First Unraid Build

[riopgtmn]

Hey everyone, 

 

I've used FreeNAS for years, and simply want to try something new. I have the following stuff from various clients / builds over the years I'd like to put to use. 

 

Chassis : 

https://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/745/SC745TQ-920B

 

** This case has the 743 SAS BACKPLANE W/AMI MG9072 **

 

Motherboard:

http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron6000/SR56x0/H8DGi-F.cfm

 

CPU: I have 2 of these, the board supports 6300 series opteron as well for future upgrades

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113036

 

RAM: Hynex DDR3 1600 ECC, 8x 4GB Modules for 32GB Total. 16 per CPU

 

HDD: Seagate IronWolf 4TB x4 (Extra from a FreeNAS Build)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LOOJBQY/ref=crt_ewc_img_dp_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER

 

SATA Controller: IBM ServerRaid M1115 

 

As far as the OS, I have a few old SSDs to install it on 

 

Questions: 

 

Any problems using the SAS Backplane? Need to wire direct to each drive in the hot swap bays? 

GPU Passthrough on AMD 62/6300 series / This board?

Ease of scaling to 8 drives from 4? 

Thoughts on adding a PCI Blower fan under the M1115 for extra cooling?

 

I'm willing to swap these parts for others per suggestion, 

 

Any other thoughts / suggestions?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2017 by riopgtmn

[riopgtmn]

Any thoughts fellas?

[Vr2Io]

Haven't any experience on SAS backplane, but I think use with SATA HDD should be OK, just all LED / management may not work.

For M1115 ( LSI 2008 chip ), may need to crossflash to LSI firmware. I use those 2008 / 2308 haven't extra FAN for cooling.

 

Anyway I think you cound try to boot to unRAID, no need make any change on any harddisk, the GUI ( don't assign / mount any disk ) would let you know the status / result.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Benson