March 5, 201313 yr I'm building my first Unraid server. Budget is under $1,000. I've settled on the Rosewill RSV-L4000 case, and 3TB WD Red drives for data and parity. Now I need help with the motherboard/CPU I want low power. I will be serving blu ray rips and music to 3 XBMC clients. I'd like to run the Usenet trinity, subsonic, and mysql for syncing my XBMC libraries. What do you think about 1) Asus C60M1-I 2) Biostar NM70I-847 I'd like up to 8 data drives so each one I'd have to add sata cards. Starting out ill just have one parity and one data.
March 7, 201313 yr ASRock Z77 Extreme4 with a low power Celeron G1610 Has 8 sata ports on the motherboard. Will be a few bucks more but will save you in expansion card. This is a ATX motherboard but it looks like your case will fit E-ATX and below.
March 7, 201313 yr Author I was looking at an Asus... Sorry. I see its about $125, what about that Asrock for $70
March 8, 201313 yr Nothing wrong with the ASUS board but it's not that great if you ever wanted to expand to a larger case for more drives. Not very upgrade friendly. It only has 1 PCI-e slot at 4x. It will work just fine though. The board i mentioned has 2-PCI3.0 8x slots. 2-IBM m1015 cards at 8x (16 drives) and 8 on board. Nice system supporting 24 drives.
March 9, 201313 yr Nothing wrong with the ASUS board but it's not that great if you ever wanted to expand to a larger case for more drives. Not very upgrade friendly. It only has 1 PCI-e slot at 4x. It will work just fine though. The board i mentioned has 2-PCI3.0 8x slots. 2-IBM m1015 cards at 8x (16 drives) and 8 on board. Nice system supporting 24 drives. I don't want to hijack this thread, but, mhaaland, have you used this ASRock Z77 Extreme4 board for an unraid build? It sounds perfect for a 24 disk build I have that may require a new mb. Would love to have confirmation that there are no unexpected problems. Thanks.
March 9, 201313 yr Sorry, I have not pulled the trigger yet. Im still researching. Just going off specs. I was looking for the cheapest board that had 2 -(PCI-e 8x) and 8 onboard sata connections. I have a 24-bay supermicro case with an old Xeon processor and Supermicro board. It pulls 160 watts at idle so i'm in the process of upgrading. Another option is GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD3. PCI-e 2.0 16x and 8x with 8 onboard sata. $90 after rebate at the egg.
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