sam9s NAS Project! powered by Unraid!!

[manniraj]

oops, then can I choose any of below or are there any limitations I need to be aware of

Digilite DL425 ATOM Combo Motherboard | Combo Motherboard | Flipkart.com

Motherboard Atom 410PT (Intel) @ 3,800 all inclusive | eBay

I think most of this combo's will have less sata ports which defeats the very purpose of NAS. The one listed in flipkart has only 2 sata ports. So better to go with a motherboard with atleast more than 4 sata ports as sam suggested which gives you atleast (4*2 = 8TB) of space over the fly. Combo ones will be good for htpc purpose but may not be worth for a dedicated NAS.

Thanks

 

[sam9s]

Thanks sam,

Even I have the gigabyte board in my htpc thought of using this board in my NAS as it has usb3.0 & 6 on-board sata ports. But after looking at your warning in the thread decided to keep this board in htpc and use the asus one. Ok then as you said let me first try with on-board lan and if I am not satisfied then sure will go with the D-Link one.

Its not the streaming that would cause any trouble with on board LAN port, its the data transfer speed, there was a pretty noticeable difference in data copying speed when done with D-Link. When you have to transfer huge 5-10 GB files to the NAS, thats when you feel, the need ...

 

[manniraj]

Its not the streaming that would cause any trouble with on board LAN port, its the data transfer speed, there was a pretty noticeable difference in data copying speed when done with D-Link. When you have to transfer huge 5-10 GB files to the NAS, thats when you feel, the need ...

Oh ok got it. I will need the speed as I have some of huge movie files ripped with upto 20gb in size residing in my hard drive. I would be copying them to the NAS once I set it up. Let me shop around for the D-Link for the cheapest. Thanks again sam.

 

[haisaikat]

I am chosing mini ITX for less power consumption which otherwise will be many times higher for normal micro ATX boards. Any suggestions you can give for mini ITX with SATA abundance with price advantage?

 

[manniraj]

I am chosing mini ITX for less power consumption which otherwise will be many times higher for normal micro ATX boards. Any suggestions you can give for mini ITX with SATA abundance with price advantage?

There are 3 boards available in flipkart but all of them are out of stock. I checked the theitdepot site as well. It has 1 but a gigabyte board and you cannot use the unraid as sam listed in the thread. Almost all these mini-itx boards are having a max of 2 sata 3gb/s ports. I have not seen any with more than 2 in online.

Thanks

 

[haisaikat]

There are 3 boards available in flipkart but all of them are out of stock. I checked the theitdepot site as well. It has 1 but a gigabyte board and you cannot use the unraid as sam listed in the thread. Almost all these mini-itx boards are having a max of 2 sata 3gb/s ports. I have not seen any with more than 2 in online.

Thanks

Can I then lock one of these sub 4K ITX boards and later on fit a SATA PCIE Card for additional SATA ports? Will that be equivalent?

 

[sam9s]

^^ Yes you can add a PCIE card to get more sata ports, but the card will have a decent price, with that added to ur ITX, I think you can get a decent ATX board for the same.......

 

[haisaikat]

^^ Yes you can add a PCIE card to get more sata ports, but the card will have a decent price, with that added to ur ITX, I think you can get a decent ATX board for the same.......

Okay I get your point but can I not build something that eats less power and can be treated as a separate appliance like Home NAS and not rather another desktop PC?

 

[sam9s]

^^ Actually its just a matter of how you look at it. A NAS/HTPC is actually a Desktop PC. But I understand you wanting to keep the power and space as less as possible. See
price wise we can really built a cheap PC to make it run as a NAS. But when we try to shrink it, thats when problem starts as, then we start to loose out things in order to make it small, like less sata ports, less PCIE slots etc etc.

As far as power goes, a typical simple Dual Core PC with 1GB RAM is all you need. The lowest PSU that CM offers is 350W, which is what I have in my NAS as well. But that does not mean its gonna take 350. Most of the time the PC would run at low power state, and Unraid only spins that disk which is been used rest all are dead until data has to be written or read from it.

I can still suggest quite a few Micro ATX boards with 4-7 Sata interfaces which you can use with CM Elite case, keeping space and power under your desired controll ...

