July 11, 201510 yr Hello i currently have the latest version of unraid 5 pro. My current set up is a AMD sempron 140 with motherboard M4785-M a Supermicro sas card and a 2 port sas card and a Corsair HX650W power supply and 4 gigs of ddr2 ram. When i built this i was thinking of low power consumption and energy efficient. But with Unraid 6.0 i want to run some virtual machines such as windows 8 and possibly a mac osx and maybe a little bit of gaming. The main use i get out of this machine is for Plex, Sabnzbd, Headphones, Subsonic, Couchpotato, Sickbeard. I know from my hardware maybe the only thing still worth keeping is my psu i have also bought a norco 4224 for my new set up with all noctua fans. I would like some guidance on which route to go as far as ram, cpu, and mobo, and gpu if needed. My budget is up to say 1200 but rather keep it under 1k. I have 13 HDD's counting my parity and cache drive. I'm not sure if i should go with intel or amd and if to go with a i7 or xeon e3 and as far as amd i dont know what would work thanks in advance and i would be buying a new supermicro card since my current motherboard is maxed out.
July 11, 201510 yr Author Hey man thanks that thread just reassured me of what i was leaning to which was a supermicro or asrock mobo with a xeon e3 1231v3 to up to say a e3 1271 v3 or higher. What would be a good set of ram to go with this? Also i see that it only has 2 ports for pci express which if i got a graphic card and my current 8 port supermicro card that would put me at 22 Drives but i want to take advantage of using the 24 drive case but be able to add a gpu if i wanted to how would i go about this with this motherboard?
July 11, 201510 yr i think you can use an expander that don't need to be installed on PCIe slot(Intel ?) - it need only power from molex. then connect onbord SAS to expander and you have a bunch of HDDs if you need more PCIe slots, you can go with older x9SCM.. i had x9SCM-iif(with 4 PCIe) for two years on production, and it worked great, just switched to older x8 dual CPU board cos i needed more PCIe slots. see my rig.
July 11, 201510 yr Author So far what i have on my newegg cart is a Intel E3-1276V3, Supermicro X10SL7-F , and Crucial 16GB CT2KIT102472BD160B not sure if its overkill. Pretty much similar components to the link you sent me the 1276 is not set in stone since the 1241 and a few other seems pretty evenly matched only difference would be the built in gpu on the Cpu's. With this being said do you think my Corsair HX650W would be good with this setup or similar one? Or should i go ahead and upgrade that too? Thanks for the input.
July 11, 201510 yr With the X10SL7-F, the integrated GPU will be disabled totally, so you're wasting your money buying a Xeon with the GPU.
July 11, 201510 yr Agree, no need for xeon with integrated GPU, since X10SL7-F have one. and for PSU look there: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12219.0
July 12, 201510 yr Your HX650 should be fine. Perhaps when you approach >20 HDD's you might want more power, but even then I'd doubt it. I'd save my money and use that PSU.
July 12, 201510 yr Author Is there any advantages of using the X10SL7-F over the ASRock E3C224 ATX or should i just stick with the supermicro one?
July 12, 201510 yr I'd stay with the SuperMicro. It's a smaller board (micro-ATX vs. ATX) AND has the additional onboard LSI controller, so you get 14 drive support without any add-on controllers.
July 12, 201510 yr Author Is the ram good or should i go for 32GB and what would be recommended in this current build being the Supermicro X10SL7-F, Intel E3 1241V3, SeaSonic X-1050. Oh by the way does anyone know of any newegg coupons?
July 13, 201510 yr The RAM's is fine => 16GB should be plenty, and it's actually better to only install 2 modules instead of 4 (lower bus loading and better signal quality on the address and data buses).
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