nickelmedia Posted November 22, 2015 Posted November 22, 2015 So I am a complete newbie. I have been looking into unRaid for a while now but have not tried it yet. Originally I was planning on a Synology, but I have this older machine that is probably still relevant, so in an effort to save money and hopefully gain performance over a disk station, I'd like to trick this out for unRaid. Goals: Storage for 30-40k images in Lightroom catalogs Plex Server Automated backup for 2 iMacs and and a PC Here is my current hardware: PCPartPicker part list CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Red 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Asus Radeon HD 6450 1GB Video Card Case: Fractal Design Core 1000 MicroATX Mini Tower Case Power Supply: Thermaltake TR2 430W ATX Power Supply My plan is to add (3) WD Red 4TB drives. My main question is, what else (if anything) do I need to make this thing solid?
HellDiverUK Posted November 22, 2015 Posted November 22, 2015 You don't need the HD5450, as it has a HD3000 built in to the chipset. Basically the same thing, you're just paying to duplicate the GPU. If you're not using the GPU (just using video to set up UnRAID), then might I suggest using the board I'm using (see my signature). The 780 chipset is more modern than the 760G, uses quite a bit less power, and has SATA3. I just use an old PCI ATI RageXL 8MB for my video, which is basically once every 2 or 3 months, if at all. I'd also recommend 2 DIMMs, so you get dual channel working. Running an FX on single channel really gimps performance. I'm really happy with the performance of my FX6300/780 combo, even when using the Realtek NIC I get full line speed of ~120MB/s reads and writes, and it really does a great job running Plex.
nickelmedia Posted November 22, 2015 Author Posted November 22, 2015 You don't need the HD5450, as it has a HD3000 built in to the chipset. Basically the same thing, you're just paying to duplicate the GPU. If you're not using the GPU (just using video to set up UnRAID), then might I suggest using the board I'm using (see my signature). The 780 chipset is more modern than the 760G, uses quite a bit less power, and has SATA3. I just use an old PCI ATI RageXL 8MB for my video, which is basically once every 2 or 3 months, if at all. I'd also recommend 2 DIMMs, so you get dual channel working. Running an FX on single channel really gimps performance. I'm really happy with the performance of my FX6300/780 combo, even when using the Realtek NIC I get full line speed of ~120MB/s reads and writes, and it really does a great job running Plex. So I'll get zero benefit from the video card? I have no other use for it so I'd probably just keep it in there unless it negatively affects the build. Thanks for the recommendation on dual channel, had no idea! I'd really love to stick with this board for now as the thought of gutting this whole machine and rebuilding it is not appealing and I'm lazy. Is it significant speed/power improvements? Thanks!
mr-hexen Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 the videocard would waste electricity and add unnecessary heat in the case.
nickelmedia Posted November 23, 2015 Author Posted November 23, 2015 the videocard would waste electricity and add unnecessary heat in the case. To the trash it goes!
CHBMB Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 the videocard would waste electricity and add unnecessary heat in the case. To the trash it goes! Don't trash it, if you decide to mess about with virtualisation at some point (not sure if your current hardware is compatible, I only really use Intel stuff) then the HD6450 may come in useful... For an example look here, I bought a HD6450 recently for exactly this purpose..
HellDiverUK Posted November 23, 2015 Posted November 23, 2015 So I'll get zero benefit from the video card? I have no other use for it so I'd probably just keep it in there unless it negatively affects the build. Correct, there's zero benefit. Leaving the second video card in is like fitting a second identical engine to your car, then never using the original one. All you're doing is wasting power for no reason. The HD3000 built in to the chip set on the board is basically identical to the HD5450 as far as capability goes.
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