De1taE1even Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 If you're interested, here's my original build thread: ClickityClick Two very fortunate deals landed in my lap lately, both having to do with my unRaid machine. 1. A coworker sold me his Synology DS1511+, loaded up with 5 HGST 2TB drives. He practically gave it to me, and I was more than happy to oblige. I took out the 2TB drives, loaded it with 5TB Toshiba drives. I took 4 of the 5 2TB drives and added them to my unRaid Tower. I'm using the Synology mostly for backup purposes. So now I have a 24TB unRaid system with a 20TB Synology for backup. Overkill? Probably, but that's half the fun for a nerd like me. 2. I've been interested in running a virtual machine for a while now, but knew I couldn't, due to my Core i3's lack of VT-d support. Well, I happened to be perusing the BYOPC section at Microcenter yesterday, and saw a deal on a XEON that I just couldn't pass up. 1 day later, I'm up and running with virtualization-ready hardware. I threw in more RAM as well since they had a 16GB kit on sale for cheap. Thanks to @garycase for the suggestion on that CaseLabs fan-base chassis for the 4 new drives. With the new drives, I also had to pick up another SATA card. I'll probably need to consolidate those two cards into 1 to free up a pci-e slot for a video card if/when I get into virtualization more, but for now, it was cheap and easy to get going with that little 4-port SYBA card. One more note before the pictures: I can't say enough about the airflow of my Fractal R4 case. I have 13 2TB drives spinning, 4 of which are getting beaten with a preclear, 4 sticks of RAM, a XEON processor, and my warmest drive is sitting at 39*C. Pretty impressive, given the circumstances. Quote Link to comment
De1taE1even Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Yay, upgrades! Indeed! I'm always just a little sad once it's up and running, only because building is half the fun. Quote Link to comment
saarg Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Yay, upgrades! Indeed! I'm always just a little sad once it's up and running, only because building is half the fun. +99,9! I would say its all the fun It gets boring once it's working correctly Quote Link to comment
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