Sanity check for first unraid/server build


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Second time building a PC, but first time building a server. Any recommendations or thoughts are greatly appreciated.

 

CPU - 2 x Xeon E5-2660 ($100)

Motherboard - Supermicro X9DRL-iF ($320)

Memory - Crucial - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3-1600 ($148)

Storage - 4 x 8TB WD Red ($640)

Cache Drive - Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB ($180)

Case - Fractal Design R4 (already owned)

Power Supply - EVGA G3 650W 80+ Gold ($82)

Total ~$1470

 

Use case is basically just to act as a big Plex server that can store a bunch of stuff and handle multiple 1080p transcodes. Hoping for it to be relatively future proof for at least the next few years while I add more HDDs as needed for expansion. 

 

Also any recommendations for a narrow CPU Fan would be greatly appreciated.

 

edit: I also apologize if this is in the wrong forum.. I just realized I may have messed that up. 

Edited by gaulderson
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I could be wrong, but check the manual of the motherboard. If you are using 2 Processors, you have to have memory allocated per processor. Furthermore, you might want to get more pieces of memory with the same final capacity rather than 2 pieces of high capacity. This maximizes the bandwidth of the memory. There is something called channels. You can look it up.

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