January 3, 201313 yr I decided to go with unraid after a friend's advice. I'm kind of lost as to what the requirements are for me to run it though. I checked out "the cheapest unraid builds money can buy" and some other links but do I need a motherboard that supports JBOD? This is the mobo I have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138366 I have a tower that will support 12 bays and would like to fill that....over time with all 3 tb. At the moment i have 3x3 tbs and 2x2 and 2x1.5. I'm going to buy 2 or 3 tbs to help transfer data and for parity.
January 3, 201313 yr You don't need such a "luxury" board. You might consider unraid a JBOD system and if there is a RAID controller on board it would be nice that the SATA ports on that controller can work separarely, because the RAID function won't work in unraid. You jneed ust a basic board with 6 or 8 SATA ports (SATA300 will do just fine) and a couple of PCI-E slots. A PCI-E 16x or 8x would be nice for an additional harddisk controller. Many lower specced Biostar or Asrock boards have been used by other unraid server builders. Pleas have a look in the hardware sections. The motherboard you mention looks ok, but has the Realtel 8111F chip, don't know if it is supported. It has 8 SATA ports, but don't know if they all work "out of the box", there might be an additional chip onboard, couldn't find details about it.
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