March 15, 201016 yr First of all I have thrown some old hardware for testing purposes, and so far everything seems fine. Motherboard I had GA-8I945P Pro with Pentium® 4 CPU 3.2Ghz (any known issues with that?) Memory 4x1Ghz (had) Sata Controler: Promice SATA II-150 TX4 (had) PSU: CORSAIR CMPSU-750TX 750W ordered GPU: ASUS EAH4350 SILENT/DI/256MD2 LP 256MB PCI-E RETAIL ordered (the cheapest fanless I could find near me) Parity Drive: WESTERN DIGITAL 1TB WD1001FALS ordered HDDrives: for start some 250-500GB that I have laying around. Enclosure: Lian-Li PC-V2100 had (lol they have it under historic models to their site) : http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=137&cl_index=1&sc_index=38&ss_index=95&g=f This case supports 12 HDD's and has another 6 5.25'' 's bays So, have u any suggestions for changing something of the above? Anything that I should take care and such? Thanks in advance.
March 15, 201016 yr Hi. From the specifications, it seems OK, though you wrote 4x 1GB RAM, meaning 4 GB RAM in total? I'd safely say that a typical 1 GB RAM (2 GB RAM will be way heaps) module will do fine. All parts like same fine, but Id have a read on the link below: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility to see if you hardware is listed. Your safe bet (given you have your server is already assembled) is to try the latest version of unraid free, which is able to run no more than three drives, have 3 drives installed and trial it for a few days, to see if your hardware works to your full potential. If you run into problems, remedy this by replacing any hardware which gives you problems. Hope this helps
March 15, 201016 yr Author I have the 4GB ram sitting around so its not biggie to put them on. I have allready put the free version of unraid and it works fine. My only consider is about the motherboard because its not listed at Hardware Compatibility, but it looks that it runs fine at the moment(even headless).
March 16, 201016 yr Hope you have ample SATA interfaces on your board if you plan to have 6+ drives. You can always buy addon SATA Controllers if need be. The general rule of thumb is correct on the last post, if you see a supported chipset on the Hardware Compatibility List, most likely your mobo with the same chipset will run unraid too. Nothing beats running the unraid OS on your actual hardware to really test it out. I have the 4GB ram sitting around so its not biggie to put them on. I have allready put the free version of unraid and it works fine. My only consider is about the motherboard because its not listed at Hardware Compatibility, but it looks that it runs fine at the moment(even headless).
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