July 22, 201015 yr In an effort to help/guide us nOOb's on which hardware to buy and what it can and can't do, Format as follows, give us the basic facts and what it can and can't do, don't include prices or why you purchased each component CPU: Mobo: RAM: HDD(Type and How Many): PSU: Cooling: Can: Store data, stream Dvd and/or Bluray movies to a PS3 without problems/stuttering, etc etc Anything else your build is currently doing succesfully Can't: Keep me satisfied
July 22, 201015 yr In an effort to help/guide us nOOb's on which hardware to buy and what it can and can't do, Format as follows, give us the basic facts and what it can and can't do, don't include prices or why you purchased each component CPU: Mobo: RAM: PSU: Can: Store data, stream Dvd and/or Bluray movies to a PS3 without problems/stuttering, etc etc Anything else your build is currently doing succesfully Can't: Keep me satisfied Knowing the PSU does not help unless you know the number of disk drives (and if they are newer "green" drives)
July 22, 201015 yr Author In an effort to help/guide us nOOb's on which hardware to buy and what it can and can't do, Format as follows, give us the basic facts and what it can and can't do, don't include prices or why you purchased each component CPU: Mobo: RAM: PSU: Can: Store data, stream Dvd and/or Bluray movies to a PS3 without problems/stuttering, etc etc Anything else your build is currently doing succesfully Can't: Keep me satisfied Knowing the PSU does not help unless you know the number of disk drives (and it they are newer "green" drives) Ok, anything else?
July 22, 201015 yr In an effort to help/guide us nOOb's on which hardware to buy and what it can and can't do, Format as follows, give us the basic facts and what it can and can't do, don't include prices or why you purchased each component CPU: Mobo: RAM: PSU: Can: Store data, stream Dvd and/or Bluray movies to a PS3 without problems/stuttering, etc etc Anything else your build is currently doing succesfully Can't: Keep me satisfied Knowing the PSU does not help unless you know the number of disk drives (and it they are newer "green" drives) Ok, anything else? For a power supply, for "the 12Volt rail" used for powering disks, figure on needing 2 Amps capacity per "green" disk, and 3 "amps" capacity for non-green disks. Do not get fooled by the marketing of a high capacity multi-rail power supply, a large percentage of the advertised capacity may not be available on the molex and SATA connectors used for disk drives. See this thread for an example of a OCZ 550 Watt 4-rail supply I purchased for powering one half of the drives in a system I'm re-building. Only 1 of the 4 rails is available for powering the disks, and it is rated at 18 Amps, with over-current shutdown at 22 Amps, and that same rail also powers the motherboard 20/24 pin connector. I'm guessing that I actually have about 15 Amp capacity available for the disks (180 Watts), (The server I'm rebuilding has TWO power supplies, the other 300 Watt supply is powering the other half of the disks.) See this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6879.msg66778#msg66778 Other than that, look for a "single-rail" supply that is suited for your growth. A marginal power supply causes all kinds of intermittent errors. Motherboard: Intel D865GLC CPU: 2.2 Ghz P4 Celeron RAM: 512 Meg DDR This server has been in use for 4 1/4 years and is able to serve 4 (or more) simultaneous full bit-rate DVD ISO images to various media players on my LAN at the same time*. I've used it to transcode movies using "handbrake" from DVD ISO format to .avi format for use in a portable media player. (transcoding goes slowly, I've never tried anything real-time) I do not have any Blue-Ray/HD transcodes on the server. * I only tried 4 movies at one time, as I ran out of media players before I ran out of server capacity. The CPU was loafing at that load, being mostly idle. Joe L
July 22, 201015 yr CPU: Sempron 140 Mobo: Biostar A760G M2+ RAM: Kingston 2 GB DDR2 800 (x 2) HDDs: Mostly WD Greens (EADS and EARS w/ jumpers), two Samsung F3s, one Seagate 7200 rpm as cache (9 total, 7 of which are green - total capacity ~6.5 TB) PSU: Antec Earthwatts 380W Cooling: Stock Case: Antec p180 HDD Cages: generic 3-in-2 locking hot swap (x 2) Add-on Card(s): Promise TX4 Can: Store all my datastuffs, serve 720p and 1080p encoded videos to my HTPC via gigabit LAN with no stutter, spin down disks to save power (runs at around 60 W idle), run cool and quiet, impress girls Can't: Serve torrents (unTorrent has been abandoned), make me breakfast, train my dog, or solve world hunger
