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XMan

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I'm looking to build a dedicated NAS out of some decent hardware rather than the leftover stuff I'm using now.

The pricing on individual components strikes me as crazy - I can get a complete T20 system for the cost of the same Xeon CPU and a decent motherboard on the 'egg.

Anyone know if the T20 servers are using standard form-factor motherboards? The only disadvantage to the pre-built system is the case; I was considering just transplanting the guts into a full-size tower.
 
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Shoot, looks like proprietary power supply. Looks like adapter cable is cheap though.
 
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Lifer
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So probably look for something with an E3-series Xeon, you think?
 
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Yeah, Plex Server. The motherboard and CPU I'm using now are consumer grade and don't support a hardware RAID card.
 
sdifox

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XMan said:
Yeah, Plex Server. The motherboard and CPU I'm using now are consumer grade and don't support a hardware RAID card.
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Err whut? You can stick a hardware raid card to your PC as long as there is open PCIe slot.

And hardware raid doesn't really help with Plex.
 
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I have a ServeRAID M1015 and it isn't supported by the AsRock board I'm using. I have about 8TB of Blu Ray rips and another TB or so of home movies and pictures. Want to hopefully get RAID10 going on four drives so I don't have to rerip my disks if something goes kerplunk.
 
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XMan said:
I have a ServeRAID M1015 and it isn't supported by the AsRock board I'm using. I have about 8TB of Blu Ray rips and another TB or so of home movies and pictures. Want to hopefully get RAID10 going on four drives so I don't have to rerip my disks if something goes kerplunk.
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Why? It's just an LSI card with IBM branding. Does your mb support PCIe 2.0?
 
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XavierMace said:
Some consumer boards don't play nice with hardware RAID cards. I've seen it before.
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Yup. It detects it at post, shows in Device Manager, and lets me load drivers. Can see drives at that point, but am prompted for a reboot -- disappears then. Switch slots, rinse and repeat. Asrock support said it's not supported.
 
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If you get to the OS and it recognizes it there, that doesn't sound like a board problem. Generally when boards have problems with hardware RAID cards it's because they don't like loading oprom's from addin cards. So it just won't see it at all, or will just hang on trying to boot the card.
 
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XavierMace said:
If you get to the OS and it recognizes it there, that doesn't sound like a board problem. Generally when boards have problems with hardware RAID cards it's because they don't like loading oprom's from addin cards. So it just won't see it at all, or will just hang on trying to boot the card.
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It worked on my desktop PC so I don't think it's the card, but who knows.
 
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Model numbers of current motherboard and card.
Are you wanting to keep the RAID card you have? Did anyone give you a list of boards that will work with that card?
 
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It's a Z77 Extreme 4.

I can replace the M1015 if needed, I suppose, it seems to be in fairly common use though so I figured it would work with most server boards.
 
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I've got 4x of the M1015's, all work fine on the Supermicro and Tyan boards I have as well as a friends Asus H170 board. But I've had consumer boards in the past that wouldn't recognize them.
 
Ketchup

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No wonder. I personally wouldn't expect an IBM card to work with a consumer, grade board. Looks like that particular card only has compatibility with the following IBM servers:

x3200 M3
x3250 M3
x3400 M2
x3400 M3
x3500 M2
x3500 M3
x3550 M2
x3550 M3
x3620 M3
x3630 M3
x3650 M2
x3650 M3
x3690 X5
x3755 M3
x3850 X5

Go look for a nice HighPoint controller with the features you want that's in your budget and you should be good. Here is one, just as an example:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115118&ignorebbr=1
 
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Ketchup said:
No wonder. I personally wouldn't expect an IBM card to work with a consumer, grade board. Looks like that particular card only has compatibility with the following IBM servers:

x3200 M3
x3250 M3
x3400 M2
x3400 M3
x3500 M2
x3500 M3
x3550 M2
x3550 M3
x3620 M3
x3630 M3
x3650 M2
x3650 M3
x3690 X5
x3755 M3
x3850 X5

Go look for a nice HighPoint controller with the features you want that's in your budget and you should be good. Here is one, just as an example:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115118&ignorebbr=1
Click to expand...

Yeah, more I think about it and talk with y'all it makes me think I should just keep what I've got and use Storage Spaces or a non-hardware RAID card. The CPU I have is plenty fast enough, and I don't need it for transcoding.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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XMan said:
Yeah, more I think about it and talk with y'all it makes me think I should just keep what I've got and use Storage Spaces or a non-hardware RAID card. The CPU I have is plenty fast enough, and I don't need it for transcoding.
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Try cross flashing to lsi see if that works.
 
sdifox

sdifox

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Ketchup said:
No wonder. I personally wouldn't expect an IBM card to work with a consumer, grade board. Looks like that particular card only has compatibility with the following IBM servers:

x3200 M3
x3250 M3
x3400 M2
x3400 M3
x3500 M2
x3500 M3
x3550 M2
x3550 M3
x3620 M3
x3630 M3
x3650 M2
x3650 M3
x3690 X5
x3755 M3
x3850 X5

Go look for a nice HighPoint controller with the features you want that's in your budget and you should be good. Here is one, just as an example:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115118&ignorebbr=1
Click to expand...


Do you see any other brand server listed?
 
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