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necrobobsledder
Mar 21, 2005
Lay down your soul to the gods rock 'n roll

Nap Ghost

M1015 went up in price substantially these past few years after liquidators started running out of them and realized they were hot sellers on ebay. I grabbed a Dell H200 (there's several models / versions - be careful), used a tape trick over a PCI-e pin, and flashed it to IT mode last year. $30 I think it was. In some weirdness, I started seeing M1115 controllers going for only $50 for a while too. I'd just check the forums on servethehome.com and looking for any ebay deals that get posted.

If the controller can only recognize so much of the physical disk and you created your ZFS vdev as disk references rather than partition references like some people do, you shouldn't need to do a resize or replacement of the array once the controller is switched out and begins to report a new addressable size and compares against the currently provisioned block device. You just need to make sure the zpool was created with auto resize (on by default on my distributions). If you really had to, I suspect simply removing / replacing a drive with itself would cause zfs to reindex across the devices in the vdev to fill out the available space (it would have to check the maximum possible size of the vdev upon a forcible refresh basically).

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell



Just got a M1115 for $55 and free shipping, so thanks for the heads up on that.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.




Grimey Drawer

smax posted:

12 drives of questionable age and use history in a RAID 0. What could possibly go wrong?

Just 2 drives at a time guys, 300GB + 300GB is how I got to the 600GB I've got 12 drives total, so if when one of them dies and takes my RAID 0 with it, I can replace it 6 times. And if I just use it for Steam games I can just redownload them so data loss isn't an issue.

Have SSDs recently gotten bigger and more reliable? When I put this PC together a few years ago about 256GB was as big as you wanted to get before you started seeing performance/lifetime issues.

Though I agree a 12 drive RAID 0 (with 2nd hand drives) would be pretty funny to hear about...

Don Lapre
Mar 28, 2001

If you're having problems you're either holding the phone wrong or you have tiny girl hands.


More reliable? What year is this?

DrDork
Dec 29, 2003
commanding officer of the Army of Dorkness

Takes No Damage posted:

Have SSDs recently gotten bigger and more reliable? When I put this PC together a few years ago about 256GB was as big as you wanted to get before you started seeing performance/lifetime issues.
They have been more reliable than spinning disks for quite some time. Not sure who told you there were issues with "big" drives--whoever it was was an idiot, as the larger the SSD the better the performance and less likely you are to run into any cycle count issues, and that's been true pretty much from day 1. Not that it matters at this point--even your run of the mill SSD is likely able to saturate the SATA interface you'll probably stick it on, and anything 256GB or larger will almost certainly outlast there rest of the system it's in anyhow.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.




Grimey Drawer

I got all that from the SSD thread, but as I said it was a few years ago so I'm sure the technology has improved. At the time the thread was recommending pretty much exclusively Samsung in either 128 or 256GB.

And as an update it turns out this is even better than I thought! This damn thing was only 2/3 full, and of the 8 drives only 5 are 300GB, the other 3 are 146GB Oh well, I can still mix-n-match them and make a series of 450GB RAID 0s for a handful of my bigger games, that's still worth the price to me of 0 dollars. But holy shit I don't want to imagine how heavy this thing would have been with another 4 drives in it.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

Bless You Ants, Blants



Fun Shoe

The price is zero dollars, your time, electricity bill, SAS HBA, and the inevitable hearing damage.

Internet Explorer
Jun 1, 2005





Oven Wrangler

Don Lapre posted:

More reliable? What year is this?

Apparently there year where we are talking about reusing hardware with 146GB drives.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

Bless You Ants, Blants



Fun Shoe

Thanks Ants posted:

Heads up that the latest DSM release fixes the SMB permissions problem where you couldn't set them from Windows (you'd get an RPC failure and something about the machine not being on the domain). I hope the venn diagram of "people running AD" and "people running Synology" has quite a small crossover but I know they aren't uncommon to use as backup repositories.

And another release, Update 6 is now out because there was some vulnerability in it. DSM 6.0 is off to a pretty rocky start.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.




