July 3, 20179 yr Hello, together with a friend I'm planning a new unRaid server for multi-purpose. What is your budget?3000 Euro +/- 10% How many drives do you want your server to be able to support and how much capacity do you need?5 HDD Drives (8 TB) 1 Parity 3 Array 1 Unassigned - Total Storage 24 TB + 8 TB (as unassigned for dedicated backup) 1 HDD Drives (8 TB) Spare 2 SSD Drives (~500GB) for Cache total of 500 GB Cache/ SSD Is expandability important to you? If so, what's your long term goal?Definitely. Increase of both Array as well as adding an second parity drive. RAM already increased from 32 to 64 since price difference is minor. Are you interested in running any unRAID Add Ons (see here)? If so, which ones? Be specific.Docker: plex Media Server, tonido, openVPN, nginx proxy+letsencrypt, guacamole, crashPlanVMs: Windows 10 (Video Editing); ZorinO (or some other distro, mostly for management of unRaid server)Plugins: Speedtest, NerdTools, Community Applications, Unassigned Devices, FileBot Do you want to run green/low power drives or faster 7200 rpm drives? If you don't have a specific need for 7200 rpm drives, then choose green drives.Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB, SATA 6Gb/s because of the good price/value. Do you have any spare parts laying around that you would like to apply towards your build? This includes drives.No. 100% New. Also no Pre-Used-Parts and no Ebay-Stuff. Tower mounted. If you already have parts in mind, please oh pretty please post links to them so that we don't have to look them up.Not happy with CPU/ Mainboard, no need for "X" or "Gaming". But P/L and SATA. Still not sure if AMD or Intel Xeon. Very open for suggestions. No GPU jet included. PSU might be to small. 10G big plus not yet decided. 1 LC-Power LC-ADA-525-3x35-SWAP 6 Seagate Archive HDD v2 8TB, SATA 6Gb/s (ST8000AS0002) 2 Micron M500 SSD 480GB, SATA (MTFDDAK480MAV) 1 AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, 8x 3.40GHz, boxed without cooler (YD170XBCAEWOF) 1 G.Skill Trident Z silver/black DIMM kit 64GB, DDR4-3200, CL16-18-18-38 (F4-3200C16Q-64GTZSK) 1 MSI B350 Gaming Pro carbon (7B00-001R) 1 be quiet! Pure Rock (BK009) 1 be quiet! Dark Base 900 black, noise-insulated (BG011) 1 be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 650W ATX 2.4 (BN251) looking forward for any recommendations. Thank you, Matt Edited July 5, 20179 yr by twok updated to international links
July 3, 20179 yr Hello - My German almost non-existent, but be careful of the be Quiet! power supplies. They typically have more than one 12v rail, and it's much easier to work with unRAID when you have a single 12v rail. Also, you'd need a video card if you want to use hardware pass through for the Windows VM. You may want to scan the Ryzen thread just to be sure your plans will work, there have been issues:
July 5, 20179 yr Author hello tdallen - thanks for your response. as for the links - I've updated to englisch version now. What do you mean with the 12v rails? how does it affect unRaid? Can you give me some more details or point me to some specific threat? Thanks
July 5, 20179 yr Some power supplies provide +12v amperage on a single 12 volt rail, some provide it over 2 or 3 rails. The impact is to how you hook up peripherals. As you are hooking up hard drives (or whatever) to the SATA and Molex connectors coming off your power supply, if you have multiple 12v rails you will need to balance the number of peripherals hooked up to each rail so you don't overload them. If you have a single 12v rail you won't have that problem. This is a generic issue, but you'll notice it more with unRAID when you are trying to supply power to a big stack of hard drives. You can use a BeQuiet power supply with unRAID, but you'll have to give some thought about how you are hooking things up.
July 5, 20179 yr I recommend this PS for unRAID: https://skinflint.co.uk/corsair-rmx-series-rm650x-650w-atx-2-4-cp-9020091-eu-a1331024.html It has a single +12V-Rail with 54Amp. max. (648W @ +12V) Edited July 5, 20179 yr by Zonediver
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