May 30, 201313 yr Anyone using or used a Supermicro MBD-X9SCL-O (newegg link) It supports intel 1155 and is labeled to support Xeon E3 or i3, but I would imagine an i5 would work as well, being same socket. I have one of these currently and looking to rebuild one of my unraid servers using it. I also like that it has (2) Intel Gb nics
May 30, 201313 yr Anyone using or used a Supermicro MBD-X9SCL-O (newegg link) It supports intel 1155 and is labeled to support Xeon E3 or i3, but I would imagine an i5 would work as well, being same socket. I have one of these currently and looking to rebuild one of my unraid servers using it. I also like that it has (2) Intel Gb nics I don't have one, but do know folks who are using it with UnRAID. It works very well ... HOWEVER, it will NOT work with i5's or i7's. If you have this board, I'd use a Xeon E3-12xxv2 CPU (the 1230v2 is the "sweet spot" in terms of price/performance these days) Add 2 ECC memory modules (2 x 8GB would give you 16GB) and you're "ready to roll"
May 30, 201313 yr Author Been eyeing this board too: Intel S1200BTLR on newegg but with the remote management upgrade. Not sure why it just isn't IPMI. I thought most new boards were just shipping with IPMI versus "RMM/IRMM" Looking at ~ $150-$170 for 16GB (2x8GB) udimms. Not too bad really.
May 30, 201313 yr If you want a nice C204-based board with IPMI, I'd just buy one of these: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c202_c204/x9scm-iif.cfm Dual UnRAID-compatible NICs; 4 multiple-lane PCIe slots (2 x8, 2 x4); ECC memory support; etc. Pop in a Xeon E3-1230v2 and you've got a great foundation.
June 7, 201313 yr Gary, picked up that board in your last post and 1230v2 and 32gb DDR3. VERY nice setup ... now all you need is a few nice BIG hard drives
June 7, 201313 yr Author I have plenty. I'll move my (4) 4TB constellation drives and (3) 3TB drives out of other unRAID boxes and I have (3) 3TB red brand new and (5) 2TB red brand new. It will go in another azza Helios with 3 super micro 5:3 cages. Yay for build 3. Coincidentally, this is the third build of this one build, haha. But this will be my third unRAID active server. Current one I use most at home is 47TB as I keep stealing hardware from it. Plus I still have a half dozen or so 1015M cards in a box on the shelf. Going to put esxi up first and virtualized unRAID and use some spare 500GB Samsung SSDs for VMs instead of using space from array this time.
June 7, 201313 yr Definitely sounds like a very nice setup ... and all without even needing to buy any more hard drives !! (yet) 8) ... as I'm sure you've noticed, hard drives have a way of "filling themselves up !!"
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