March 26, 201313 yr I am about to take the plunge and buy the version of UnRaid that takes the highest amount of drives. My case currently supports 19 drives and I have plenty of drives ranging from 1tb - 2tb I can use to fill it up. My question is on processor and memory requirements. I would rather not use one of my high end processors and mlb for this. I was going to just order something low key from Newegg. Would something like this be sufficient http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116409 Would I pay in the end for not going i3 or higher ? I am trying to keep the cost down because of other things I will need to upgrade my vSphere server so cost are an aspect on getting this project done. Also for the amount of drives I have what is enough ram 4gb, 8gb or 12gb ++ ?
March 26, 201313 yr the G530 will be fine and 4GB of RAM is enough for unRAID. The latter is true for stock unraid, but, then you have to start considering plugins/etc.
March 26, 201313 yr I had G530 for the longest time until I got the esxi machine set up. G530 is enough for all plugin including plex Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
March 26, 201313 yr Agreed depending on plugins what you need will change. In my largest server I run 4gb ram and an Intel Pentium g2020. This is more than enough for my system because I barely have plugins. I only run mysql, apcups, simple features, and drive mount.
March 26, 201313 yr That should be enough. I only run Airvideo to my ipads and iphone, and it can transcode a high bitrate video via wireless to my iOS devices without any issues. I use a AMD dual core. It starts having issues with I try to stream and transcode two or more movies at once.
March 26, 201313 yr Author I will go higher end on the MLB also, just because I want a really good MLB with multiple PCIe x16 slots. Also does anyone have any experience with this card http://www.wiredzone.com/productdesc.aspx?code=10018973&type=0 in UnRaid? I know when I tried the latest flavor of OpenSolaris it did not pick up this controller.
March 26, 201313 yr I will go higher end on the MLB also, just because I want a really good MLB with multiple PCIe x16 slots. Also does anyone have any experience with this card http://www.wiredzone.com/productdesc.aspx?code=10018973&type=0 in UnRaid? I know when I tried the latest flavor of OpenSolaris it did not pick up this controller. A lot of unraid users use that card. They refer it as 'MV8'. I use it myself. It is also listed in the hardware compatibility list in wiki : http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#PCI_SATA_Controllers
March 27, 201313 yr I use the MV8. I've bought two of th thinking I was going to need to, but my current MOBO is limited to only one. I was thinking of either selling it or try to trade it for a Norco SS500.
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