Hi,

 

This is my first post so be gentle! My little single purpose htpc which stored and played all media for the home died last weekend I've been looking into unraid for quite some time, wanting to separate my media viewing and storing (And other actions).

 

Any advice on the following build would be greatly appreciated:

Use case: Storage NAS + Docker containers (Plex, Owncloud etc..) and possibly a couple of VM's. I'd be streaming to no more than 1 or 2 devices at once (Plex) everything else would be direct file access.

Budget: Ideally no more than £650 (UK) - I'm already over that a little so any advice would be good.

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  (£144.18 @ Scan.co.uk)

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard  (£67.16 @ Scan.co.uk)

Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  (£69.79 @ Scan.co.uk)

Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  (£79.98 @ Scan.co.uk) - Cache Drive

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£91.56 @ Scan.co.uk) - Parity

Storage: Western Digital Red 3TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive  (£91.56 @ Scan.co.uk) - Storage (I've got 2 x nearly new 2TB drive I'll be adding to this)

Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  (£79.26 @ Scan.co.uk)

Power Supply: Corsair CX 500W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  (£53.10 @ Scan.co.uk)

Total: £676.59

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-17 21:41 BST+0100

 

 

Looks like a good spec list for what you're wanting to do! What sort of VMs?

Looks like a good spec list for what you're wanting to do! What sort of VMs?

 

Thanks! It'll be mostly future proofing. The VM's will most likely just be a couple of Linux and Windows development test boxes for code I'm writing. Hopefully will be using Docker containers for everything else.

You will still need something to replace the htpc client duties.

 

A simple gpu could help with that.