(2012-11-29, 07:01)lagledavid Wrote: i am concerned about the power consumption (95 watt cpu) and heat for this setup there are many more choices out there
I would suggest at least a 750 watt single rail power supply if you plan to go to ~15 drives. A 650W should be ok up to ~10 drives. If you think you may go to 20 drives, I would suggest a 900 watt supply. I would also suggest a moduler supply.
If you want want it future proof, I would go with a motherboad capable with at least 2X PCi-E4 slots if you think you may go to 20 drives. That way you could grow to 20 drives using 5in3 expansion cages.
For a case, you could go with a Norco 4220,
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.asp...6811219033, case now if you have the room and wanted to spend a little more money. The pluggable hardrives make it so much simpler to work with. The down side is that it is very deep as it is a real server case.
As far as the processor goes, you could get by with a smaller processor if you do not run other applications other than Unraid. A few more cores should help if you want to use other apps, such as SABnzbd, CouchPotato and Sickbeard. It would also be nice if you decide to do real time transcoding on the server to stream to a phone or tablet. I did test it by doing real time transcoding and it worked fine.
The dual-core I use works fine, but occasionaly gets behind when I have a lot going on. I am running other apps. most of the time, ie 98% it keeps up just fine. I wanted to lower the thermal load in the room so went with a 65w processor. In the winter it is not bad, but the room can really heat up during the summer.
My Unraid Build
Antec Nine Hundred Case. I wish I had went with 1200 now.
NZXT HALE82 750W power supply.
ECS A885GM-A2 (V1.1) AM3 Motherboard,
AMD Athlon II X2 260 Regor 3.2GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Desktop Processor,
16GB Crucial Ballistix 4x4GB DDR3 Model BLT4G3D1608DT1TX0, overkill for unraid, but it was cheap when I purchsed it and this allows me the option to use a different OS/Server if desired, for example FreeNAS or Windows Home Server
SATA Expansion ports -
SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 (8 ports) and Syba SD-SA2PEX-2IR (Silicon Image SIL3132) (2 ports),
3 x NORCO SS-500 v2 with original fans replaced by 3 x Coolink SWiF2-800 Fan
Data - 2 x - WD 3TB - WD30EFRX-68AX9N0
Data - 3 x - Seagate 1.5 TB - ST31500541AS
Parity - 1 x - Hitachi 4 TB - HDS724040AL4640
Cache - 1 x - Seagate 1.5 TB - ST31500541AS
unRAID Server Pro version: 5.0-rc6-r8168-test2
I have 2X 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001drives being precleared as I write this.