July 22, 201015 yr CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240; 2 Cores, 2 L2 Cache @1MB, 64Bitm 65 watts, 2.8 ghz MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H; 1 eSATA, 6 USB, AMD 2 Socket, 6 SATA 3.0 RAM: 2 GB; DDR2 800 mhz PSU: Zippy R2W6500P 500w; 2U/3u Redundent Hot swap 500 watts CASE: Chenbro RM3012; 26" 3U Rackmount 12 Hot swap drive slots Internal HD, Slim CD SATA: Supermicro AOC SASLP MV8; 8 drives via two SFF-8087 connectors CBLS: 3Ware SFF-8087 to SFF 8087 CBLS: Reverse Breakout SFF-8087-4 Sata; Controller (Mobo) = SATA, Backplane (Drives) = SFF-8087 HDDs: Hitachi 2TB 7200 RPM (5 Installed) LAN: 100 Mbit; Linksys based, 32 host ports wired; Wifi with 3 WAP's Cooling: 3 hot swap 80 cm fans mid line, 1 fan each PSU, 1 Fan on CPU, 2 80 cm fans at case rear Environment: Server room, Electronics rack, 1500VA UPS, seperate HVAC for room (72 degrees F) 15 kw Standby Generator (For the House) Temperatures: Drive spun down: 23 degrees C, Drive spun up: 33 degrees C; Room 22 Degrees C Usage: Stores all my movies (BR, DVD) and all my music (FLAC). Acts as primary Backup for all other servers and PC's. Music Player is Logitech SqueezeServer, Media player is Dune Base 3.0 with special IP control interface. Theater control system uses Telnet to spin drives up and down when theater is powered on/off Shares: Each Drive has top level User shares for Movies, Concerts, Slideshows, Miscellaneous. One drive has Music and Backup directories. Writing is directly to drive/folder not share, reading of media is from User Share
July 22, 201015 yr Author CPU: Sempron 140 Mobo: Biostar A760G M2+ RAM: Kingston 2 GB DDR2 800 (x 2) HDDs: Mostly WD Greens (EADS and EARS w/ jumpers), two Samsung F3s, one Seagate 7200 rpm as cache (9 total, 7 of which are green - total capacity ~6.5 TB) PSU: Antec Earthwatts 380W Cooling: Stock Case: Antec p180 HDD Cages: generic 3-in-2 locking hot swap (x 2) Add-on Card(s): Promise TX4 Can: Store all my datastuffs, serve 720p and 1080p encoded videos to my HTPC via gigabit LAN with no stutter, spin down disks to save power (runs at around 60 W idle), run cool and quiet, impress girls Can't: Serve torrents (unTorrent has been abandoned), make me breakfast, train my dog, or solve world hunger The ladies, mate, the ladies.........lol Helps create a picture of how everything ties together to do........'stuff'. This sort of info is great, keep it coming.............please.
July 23, 201015 yr im the biggest unraid noob but luckily this setup has been pretty good so far CASE: COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 + 2x Icy Dock 4-in-3 SATA cages CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Mobo: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO, with 7 onboard sata RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 2x2gb DDR3 HDD: 4xHitachi 7200rpm 2Tb + 1xSamsung F3 7200rpm 1Tb PSU: SeaSonic X650 Cooling: ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro for CPU It stores all my 1080p movies and tv shows
July 23, 201015 yr CPU: Intel 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo Wolfdale E5200 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P RAM: OCZ 2GB DDR2 800 (x2) HDDs: 1.5GB 7200rpm Seagate, 2x 1.5TB 5400rpm WD Green, 5x 640GB 7200rpm WD, 2x 500GB 7200rpm WD, 2x 500GB 7200rpm Maxtor - 8.2TB total (after parity drive) PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500W Cooling: About 5 or 6 120mm fans, one 180mm fan in the top of my case Case: Antec Three Hundred, with a 4 bay eSATA external enclosure (I can't recall brand name) HDD Cages: Rosewill R901-HDDC Add-on Card(s): Gigabyte GeForce 7200GS passively cooled video (no onboard video on my moboard), a PCI-E Sil3132 eSATA card. Can: Way more than I ever thought! • Store and serve my movie and TV collections to the Macs around my house running Plex (a fork of XBMC) • Use Sickbeard and SABnzbd to automate my newsgroups downloading • Act as a repository for my Time Machine backups • Encode my ripped DVDs to H264 with HandBrake Can't: • The stock unRAID setup is easy to explain to moderately geeky people, however some of the add ons are kinda tough for the command line shy. I hope unRAID 5's plugin architecture will ease installs of add ons (though unMENU is really awesome right now). A few things I'd change if I were to do it all over again: • Bigger case. My Antec Three Hundred is really nice, but I ran out of space for drives very quickly, and I'm not really pleased with my eSATA enclosure. • Get a moboard with onboard video, saving an expansion slot. • Fans that change speed based on temperature.