Grimey Drawer

Thanks Ants posted:

The price is zero dollars, your time, electricity bill, SAS HBA, and the inevitable hearing damage.

You seem to have read around the part where I pulled the drives out of the chassis, I'm not using that anymore mainly for the reasons you just mentioned.

Internet Explorer posted:

Apparently there year where we are talking about reusing hardware with 146GB drives.

I like to salvage old stuff and keep it useful for something. I still remote into an old IBM Thinkpad running Lubuntu that I just hung a bunch of USB drives on as a ghetto file server. I don't know why, it's just kind of fun to me to get obsolete gear working again. Maybe I have Modern Computing Poo Brain

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

Bless You Ants, Blants



Fun Shoe

You'll still need something that talks SAS to run those disks off.

Skandranon
Sep 6, 2008
fucking stupid, dont listen to me

Takes No Damage posted:

Just 2 drives at a time guys, 300GB + 300GB is how I got to the 600GB I've got 12 drives total, so if when one of them dies and takes my RAID 0 with it, I can replace it 6 times. And if I just use it for Steam games I can just redownload them so data loss isn't an issue.

Have SSDs recently gotten bigger and more reliable? When I put this PC together a few years ago about 256GB was as big as you wanted to get before you started seeing performance/lifetime issues.

Though I agree a 12 drive RAID 0 (with 2nd hand drives) would be pretty funny to hear about...

I just bought and install 2x1TB Samsung 850 EVO drives and set them up as RAID-0, going swimmingly so far. SSDs are great, and so much less hassle than spinning disks. Didn't have anywhere to mount them, so just taped them together and they sit on top of my almost completely useless DVD-RW.

Grog
Mar 31, 2007



edit: Never mind. I just bought the 6TB Red and after it's done scanning, I'm going to see whether I simply misremembered or if these enclosures actually do force you to format again to use a drive through them. That supposedly shouldn't be the case, but I'll find out for certain soon enough.

Grog fucked around with this message at 05:34 on May 8, 2016

D. Ebdrup
Mar 13, 2009



Thermopyle posted:

Also, if I've got a zfs pool of 4TB drives on a SAS1068E controller (which only supports up to 2TB drives) and then move that pool to a controller that supports 4TB drives...what do I need to do to make use of that newly-available space? Will ZFS do it automatically?
I'm almost positive that the autoexpand feature was added in zfs v15, and since your pool is probably at least v15 (if you're kept it updated along with your OS, you should be v28/5000), it should grow if you've set autoexpand to on before switching. If not, all you need to do is export it then import it again.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.




Grimey Drawer

Thanks Ants posted:

You'll still need something that talks SAS to run those disks off.

Just came here to bitch about that. Who's got two thumbs and didn't know what SAS was before tonight? this guy I glanced at the backs of the drives and just assumed they were SATA, oops. So now if I still want to get any use out of these things I'm thinking I'll need something like this RAID adapter as well as a couple of cables to split off the power and data, right? For 6 drives I'm just planning to RAID 0 and throw giant game installs on that's still a reasonable deal maybe I think...

Skandranon posted:

I just bought and install 2x1TB Samsung 850 EVO drives and set them up as RAID-0, going swimmingly so far. SSDs are great, and so much less hassle than spinning disks. Didn't have anywhere to mount them, so just taped them together and they sit on top of my almost completely useless DVD-RW.

Oh no doubt my next PC will be all SSD, I just my current system together right as SSD was the new hotness but not quite there in terms of reliability or cost. It sounds like now they totally are and probably in a few more years there just won't be any reason to get a platter drive at all.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

Bless You Ants, Blants



Fun Shoe

Takes No Damage posted:

Just came here to bitch about that. Who's got two thumbs and didn't know what SAS was before tonight? this guy I glanced at the backs of the drives and just assumed they were SATA, oops. So now if I still want to get any use out of these things I'm thinking I'll need something like this RAID adapter as well as a couple of cables to split off the power and data, right? For 6 drives I'm just planning to RAID 0 and throw giant game installs on that's still a reasonable deal maybe I think...

