August 14, 201411 yr Friend of mine is looking to get into unRAID. Looking for a recommendation for a 5bay + budget build. $300-$400 range?
August 14, 201411 yr Personally I'd spend a bit more and get an Intel-based system, but for a very low cost system, this would be hard to beat: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.1801938&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL081414&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL081414-_-EMC-081414-Index-_-Combo-_-Combo1801938-LM3A $229.99 with everything you need except disks and an UnRAID license ... and it even includes one 1TB disk that would be a nice cache drive. The case has 5 internal drive bays, plus 4 external bays that could easily hold 4 more drives as is; or even more with a 4-in-3 or 5-in-3 adapter.
August 14, 201411 yr By the way, if you're in the US, watch for Newegg's "Shell Shocker" deals. They occasionally have some very nice combo buys. For example, this morning (midnight - 10AM Pacific time( they had an Intel Haswell based system with a 3.2GHz Pentium, 8GB of memory, case and power supply, a 64GB SSD, and a 1TB hard drive for $299.99 Those deals are fairly frequent ... probably at least one fairly nice system/week that's in the $300 - $400 price range. You do, of course, have to be "ready to strike", as the deals are only good for a limited number of hours.
August 14, 201411 yr Maybe http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859108164 it goes on sale fairly often, around $250. Nice and compact, just add the hard drives, flash drive with unraid and you are ready to go. 4 data drives and one parity drive fit nicely.
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