC2-6400 4GB 2X2GB DDR2 Antec Sonata III Black Antec Truepower New 750W Modular Power Supply BFG GeForce 8800GTS Should I just use this for the server and get another for general purpose? What should I change to make this use less power? Quote Link to comment
Chugiak Posted November 1, 2012 Share Posted November 1, 2012 VARN, I'm still an unRAID newb, but it seems to me that would be a capable unRAID server. The motherboard offers 6 SATA II connectors, which is good. The mb is old though, so I wouldn't expect to be able to connect 3 terabyte or larger drives. Quote Link to comment
VARN Posted November 2, 2012 Author Share Posted November 2, 2012 I looked around and the only limit I could find is 128 PB because of the BIOS. Since this is a 750W power supply and the other one was going to be 560W will this use more power? Quote Link to comment
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