HTHTPC Setup Part 2 - The "Beast" unRAID Server

Here you can see my "data center" - or "basement" as the rest of family likes to call it. In this video I show you the structure of the unRAID storage machine. Specifications are as follows:

Case: NORCO RPC-4020 20-bay 4U case
Mobo: ASUSTek M4785-M Motherboard
AMD DualCore CPU @~2.5Ghz
2Gb of DDR2-800 RAM
Processing Drive: Seagate Momentus 500Gb 7200RPM 2.5" HDD
unRAID Server OS Drive: 2Gb USB FLASH Stick
19 x 2TB WD20EARS "Green" drives @ 5400RPM
1 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda Drive @ 7200RPM
This equals 20TB total, 18TB usable and 2TB for "parity" redundancy.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• +xbmc
• +unraid
• +htpc
• +media
• +server

[Tophicles]

Good question! The beauty of unRAID is that all the drives can be totally different capacities! You can always replace smaller drives with larger ones later on down the road...

[Tophicles]

Thanks, Mike! I'm aiming to do another, much better video as soon as I get my new SATA controller and cables!

[Tophicles]

Thanks for the feedback! I'll add another, better quality video when the 8-port SATA controller arrives later this week (hopefully) :)

[shafashaban]

Nice vid. I'm trying to build my own beast. One question, do the drives have to be the same capacity or can i build a pool from different sized hard drives?

[mikeyoung38]

same here would like to see more on the beast and your unraid software setup

[FURBY8704]

great video! i'd like to see more on the "Beast". I currently have mid tower case with an old duo core moboand 4gb of ram. it consists of 6tb=4tb storage+2tb parity. how much was your setup??.i need to expand my sata slots to add more lol