July 23, 201015 yr CPU: Athlon 64 x2 4400+ Mobo: ABIT AT8 32x RAM: Corsair XMS DDR 400 1GB (x2) HDDs: 5 - 1TB WD Greens (EADS), 1 - 1TB Maxtor 7200 as parity. So around 5 TB capacity PSU: Antec TruePower TPII-550w Case: Antec P180 Cooling: Stock - 3 120mm case fans, and retail CPU fan As you can probably guess from my parts, I relegated my old desktop components to be my Unraid server. Use: Stores and serves all my movies, music, and photos, also used as a backup location for other household machines.
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 245 2,9GHz Socket AM3 MOBO: Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H (rev. 2.0) 6 SATA 3.0 RAM: 2 GB DDR2 800 mhz PSU: Corsair CMPSU-650TX 650W CASE: ANTEC 300 & 4-in-3 Module SATA: Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1430SA HDDs: WD15EADS (3), WD10E (3), SAMSUNG_HD10 (1),Seagate Barracuda ST3500630AS (1),WDC_WD15EARS(1) Total data storage 9TB LAN: 1Gbit; DLINk DIR-655 Cooling: 5 fans UPS: APC Back-UPS ES BE550-GR Usage: Stores all my movies (Blu-ray,MKV, DVD) and music and photos. Backup for my and families PC:s Media player is TVIX 6500 using NFS. Use S3 mode to get my server in sleep mode, When Tvix boots its then send a WOL command to wake unRAID.
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 - Quad Core Socket AM3 0.045 micron Cache L2 2 Mo MOBO: ASUSTeK M3A76-CM (AMD 760G) - Micro ATX RAM: G.Skill MQ Series 4 Go (kit 2x 2 Go) DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 - F2-6400CL6D-4GBMQ PSU: Advance MPT-6500 - Alimentation 650W thermo-régulée CASE: SPIRE - SwordFin - SP9007B SATA: Promise SATA300 TX4 - Carte contrôleur PCI (4 ports SATA II internes) HDDs: 1 X WDC_WD10EACS + 1 X WDC_WD10EADS + 2 X WDC_WD10EARS + 1 X WDC_WD7500AAKS + 4 X WDC_WD5000AAKS + 1 WDC_WD5000AAJS LAN: RTL8111C Gigabit LAN UPS: APC Back-UPS ES 700VA (BE700G-FR) - Onduleur off-line monophasé 230V (USB) Cooling: 1 X Fan on CPU, 2 X 80 cm fans (case front & rear), 2 X 40 cm fans for 3/2 HDD rack Temperatures: Drive spun down: 22 degrees C, Drive spun up: 24~26 degrees C; Room 23 Degrees C Usage: Stores all my movies, music and back-up. unTorrent + SABnzbd+ 0.4.12 + vmware server 2.0 + folding at home Serve 1080p iso BD without sutter to Dvico Tvix 6500
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: Intel E6600 Mobo: Supermicro X7SBE RAM: 8GB HP Smart Buy ECC/Unbuffered DDR2 800 HDDs: 10X WD Greens (EACS and EADS), (Movie Storage) HDDs: 2X 1.5TB 7200 SAFE (RAID0[parity]/RAID1[cache]) HDDs: 2X 1.5TB 7200 Seagate Most commonly accessed data drives. (Torrent,Downloads & Image, source files) HDDs: 2X 1.0TB 7200 Seagate Backup Drives. (Rsync and other older backup storage) HDDs: 2X 2.0TB WD Green (EADS) (Music Storage) PSU: Corsair 620HX Cooling: Stock, Updated CSE-M35T-1B to Gield quiet fans. Case: CM Stacker 810 HDD Cages: 4X Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B Add-on Card(s): IPMI AOC-SIM1U+ Add-on Card(s): AOC-SATA-MV8 x2 Add-on Card(s): Areca ARC-1200 w 2X 1.5TB 7200 SAFE (RAID0[parity]/RAID1[cache]) Add-on Card(s): Nocro PCI-X 4 eSATA Silicon Image SATA Controller Add-on Card(s): Gigabyte 4GB iRAM Drive. Add-on Card(s): SCYTHE Slot Rafter to hold SSD drive for /home mount. UPS: APC SU1400NET. Can: Stores all my media files, Ripped SD DVD's and Downloaded torrent files. Accessed via XBMC. Remote NFS server for all my Source. Uses RAID1 cache drive right now, but will move to an SSD very soon. Accessed via multitude of local windows/unix servers with samba and nfs automounts. DHCP & PXEBOOT Server, Name Server, time server, mt-daapd