Smurf's monster 40TB unRAID NAS build [Part II]

Iccz

Carrying on from this thread here:

http://www.avforums.com/forums/networking-nas/1347547-smurfs-monster-40tb-unraid-nas-build.html

Last few posts:

                                                                                ON31L said:                                                                                                                can i ask where you bought your supermicro SATA  expansion card from ? and for how much ? many thanks                                Click to expand...       

                                                                                andyjayh said:                                                                                                                Got mine from Scan, approx £85

Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 8-Port SAS/SATA Card - Scan.co.uk                                Click to expand...       

                                                                                ON31L said:                                                                                                                thanks andyjayh !                                Click to expand...       

                                                                                jericho said:                                                                                                                how do i work out what mine is                                 Click to expand...       

                                                                                saguk1234 said:                                                                                                                You need a watt meter. You can get them from ebay for under £10.                                Click to expand...       

ON31L

just wanna be the first on the part 2 to comment and say its a amazing build !

Smurfin

Thanks!  I can't believe it's got to 1000 posts!  It was a couple of AVF members who got me onto unRAID in the first place, but I can't remember who they were to thank again

RajP

I am getting to the point where I need to build a NAS and am going to follow what you have done with a little less storage!!! Welll done!!!

saguk1234

Wow this thread has gone very quiet! Nearly a year on from my build and everyhthing (but the writing speed) is going perfectly. The writing speed has gone weird. Where I used to get a constant 42mb/s the speed has been dropping until now it keeps bouncing up and down from 24mb/s to 52mb/s.

Smurfin

Happy with mine too   Need 4 more drives to reach max capacity (16 currently), but looking at the prices now....the words sod that spring to mind   Don't really need them either...

saguk1234

I am thinking of changing my setup entirely so that I can use 10 x 3tb drives in a Fractal Design R3 case. The reason for this that the Xcase RM420 is big and ugly and takes up alot of space. I currently am using 15 x 2tb drives.

Has anyone managed to use 3tb drives without any other sizes hdd on their Unraid?

alpashm

i read unraid supports 3tb drives fine.  As long as you upgrade your parity drive first it wont cause a problem Parity drive always has to be bigger than any other drive.

Smurfin

I'm a bit out of the loop on unRAID now since I've not needed anything after completing my build.  I need a couple more HDDs now but I've noticed some have already dropped in price.  Can anyone comment as to whether either of these two drives are ok (I'm running unRAID Pro v4.7).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-EcoGreen-5400RPM-SATA-II-Internal/dp/B0042SGDVG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1323609120&sr=8-3

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-ST2000DL003-Barracuda-3-5-inch-5900RPM/dp/B004C0WVP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323609120&sr=8-1

Thanks

saguk1234

Would this be better?

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/home/product/49931/WD-Caviar-Green-WD30EZRSDTL---Hard-drive---3-TB--?source=googleps