[Advise Needed] Budget Skylake Build

[windlok1010]

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!

[Datastore]

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