gtroyp Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) I decided while I was on lockdown to build my third unraid box, and that overkill was just a word. So this is what I am building (98% built hardware wise at post, 20% implementation). Case - Phanteks 719 (Luxe 2, renamed for trademark reasons; BIG case) CPU - Threadripper 2950x (wanted third gen, but couldn’t stomach the doubling of cost for CPU and MB and 16/32 is still a lot of power) MB - Designare X399 by Gigabyte (reviews were positive, posts indicated much improvement over time due to updates) RAM - 64GB Corsair Vengeance Pro 3200 (cannot [yet?] run at 3200, still tweaking for highest stable speed) PS - Seasonic 850 Titanium Prime (hope I didn’t underpower the system with 850) Cooler - Enermax LiquiTech 360 II TR4 (hope I got one without the problems, options for AIO and TR4 full coverage were slim) Case Fans - Hodgepodge of Noctua and Deep Cool RGB (Still haven’t made RGB light up, need extension cable) GPU 1 - GeForce GX 710 (for unraid only) GPU 2 - GTX 1050 TI (for Plex and other containers; also for VM until GPU 3 purchased) GPU 3 - planned - RTX 2080 Super (for daily driver VM/dual boot) HD - filling in - 6 x 10 12TB array; Single parity and one drive installed; Dual Parity planned HD - at build time - salvaged 2x1TB (replaced) , 2TB and 3TB parity drives (for proof of concept only) Cache - 1TB Sabrent NVMe Plex SSD - 1TB Samsung 870 NVMe VM SSD - dedicated - 2TB Inland Premium NVMe (dual boot capable, just so I can if need be) I booted up in windows first to double check build quality. Found out that memory clocked to 3200 resulted in BSD’s. A little unhappy about that, but hoping I can tweak things and get back up to or close to posted speeds. Everything else worked out of the box, save the RGB aspects of the build. I needed (still need) some extension and “Y” cables to make everything light up. Will post pics as soon as I get it lit up... Now I start moving my services from the old unraid box (which will still serve as storage, and various non-taxing tasks) to the new box. This means actually figuring out how to organize my files, which despite all the hardware planning, I didn’t think about much. Looking forward to finding new things to do with all the new horsepower. Edited June 17, 2020 by gtroyp Quote Link to comment
NicoSavides Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Hello, I am new to unraid and look into making my first build. I am curious, why did you separate cache SSD and Plex SSD? why do you need a dedicated space for plex? thanks :) Quote Link to comment
rctneil Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 (edited) Sounds like someone has had the same idea I had a few years ago when I built my server! 🤣 Edited June 6, 2020 by rctneil Quote Link to comment
gtroyp Posted June 7, 2020 Author Share Posted June 7, 2020 On 6/4/2020 at 10:30 AM, NicoSavides said: Hello, I am new to unraid and look into making my first build. I am curious, why did you separate cache SSD and Plex SSD? why do you need a dedicated space for plex? thanks I have a separate Plex drive because my plex files are about 300GB. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 The name Tardis would be more applicable if you were using a Cloud service like Team-Drives with the RCLONE plugin and scripts. The storage is larger on the inside! Quote Link to comment
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