June 4, 201412 yr Heya guys got a copy of unraid pro which i bought from an ocau user and have a copy of the invoice + usb key with license for guid. He has moved onto a hardware based raid and snapped this up for $40 woot. I have only ever used mirrored and this is my first use of unraid. The hardware i have gathered for this build goes as follows: ASUS P5B-E e6420 2.13ghz c2d 2x 1gb kingstone vaule Matrox g450 pci for vid ~10watts max Adaptec 1430sa sata raid, 4 ports, pcie x4 CM 430 elite case OCZ 520 watt psu oldschool Will be starting with 3x3tb wd greens 2 old and 1 new for pairty along with a mix of 3 2tb/1tb drives The mb uses the ich8r and has 6x sata II ports along with another contoller thats has 1x int sata II and 1x external esata. Along with the 1430sa i should be safe port wise. From my research the hardware seems fine for unraid and iv'e done my best to keep it on the cheap both int ital cost and running. Fingers crossed hope if there any issues you guys will give me a yell
June 4, 201412 yr Good luck! Pay particular attention to the drive cabling. Locking SATA cables are recommended due to the relative ease of having one get jiggles loose. Even a tiny twist of a cable is enough to make it red ball and appear to be a failed disk! I recommend a case of backplanes (5in3s) to make swapping disks easy. You really don't want to be opening up the box and disturbing the cabling after a drive has failed and you want to rebuild it! Consider this for an upgrade.
June 5, 201412 yr Author Cheers bjp999 on the tip, i was looking into the drives cages prior to getting unraid though due to my budget being so tight atm i can not afford to grab 2 cages for hotswap. I have a CM stacker 830 which i will move it into at a later date once i get past 7 drives or so and pack it with 4 cages 9 bay 5"1/4, atm though its housing my gaming rig. Will grab some clip-in sata cables though and thanks for the advice
June 5, 201412 yr Author Got her up and going well its in preclear atm with 4 hdd's being done, using putty with screen. Yer i'am proud as i'am a noob with nix and the last time i was running a distro was 8yrs ago rofl, even though its basic telnet stuff i didnt screw it up and got the email notifications working sweet. Found the other psu didn't have enough sata cables though and stuck my seasonic 650watt in.
June 6, 201412 yr Author Looking at adding a ssd today guys for a cache drive once preclear gets done, should i once over preclear it as well? Its a used drive btw. Already find myself looking at a wd black for the pairty drive and a drive cage asap once the Adaptec 1430sa rocks up next week. I'am just doing a single preclear run on each drive as there all preloved by myself. Once tax time (another month) gets here ill grab a 3tb wd black or along with another green 3tb for a warm spare and shop up on used hdds to fill up the other 4 spares off the Adaptec 1430sa.
June 7, 201412 yr Author All 4 hdds have came back clear with no errors, well from the screens anyhow. Decided to put the p7p55d and i750 into action due to being stuck with only 2gb of ram on the old p965 mb, reading around the forums i could see myself quickly needing more with apps and maybe even vm's later on down the road. bjp999: Yer would be flogging some life off it lol, the sdd has a bad firmware though and needs updating something with trim from memory.
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