Hi community,

 

I've been reading in the forums and am amazed what people do with their unRAID boxes.

My minimum requirements to the setup would be the use of plex (max 2 streams), deluge / rtorrent, rsync, btsync, backup sets to external drives.

I'd be really thankful I could get a few comments on this build:

 

• Asrock Z97 Extreme 6 http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z97%20Extreme6/index.de.asp
  
• Intel i7-4790 @ 3.6 GHz OR Intel i5-4590 @ 3.3 Ghz (Xeon processors seem pretty difficult to get from trustworthy sources here in Shanghai)
  
• Corsair CX500M - 500W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139050&cm_re=CORSAIR_CX_CX500M-_-17-139-050-_-Product
  
• Fractal Design Define R5
  
• Kingston DDR3 1600 8GB (still searching, but ECC RAM seems pretty difficult to get from trustworthy sources here in Shanghai) clarified by HellDiverUK
  
• HDD: For starters I would like to use what I have lying around and slowly shift towards WD Reds (3TB+)
   
  

 

I also have some other questions and would really appreciate comments and / or advice.

 

[*]Would this build be too loud for a living room environment? I understand everyone has a different noise tollerance... but you know. What do you think?

[*]I was reading up on virtualisation in the forums and the Lime website. Is it possible (with this hardware) to virtualize a OS that has direct access to the hardware? E.g. Run a video game on Steam / Windows; access my (usb) dongled security software on Windows; setup a render slave for my rendering software on Linux... You get the idea. Or does this function like it would with VirtualBox etc?

[*]How much processing power does unRAID itself really need?

 

Thanks so much for reading this far. Appreciate any critic & comment.

D.

 

Edit: Would anything be overkill?

UnRAID itself doesn't really need much processing power, it runs perfectly happily on an Atom D2700.

 

I'd look to get a Corsair CS rather than a CX.  The CS is a newer and better PSU.

 

ECC RAM won't work with an i5 or i7, and it also won't work on a Z97.  You need a Celeron, Pentium, i3 or Xeon for ECC support, and it has to be on a C224/C226 chipset board.