June 13, 201412 yr NWIN IW-PE689 Pedestal Entry Server Chassis×1$64.99 Corsair Builder Series CX600 600W Power Supply×1$74.99 G.SKILL RipjawsX Series 8GB PC3-10666 Dual Channel DDR3 Kit (2 x 4GB)×1$96.99 Intel Core™ i3-4130 Processor, 3.40GHz w/ 3MB Cache×1$149.99 ASUS H97-PLUS w/ DDR3 1600, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, CrossFireX×1$119.99 WD 4TB Red NAS Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache×2$199.99 With IPR and total Sub Total:$985.86 Any suggestions on this? Money not that big of a issue, and I really want to future proof this
June 14, 201412 yr What do you believe your requirements are around virtualization? That will help narrow down whether this is a good build or not.
June 14, 201412 yr NWIN IW-PE689 Pedestal Entry Server Chassis×1$64.99 Corsair Builder Series CX600 600W Power Supply×1$74.99 G.SKILL RipjawsX Series 8GB PC3-10666 Dual Channel DDR3 Kit (2 x 4GB)×1$96.99 Intel Core™ i3-4130 Processor, 3.40GHz w/ 3MB Cache×1$149.99 ASUS H97-PLUS w/ DDR3 1600, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, CrossFireX×1$119.99 WD 4TB Red NAS Hard Drive, SATA III w/ 64MB Cache×2$199.99 With IPR and total Sub Total:$985.86 Any suggestions on this? Money not that big of a issue, and I really want to future proof this If you only use it to run vanilla unraid you will be fine if the motherboard works with unraid, most of the time they do but it would be a good idea to google your motherboard for possible issues with unraid.. I also notice you only state 1 harddisk.. Is that intentional ? For unraid to work in the best way you would 2 disks (one for parity, one for data) and one cache drive (a 256gb/128gb ssd would be fine). You can do without the cachedrive but you are missing out on some advantages. Only one drives gives you basically nothing.. no data security, no crash protection.. So I would at least place two.. Make it 2 4TB's..
June 14, 201412 yr Also, the CX series PSUs do not have a good reputation here. Suggest you check out the Power Supply sticky in the Hardware subforum.
June 14, 201412 yr Author my post doesn't list it clearly, it does say 2x for the hard drives lol. I have switched that PSU to: CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-650HX 650W
June 14, 201412 yr Author I am also thinking of going with: Asus Z87-PLUS w/ Dual DDR3 1600, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan, CrossFireX / SLI × 1 $164.99 I have search on here and seen that it may be a better choice. Between the PSU and CPU it's gone up a bit, however not to shabby
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