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kjrocker

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  1. Hi! Do I have to apologize for necromancy if I'm OP? Not sure. After a great many shenanigans involving the CPU cooling, the CPU itself, and the BIOS chip, I've finally been able to both boot unRAID and close the case. Now only the first row of hot swap bays is registering. So I bought the following cables: 2 of these: http://a.co/7LX74v9 1 of these: http://a.co/4wqwEpT The bottom row (the working one) is using the 4-to-1 cable, the other two rows (the non-working ones), are using the 1-to-1 cables. I suspect this is not a coincidence, but can't tell where I went wrong.
  2. It is a pity. Thanks for the specific cable breakdown! I feel much better with a motherboard that the case supports without any caveats. EDIT: Update. I couldn't find the recommended motherboard in stock, but I did find a nearly identical model. So for those interested, this one seems a little more available (i.e. I could find it on amazon and nowhere else, instead of nowhere at all) http://www.asrockrack.com/general/productdetail.asp?Model=EPC612D4U-2T8R Oooh that price tag burns, but that's what I get for wanting server components for my server.
  3. Yes, it does. And the chassis does support mATX. It's warning about ATX is that only the top 4 expansion slots will be available. That board actually looks perfect. I haven't fully counted the ports and worked out the cable conversions yet, but I believe you. It has the right amount of RAM slots, and the internal USB 3.0 I want as well. You've saved the day! Thank you! I'm running an unraid w/ virtualized gaming VM right now, and really want to split things up into dedicated and specialized machines for exactly this reason. Servers on server grade hardware, gaming on gaming grade hardware. Servers running games on game hardware is just not my cup of tea.
  4. I've finally settled on the iStarUSA M-3120-ATX 3U for my unRAID chassis. My problem now is determining the correct combination of motherboard and expansion cards to utilize it fully. Documentation says that an ATX board will fit, but be partially restricted, so I can't necessarily rely on the boards build-in sata ports. My current favorite board is this one from Supermicro. By sheer coincidence (seriously), this is also the chassis Linus uses for his home NAS, which is reassuring. It can be done!
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