February 16, 20206 yr My 5+ year old Unraid Server has finally gone to heaven. My existing SSDs and Data Drives are still good. My RAM may still be good. I'll try to reuse my existing 3U rackmount case and hot swap bays, as well as NetApp expansion. So I guess what I'm really looking for is Motherboard, Processor, PSU, maybe RAM recommendations: -Budget: $1500 - $2000 is reasonable for me. I have a good accountant that can stretch this as a business expense and therefore write off -How many drives: Existing system without the NetApp 4243 expander is 14 drives. (10 platter drives and 4 SSD) and another 8 right now in the NetApp. The NetApp seems to have problems with drives > 4TB, not sure if if it's a 3.3v pin issue or something else. Every time I try to drop a large drive into it, it's not detected. I was using a SuperMicro X10SL7-F. This actually did have 14 SATA headers. Since this is very rare it seems, then I will likely need a PCIE Sata/SAS card dropped in. -Use case: Plex for about 3-4 people. Mostly 1080, but some 4K. HomeAssistant, Letsencrypt, MariaDB (light use) Seems like Motherboard/CPU will be the most improtant starting consideration.
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