Looking to Build Your Very First unRAID Server?

I personally don't like adding a ton of things to unRAID although plugins are pretty handy. This is a critical piece for my network - it stores all of my important media! Adding things that can conflict, crash, require permission tweaks, and can stretch my troubleshooting knowledge if it goes toes up isn't something I want on my storage device.

YMMV but that's my feelings. That doesn't I don't want those tools though! What I did was setup an ESX server for unRAID and all of those things plus more - a little crazy. What you could do is run those things in a VirtualBox VM maybe or VMplayer. Look here for an EASY way to do that -> http://aceshome.com/forums/index.php?board=4.0

Anyway, with any storage setup I think I'd crawl then walk then run.... <shrug>

Just thought I'd post here how happy I am with my UNraid box now that I've added a cache drive and enabled jumbo frames.

I have been converting my Blurays iso files to .mkv using makemkv and writing directlly to UNraid. It would take me about 45-50 min and it would cause problems with streaming to the XBMC so I could only do it when the XBMC wasn't in use.

Well I got sick of it so I enabled jumbo frames on my network and added a cache drive. I had been getting 35-45 MB/s and now I'm hitting 90+MB/s It takes me around 10-12 min to now convert a bluray and of course streaming is uninterrupted.

Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

(2013-03-21 15:13)Yukonhijack Wrote:  Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

ASROCK 880GM-LE FX is a decent one, with 6 SATA 3Gb/s ports.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GM-LE%20...ifications

(2013-03-21 15:17)ICDeadPpl Wrote:  

(2013-03-21 15:13)Yukonhijack Wrote:  Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

ASROCK 880GM-LE FX is a decent one, with 6 SATA 3Gb/s ports.
http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/880GM-LE%20...ifications

Thanks! Do you have any recommendations in the micro ITX form factor? I am looking to keep things smallish (for the wife factor you know).

(2013-03-21 15:13)Yukonhijack Wrote:  Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

Suggest you hit the unRAID hardware forum to get advice on this, that's the best place to go for up to date hardware information for unRAID.

(2013-03-23 17:25)BLKMGK Wrote:  

(2013-03-21 15:13)Yukonhijack Wrote:  Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

Suggest you hit the unRAID hardware forum to get advice on this, that's the best place to go for up to date hardware information for unRAID.

Sorry to go to thenoob level here, but where is that forum?

(2013-03-23 21:17)Yukonhijack Wrote:  

(2013-03-23 17:25)BLKMGK Wrote:  

(2013-03-21 15:13)Yukonhijack Wrote:  Just getting into the unRAID server system for my XBMC setup, and am looking for some help with a MOBO. All the suggested MOBOs appear to be discontinued. Can someone point me to a descent mid range selection? I am really new to this and would appreciate any good pointers in this regard.

Suggest you hit the unRAID hardware forum to get advice on this, that's the best place to go for up to date hardware information for unRAID.

Sorry to go to thenoob level here, but where is that forum?

Literally the first result on Google on the query "unraid forum" gave this:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php

There is a "Hardware" subforum there...

(2013-03-23 21:38)ICDeadPpl Wrote:  

(2013-03-23 21:17)Yukonhijack Wrote:  

(2013-03-23 17:25)BLKMGK Wrote:  Suggest you hit the unRAID hardware forum to get advice on this, that's the best place to go for up to date hardware information for unRAID.

Sorry to go to thenoob level here, but where is that forum?

Literally the first result on Google on the query "unraid forum" gave this:
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php

There is a "Hardware" subforum there...

Yeah, I have seen that forum, but I was unsure whether the reference to the "unraid forum" was a reference to an unraid forum on XBMC.ORG. Thanks though.

Not sure if this is the right place , but I'd thought I'd pick the brains of the experts here.

I have an HTPC that I'm retiring, but I was thinking of using the parts, changing the case, adding more drives, and making a media server because it would save some money. My worry is that the parts are an overkill, and will suck to much power. These are the components:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor
GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard
CORSAIR CMPSU-450VX 450W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Compatible with Core i7 Power Supply
ADATA 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model


Any advice would be appreciated (on whether it would cost too much to run, or even on what case to get that isn't too big). Thanks.