- Dec 5, 2012
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First of all, I'm completely *** at hardware, never understood it, never had to. Anyway, so, I'm setting up a small(ish) data PC in my household in order to store the mass amounts of files I currently own (Which, just running off my desktop at the moment is topping about 12TB, and growing by about 50GB per day), so, I started looking around and saw a piece of software that seemed as though it'd work, which, is called "UNRAID" (I'm sure you've heard of it... probably, looks popular). I'm considering buying the double licence (I break stuff, scared the pen-drive will break) 'Plus' (Medium) licence package (Which will allow me to have up to 6 drive, which, I'll be upgrading soon to the "Pro" version (Which is the highest, allowing me to have 21 drives)).
Now, on this computer I felt as though I might as well use the fact it's going to be on 24/7 to my advantage, I'm going to be running SABnzbd+ (A usenet automatic downloader, which, uses a fair amount of CPU power when unraring/verifying the files via par2 files), plex (Media broadcasting software, allowing any computer in the house too watch any file off it, which, when using the 'transcode on the fly' option also uses a small amount of CPU power) and a few other (Less CPU intensive) programs. I'm also going to be buying a few IPCCTV cameras to place around my house and save the data directly to this media PC, then delete the footage after a week (Sound like an easy bash/python script, 'if modification date > EPOC time of 1 week, delete the file. this helps). Long story short, I need a decent data PC in my household.
Since this is my first time building hardware, I have no idea if I missed anything, if the items I chose aren't very good, or, simply that they just won't work together. Here's a list of what I've currently chosen out (Not looked for cheaper prices of these products from other sites yet):-
Case(I realize this seems to have bad reviews about it being a low quality case, but, since it's under the return policy for 30 days, I feel as though I might as well take a gamble and see if it's okay. Also, since this is my first time ordering from newegg (I'm from the UK, I'm moving over to the US, which, is why I need to buy all of this stuff) may I ask if newegg are easy to deal with for returns? Can I just call them up and tell them that the case is low quality & "requires 100 lbs of force to close"
CPU
MOBO
RAM (Seems insanely cheap)
PSU (Is 620W big enough? I plan to, one day, upgrade this to 20ish drives)
GPU (Cheapest item I could find, MOBO didn't include on board graphics. I need this just in case networking doesn't work and I can't SSH/TELNET into the box)
Thanks, Nick.
Now, on this computer I felt as though I might as well use the fact it's going to be on 24/7 to my advantage, I'm going to be running SABnzbd+ (A usenet automatic downloader, which, uses a fair amount of CPU power when unraring/verifying the files via par2 files), plex (Media broadcasting software, allowing any computer in the house too watch any file off it, which, when using the 'transcode on the fly' option also uses a small amount of CPU power) and a few other (Less CPU intensive) programs. I'm also going to be buying a few IPCCTV cameras to place around my house and save the data directly to this media PC, then delete the footage after a week (Sound like an easy bash/python script, 'if modification date > EPOC time of 1 week, delete the file. this helps). Long story short, I need a decent data PC in my household.
Since this is my first time building hardware, I have no idea if I missed anything, if the items I chose aren't very good, or, simply that they just won't work together. Here's a list of what I've currently chosen out (Not looked for cheaper prices of these products from other sites yet):-
Case(I realize this seems to have bad reviews about it being a low quality case, but, since it's under the return policy for 30 days, I feel as though I might as well take a gamble and see if it's okay. Also, since this is my first time ordering from newegg (I'm from the UK, I'm moving over to the US, which, is why I need to buy all of this stuff) may I ask if newegg are easy to deal with for returns? Can I just call them up and tell them that the case is low quality & "requires 100 lbs of force to close"
CPU
MOBO
RAM (Seems insanely cheap)
PSU (Is 620W big enough? I plan to, one day, upgrade this to 20ish drives)
GPU (Cheapest item I could find, MOBO didn't include on board graphics. I need this just in case networking doesn't work and I can't SSH/TELNET into the box)
Thanks, Nick.
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