I just finished building a unraid build…
SuperMicro CSE-846 24 Bay SAS2 BP Server w/ X9DRi-F/2x -$362.63
Replaced the CPUS with dual Intel Xeon E5-2670 -$86.62
32GB 10600R RAM -$38.92
16GB 10600R RAM Salvaged -$0
HPE H240 12GB 2-PORTS INT SMART HBA CARD replaces PCI-2 Card -$37.89
512GB m2 and 480GB sata SSD -$120.13
24 4TB HDDS Salvaged -$0
Unraid license -30 day demo
Right now i am sitting at $646.19 But i am slowly stumbling through unraid - its a fun project to learn. I know I have some old horses in those E5s but for a plex server and some minor vms i think unraid will chug along pretty well.
Right now i am using the PCI NVME as fast cache and the sdd is doing nothing now. I want to use the Sata SDD as second cache but it looks like unraid just barley supports that, since I would rather the dockers sit in the ssd rather than the NVME. I have 22 drives as one pool and 2 drives as parity.
Any suggestions???