July 8, 200916 yr Hi i need some help from you. I have a unraid server since i think unraid version 2. so a long time ago. it has the orginal mb with 12 500gig ide drives. This server is nearly full and i need a new, bigger one. i just need some help with the mainboard, the cpu and the PSU (the old one has 2 PSU´s... to expensive...) i want a fast system (parity check on my old, ide server is about 18 meg/sec) and it should not use a lot of power (maybe a lv cpu?) i did some research but i could not find a good mb (maybe again for 12 hdd´s) cpu combo. i´ll use the server mainly for video streaming and for my photo database (ca. 200000 photos). thanks in advance
July 9, 200916 yr Hi i need some help from you. I have a unraid server since i think unraid version 2. so a long time ago. it has the orginal mb with 12 500gig ide drives. This server is nearly full and i need a new, bigger one. i just need some help with the mainboard, the cpu and the PSU (the old one has 2 PSU´s... to expensive...) i want a fast system (parity check on my old, ide server is about 18 meg/sec) and it should not use a lot of power (maybe a lv cpu?) i did some research but i could not find a good mb (maybe again for 12 hdd´s) cpu combo. i´ll use the server mainly for video streaming and for my photo database (ca. 200000 photos). thanks in advance Your biggest challenge is that almost all MB today are SATA based. Some do not have any IDE connectors at all. Good news is that 1.5TB and 2TB drives are available, so 5 platters can replace your existing disks. The original MB Tom used does have two SATA connectors, so you could add two 1TB (or greater) SATA drives and gain 1.5TB of space. One would have to be used for parity, the other will be for data, and your existing parity drive re-purposed for data. The old 12 drive limit is not an issue, as the current version of unRAID can handle 16, and the 4.5beta6 is supposed to handle 20 (although I'm not sure it works properly with 20 yet) Your best bet is an SATA MB with 6 or 8 ports built into the MB, and with 2 or three PCI ports so you can use your existing IDE interface cards, at least at first. Most of us in the same situation have ended up making a new SATA based server... Amazing how much has changed in 5 years. Joe L.
July 9, 200916 yr Author Most of us in the same situation have ended up making a new SATA based server... That is what i want do to... i just want to know which MB you could recommend and which CPU+psu (it should not use a lot of power...) I'm not so into this hardware stuff anymore..
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.