[chrishorton7]

Hi,

I am trying to follow Eskro's unraid building guide - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=8...post827661

I'm having a little trouble finding some of the parts in the UK. I have to get the parts from Scan as I am using their finance deal.

The below screenshot link shows the parts I have found so far on Scan. Can anyone help me find the remaining parts?

http://www.brokenbrolly.com/clients/unraid.jpg

Items remaining:

• Motherboard - I can't find the same model number that Eskro has so something similar
  
• Memory - Either 2gb or 4gb - I am looking at using Sickbeard & SABnzbd
  
• Molex To 3-Molex Power Connector Cables
  
• Molex To 4-SATA Power Connector cables
  
• 2 Port PCI-Express Sata-II Card
  
• 5 bay SATA / SAS hot swap similar to the Norco one
  
• 1 Port PCI Sata-II Card
  

Any help would be really appreciated

[T800]

Hi,

I am trying to follow Eskro's unraid building guide - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=8...post827661

I'm having a little trouble finding some of the parts in the UK. I have to get the parts from Scan as I am using their finance deal.

The below screenshot link shows the parts I have found so far on Scan. Can anyone help me find the remaining parts?

http://www.brokenbrolly.com/clients/unraid.jpg

Items remaining:

• Motherboard - I can't find the same model number that Eskro has so something similar
  
• Memory - Either 2gb or 4gb - I am looking at using Sickbeard & SABnzbd
  
• Molex To 3-Molex Power Connector Cables
  
• Molex To 4-SATA Power Connector cables
  
• 2 Port PCI-Express Sata-II Card
  
• 5 bay SATA / SAS hot swap similar to the Norco one
  
• 1 Port PCI Sata-II Card
  

Any help would be really appreciated

I needed to get my parts from Scan but after a lot of searching I could not find them on the site so I ended up having to get them from elsewhere.

[chrishorton7]

Hi T800,

Thanks for the response, did you build a similar spec unraid server then? If so where did you get your parts? Would it be possible to list the parts you bought?

[T800]

No problem. Other than the case and RAM it's the same.

These are from Scan

[*]Molex To 4-SATA Power Connector cables
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/nzxt-cb-4...able-200mm



[*]Motherboard - Eskro advised me of this one:
http://www.ilgs.co.uk/products.asp?partno=880GM-LE


[*]Memory
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/Sear...CatId=3198
I didn't get this one, I got the 1GB version.


[*]Molex To 3-Molex Power Connector Cables
http://www.solentcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh...84#a009884

[chrishorton7]

Cheers for that mate. How many hard drives do you use in your server currently out of interest?

I think I read somewhere that motherboard won't hold as many as the one Eskro has originally in his build?

Have you used any of the hot swap caddys? Again I can't find the same ones on scan and was wondering if you bought any in the UK you can recommend?

[T800]

That's right but I couldn't find the motherboard in the UK and I wanted to get on with the build.

It should do me for the time being. My case can only hold up to 16 HDD's if I get 2 x 2 5.25 bays to 3 3.5 bay caddies.

At the moment I have 4 x 2TB drives in there. Once it's up and running and full I will expand to another 4 x 2TB and then see from there.

[chrishorton7]

Hi T800,

Which fans did you use for your server?

[T800]

Hi T800,

Which fans did you use for your server?

The case came with fans.

[Luvas uk]

If you are only looking for 5 bays then why not look at the HP Micro Server.
With £100 cash back it’s a very nice buy. I have one running with 5 disks and its brilliant.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/...48009.html