June 19, 201313 yr Anyone see any issues with the following components? Looking to build a modest system (with the view to expanding capacity in the future). Will run a 3TB parity, with the array comprised of my existing external drives liberated of their cases (3x), plus an additional 3TB drive. Once the array is up, plan is to move data from existing drives to the new 3TB, then swap out the smaller drives as space requirements dictate. That said, here's the plan: CPU: AMD A4-5300 dual core APU black edition MB: ASRock FM2A85x-Extreme4 PSU: Antec Neo 450c Eco 450w 80Plus BRONZE Case: Antec X1-E (because it has pretty red lights). I have a few sticks of ram floating around at home, 4GB should be ok? Will be streaming via Plex on my PC, and likely running a torrent client, sickbeard, couchpotato and so on. Any major issues with this plan? Any feedback greatly appreciated! cheers Nathan
June 19, 201313 yr Looks to me like it should be good to go with your selections. As far as your RAM, as long as you are not going to use LOTS of plug-ins, you should do well with 4GB. All of my unRAID machines, (but one of them), are on 1GB or LESS! I have never had any memory issues on them. The only add-ons I use are the monthly parity check script, and unMENU. I think that your listed selection of add-ons will be fine with 4GB of RAM, but I do not run transcoding software, I have tried it and just was never really happy with the results... so I do video compression before I place my files on my unRAID arrays, or store uncompressed image files. If you plan to do LOTS of transcoding of LARGE video files, you may want to add more RAM later. Either way 4GB should be plenty to get things running, to see if you might have a use for more RAM or not. Another item may be that if you are running LOTS of active torrents, you may want some more RAM for that also. If it is just a few (less than about 50...) it should not be a concern there either.
June 19, 201313 yr Author Thanks - figured I can drop in the ram I already have, then upgrade if/when required. Can't remember if they are 1GB or 2GB sticks, but there's 4 of 'em, so could potentially run 8GB, as the MB has the capacity for 4
June 19, 201313 yr Looking to build a modest system (with the view to expanding capacity in the future). How far do you think you will expand it (in number of hard drives, not capacity)? I don't see any problems, looks good to me. Obviously going beyond 8 drives will require an add-in card, but you're good for now. That power supply can probably handle 12 to 15 drives without any issues. 4GB RAM is plenty for stock unRAID, but with 64-bit hopefully around the corner, and with some of the plug-in's you will be running, you might want little more. I really don't know, since I don't run those plug-ins. Hopefully some of the gents who run those plug-ins can chime in.
June 19, 201313 yr Author At present, I've got only around 4TB of data across my externals - figured if I've got the capacity to run 7x3TB + parity, it's going to take a decent while before I fill out the extra 17TB. Figured the MB gives scope for expansion down the track
June 19, 201313 yr If I were you I'd go for the Celeron G1620 and something like the ASRock B75M R2.0. That's going to run cooler, be more energy efficient and is about 33% better performing than the AMD chip you listed. All for about $20 less than the CPU/motherboard you listed. I just don't see any upside of going with the AMD equipment.
June 20, 201313 yr Author Thanks - have decided to go Celeron g1610 (half the price of the 20, and largely the same, I believe?), with the ASRock B75M Pro3-M. You're right about price, will be considerably cheaper, plus brings the perf. benefits.
June 20, 201313 yr Thanks - have decided to go Celeron g1610 (half the price of the 20, and largely the same, I believe?), with the ASRock B75M Pro3-M. You're right about price, will be considerably cheaper, plus brings the perf. benefits. Strange, here in the US the price difference of the G1610 vs. the G1620 is only $10. $50 vs. $60. I'm guessing you must live outside the US. In any case, the G1610 is fine too, the only difference is it's 100MHz slower which obviously is not much. Anyway, good luck and keep us updated once you've got it all assembled and running.
June 20, 201313 yr FWIW, I run all the plugins you are looking to run, plus APCUPSD plugin, on 8GB of RAM and everything runs great. No issues whatsoever. As to whether 4GB would be enough I can't say for sure.
June 20, 201313 yr Author Strange, here in the US the price difference of the G1610 vs. the G1620 is only $10. $50 vs. $60. I'm guessing you must live outside the US. In any case, the G1610 is fine too, the only difference is it's 100MHz slower which obviously is not much. Anyway, good luck and keep us updated once you've got it all assembled and running. Yeah, I'm in Australia. Can get the G1610 for AUD$49 locally, or order the G1620 from OS for around AUD$100. The extra 100MHz are not worth $50, IMO. Rather put that towards a couple of WD reds...
June 20, 201313 yr Yeah, I'm in Australia. Can get the G1610 for AUD$49 locally, or order the G1620 from OS for around AUD$100. The extra 100MHz are not worth $50, IMO. Rather put that towards a couple of WD reds... If I was in your boat I'd definitely do the same thing.
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