May 15, 201511 yr I saw icy doc's new 8 2.5" 7mm drives in 1 5.25 bay and thought "This may make a good unraid system!" I spent all day searching around and came up with this list of hardware: part cost quantity total icy dock 8 bay 120 2 240 Western Digital Blue Slim 1tb 68 16 1088 Thermaltake Urban SD1 95 1 95 Motherboard 100 1 100 i5 quad core 184 1 184 8GB RAM 55 1 55 Power Supply 60 1 60 256 SSD 0 3 0 USB Drive 0 1 0 IBM M1015+Cables 0 2 0 4TB Parity Disk 0 1 0 TOTAL 1822 The case is the sticking part as I want this system to be SMALL and relatively quiet with a low profile. I have 3 SSd drives that I plan on using as my CACHE drive as well as the 2 IBM M1015 to run all the disks off of. The motherboards min spec guarantee that I will have 2 PCI Express x16 slots to use, there's 3 or 4 I could choose from so I put in a price there. The crowing achievement are those 1TB blue disks which I'm well aware are 5400RPM disks but they will only be used when I blow through the cache drive which will be next to never. The parity drive is a reuse from another UnRAID server and since this server has room for more 3.5" drives I can slap them in there as I won't be using any of system for a mega video card. Net Gain: 14ish TB of space in a small case. Thoughts?
May 22, 201511 yr Author The price point for the 8 bays and requiring 7mm drives was not good enough for me to keep using them vs. the 6bays. The 6bay drives will let me put in 2TB disks which give me a net gain of 3.xTB's per array. Also give me more wiggle room when I start replacing disks with SSD's Sadly the 6bay does not give me the status lights that the 8bay does but it does give me a fan controller on the back of the device so I don't have to hear those mini-hurricanes going.
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