server. Backup server using rsync and --linked methodology. Works great. IMAP archival storage. Keeps mail off the local pc. Future. Serve torrents, Used to do rtorrent, but turned it off for now. upnp server. nagios server. vmware (move dev environments to this host). Automount logic for cdrom/dvd images. Burning tool for creating media when I need to boot from it or distribute it. With the SSD I plan to move my most used files on this mount so nothing spins up and waits. (Which can be a pain with NFS). I will probably divide it up so that there is a /boot partition. (for backup and licket split booting). Notables. The most notable feature of my environment is the user of RAID0/RAID1 safe mode using the ARC-1200 controller. This is an advanced raid controller from Areca. It's only a 2 port model right now. I purchased it used on eBay for $99 as proof of concept. The software in this controller allows creating a raid volume with n number of drives. Within this volume, you can carve up the space to n number of RAID sets. I choose a RAID0 set of 2TB(maxed to match max size of a single platter). I used the left over space for a RAID1 set and configured it for a advanced multi parition cache drive. (cache, swap, work filesystems, etc). I could not be happier with this environment. May parti checks sometimes reach over 120,000KB/s. My network write speeds to parity protected drives are in the order of 34Mb/s. Local tests sometimes reach 43MB/s on burst. Also the IPMI Is a godsend. Dunno how I got along without it! Issues. Power, its a large machine with allot of cards, drives,etc, etc. Even when idle it uses up a fair amount of power. No sure if a better CPU would even help. Mobo chipset, support cards, etc, etc.
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: Celeron M Machine: Norco DS-520G - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859320001 Mobo: N/A. Case: N/A. RAM: 1GB SODIMM HDDs: 5X Various 500GB Drives HDDs: 1X 2.5 Seagate 7200RPM drive Flash: 1X Sandisk 2GB CF card. PSU: Built in Cooling: Stock HDD Cages: 5X removable drives trays. Add-on Card(s): N/A. Add-on Modules(s): 1 5Bay eSATA PM unit which matches this one. UPS: APC SU1400NET. Can: Quite capable for a very small machine. I use it for development and hacking. Future. I planned to use this as the backup machine, Boot up, run all the rsyncs turn itself off. I have not gotten there yet. Notables. Quite capable for a small machine, Was very expensive when it first came out. Not produced any more.
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: Intel E6700 Mobo: ABIT AB9 PRO Case: Centurion CM590 RAM: 8GB OCZ DDR2 HDDs: None right now. Flash: Generic SD card in reader. PSU: Corsair 400w Cooling: 4 Coolermaster 120MM fans HDD Cages: 9X Travless fanless SATA Removable Trays. Add-on Card(s): PCi Video UPS: APC SU1400NET. Can: This was my first machine and served well for over 2 years. It's design was to minimze small fans. It was hardly ever heard. The drives stayed warm, but not significantly over ambient. I.E. If it's 90 degrees out they were only a few degrees warmer. Future. I've put this machine aside, but plan to use it for development. It has quick drive insertion and removal with the Trayless SATA units. or I may just sell it off. Notables. The Trayless SATA units along with quiet fan design. It looks slick. I liked the idea of a very simple 1 motherboard setup. 1Mobo, 9 internal ports to 9 trayless sata drives. Issues. The Abit AB9 Pro can be finicky with memory. I had to set the memory very specifically and even then sometimes I have to reset the machine.
