November 25, 20178 yr Community Expert I didn't cross check but make sure your CPU choice has integrated graphics capability. Otherwise, you will need a graphics card.
November 26, 20178 yr Author Would a FX 8320E make sense? Maybe not efficient in terms of power consumption though.....
November 26, 20178 yr It’s a lot more than you need for basic NAS and less power efficient than a modern Intel chip, but it certainly is a competent chip that would run unRAID well.
November 26, 20178 yr Author For basic use, is it going to draw much more than an Intel? Is it really noticeable on the monthly Bill? Microcenter sells it for $75....
November 26, 20178 yr Author Finally......Parity check is completed, with 0 errors It took 2 days 1 hour 5 minutes 20 sec (average speed of 11.3 MB/sec) for a 2 TB hard drive.....................!!! I really need to upgrade I already have the case (got it for half that price) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KQ66ZC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And 2 of these cages https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215247 So now I will have to decide - for the same price = $40 - between the FX 8320E or a Celeron G3930 Pentium G4560 is $75....
November 26, 20178 yr Author 2 minutes ago, tdallen said: You’d need a new motherboard as well... Yes, I know.......For the FX 8320E, Microcenter has that one, with 6 SATA http://www.microcenter.com/product/465214/M5A78L-M_Plus-USB3_AM3_mATX_AMD_Motherboard I think my main criteria to decide between AMD and modern Intel will be power consumption !!!
November 26, 20178 yr Community Expert 25 minutes ago, French-Guy said: I think my main criteria to decide between AMD and modern Intel will be power consumption !!! The "E" version is rated at 55W. I doubt if it pulls more than 20W max than the Intel. Since you are in Michigan, I would imagine that your power costs are similar to the rate that I pay in Ohio--- $0.0599/KWH. This is about an additional $10.50 per year! So you can use that number as a basis in your Economical Analysis. I believe it is hardly a factor to really swing the balance one way or the other. Again, make sure that your CPU/MB combination has a video solution so that you can connect a monitor for console access. Also, make sure your PS has a single 12V rail as server usage requires much more power from the 12V buss to power the HD's than a typical PC. (Starting currents for modern HD's are ~2A per drive!)
November 26, 20178 yr I believe it’s a 95w part. Since your system will rarely be busy, though, what really matters is idle power consumption and the chipset is as much of a factor as the CPU. I’m sure the AMD setup will pull somewhat more power than the Intel setup but as Frank points out it really doesn’t add up much when you do the math, even in the Northeast where I pay more than $.19/kWh. I’d prefer a motherboard with an Intel LAN chip, but I’d think that motherboard would probably be fine.
November 26, 20178 yr Author From my last bill, I pay $0.158/kWh This FX 8320E build is tempting...............................I will have to find some DDR3 RAM though
November 28, 20178 yr Author I just realized that an AM3+ board (for the FX 8320E) will only have 3GB/s SATA ports While a more modern board for a Celeron or Pentium will have 6GB/s ports Is this a big difference for Unraid ?
November 28, 20178 yr Community Expert 22 minutes ago, French-Guy said: Is this a big difference for Unraid ? Not for hard drives, yes for SSDs.
November 28, 20178 yr Author So not that important actually...... The only SSD I could add might be a cache drive (I don't use one for now) Is the speed difference really noticeable, let's say for a 800 Mb file for example?
November 28, 20178 yr Community Expert 38 minutes ago, French-Guy said: Is the speed difference really noticeable, let's say for a 800 Mb file for example? If cache is going to be used to cache writes it won't make a difference if you have gigabit, copy to the server will be LAN limited, move from cache to array will be disk limited.
November 30, 20178 yr Author On 11/24/2017 at 9:52 AM, Squid said: powerdown is technically deprecated and been replaced by poweroff /sbin/poweroff /usr/local/sbin/powerdown Post diagnostics (Tools - Diagnostics) What should I write in the go file to have my server shutdown every night at 12:30am? Thanks
November 30, 20178 yr Personally, I'd schedule it via the user scripts plugin, but via the go file echo "/usr/local/sbin/powerdown" | at 12:30 am > /dev/null 2>&1
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