January 29, 200917 yr I found a very interesting barebones machine for around $540 - will this work with unraid? http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16816110027
January 29, 200917 yr Perhaps I'm just not seeing it, but I think you still need to add a CPU and memory to that "barebones" system.
January 30, 200917 yr I think you're right Joe - appears to be psu/case/motherboard only. vskatusa - it will probably work as it has IC7R. The nic is Broadcomm BCM5721 and Broadcomm BCM5751 is listed on the unRaid compatibility (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility). but... that is a chunk of dough for motherboard, psu (that will need to be upgraded once you hit around a dozen hard drives) and a case that can hold maybe 8 drives. Its a server motherboard that doesn't have PCI-X and only 4 sata onboard ports, and is listed as for Zeon cpu's, which are not "ideal" for unRaid use. So yea, it would probably work, but wouldn't be my first recommendation.
January 30, 200917 yr I would not recommend that barebones machine. I think it's over priced. you still need memory and a "XEON" LGA775 processor. They are not always drop in compatible. If you decide to upgrade to something else later on, you will not be able to re-use the processor unless you get another LGA 775 XEON based motherboard.
January 30, 200917 yr Ya, it seems overpriced to me too. You can buy all the components required to build a very capable server for that price. Read these threads for some ideas http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2917.0 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2902.0 Hopefully, you can follow through the hardware discussed and get some good ideas on how you'd like to put the server together. Let us know if you have more questions. Peter
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