My unRAID'd Home Theater PC

[Cwis3man]

I think I crammed about as much stuff into this box as I possibly could at this point.

 

Case: Fractal Design Node 605

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

CPU: i7-4790 w/ Corsair H50 Water Cooler

RAM: 16GB Hyper Fury X DDR3 1866

Graphics Card: Evga Nvidia GTX 750 Ti (Shorter Version)

Power Supply: Corsair CS450M

Cache: 2x Samsung 840 Evo SSDs + 2x Samsung XP941 M.2 SSDs on Lycom DT-129 PCIE Adapters

Parity: 4TB WD Green HD

Data: 2x 2TB WD Green HD + 1TB WD Green HD

Blu Ray Combo Drive

IR Receiver

Fan Controller

A Ton of Fans - I even hung one from the HDD support bar to keep the 3.5" Drives a little cooler (Dropped them about 4-5 Degrees)

 

Dockers: Plex Media Server, Deluge-VPN (With PIA VPN), Mylar, Sonarr, & Couchpotato

Huge Thanks to Bin-Hex and Jonp for all the help along the way

 

It was a challenge fitting everything in this case and keeping it neat.

 

 

 

I had to mod the case a little bit to accommodate the radiator for the water-cooler and the eye for the IR receiver (located above the power button).

 

 

I also had to get one of these PCI Bracket adapters to fit the two 2.5" SSD in the empty space between the power supply and the motherboard.

 

"'>KINGWIN KW-PCI2H25 2 Bay PCI-E HDD Frame For 2.5" IDE/SATA HDD/SSD

 

And finally I picked up one of these for the blu ray drive since I was out of sata ports on the motherboard. Luckily the IR reciever only uses half of a USB 2.0 header so I was able to use the other half for this guy.

 

Internal USB 2.0 to Slim CD/DVD Optical SATA Adapter w/ SP4 Power

 

So in total I crammed 4x HDDs, 4x SSDs, and a Blu Ray Drive into a nice HTPC case.

 

I'm pretty happy with the results and plan on replacing the HDDs with WD Reds over time. Wondering if it would be worth getting a Red Pro for the Parity Drive.

 

Anyhow Let me know what you think!

[CHBMB]

Looks nice, you know there is no turning back now.......

 

It's a slippery slope... 

[00b5]

Do you have a VM running as well?

[Cwis3man]

Do you have a VM running as well?

 

Yup! I converted my living room PC for Media/Steam inhome streaming into an unRAID NAS that now downloads everything and still does it's old functions! So glad I switched to unRAID

[Blastermaster]

Wow! This is exactly the kind of build I wanted to make! Thank you for providing the parts list!

 

I looked through the supported CPUs of the motherboard and saw that it does support Xeon E3-1230 v3. Should also support gpu pass through. I'll give this build a go as well!