Isamu966

I stated I was looking to keep my Unraid going but was going to add the Synology to mirror. The issue was I lost data with a QNAP about 7 years ago when I saw Unraid. I had time to mess around and build my first unit. I kept it simple, but now I'm working 7 days a week, recently married, looking for a house, and the list is getting longer. I'm hoping to find a good stable motherboard to the the Unraid going and the Synology will just work. One thing about my old build was that the transfer rates felt slow, always around 11-13MB/s, but fast enough all the users didn't seem to notice on streams while working.

Looking more into the Synology makes me want to get the DS1815+ AND get my Unraid up. Maybe that will alleviate some of the headache and keep me up and running. Plus I would finally have a real backup. I see Newegg has 4tb WD Red in a combo, 2 for $250. I was thinking grab 4 hdds for the Synology. There is one listing for a new motherboard of my old model, $50. I can transfer my cpu and ram over. Not too bad to get it up, or should I upgrade? Any known stable builds where the hardware is still available? I keep seeing builds that use old unavailable motherboards. I feel like I'm just getting a little anxious to see if I lost any data and am making rash decisions. My old rig was very good to me. It was kept on almost 24/7, although I can't say it was used constantly. It ran cool and power usage was low. ASUS M4A785T-M AM3 AMD 785G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard CORSAIR CMPSU-400CX 400W ATX12V V2.2 80 PLUS AMD Phenom II X2 550 Callisto Dual-Core 3.1 GHz Socket AM3 80W HDX550WFGMBOX Desktop Processor G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 Forgot to that I currently have 7 hard drives on my Unraid which is also a limiting factor of what motherboard I can get. I haven't been keeping up so I don't know if the Unraid is a finicky as before with what hardware you use.

Thanks for the info.

Really quick question. I may need to replace my motherboard and it's decently old. Running v5, am I able to just blindly plug in hdds to a new motherboard, different model? I'm just thinking about a guts swap of the motherboard only, keeping the Unraid flash stick the way it is. How will Unraid respond to that? Sad thing was, I was swapping out my older 1.5 tb for a 4tb when I tried to start it back up: - it would not output on the monitor - there was no led indication on the case - I never heard a beep from POST - keyboard numlock and scrollock lights will not work - and after replacing the power supply, all indications above hold true So I suspect it's my motherboard. Because of this, I was thinking about just getting a Synology 8 bay because I find myself without the abundance of time to mess with Unraid. If I do, would I be able to just plug each hdd into an external and transfer data to a new NAS? I was thinking a windows machine should be able to just read the Unraid hdds if the Synology unit can't directly. Thanks ahead of time!