Sapphire IPC-AM3DD785G

Zotac H55-ITX WiFi

Asus M4A89GTD Pro/USB3

MSI H55M-ED55

 

[dheerajjotwani]

sorry to butt in. what price bracket you looking at? give hp n36l a thought. its a much preferred setup for unraid. 6 usable sata Ports. ability to boot from usb. gigbit lan. available with local warranty.

Tapatalk on my cdma S2 !!!

 

[haisaikat]

is there any data read / write test available for the hp n36l and can I keep it on 24x7?

 

[dheerajjotwani]

use google to check data rate. there are plenty reviews out there.

yes you can leave it in. me running it so

Tapatalk on my cdma S2 !!!

 

[vaibhavyagnik]

Try intel nas tool kit. google for it. pretty good bench marking utility IMO

 

[digitalv]

give hp n36l a thought. its a much preferred setup for unraid. 6 usable sata Ports. ability to boot from usb. gigbit lan. available with local warranty.

Any links to local availability and price?

 

[haisaikat]

Sam, can you elaborate the exact problem of gigabyte mother boards with Unraid>?

 

[manniraj]

@sam

Just a quick clarification regarding the D-Link PCI LAN card. I was doing a rough installation of my NAS just to get a hang of it before I go for the proper installation once I take the backup of my 2TB HDD.
So the question if I connect the LAN cable with the D-Link (the lights are blinking) but after I install the UnRAID I do not get the inet address. I believe we need to install the driver for the LAN card (correct me if I am wrong). How do I install the D-Link drivers when I have installed the UnRAID. But when I connect it directly to the mobo LAN then it detects the inet address but does not give the IP address with starts something like 196.x.x.x but instead I get like 169.x.x.x. I have connected the ethernet cable directly to my netgear wifi router which inturn is connected to my airtel modem. I do not have a static IP so how do I go about it..

Thanks in advance.

 

[sam9s]

Sam, can you elaborate the exact problem of gigabyte mother boards with Unraid>?

Apologies haisaikat, for a late reply. The problem is related to a thing called HPA. You can read the troubleshooting and my posts in the followinf thread ...

How to avoid the Gigabyte HPA problem?

I have my post with the same name "sam9s"

@sam

Just a quick clarification regarding the D-Link PCI LAN card. I was doing a rough installation of my NAS just to get a hang of it before I go for the proper installation once I take the backup of my 2TB HDD.
So the question if I connect the LAN cable with the D-Link (the lights are blinking) but after I install the UnRAID I do not get the inet address. I believe we need to install the driver for the LAN card (correct me if I am wrong). How do I install the D-Link drivers when I have installed the UnRAID. But when I connect it directly to the mobo LAN then it detects the inet address but does not give the IP address with starts something like 196.x.x.x but instead I get like 169.x.x.x. I have connected the ethernet cable directly to my netgear wifi router which inturn is connected to my airtel modem. I do not have a static IP so how do I go about it..

Thanks in advance.

Manniraj ..... I dont remember installing any drivers for the card. It was a simple plug n plaay for me ......

Else use the onboard one for now, I shall search for any drivers issues with external card.

Coming to the ip. it should neither be 196 or 169, it would always be 192.168.x.x. Restart the router, restart unraid.

Hope you followed the exact steps for Unraid installation from below ..

Configuration Tutorial - unRAID

when you first boot with Unraid stick you wioll get the following ...

First Boot

Welcome to Linux 2.6.32.9-unRAID (tty1)
Tower login:
Type root and press enter to log into the system. The prompt should change to
root@Tower:~#
which is hereafter referred to as the prompt.

at the prompt type

root@Tower:~# ifconfig eth0

which would give you the internal address router is providing ....

 

[manniraj]

Thanks sam will restart both unraid and router and see the results.

Yes I followed the same guidelines and was able to get into this route:
Welcome to Linux 2.6.32.9-unRAID (tty1)
Tower login:
Type root and press enter to log into the system. The prompt should change to
root@Tower:~#
and then i put in the "ifconfig eth0"
which gave me an inet address starting with 169.x.x.x so had a doubt but I think as you said will restart both the unraid and router and give a try...

thanks

 

[sam9s]

^^ mmm this means your router is using 169 series to provide IP, which is strange and uncommon. Can you check the DHCP settings of yor router.
My Linksys setting looks like this ......

 

[dheerajjotwani]

usually a 169.xxx IP range is allotted when there is an issue in ip resolving. the network card not getting an IP from the router. a hard reset usually solves this problem on router

Tapatalk on my cdma S2 !!!