January 9, 201511 yr Hello everyone, A little background: I run Kodi (XBMC) on 3+ devices in my house, and have been running the media off of 2 hard drives connected to my current router. However, the speed leaves something to be desired, and I'm getting close to filling up the 6TB that is in there. I have no fault tolerance, and am well aware that I'm one clicking drive away from losing all the media on those drives. I looked through the Synology and QNAP options, and liked the idea of small, easily expandable enclosures with parity, but the price for the 4 and 8 drive boxes just seemed extreme for the hardware contained within. I also wanted something that could run MySQL for my Kodi database. So, I've been lurking in these forums for a few days, but couldn't find anything that matched what I wanted - something that had 6+ hotswappable drive bays in a fairly small enclosure, at a somewhat inexpensive price point, which would be cost effective now, and easy to grow into. The only thing I have is a 120GB SSD that I can use for a cache drive. So, I've come up with the following: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/ybC2ZL Case: Silverstone DS380B - 8 hotswap bays, 4x internal 2.5 bays, small(ish) footprint. CPU/MB: ASRock QC5000-ITX AMD FT3 Kabini A4-5000 Quad-Core Mini ITX - Seems somewhat powerful, can handle 16GB of Ram, has 4 Sata 3 ports. Will it be fast enough to power UnRAID and MySQL? RAM: PNY XLR8 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory - Should be enough to start out with, and leaves room for another. Any problem without interleaving? PS: Silverstone Strider Gold 450W - Fully Modular, guarenteed fit, should be enough to power 8 WD Reds and a SSD, plus the fairly low power MB/CPU PCIE Controller Card: SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 - Probably won't get this right away, as the 4x ports will be enough to start me off with 3x Reds and the cache drive. Cache Drive: 120GB Crucial M4 (Already own) Hard Drives: 3x 3GB WD Reds What do you think? Will this work, or am I way off? Is there a better build to be had for the same money, and about the same footprint? Thanks in advance for the advice.
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