carsfreak88 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 hey guys i ran out of room on my htpc and i was thinking about building a unraid server then i found someone selling one locally for what it looks like a good price here are the specs Cooler Master 590 Case GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 Micro ATX AMD AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Brisbane 2.6GHz Socket AM2 PQI POWER Series 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 Western Digital WD Green WD20EARS 2TB x3 Themaltake 430 watt PSU Sandisk USB 4Gig Drive, Loaded with Unraid 4.5 Free version, Unmenu also sleep and wakeup script the price is $300 do u guys think its a fair price for this server ? anything i should check when i go pick up the server? thanks for the help moe Link to comment
newbie_dude Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Harddrives + Case alone makes up for the $300 price tag new. Seems like a good deal if it all works well. How you'd go about figuring that out though, someone more learned will have to say. Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 What that being a used system and older, you may wish to check to see if that Gigabyte motherboard is one that has the HPA problem. (If you want to know about the HPA problem, just search using 'Gigabyte HPA'.) If it can't be turned off, You can't use any of the more recent releases of unRAID--- at least, without some very messy workarounds. Link to comment
carsfreak88 Posted January 11, 2013 Author Share Posted January 11, 2013 thanks for the help i checked the mb and its version 4.0 so i can turn hpa off in advanced setting in bios Link to comment
Zigmo Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I'm looking at purchasing a Gigabyte MOBO and search "Gigabyte HPA" on the forum and this is the only thread that came up in the results. Link to comment
trurl Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 I'm looking at purchasing a Gigabyte MOBO and search "Gigabyte HPA" on the forum and this is the only thread that came up in the results. You are probably doing the search wrong. Click "Home" first then put in your search term. The search function on this forum only searches at your current level. Searches only the thread if you are reading a thread, or only the sub-forum you are browsing if you are browsing a sub-forum. Go to the top level ("Home") and search. Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...are the drives still under warranty? I'd probably ask the seller for a new preclear report (1-3 cycles) on each drive. Since when you're going to receive them without content, running a preclear is a good idea from the seller's point of view anyway ;-) Link to comment
carsfreak88 Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...are the drives still under warranty? I'd probably ask the seller for a new preclear report (1-3 cycles) on each drive. Since when you're going to receive them without content, running a preclear is a good idea from the seller's point of view anyway ;-) hey i picked up the server 2 days ago the seller did show me a preclear report and all the drives passed i am not sure if the drive still under warranty but i guess i can put the s/n in wd website and check Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...oh my..time is flying by faster than it used to do in the good old days Looks like a good seller and a good deal then. Happy unRAID-ing. Link to comment
carsfreak88 Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 ...oh my..time is flying by faster than it used to do in the good old days Looks like a good seller and a good deal then. Happy unRAID-ing. thank you i am still reading alot of learning i am still kind of new to this whole server and unraid system i just check the WD website and all the hard drives are still under warranty till the end of the year so i guss i got lucky Link to comment
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