July 24, 201015 yr CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz Motherboard: P5B-VM (not DO) RAM: Kingston 1 GB (x 2) HDDs: 20 Total storage usable: 13TB PSU: Corsair TX 850 (70A 12v rail) Cooling: Stock Intel CPU cooler. 4x 120mm stock Antec fans in front of drive, 2x 120mm at rear, 200mm fan on top. Top fan is off, others are at lowest settings unless a parity check is required. Machine is essentially silent in normal use. Case: Antec Twelve Hundred HDD Cages: 4x Scythe "Hard Disk Stabilizer x4" http://bit.ly/cqFlaq Add-on Card(s): 2x Adaptec 1430SA PCI-E, 2x Silicon Image 3114 PCI You can see photos of this server at: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2031.msg34915#msg34915 After those photos were taken, I added another 4 500GB drives by stuffing them on top of the PSU. But they get very hot during parity checks, so I'll remove them at some point and replace them with one 2TB drive. Can: This server is used purely for Blu-ray rips and nothing else. It has about 400 untouched Blu-ray rips in one write-protected user share called "Movies". For safety, I only write to disk shares, and they are hidden. I generally stream over Samba to my PCH C-200, it doesn't usually need to use NFS, but I do have llink and NFS set up to stream to my PCH A-110, as that needs a more efficient protocol to stream the highest bitrate Blu-rays (the server easily handles 40mbs+). Can't: I never managed to get S3 standby working, I tried several times and gave up. It would be nice if S3 could be made standard as part of unRAID 5.0. This motherboard will do it, as it worked fine when it was part of a Windows machine. Notable: I think most of the notables were covered in the Pimp My Rig post. Once I went to 20 drives, I had to "disable" all the hard drives in the BIOS, otherwise my USB flash drive wouldn't be available as a boot option. unRAID obviously ignores the BIOS when it comes to drive detection. I only switch this server on when watching films, so power consumption is pretty irrelevant. My 24/7 server is a modified LinkStation Pro NAS. I removed the 3.5" drive and replaced it with a 320GB 5400rpm, 2.5" drive. I run Open Stock "StevieWonder" 2.29 firmware with Bittorrent, nzbget, SickBeard and nzbgetter on the LinkStation. It idles at 9W and maxes out at 11W.
July 26, 201015 yr CPU: Intel Atom D510 1.6GHz Mobo: Gigabye GA-D510UD Case: CIT 1005 + 500W PSU RAM: 2GB DDR2-6400 HDDs: 1x Western Digital WD15EADS 1.5TB (parity) HDDs: 2x Samsung Spinpoint F2s (HD154UI) Cooling: Stock It serves my 720p and 1080p movies and TV over gigabit to my atom based HTPC. Low power consumption. Dirt cheap
August 10, 201015 yr CPU: Intel Atom 330 Dual-Core 1.6Ghz Mobo: Intel D945GCLF2D RAM: Some value 2GB DDR2-667 HDDs: 1 WD 380GB AAK, 1 Maxtor 250GB. Planning on adding a WD5000AAVS 500GB, and a few more of those Maxtor 250's. PSU: Ultra LSP 450W Cooling: Stock Case: Antec P180 On Order: HDD Cages: Icy Dock MB454SPF-B 4-in-3 Hot swap (I know the P180 can take more without the icy docks, but I don't want to move and open it if I don't have to, it's damn heavy ) Add-on Card: Promise TX4 Can: Store and stream video content. I've had it streaming to 3 devices (2 PC's, and 1 Boxee Laptop w/ HDMI to TV OUT), with no problem. This is what I primarily have been playing with the last few days. Can't: Don't know yet, just starting using it about 5 days ago, but so far i'm impressed. Future: I'm going to use it as a backup target for my WHS V1 system, which is used to backup the PC's in my house, along with my wife's recipes, etc. Depending on how well unRaid works for me, I might replace the drives in WHS server with smaller drives, and give the current (2x 1TB Hitachi's) to the unRaid server. I'm also looking to build (or buy the d-link boxee when it comes out) a real boxee htpc, so I don't have to lug out my laptop every time I want to watch something.
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