November 16, 201213 yr Well I finally bit the bullet and bought my parts for my new server. The server will be used for pushing media to an HTPC running XBMC as well as storing some pictures and documents from various computers in the house. Eventually I was to put SAB/SB on it though that will be a little ways in the future. Eskro thanks for pushing me towards unRaid and thanks ccruzen for posting your results with the C60M1-I Case: Lian Li Q25B ($90) Motherboard/CPU: ASUS C60M1-I ($80) RAM: G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F3-10600CL9D-4GBNT ($20) PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX430 V2 430W 80Plus certified ATX12V ($18 after Mail-in-rebate) Total: $208 I managed to get most of the parts pretty cheap due to the recent sales so I was pretty happy about that. Now onto the build. Parts started to come in Board mounted and RAM added Running Memtest before putting everything in Backplane (need to get more right angle cables) Everything tucks nicely above the PSU next to the top fan In the spare bedroom preclearing some drives The case actually had a little more room than I was expecting which was nice. Other than forgetting to put the IO panel on then cutting my finger trying to slide it in the build went quick and easy.
November 16, 201213 yr Author Batt Ill will post some results once I get a little further. In the mean time here ccruzen talks about his experience with it http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=23477.msg207599#msg207599
November 17, 201213 yr Nice thread! I am planning almost the same build but I heard the Asus C60M1-I is not powerful enough to run addons like SAB/SB/CP and MySQL. What do you think? If so I may opt for the ASUS P8H77-I (6 SATA ports!) with Intel G620. Those will cost $150 however. Keep us posted on performance.
November 17, 201213 yr Wow, that's the exact setup I'd like to build myself one day, just waiting for some spare cash. Please let us know if the motherboard plays nicely with SAB/CP/SB. No NIC problems?
November 17, 201213 yr Wow, that's the exact setup I'd like to build myself one day, just waiting for some spare cash. Please let us know if the motherboard plays nicely with SAB/CP/SB. No NIC problems? I think it would run those apps just fine. Might take a bit longer to unpack. I ran the same apps on a Qnap Nas with a dual core Atom 1.6ghz plus Plex. Worked great aall but except transcoding on Plex. My brother run them on a Arm base Nas.
November 18, 201213 yr Author No NIC issues at all with the latest 5.0 RC. Im not anticipating any issues with SAB/SB but I wont be able to test these for a week or so as Im busy with some school stuff. Currently my SAB/SB is done on a 1.5 dual core machine so while it might be a little slower it shouldn't have an issue.
November 19, 201213 yr Author Just a little update for those concerned about the NIC. I am still moving data to the server but my speeds going from 45-85 MB/s without a parity disk. Ill report back more on my speeds once the parity disk is added as well as the add-on's functionality.
November 25, 201213 yr Just a little update for those concerned about the NIC. I am still moving data to the server but my speeds going from 45-85 MB/s without a parity disk. Ill report back more on my speeds once the parity disk is added as well as the add-on's functionality. Sure... are you going to run Sab, Sickbeard? Waiting on your updates...
November 26, 201213 yr Author I havent been able to do much lately between school, work, and driving 1200 miles for Thanksgiving. The initial data push took a little longer than I was expecting (~4TB) so I wasnt able to get the add-ons set up. As I have finals coming up and some extra work being thrown at me at work I wont have much free time until the weekend of Dec 15th. My goal is to finish setting up all the add-ons I will be using (SAB/SB, possibly MySQL) on that weekend and do some more serious testing of the rig. Havent forgot about the updates for you guys, have just become really busy lately.
December 10, 201213 yr Author So I managed to get some free time this weekend and set up a spare drive in SNAP. On this drive I installed SAB and SB and set up the applications. After running a few test files they work awesome! The speed was good as well as moving from the App_Drive to the array. Over all Im very happy with the setup and the processor doesn't seem limited at all. While I may try mySQL (I had issues getting it working a year or so ago) currently I am using an xbmc add-on quicksync. This add-on stores the watched status of all my content to the App_Drive which all my installations can access. While it doesnt do current location and metadata like mySQL, watched status was primarily what I was concerned with. If anyone has any other tests they would like me to try out let me know and if possible Ill give them a shot.
February 11, 201313 yr Love the build Sccrluk9. Ive been lurking this forum for some time now and i have almost the same setup in mind. After lots of research about the asus c60m1-i people comments are 50/50 ... some say its great others say the cpu is weak and cant feed 1080p mkv files to xbmc htpc. Im about to pull the trigger on my order but im still in doubt about it. I love the idea of small low cost/power and noise package. What your experience as of today with the c60m1-i ? I plan to run plain unraid, no addon what so ever. only storing my media file and stream them to my htpc and my main computer ...
February 12, 201313 yr Author I have had no problems with the c60 at all. It runs cool despite the passive cooling and the NIC works fine on RC10 (havent tried any other versions). Most of my collection is 720p, I know I have a few 1080 mkvs but havent been able to find them (largish collection). Someone in the house watches at least 1 movie a day along with multiple TV episodes and I have yet to notice any stuttering at all however. As I said above, I am running SB and SAB without any issues. SAB unpacks a file in < 10s which is fine with me. Anymore questions just ask, Ill also keep looking for those 1080 mkvs to test them out for you but I dont anticipate any problems
February 13, 201313 yr Thx for the fast reply ! I just ordered all the parts for my media server, should be here by the end of the week.
February 14, 201313 yr hi sccrluk9, have you tried to put the board on sleep? does it work well with S3? and does it wake up normaly via a lan magick packet? alex
February 18, 201313 yr Author hi sccrluk9, have you tried to put the board on sleep? does it work well with S3? and does it wake up normaly via a lan magick packet? alex Sorry just saw your reply. I havent put it tried doing S3 and just leave it running 24/7
February 19, 201313 yr Author hi sccrluk9, have you tried to put the board on sleep? does it work well with S3? and does it wake up normaly via a lan magick packet? alex Found this actually http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20182.msg210841#msg210841 So no, it doesnt seem like it works.
February 20, 201313 yr yeah i saw this thread but i thought that maybe with the new versions of unRaid, the S3 and WOL would be fixed. This is why i asked you the question
February 20, 201313 yr Author yeah i saw this thread but i thought that maybe with the new versions of unRaid, the S3 and WOL would be fixed. This is why i asked you the question Based on the other thread it seemed to be a hardware limitation in that the board would cut power to the NIC so WOL couldnt be used. Ill attempt to give it a shot though I wont be able to get to it until this weekend.
February 25, 201313 yr hi sccrluk9, have you got a chance to test the S3 and WOL feature this week-end?
February 26, 201313 yr Author I tried for a few hours on Sunday and could not get it to work. I was seeing the same issue as in the other thread where the NIC would not have any power provided to it.
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