CORAID SRX4200-S2 SUPERMICRO 36B 4U STORAGE 1x XEON QC X5550 2.66GHz 6GB

[twiztedtech]

Hey every one -

 

new to the form and i i'm new to unraid also. i was wondering if anyone had any thought on this build i'm thinking of useing ...

 

CORAID SRX4200-S2 SUPERMICRO 36B 4U STORAGE 1x XEON QC X5550 2.66GHz 6GB

 

1 x supermicro X8DTH-iF

5 x aoc-sas2lp-mv8

8 x 4gb  24gb Memory ( i can alway put in more mem)

4 x WD 1Tb enterprise storage drives

 

 

any help with this would be greatly appreciated ... thanks

[METDeath]

I wouldn't bother with a build with 1 TB drives, the prices on 2-4TB drives are pretty reasonable these days, plus going with enterprise grade drives is probably a bit of a waste for unRAID.

[twiztedtech]

I had the drives already so thought it would be a good use for them as opposed to just selling them.

 

but i guess my main question is will a system like this do well with unraid?

[tdallen]

Well that's an enterprise SAN chassis that I assume you're looking to pick up on eBay, and is being decommed as EOL by some large data center.  5 x aoc-sas2lp-mv8 is probably overkill (well, so's a 36 bay case).  unRAID 6.1 only support 25 assignable devices and unRAID 6.2 bumps that up to 30 array devices (data and parity) plus 24 cache devices.  So you'd need to be planning on all a whole lot of array devices plus a bunch of SSDs (cache or unassigned) to justify 5 SAS2LP and 36 bays.  But if you need to put up a 100+TB array then this is one way to do it...

 

The CPU has the horsepower of a current Core i3.  I suspect that setup will be hot, noisy, and not very power efficient.  Do you have a rack?  You'll need one, you don't want to sit that on a desk.  Personally I think most home users are better off buying more modern, efficient hardware and achieving a large array with larger drives but this could be an interesting project if you're a serious hardware guy.