I mean you could do all that (those StarTech adaptors aren't needed btw as the Adaptec card comes with the SAS fanout cable edit: see post two below this, you just need to make sure you have enough of the right power connectors spare), or you could just buy http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...7-373-_-Product

Thanks Ants fucked around with this message at 12:06 on May 7, 2016

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull


Watermelon Daiquiri posted:

Why not just build something in this bad boy? Yuuuge

I hope nobody ITT actually buys one of those. I have seen a server built with one where every drive bay was filled and everyone involved regretted their poor life decisions before it was first booted up.

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull


Takes No Damage posted:

Just came here to bitch about that. Who's got two thumbs and didn't know what SAS was before tonight? this guy I glanced at the backs of the drives and just assumed they were SATA, oops. So now if I still want to get any use out of these things I'm thinking I'll need something like this RAID adapter as well as a couple of cables to split off the power and data, right? For 6 drives I'm just planning to RAID 0 and throw giant game installs on that's still a reasonable deal maybe I think...

You'd want something like this cable instead:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010CMW6S4

But seriously please reconsider before it's too late! This is an intervention. If it actually was going to cost you $0, that would be one thing, you could certainly justify playing around with them. But because you need a SAS controller, it's going to cost you real money (even if you scrounge for a cheaper used controller), and the problem with putting any money into this is the drives you're rescuing from the garbage are, in TYOOL 2016, objectively pieces of shit. With capacities like 146GB and 300GB and the SAS interface, they are likely to be 10K or 15K RPM drives. That means they're fast -- but they're fast for HDDs. Next to any modern SSD's F1 race car, they are econoboxes powered by hamsters. And the side effect of being what was once a super fast enterprise HDD is that they're going to be obnoxiously loud and power hungry, to the extent that standard PC case HDD cooling may not cut it (especially if you stack a bunch of them in close quarters). To cap it all off, these drives have done years of service, presumably powered 24/7. Even enterprise grade HDDs wear out. They are not on the good side of the bathtub failure rate curve.

BobHoward fucked around with this message at 11:45 on May 7, 2016

DrDork
Dec 29, 2003
commanding officer of the Army of Dorkness

Takes No Damage posted:

It sounds like now they totally are and probably in a few more years there just won't be any reason to get a platter drive at all.
For anything other than mass storage or spiteful cost cutting we're already there--in fact, the inflection point was probably sometime last year. You can frequently find 512GB middle-of-the-pack SSDs for ~$100.

Takes No Damage
Nov 20, 2004

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.




Grimey Drawer

BobHoward posted:

You'd want something like this cable instead:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B010CMW6S4

But seriously please reconsider before it's too late! This is an intervention. If it actually was going to cost you $0, that would be one thing, you could certainly justify playing around with them. But because you need a SAS controller, it's going to cost you real money (even if you scrounge for a cheaper used controller), and the problem with putting any money into this is the drives you're rescuing from the garbage are, in TYOOL 2016, objectively pieces of shit. With capacities like 146GB and 300GB and the SAS interface, they are likely to be 10K or 15K RPM drives. That means they're fast -- but they're fast for HDDs. Next to any modern SSD's F1 race car, they are econoboxes powered by hamsters. And the side effect of being what was once a super fast enterprise HDD is that they're going to be obnoxiously loud and power hungry, to the extent that standard PC case HDD cooling may not cut it (especially if you stack a bunch of them in close quarters). To cap it all off, these drives have done years of service, presumably powered 24/7. Even enterprise grade HDDs wear out. They are not on the good side of the bathtub failure rate curve.

I'm still weighing my options. The drives are all 15k RPM, and while I could move things around so they aren't sitting right next to each other the noise and heat would be a factor. This unit was something that one of our developers got for testing and I guess ended up not needing it, so he just gave it to our IT guy. He took a look and (apparently rightly) decided it wasn't worth messing with and just left it out grabs. So while I don't know their exact history I think they could be considered relatively new. And part of the reason I jumped on this is I'm actually running out of space pretty bad on my main and games/movies drive so I was already looking for a way to split off the big game installs.

