Raylon Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 What's up guys, I have an offer from a friend to buy my Synology NAS setup that has 8x 6TB drives for $1300. I got a free what seems like a nice setup that could be used for an unRaid server. The specs are below: Case: Rosewill RSV-L4500 (3 fans up front and 15 bay) with sliding rails Motherboard: Supermicro X8DT3 CPU's: 2x Xeon X5680 CPU Coolers: Hypermaster 212 Evo RAM: 96GB (12x 8GB sticks) PSU: Corsair 650 watt The only thing I dont trust is the PSU, it looks old, like real old, would replace with a Titanium Seasonic. Would this machine work well? I installed windows on it quick and everything seems to work fine. That was first question, second is, I currently use about 21TB of my 33TB volume on the NAS. I want to do dual parity using 10TB drives. So I should be good to get 5 10TB drives to start and then I can continue to add 10TB drives to fill out my server? Is there a limit to which the 10TB parity drives won't be able to handle more drives? That's the only part that confuses me. And finally, what size cache drive does everyone recommend? I have a NVMe to PCI converter, I am thinking I can throw a 500GB Intel drive in there, will that work? Sorry for the noob questions, this person wants to buy my NAS soon so I am in a mad rush to research this stuff as quick as possible. Love learning all about unRaid! Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 11, 2019 Share Posted September 11, 2019 24 minutes ago, Raylon said: Is there a limit to which the 10TB parity drives won't be able to handle more drives? No Quote Link to comment
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