Hey All,

 

Long time unraid pro user and I have a build from 2007 (see here) that still works for me (my use is basic NAS).

 

I have an old Asus P5BVM-DO mobo, 8GB ram and have 10 disks using some athena power backplanes (supports sata II).  I'm pretty sure my mobo does not support HDDs above 2TB so I am looking to upgrade mobo/cpu/ram since I need more space.

 

My usage is still pretty much basic and don't really have use for dockers/vm/et.  I want to setup dual parity though.

 

Looking for a matx/uatx mobo.  Looking to spend max of $300-$350 (lower is better ).

 

Thanks

Just curious, why do you want to setup dual parity?

Well, with more data and bigger disks, I want to be able to tolerate 2 disk failures instead of just one....less stress?  Not an immediate need either.

Personally, until a server gets to beyond 10-15 drives, I wouldn't waste a second drive on parity, however this is of course a personal choice. There is some math in there somewhere too, lol, because the more drives you add, the higher the probability two may fail at the same time or within hours/days of each other. You also have to consider how large your parity drives are and how long they take to rebuild. On my monster server with dual 8TB drives it takes a little over 24hrs to rebuild parity.