April 5, 20206 yr Hello, I'm designing a new build that I will use to host a maximum of 9 * 3.5 drives + 1 * 3,5 drive for parity + 2 * 2.5 drives + 1 M.2 SSD for cache. My current hardware list is the following: Motherboard: Asus PRIME A320M-R Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 RAM: G.Skill Kit 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4 3200MHz Extra: 2 x 4 Port SATA III PCIe Controller (Marvell 88SE9215 chip) Case: Fractal Design Node 804 PSU: Corsair CX-450W 80+ Storage: 2 x 14TB WD Drives Cache: M.2 2280 Kingston A2000 500GB 3D TLC NVMe Parity: 1 x 14TB WD Drive My plan is to eventually buy additional storage and a graphics card to play games remotely. Currently I want to stick with this setup to direct stream Plex media and host some docker containers that require considerable processing power. Is this build compatible with UnRaid ? Thanks!
April 6, 20206 yr 5 hours ago, caml said: Extra: 2 x 4 Port SATA III PCIe Controller (Marvell 88SE9215 chip) As indicated by Benson, Marvell-based SATA controllers do not play well with later versions of Linux/unRAID. Drives attached to them often do not show up at all and, if they do, can drop off unexpectedly. LSI/Broadcom controllers are preferred and have no such issues. For example, any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008/3408 chipset in IT mode such as the 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, 9400-8i and clones, e.g. the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015. The clones need to be cross-flashed to IT mode. The above all support up to 8 SATA drives with 2x SFF-8087 forward breakout cables. I use the Dell H310 cross-flashes to IT mode.
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