Hey guys, long time lurker and pretty much sold on moving to a unRaid solution.

 

My current n36l is at the end of its life and have some other parts kicking about so thinking I can make something very decent:

 

Case: Fractal R4 (Owned)

Csae Fans: 2x 140mm, 2x 120mm Noctua

CPU: AMD FX-8350 (Owned)

CPU Cooler: Stock was thinking maybe a Noctua NH-US12S (£40)

Mobo: Sabertooth 990 2.0 (Owned)

Ram: 1x8GB DDR3 (Owned) to be replaced by 16Gb (2x8) Kit (£60)

GPU: nVidia 510 (Owned)

PSU: 500W EVGA - Good reviews and more SATA connections than the equiv Corsair (£35)

HDD1 (Cache) 128GB SSD (Owned)

HDD2 (Parity) 8TB Seagate Archive v2 (£180)

HDD3-6: 4x 2TB Samsung F3 (Owned)

OS: unRaid 6 (£40)

 

So by reusing what I have kicking about and pulling stuff out of the n36l I can build that initial box for around £350 and then start adding / replacing the 2TB drives with 8TB drives as and when I need more space. Does anyone have anything they would change or any other input?

 

Also I've never run the FX8350 24/7, anyone know what sort of power draw I'd be looking at? It's going to be a bit of a step up from the n36l running cost wise but I have no idea how much... Running a VM testlab but not all the time, downloading stuff and PLEX.

Have you considered buying just 1X8GB Ram stick and using your present RAM stick.  If course, you should match the purchase specs to the old one so that there isn't any compatibility issue. 

 

Most of the experts recommend never overclocking a server for stability reasons so there is no real technical reason to dump the stock cooler unless the thing is too noisy.

Not sure how much I trust the 8GB stick I currently have, no idea how old it is as I found it at the bottom of a pile of scraped servers but I might just buy a 2x8GB set (it's only £20 more than just getting a single) and leave the old 8GB in there for 24GB and pull it if it have issues.

 

As for the cooler, yeah its 100% a noise thing. The box will be in my bedroom so need is as quiet as possible.