March 18, 201412 yr 2.5 years ago, I built my first unraid server (pictured below). A Dell Vostro 200 (Dual Core Pentium 1.6Ghz, 4GB RAM, 4 sata ports) with two PCI SATA-I cards (4 ports each, 8 in total). Started with just 6 drives, now I’ve physically maxed out the case and ports to 12 drives. Hard Drives: 1x 500 1x 1TB 2x 1.5 2x 2TB 6x 3TB Parity checks are becoming a worry, they now take 2-3 days to complete. So I purchased a m1505 in an attempt to move off the PCI bus completely. I flashed the m1505 to IT mode in a separate computer, but it fails to work in the Vostro’s PCIe 1.0 x16 slot. I’ve tried various attempts, the Vostro will post and detect the drives, but it will never boot. So I’m back on the PCI cards. While this Vostro server has treated me very well, it’s got just enough cpu and ram to handle running unraid and the plugins I run. However I worry it’s reaching the end of it’s life simply because the parity checks are taking longer and longer as I swap out the smaller drives for larger. What are your thoughts? Anything else I should consider before resigning to upgrade?
March 18, 201412 yr The Vostro is a low-end box. I bet Dell limits what you can put in that PCI-e slot to a video card.
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