What is your budget: $1000 on parts lower is always better

Usage: File storage, all movies are .mkv format (10GB-45GB), trancoding up to 3 devices.

How many drives: up to 10

Addons: Plex media server, SABnzbd / CouchPotato / SickBeard

 

Parts on hand:

-Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS

-Spare 2 and 4 gig thumb drives

-5 drives from various vendors 3-3TB, 2-2TB drives

 

Parts needed:

2-Norco SS-500 5 bay

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133030

RAM:

G.Skill Ripjaws X series DDR3 PC3 12800 4x4GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429

MOBO:

Intel BOXDQ77MK

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121623

CPU:

I3-2100

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078

Power supply:

OCZ ZT Series 550w Fully modular 80PLUS bronze

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341050

Hard drives:

I will pick up 2 more when i find a good deal.

Raid controller card when needed:

Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8

 

Network:

All will be local hardwired connection through a gigabit switch

 

Questions:

-I couldn't find the raid controller type on the MB anyone know what i selected will work?

-Is the MB, Processor, and RAM sufficient enough to transcode 1080p material up to 3 devices?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is your budget: $1000 on parts lower is always better

Usage: File storage, all movies are .mkv format (10GB-45GB), trancoding up to 3 devices.

How many drives: up to 10

Addons: Plex media server, SABnzbd / CouchPotato / SickBeard

 

Parts on hand:

-Thermaltake Armor Series VA8003BWS

-Spare 2 and 4 gig thumb drives

-5 drives from various vendors 3-3TB, 2-2TB drives

 

Parts needed:

2-Norco SS-500 5 bay

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816133030

RAM:

G.Skill Ripjaws X series DDR3 PC3 12800 4x4GB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231429

MOBO:

Intel BOXDQ77MK

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121623

CPU:

I3-2100

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115078

Power supply:

OCZ ZT Series 550w Fully modular 80PLUS bronze

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817341050

Hard drives:

I will pick up 2 more when i find a good deal.

Raid controller card when needed:

Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8

 

Network:

All will be local hardwired connection through a gigabit switch

 

Questions:

-I couldn't find the raid controller type on the MB anyone know what i selected will work?

-Is the MB, Processor, and RAM sufficient enough to transcode 1080p material up to 3 devices?

 

I have never used Plex but have a lot of history with PS3 Media Server, Tversity and Mezzmo.  Transcoding is almost exclusively the domain of the CPU and unfortunately I would not consider your I3 to be adequate for 1080p transcoding.  It may be able to keep up with 720p real time.  I have an AMD Phenom II x 4 955 that will not do it even overclocked.  I would consider a 2500k to be the bare minimum for 1080p real time transcoding.

Use this CPU. The one you posted is the last generation architecture. $10 dollars more but it's worth it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116775

 

RAM is fine but 16GB is overkill for this. 8GB is more than adequate. It's up to you though.

 

Motherboard is fine.

 

PSU is fine.

 

Transcoding three 1080p streams at once is probably pushing it. I can't say it won't work but I wouldn't be surprised if it can't keep up. For one, probably two streams, it will work fine. I transcode uncompressed 1080p blurays on the fly all the time with my Core i3-2120 with no problems at all.

Thank you for the input.

RAM is fine but 16GB is overkill for this. 8GB is more than adequate. It's up to you though.

 

 

Agree with this.  However, get two sticks of 4GB each.  That way you can easily upgrade down the road if the 64 bit version of unRAID would benefit from it.