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Oh you will need the custom bios if you want to use the cdrom sata for a HDD. Top drive should be fine with a normal 3.5" to 5.25" bracket.
 
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krycor said:
Anyone have suggestions for the following hardware.. my one HDD failed and thinking of speccing my storage server properly this time round..

1. 5x 3TB drives.. effectively to give me +/-9TB + 3TB. Not sure which drives are best for this.. will do 4 initally im thinking. Not sure where i can get these ideally not insanely priced.
2. Raid card for the above.
3. N54L HDD bracket for the top drive (i think its like side panels u attach to drive, dont mind that its tied in/not hot swap).


Basically my box is for storage predominately. My previous box did the downloads, sorting & plex hosting. this time round im thinking of using it same as above but moving the process intensive stuff to a separate machine i.e. apple mini server but till then it will have to do it too(yes i know not too ideal but last time round it wasnt too much of a bottle neck).
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Consider using UnRAID which runs off a flash drive and therefore frees up a slot and doesn't require the RAID card.

Also does a **** load more for $60 odd.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
Consider using UnRAID which runs off a flash drive and therefore frees up a slot and doesn't require the RAID card.

Also does a **** load more for $60 odd.
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yah been reading and thinking of doing a 4 drive software raid with vmware on boot/usb and using the extra top bay for the drive with vms (data being split). Thing that i was thinking was i didnt want to map the hdd manually to the vm(raw mapping) but i guess thats the only way to do it
 
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krycor said:
yah been reading and thinking of doing a 4 drive software raid with vmware on boot/usb and using the extra top bay for the drive with vms (data being split). Thing that i was thinking was i didnt want to map the hdd manually to the vm(raw mapping) but i guess thats the only way to do it
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Well even more reason to use Unraid as it's a VM host out of the box straight on the RAID bare metal.

****

I'm yet to test it myself...waiting for cash for new 3/4TB drive so I can rebuild the disaster that is Windows 10 Storage Spaces.
 
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SauRoNZA said:
****

I'm yet to test it myself...waiting for cash for new 3/4TB drive so I can rebuild the disaster that is Windows 10 Storage Spaces.
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Slightly OT, but what issues did you have with Windows 10 Storages Spaces? Was thinking of running a Plex server using Storage Spaces on my old desktop PC (already upgraded to Windows 10). I have 3 4TB WD Red drives, so parity would give about 8TB capacity with redundancy (am not too concerned with the big hit on write performance)
 
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morkhans said:
Oh you will need the custom bios if you want to use the cdrom sata for a HDD. Top drive should be fine with a normal 3.5" to 5.25" bracket.
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Not true - Can run a HDD in there with the stock bios.

Source: I do it with 3 of my microservers

I'm aware there's a slight performance hit, but I can still max out a GB LAN connection, so all is well.
 
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OK. Never tried it. Just went straight for the custom bios when I needed 5 drives. Think it will run at 1.5. Which might be an issue if you're running RAID.
 
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I want to upgrade to Windows 10 on my n54l. Is there going to be any issues? What BIOS version is required? Am I goint to have problems with my onboard network adapter?
 
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I bought some extra RAM and am trying to install it. Can't remove the "disk" connector, cable doesn't move and motherboard is bending.

Any advice?
 
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The Secret Turnip said:
I bought some extra RAM and am trying to install it. Can't remove the "disk" connector, cable doesn't move and motherboard is bending.

Any advice?
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It's tight. Just press the release clip as hard as you can and pull straight up.
 
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Saw 2 videos. One the guy has it already disconnected, so we don't see him struggling I guess. On the other one it comes easy, but mine won't move.
 
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The Secret Turnip said:
Saw 2 videos. One the guy has it already disconnected, so we don't see him struggling I guess. On the other one it comes easy, but mine won't move.
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Mine also struggled the first time. While pressing the release try push it down and then up. Came down to bit of force on the release button and some up and down wiggling for me.
 
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