Since Raj's latest prototype design chosen motherboard is nowhere to be found, I went with the ASRock 880GM-LE. So far so good, however I'm not an Unraid expert and would appreciate any input in the attached syslog.
Preclear was perfect. I transfered about 1.5 TB of movies already (mostly blu-ray) and I watched a couple of them using a popcorn hour A-200 without a single issue. Yeah, wife wasn't happy this weekend.
OS at time of building: unRAID 4.7 Basic
CPU: 2.7 GHz AMD Sempron 140
Motherboard: ASRock 880GM-LE
RAM: 2 GB Kingston DDR3-1333 (KVR1333D3N9/2G)
Case: Fractal Design Define R3 SE White
Drive Cage(s): N/A
Power Supply: Corsair Builder Series CMPSU-430CXV2 430W
SATA Expansion Card(s): N/A
USB Flash Drive: Kingston DataTraveler 101 G2 8GB
Fans: All stock fans
Parity Drive: 2 TB Green EARS
Data Drives: 2 TB WD Green EARS (1), 1.5 TB WD Green EARS (1, not added yet).
Cache Drive: None
Total Drive Capacity: 8 Drives
Primary Use: media streaming to Popcorn hour A-200 and other computers
Likes: Very quiet.
Dislikes: Nada
Add Ons Used: preclear, unMenu, Mail and SSMTP.
Future Plans: Add more data drives, buy UnRAID Pro Version.
POSIBLE ISSUES:
I think the following errors were related to the EXT2FSD program (driver) used in my main windows computer to tranfer my movies from a popcorn hour to the server. The main computer was unresponsive when I woke up in the morning. As a result of this the network connection with the computer may have been interrupted.
Any advice is appreciate it!
1. While I was transfering 1TB of movies from my popcorn hour internal hard drive overnight, the syslog showed some errors (2nd attached), however the movies were all transfered and the UnRaid Server was running.
2. while navigating through the Unmenu options, Unmenu lost connection with the server.
Can I trust this build to add more hard drives?
1._syslog-2011-07-25.txt
2._syslog-2011-07-24.txt