Having said all that, yeaaaaaa you guys are probably right. I didn't know SSD had matured so much, I can get a pair of 240GB Mushkins for 120bux and it probably isn't even necessary to RAID 0 SSDs yet so the Samsung that Ants linked would probably be even better. Oh well, it was a fun dream while it lasted. Wonder if anybody on Craigslist wants this fuckin thing

Viper_3000
Apr 26, 2005

I could give a shit about all that.

I hopped on that WD Red closeout at office depot, grabbing 3 of the 3TB drives and re purposed an old machine (e8400) with unRAID. Finally got it set up with Sickrage, Couchpotato, and TimeMachine.

Best. Thing. Ever.

Seriously, how did I go this long without a NAS/home server?

Bonobos
Jan 26, 2004


Viper_3000 posted:

I hopped on that WD Red closeout at office depot, grabbing 3 of the 3TB drives and re purposed an old machine (e8400) with unRAID. Finally got it set up with Sickrage, Couchpotato, and TimeMachine.

Best. Thing. Ever.

Seriously, how did I go this long without a NAS/home server?

How is unRAID these days? Is it preferable / easier to set up than something like FreeNAS? Interested getting it serve files (duh) but also couch potato, time machine for macs at home, etc.

About to buy / build a NAS myself and am also debating on buying NAS appliance like synology or to go with something like a Dell or HP server.

MeruFM
Jul 27, 2010


What's the general opinion on self-contained raid DAS connected to a small always-on pc?
I'm looking at a few 5 bay RAID5 options, but having never done other than RAID0 a decade ago, i'm behind on the times.

http://www.amazon.com/Mobius-trade-...e/dp/B00CH94GMK
http://www.amazon.com/Enclosure-Ter...l/dp/B01DW1X348

And I guess wd red is the way to go for ssd?

This is coming hot off a 6tb dying and spending 6 days recovering it with ddrescue. Figured it's time to be an adult nerd and have proper backup/redundancy.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





DrDork posted:

For anything other than mass storage or spiteful cost cutting we're already there--in fact, the inflection point was probably sometime last year. You can frequently find 512GB middle-of-the-pack SSDs for ~$100.

Yeah, I'd say there's basically no reason anyone buying / building a new computer should worry at all about spinning disk except for digital packrats. My main desktop has a 480GB SSD in it along with the old 750GB hard drive I originally built it with... I think that drive might actually be empty right now because if I don't want to store it on the SSD, I just pull it straight over the network anyway.

Anyone who isn't doing some form of NAS should either jump on that, or just put everything in ~*the cloud*~ and save themselves the hassle..

Storm-
Jan 7, 2007

You win some, you lose some... then you lose some more.



Grabbed two WD 8TB Reds and the screw holes on the bottom of the drives don't match the positions on the Fractal Define R5 tray itself so I can't use all 4 screws. The holes on the sides are the same compared to my older drives but they're unusable with Fractal R5 drive trays.

I was in a rush to install them so I haven't taken pictures of my own. Tried to resize the images found online as best as possible so the drives look the same size, you can clearly see the spacing between screw holes is quite different. Never had issues like these with either my old WD Reds or Seagate drives already installed. Buyer beware, I guess.

fletcher
Jun 27, 2003

ken park is my favorite movie

Cybernetic Crumb

Shaocaholica posted:

Anyone here have issues with Kodi not coming back from sleep? Either not waking, waking the display or coming back with no sound, etc. Basically a broken state after sleep.

I'll check the Kodi thread too. Just covering my bases.

I had that issue, check out my posts on the Kodi thread for details starting with this one.

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E


fletcher posted:

I had that issue, check out my posts on the Kodi thread for details starting with this one.

