Author Topic: Any of the prebuilt pcs at best buy any good for unraid?  (Read 317 times)


Offline mrow

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Re: Any of the prebuilt pcs at best buy any good for unraid?
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2012, 10:17:47 PM »
You can build one yourself for that price that'll be better suited for the needs of unraid. All you need is a motherboard, processor, ram, power supply and a case. Plus hard drives obviously. The power supplies that come in those prebuilt PCs are also usually proprietary and very cheap and won't be able to handle it when you add more than just a couple hard drives. Take a look in the good deals section of the forums for good deals on the components you need to build your own. If you get the components shipped to your house you can have it put together in the amount of time it would take you to drive down to Best Buy to pick it up and bring it home. Putting a computer together is really easy.

Offline neilt0

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Re: Any of the prebuilt pcs at best buy any good for unraid?
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2012, 07:42:49 AM »
The exception would be some of the HP servers like the N40L Microserver (particularly if you can get the £100 rebate) and also the ML110 G7 -- a Quad-Core, 8-Thread Xeon for ~£220 after the £150 rebate (UK).
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