Performance on my network still seemed very snappy and quick. So I set up two RAID 0 drives (600+450) ending up with 2 x ~990MB drives. The PERC 6iR SAS controller needs an update flash, and I was befuddled by the RAID configuration, as RAID 0 & 1 needed drive pairs to enable the virtual drives. Hardware wise, I got two additional drives on rails (450MB SAS, 10K) that I installed in the T310 and started to play with. (4GB for unRAID is still huge from what I can read, and Windows 10 should play well with 8GB). Moving to 12GB might be a good option, because I have a hard time coming up with reasons to need a VM with more than 8GB of memory. But it also means I have to replace the current 8GB in order to go above 12GB on the T310. Lesson learned, get and read the server manual. Seems the T310 is very particular about the type and density of the RAM chips used. I bought 8GB (2 x 4GB) of DIMM off eBay that won’t work with the Dell T310. For many this will probably seem elementary, but for me, this is a log of discovery.įirst. Some new hardware, and getting up to speed. Oh, and I have Verizon DSL, (it beats Comcrap available here.) Any real value, or sell it? Am thinking it might be a good backup at offsite location (safe deposit box). Replace the perc 6i to H700? Wondering if I just add some 2TB SAS 7.2K enterprise drives from eBay instead of upgrading it. will they support 4TB or larger drives?Īny way to check the life use of existing SAS drives? Scientific code runner (eg Blender 3D, Finite Element Codes, etc)Īlready pleased with the speed of the system. Run apps in Docker to aggrigate research (work) articles (IFTTT?) Run VMs for Win 98, XP, 7, 10 and ubuntu studio Mediaserver (music, home videos & movies, plex?) booted.Īdd 4TB or larger ironwolf parity SATA driveĪdd SSD cache SATA drives (2x 32 or 64GB)įileserver/NAS/Personal Cloud (primary use) Adjusted the network ip4 address, prepped the USB drive. The disk controller (PERC 6i) set to was raid 1, but I booted the system the way it was. Adjusted the boot to do a BIOS boot from the internal USB 4GB sadisk micro cruiser drive I had sitting in my pocket - and downloaded unRAID v6.5 trial. I found a good “excessed” Dell Poweredge T310, single Xeon X3340 (4 cores) 2.53GHz with 8GB RAM (DDR3/1066) and 2x 600GB seagate cheetah SAS 10K drives, and dual 400 watt power supplies (for less than $100). So, been a techie for a long time, sometimes a sysop (ran VAX/VMS 11/785 & 8800) - and so I was really interested in unRAID to replace my NAS for my home networking (mainly for semi-pro photography) and run some VMs and apps.
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