January 3, 201610 yr Hi everyone, greeting from Hong Kong! I have been reading threads on the forum for months. Since my synology NAS is dying, I decided to build my first Unraid in two months. I hope this system can last maybe 6-7 years. MB: Supermicro X11SAE-F 8 SATA ports, 2 PCI-E 3.0 x 8, IPMI, ECC UDIMM support CPU: Intel Pentium G4400 / G4500 / i3-6100 / E3-1225 v5 All of them support VT-D, ECC ram and Graphic I am short on budget so pentium CPUs are also in my consideration. RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM CT7983879 Crucial website said it is capable with the motherboard, that's it. Case: Norco 4224 Got it from a friend for free, but the connectors are different from what I see on the forum... Expansion Card: IBM M1015 + Intel RAID SAS Expander RES2SV240 Got them from a friend for free Power Supply: Silverstone ST65F-PT Big fan of silverstone, love modular PSUs HDD: mostly WD Red Have been using WED Red on Sinology NAS for years. Never let me down. Usage: Storage: 35TB data for now, keep growing Plex: not more then three streams using plex at the same time Backup: keep one more backup of my synology (using rsync, maybe) Download Station: mainly bt VM: maybe Questions: 1) Does this build look OK? This is my second time to build a computer 2) Is skylake supported? I don't want to waste money on hardwares that would not work on Unraid. 3) Of course E3 will give much a better performance, but is it worth spending 150 US dollars on it? I am not a heavy user (I think). 4) Should I go with two M1015 instead of one M1015 + Expander? Which one is better? 5) Is 650W enough for this build? 6) The backplane is not SAS but 4 SATA ports. Is it normal? Thank you for your help in advance!
January 11, 201610 yr I have the X11SAE-M (micro ATX) its working great with an i3 skylake 6100T it transcodes 30megabit/sec + blurays great, cant test muliple plex streams as my panasonic smart apps are the worst i have every seen no youtube no plex its a GT30 not exactly cheap when i got it. Iam not planning on transcoding all my media, i will be using a Raspberry Pi2 for that to the television. its a workstation orientated board with DP1.2 - HDMI1.4 - HD Audio not all supermicro boards are that feature rich. i like seasonic PSU i have a platinum in my desktop so i can use the extra SATA cables from that as i dont use them all in desktop. The 450w doesnt have alot of SATA power cable TBH (6 i think) EDIT: Panasonic can access DLNA features fine so i tested two streams, the i3 6100t handles two simultaneous 1080p high bitrate streams no problem. one from plex one from serviio dockers
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