gigahertz20
Golden Member
My media collection is growing and right now I have everything on USB external hard drives, around 3TB of stuff that is not protected. I was first planning on doing a WHS build but someone mentioned using Unraid and after doing some reading, I think I'm going to try it out since the file duplication feature in WHS sucks big time compared to Unraid from what I've read. Everything that will be stored on the server will be media files and I have a built-in Gigabit network in my house that the Unraid box will connect to. I'm a little hesitant since I've never messed with Linux/RAID before but I'm going to try out the free version of Unraid first and if I can get Sabnzbd/Sickbeard/Couchpotato setup correctly then I'll eventually buy the Plus version of Unraid. I also plan on buying a couple of the Western Digital 2TB Caviar green drives to populate my Unraid box once I get one, and then transfer all of my media files over to them.
I was thinking of just building my own Unraid box but this guy on Craigslist is selling the below for $250, what do you guys think of the parts/price for this Unraid box? It looks like a decent deal to me especially since the Promise SATA 300 TX4 cards sell new for $70 each on Newegg and this deal includes 4 of them. The only issues might be the amount of memory, which I can upgrade, and the mobo does not have a Gigabit LAN port from what I've read. Specs and Pics below:
I was thinking of just building my own Unraid box but this guy on Craigslist is selling the below for $250, what do you guys think of the parts/price for this Unraid box? It looks like a decent deal to me especially since the Promise SATA 300 TX4 cards sell new for $70 each on Newegg and this deal includes 4 of them. The only issues might be the amount of memory, which I can upgrade, and the mobo does not have a Gigabit LAN port from what I've read. Specs and Pics below:
