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Preparing your Flash Device for unRaid OS Check that your BIOS recognizes all of your drives.

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After the install, the server can be headless (no keyboard or monitor) using a Telnet client, such as Putty.Īfter you register and login to the Lime-Technology forum, you will need to download these files:īefore starting the installation, you need to do some housekeeping of your BIOS: You will need to register at Lime-Tech in order to download some of these files. An assembled workstation with a keyboard, monitor, and at least two hard drives.Also, backing up your flash drive config is super easy. Also, if your motherboard fails, you can use the flash drive and your existing hard drives without having to rebuild the entire system. This is a nice feature because the OS does not take up a SATA slot that could be used for a hard drive. UnRAID is installed on a flash drive that is used to boot the machine. It should be enough information and explanation to get a Linux newbie running with two data drives and a parity drive (the maximum for the free version) with the most recent version (4.7 Final) on a typical budget PC. What follows is a lean version of the Lime-Tech configuration wiki. The total cost was $290 – $365 depending on using the free version of unRAID.

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1x unRAID Plus $69 or $0 for free version.

Rosewill DESTROYER Black case (3x 120mm fans) $40.

CORSAIR CX430 430W Active PFC Power Supply $44.99.

1x HITACHI Deskstar 5K3000 2TB SATA $74.99.

2x Kingston 1GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory KVR1066D3/1GR $25.98.

Below is my kit and the prices that I paid about a month ago (April 2011). In addition to DIY, there are vendors who sell prebuilt unRaid servers:Īfter some investigation, I decided on a budget motherboard that was not on the HW compatibility list. Power supply: Most Hard Disks consume less than 15 watts each, so the most important aspect is a single 12V rail that is rated around 400 watts. I would purchase the HITACHI Deskstar drives if I were starting from scratch, but any SATA hard drive will work. These are not bad drives, but I made a mistake* with them that required me to rebuild my array. Hard disk drives: unRAID has recently added support for Advanced Format drives and many unRaid users have used the Western Digital EARS green drives. Also, there are some gotchas with network chipsets, but esp. You want at least one PCI Express slot for potential expansion. This gives you up to 10TB of protected data (using 2TB drives) without having to resort to an additional card. Motherboard: The best have six SATA ports on the board. I got two sticks of 1 GB RAM to take advantage of dual channel on the motherboard. Below are some basic guidelines when choosing a system configuration.ĬPU: If you are doing a small to medium sized build (~3-12 drives), then any CPU faster than 2Ghz will do fine. Lime-Tech (the unRAID vendor) publishes a hardware support list, but most systems beyond the list are supported. Once you have decided to try unRAID, hardware is the first decision.

Configure security, optional software, and headless operation.

Create SMB/CIFS shares and set split level.

Verify that the hardware is functioning normally.

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Prepare and boot the USB flash drive with the unRaid software.Discussion of hardware and software requirements.In part two I explain the hardware requirements, preparation steps, and provide a complete walk-through of the unRAID installation process.

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In part one of this series I introduced you to unRAID and explained my reasons for using it to build my next home server. This guide is something like “I wish I had known this before I started.”

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It attempts to explain the tradeoffs and install details of the popular storage alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS). This is part two of a three part series of articles serving as a review and basic install walk-through for the storage server unRAID.

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