I just got a deal (I think) from a friend!

 

Antec nine hundred case

Asus p5wd2-e (8 sata 2)

Pentium D 950

8 gig memory

 

30$

I Just bought a Power Supply for 45$

 

My Question that I can't find

 

I Now that cpu is 130W with load but I can't find the idling power consumption?

 

 

Thanks

If power consumption is a concern I would avoid those CPUs, be surprised if you get <100W idling with just board, cpu and a couple of disks.

So after reading and testing partially...

what I want to do with Unraid

I want to remove every second spining HD in my 3 computers and:

 

1- Put users shares on the unraid. EASY one

2- Have a shares to expand the programs Installation/running disk for apps that are not use daily on the 3 computers: Not sure of that one

3- Install plex: In test right now as plugins and have to test as docker no transcoding is required right now

4- Share for media: done

 

so my setup will be

 

asus p5WD2-e premium

Pentium d 950

8 gig ram

 

SATA (8 total)

3x SSD 240GB for cache and user and computers installation space

1x 3TB for parity

2x 3 TB + 2TB disk dor data

2x free sata ports for data expansion

 

I'm open to comments regarding every aspects

Power  is not a concern

I'm open to upgrade my CPU/motherboard after the test is done for more performance/power reduction

 

Thanks

 

Dan

 

 

 

That is a old, slow, power hungry computer.  unRAID may run on it, but it won't run well.  In particular I would expect unRAID 6 parity checks to be overly slow.  You might have better luck with unRAID 5 than unRAID 6 on that older hardware.

 

I would keep the case and sell the DDR2 RAM on eBay.  You've already made a profit at that point.  Dump the motherboard and CPU and get something more modern.  If you could at least put a Quad core CPU on there (see my sig) I might have a different opinion, but I really don't see any upside in that MB/CPU.

With a passmark score of 746, i will agree with the above. At least you have a great case!

Finaly the cpu motherboard was not working.

So now I have an asus  P8H61-M LX PLUS R2.0 with Pentium g630 with 8 gig ram

My initial setup will have

Unraid

1 240Gb ssd cahce disk

3TB parity disk

3TB data disk

2TB data disk

Plex with few transcoding

 

I found some cpu for upgrade

I7 3770  for 220$

I5 3570 for 160$

I5 3470 for 136$

 

what's the pro and cons to upgrade from an pentium G630

Is there performance différence in day to day unraid usage other than plex transcoding?

Idle power?

Load Power! I can figure that one

VM?

Docker?

Others?

 

Thanks