Hi guys, 

at first hello to everyone. 

I am thinking about unRaid from the time I have heard the first from it at LTT 😄

I was using self build Servers since a few years. 

At first bare metal Debian.
Than I switched to OMV because of the configuration nightmare. 
(It is actually not that bad but a lot of work every time.)

 

Then I thought I will give unRaid a try and now here I am happy as a little duckling.

 

I was searching for a really power efficient system because I am from Germany and

electricity here is insane expensive and I would like to run the system 24/7.

 

 

Some of the components I had laying around. ( When you mention the psu it is a bit overkill
but gets the job done)

 

And additional the data drives which I only purchased one the rest were also around.

 

The 4 Port SATA controller ist not really great but I needed the ports and the MB hast only

1 PCIE 2x so an LSI Card is not a point I think.

 

This is my actual build. (Currency is EUR)

So

  

 

I had starting the build about 2 Months ago and now I think im finished for now.

 

 

 

The cpu is not that powerfull but for what I am using absolutely fine:

 

Plex ( With Hardware transcoding I get 4 parallels Streams with heavy files 25G+ )

DMS here I am using Mayan ( Nice Software give it a try if you searching one )

JDownloader

Calibre

Git

and from time to time a Minecraft server.

Time Machine Backups from 2 Macs.

 

All Apps as docker container.

 

VM´s i have tested so far:

Windows 10 ( Not really that nice on that slow cpu )

macOS Mojave ( This to my surprise runs really fine for some Remote things )

Regually I am not using vm´s on this machine (its to slow) this was only for interest

 

 

I using a raid1 array for the cache drives that I can better sleep.

 And for the Data array.

4X 3TB WD Black ( Loud as hell will replace them in the fututre)

1x 3TB WD Blue ( New one I purchased I don't like the Red drives because of no spin down )

1x 2TB WD Green ( already owned )

 

Total usable 17TB Data array and 500GB Cache array.

 

All is running fine so far and snappy.

 

The biggest achievement and the main point of this build

is the power usage.

 

Full Load all disks up about 40-50w

Plex Video Watching 1 disk up 15-20w

and Idle ( All Disks spun down ) 9-10w

 

With this I can sleep well without thinking too much about my electricity bill  

 

So have a nice day and thanks for this awesome OS.

 

 

Edited August 3, 20196 yr by d3fault

New one I purchased I don't like the Red drives because of no spin down

 

Hi there and welcome.

Nice build you got.
What do you mean with no spin down on wd-red?
I have been using them for years, running 24/7 and with spin down after 4hrs when no activity. The oldest one i got i my setup just past 4 years in power-on hours.



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Reds def do not have spin down issues, I got 8 and no issues here. Nice little build.

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OK thanks that is really good to know!