Help Help with New 10 drive unRAID Build

What is your budget? the Mobo/cpu/ram should be less then 500 combined.

How many drives do you want your server to be able to support and how much capacity do you need? I would like to have about 10 drives eventually, and i would start off with 8-10 terabytes then get larger.

Is expandability important to you?  If so, what's your long term goal? yes, i would like to be able to hold 10 drives.

Are you interested in running any unRAID Add Ons (see here)?  If so, which ones?  Be specific. Not really, Maybe the firefox one just to keep an eye on the drive status and health.

Do you want to run green/low power drives or faster 7200 rpm drives?  If you don't have a specific need for 7200 rpm drives, then choose green drives. I will only be using WD 2TB Black Cavior Drives, I don't like WD greens since i have had them fail on me before.

Do you have any spare parts laying around that you would like to apply towards your build?  This includes drives. I have a few 2TB WD Blacks

If you already have parts in mind, please oh pretty please post links to them so that we don't have to look them up.

ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS (has 7 sata6 ports)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851

CORSAIR XMS 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 (from what i read 8 is plenty)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145324

AMD FX-6100 Zambezi 3.3GHz Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6100WMGUSBX (will be using stock heatsink unless temp gets high)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103962

Intel PWLA8391GT Desktop Adapter PRO/1000 GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI 1 x RJ45 - OEM (incase Onboard gives issues)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106121

EVGA 512-P3-1310-LR GeForce 210 512MB 32-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Low Profile Video Card (cheapest video card i can trust)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130602

Fractal Design Define XL Black Pearl w/ USB 3.0 ATX Full Tower Silent PC Computer Case (already own, still new in box)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352017

Western Digital Caviar Black WD2002FAEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (already own 5 new in box)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136792

SILVERSTONE ST75F 750W ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V SLI Ready Full Modular Active PFC Power Supply (already own)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817256009

Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000HLHX 300GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive (I have laying around, I heard i can use it as a cache drive?)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136929

My current use of the unRAID box will be to stream my HTPC/XBMC machine, and for me to add the shared drives to any of my 2-3 other windows machine. There will only 1-2 people MAX reading from the server at any time. I will start off with 5 2TB WD blacks, which i beleive will give me 8TB of Storage. Please let me know if this machine is poweful enough so that i can just keep adding drives in the future and if you see any hardware that is problematic, i will be getting the PRO lisence

I built this machine last night, Currently Preclearing the drives. only flaw of this machine is that amount of noise , even with the case fully closed! I need to see what is the actual cause of the noise!

I have built two servers with the same case.  All the fans are pretty quiet, so I'd look at your cpu cooler or PSU first for the source of the sound.  Just make sure none of the fans are hitting anything.

I have built two servers with the same case.  All the fans are pretty quiet, so I'd look at your cpu cooler or PSU first for the source of the sound.  Just make sure none of the fans are hitting anything.

Thanks, i found the problem, I had one of the fans that got separately on high which was at the bottom of the front case, I dropped it to low and poof noise is gone!

So after finally moving over like 4-5 TB of data, takes forever using a 300GB raptor as the cache drive.

Original Build

Drives were relatively hot, wasn't sure if it was just the massive amounts of writes i was making it do or just normal so i used a cheap fan to keep them cool

after the transfer, a quick solution and the drives are running pretty good