caml Posted April 5, 2020 Share Posted April 5, 2020 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! Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 Pls avoid Marvell 88SE9215, or simple any Marvell. Quote Link to comment
Hoopster Posted April 6, 2020 Share Posted April 6, 2020 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. 2 Quote Link to comment
caml Posted April 6, 2020 Author Share Posted April 6, 2020 @Hoopster thank you! that info was really useful. Quote Link to comment
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