Good evening all,
I'm am ready to order parts for my 1st Unraid server after reading about the product for so long and need some recommendations at good price points. I currently have 8tb of data on a 2003 server with 4 terabytes in hardware raid and all the other data as JBOD and am looking to consolidate. I will be using a norco 4020 case for the 20 plus drives. I would like the system to be somewhat power friendly ie low wattage CPU / board / and Powersupply. I will most likely be using all 1tb WD green drives for this build and 1 WD black drive for cache Most of the usage for this server will be as a Streaming media server for ripped Blue ray disc converted to X.264. I am looking to fill all 20 drives in this case. So i need some recommendations for the folowing. Clients are 3 Vista HTPC
1. Cpu - efficient/low wattage enough but powerfull enough to run streaming to multiple clients, torrent serving/downloading, mysql, apache, php, and unraid
2. Board - cost effective with many sata port motherboard (onboard video preferred but not necessary) gig nic definitly a must
3. Sata controller(s) to handle the 20 drives - looking for best cost/ per port/performance (less controllers the better)
4. Powersupply to handle the load - cost/performance/ and reliability is a must ( im not looking to be el cheapo, and i understand the value of a good powersupply)
5. Ram 2 to 4gb of memory, as it shouldnt matter much.
Thanks ahead of time for the recommendations.