Thanks boss

D. Ebdrup
Mar 13, 2009



Storm- posted:

Grabbed two WD 8TB Reds and the screw holes on the bottom of the drives don't match the positions on the Fractal Define R5 tray itself so I can't use all 4 screws. The holes on the sides are the same compared to my older drives but they're unusable with Fractal R5 drive trays.

I was in a rush to install them so I haven't taken pictures of my own. Tried to resize the images found online as best as possible so the drives look the same size, you can clearly see the spacing between screw holes is quite different. Never had issues like these with either my old WD Reds or Seagate drives already installed. Buyer beware, I guess.


I've seen disks with this screw-hole layout before and where the holes haven't fit the disk bays on the bottom, the fix has been to just use two screws and get some rubber feet from a hobby shop that's the same height as the rubber feet that are included with the case. The drives can be kept in place just fine and the two extra rubber feet prevent vibrations from the HDD from spreading.

The problem comes from manefacturers using more platters in order to get such a high density in a single drive, a practice that's sometimes used when companies want to deliver higher-density drives when they haven't yet perfected a method for getting more density on each platter - I believe the WD Red 8TB line disks uses 6 1.33TB platters vs. for example 4x 1TB platters in the WD Red 4TB line.

redeyes
Sep 14, 2002
I LOVE THE WHITE STRIPES!

Same thing with the damn 8TB Seagates. Wrong screw holes.

Shaocaholica
Oct 29, 2002

Fig. 5E


Are the 8TB Reds using PMR? Has anything changed with PMR in the last year or so?

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull


Many years ago 2.5" HDDs had a major shift in mounting screw hole location for pretty much the same reason, the difference being that everyone converted all their products and the old mounting hole pattern is a distant memory.

Storm-
Jan 7, 2007

You win some, you lose some... then you lose some more.



D. Ebdrup posted:

I've seen disks with this screw-hole layout before and where the holes haven't fit the disk bays on the bottom, the fix has been to just use two screws and get some rubber feet from a hobby shop that's the same height as the rubber feet that are included with the case. The drives can be kept in place just fine and the two extra rubber feet prevent vibrations from the HDD from spreading.

The problem comes from manefacturers using more platters in order to get such a high density in a single drive, a practice that's sometimes used when companies want to deliver higher-density drives when they haven't yet perfected a method for getting more density on each platter - I believe the WD Red 8TB line disks uses 6 1.33TB platters vs. for example 4x 1TB platters in the WD Red 4TB line.

The Fractal R5 has little rubber feet/grommets that can be inserted into every drive tray so I just used all four feet but only two screws. Should be fine, feet will eliminate any vibrations and it's not like the drives are shaking so hard that two screws won't be able to handle it.

BobHoward posted:

Many years ago 2.5" HDDs had a major shift in mounting screw hole location for pretty much the same reason, the difference being that everyone converted all their products and the old mounting hole pattern is a distant memory.

Yeah, figured the extra platter is in the way, though it does seem likes there is a bit of space in the plastic shell just between the platters and the PCB. Then just adjust the other two holes within the PCB. Though, maybe some internals are in the way, what do I know.

BobHoward
Feb 13, 2012

The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull


Storm- posted:

Yeah, figured the extra platter is in the way, though it does seem likes there is a bit of space in the plastic shell just between the platters and the PCB. Then just adjust the other two holes within the PCB. Though, maybe some internals are in the way, what do I know.

Plastic shell? I only see the HDD's chassis, which is cast aluminum with a really thick black anodize.

The conflict is definitely with the platters. Look at that 2TB drive which still has the old pattern, those 2 holes are almost at the platter centerline. If you want to fill the entire thickness of the 3.5" half height form factor with platters, those screw holes have to go.

KingKapalone
Dec 20, 2005
1/16 Native American + 1/2 Hungarian = Totally Badass

My friend has a used server he built for sale and I don't really know what a fair price for me to buy it would be. Any ideas? I'm just going to look and see if I can find used prices for each component. His labor costs wouldn't apply.

