April 3, 201313 yr I've been lurking for about a month now and soaking up a ton of info and after going back and forth with a few different options. Unraid, Freenas and so on and picked Unraid mostly for this forum. The people feel so helpful and the overall community is very vocal and that played such a huge part in it. My searching began with my Windows home server taking ill. It started with the file conflicts and shadow file errors ended me not wanting to risk any data loss and shutting it down. I don't have many bad things to say about Windows server, its been running for 5 years and restored more then one PC on my network and saved my data more then once, but I also know its a down hill struggle from here with it and didn't want to risk loss. So I shut it down and moved to data to a few usb drives that I had here and started reading. After a lot of bouncing around I ended up ordering the following. CPU: AMD A4-5300 Trinity 3.4GHz Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X-ITX FM2 AMD A85X RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 Case: LIAN LI PC-Q25B PSU: PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 400W Modular Power Supply features 100% Japanese 105°C rated Capacitors Parity Drive: Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB Data Drive: Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB Data Drive: Western Digital Green WD10EADS 1TB (Old Drive) Data Drive: Western Digital Green WD7500AACS 750GB (Old Drive) Data Drive: Western Digital Caviar WD7500AAKS 750GB (Old Drive) From what I've read this should be a solid start. I'll be swapping the old drives out as needed for space or as they die. Mainly this will be used as a place to hold my RAW files and a backup for my Windows PCs. I still need to do some reading on the Windows backup part, but I'm sure I'll find what I need on these forums. I'm really green when it comes to the add-ons like couch potato and so on so I'll be starting with nothing but Unraid and as I learn more I might add some things on. One thing for sure I would like to do is set up an Unraid server at a off site location and sync that one to my one here for all the reasons that one would do it. Things will be showing up tomorrow and I hope to have it up and running by the weekend. So there it is. Thanks for all your input and support on these forums, guys. It makes a huge difference in what software people pick. Rob
April 5, 201313 yr Nice build but why go for WD Reds? Why not? Its what they are designed for. Also good balance of price and warranty. Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2
April 5, 201313 yr I thought the power consumption was high Nope, it's actually very low http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/red-wd20efrx-wd30efrx-nas,3248-8.html and performance per watt is one of the best. green drives are low too. could be lower than red, but the performance is not worth it. i recently moved my green drives out of the array, and my parity check and build performance went up pretty high
April 5, 201313 yr actually, power consumption is lower than green drives See these pdf docs for detail: http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771438.pdf http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771442.pdf but here is the power management part of it: WD30EZRX (Green 3TB) Read/Write: 6W Idle: 5.5W Standby/Sleep 0.8W WD30EFRX (Red 3TB) Read/Write: 4.4W Idle: 4.1W Standby/Sleep 0.6W I am slowly changing all my drives to Red drives..
April 6, 201313 yr Looks to be a solid build and you've done your homework. Good luck and welcome to the forums.
April 17, 201313 yr If the extra $60 wasn't an issue, would it be wise or overkill to go with the PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 750W 80 Plus Gold?
April 18, 201313 yr If the extra $60 wasn't an issue, would it be wise or overkill to go with the PC Power and Cooling Silencer Mk III Series 750W 80 Plus Gold? Overkill. You won't be able to put enough drives in that case to need that much power. If you want to spend some more on a PSU, go for the one I put in my Q25 case, Silverstone ST45SF-G. The SFX form factor is smaller in every dimension so gives you more empty space in the case. More room to work in and maybe even better airflow.
May 31, 201313 yr Author Everything went quite well with the install. I learned a lot that's for sure. It's been running for some time now with not one hiccup. Thanks to everyone here for all the input and information.
May 31, 201313 yr Nice build ... my favorite case for systems with up to 7 drives -- and now that v5 will support 7 drives in the Plus version, it's a "perfect" Plus case. A couple comments ... r.e. power consumption of drives => As noted above, the WD Reds are about the best you can get in terms of performance/watt. They use very little power; run very cool; and have superb performance. My PC-Q25B build has 6 of them, and my total power consumption during a parity check is ~ 45 watts !! r.e. power supply ==> In addition to the "minor detail" that a higher capacity PSU almost certainly would NOT fit in the case (as anyone who's built one knows, ATX supplies are a VERY tight fit ... I very much doubt a 750w unit would even fit ... a much more relevant consideration is that it would be a very BAD idea to use one !! High-efficiency 80+ PSUs are only highly efficient when they're supplying between 20% and 100% of their rated load; at loads below 20% the efficiency drops off rapidly. Most systems built in a Q25B are going to be pretty efficient power-wise => mine draws 20w on idle, 45w maximum ... so it's ALWAYS drawing below 20% of the PSU's capacity (300W) ... thus my 80+ unit is probably no more than 65-70% efficient at those loads. This is, of course, true for ALL UnRAID builds -- you should consider the operating loads when selecting a PSU ... although you also have to be sure you have ample current for the drive spinup surge. But just to re-iterate, it's a nice looking build. It will only get better and more efficient as you replace your older drives with WD Reds
June 22, 201313 yr Hello all New to the forums and to Unraid. My setup is exactly as yours Hella just different case, i went with the Fractal node 304 and the PSU, i went with the Seasonic 360GP. I am pre-clearing my disks as i am typing this. Quick question, can you see your cpu temperature if you do sensors? all i get is a k10temp-pci-00c3 Adapter: PCI adapter temp1: +12.4 C (high = +70.0 C, crit = +70.0 C) I tried looking for a plugin but i think it might be related to sensor support maybe?
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