CPU = Intel Xeon E3-1220v3 Haswell 3.1 GHz | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16819116907
Mobo = Supermicro MBD-X10SLL-F-) uATX Server Motherboard | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16813182819
Memory = Kingston 32GB (4x8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600 Server Memory | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820239371
Raid Card = LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i 6Gb/s PCI Express 2.0 RAID Controller Card | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16816118113
Power Supply = EVGA 500 W1 80+ 500W Continuous Power | http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Continuo...ailpage_o00_s00
Hard Drives = (x8) Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5inch Internal Bare Drive | http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Deskt...ailpage_o09_s00
Case = NORCO RPC-4308 4U Rackmount Short Depth 15.25" | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16811219051

smax
Nov 9, 2009



KingKapalone posted:

My friend has a used server he built for sale and I don't really know what a fair price for me to buy it would be. Any ideas? I'm just going to look and see if I can find used prices for each component. His labor costs wouldn't apply.

CPU = Intel Xeon E3-1220v3 Haswell 3.1 GHz | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16819116907
Mobo = Supermicro MBD-X10SLL-F-) uATX Server Motherboard | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16813182819
Memory = Kingston 32GB (4x8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600 Server Memory | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16820239371
Raid Card = LSI Internal SATA/SAS 9211-8i 6Gb/s PCI Express 2.0 RAID Controller Card | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16816118113
Power Supply = EVGA 500 W1 80+ 500W Continuous Power | http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-Continuo...ailpage_o00_s00
Hard Drives = (x8) Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5inch Internal Bare Drive | http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Deskt...ailpage_o09_s00
Case = NORCO RPC-4308 4U Rackmount Short Depth 15.25" | http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16811219051

Can't help you much, aside from suggesting he completely discount the value of the hard drives. You're going to want to replace all of those 3TB Seagates.

Skandranon
Sep 6, 2008
fucking stupid, dont listen to me

smax posted:

Can't help you much, aside from suggesting he completely discount the value of the hard drives. You're going to want to replace all of those 3TB Seagates.

Yeah, you really don't want those ST3000DM001. They are liable to die any day now. You'd have to pay me to store anything on them.

Photex
Apr 6, 2009





PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD 5350 2.05Ghz Quad-Core Processor ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: ASRock AM1H-ITX Mini ITX AM1 Motherboard ($49.98 @ OutletPC)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($57.88 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.89 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($149.89 @ OutletPC)
Case: Fractal Design Core 500 Mini ITX Desktop Case ($59.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 360W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply ($58.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $713.50
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-14 11:10 EDT-0400

Just doing a quick update on this build that I posted about a month ago, I am using unRAID and this setup has been working flawlessly. Running the usual suspects (deluge, couchpotato, sickrage, htpc manager and a discord bot) most of my devices are Kodi based but I do also run a Plex server since I travel sometimes and being able to access it on my iPad or laptop. I have room for one more 4TB which i'll wait till it's really cheap.

Furism
Feb 21, 2006

Live long and headbang


Kind of off-topic but this DiscordApp looks very nice, does it work as well as they advertise? Can you self-host the server?

Photex
Apr 6, 2009





Furism posted:

Kind of off-topic but this DiscordApp looks very nice, does it work as well as they advertise? Can you self-host the server?

Easy way to describe discord is a less serious version of Slack, you can create your own servers which are hosted on Discord's end and you can manage it however you want. You can locate the server/voip channels on the fly to different regions it works really well.

Xenoborg
Mar 10, 2007



My media drive recently died and I'm kicking myself for not having any kind of backup for it. Anything important was backed up, but I'm still annoyed to lose 15 years of assorted crap like downloaded let plays. I vaguely know about RAID and am considering getting 2 drives set up as RAID 1 so this doesn't happen again. I'm not running a server or anything, this would just be for watching on my computer or streaming on my Roku via Plex.

Is RAID the way to go for media on a personal (gaming) computer?
Should I use the build in Windows 10 tool or buy some other hardward/software?

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