Mobo and other HW suggestions wanted for new OMV box with ECC

I don't think it's a constellation in it. I believe it to be a ST4000DM000. Also, it's £85, which is a little more than €85.

See here: http://www.ebuyer.com/#/579951

Damn Tapatalk and BB links.. If the link doesn't work, which it isn't for me, goto http://www.ebuyer.com and search for quick find code: 579951

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Nice case. You are making a "gaming" server lol. Also LEDs. I can't say I like the window (personal preference) but you are surely making that boy stand out.
If you can't hide something... make sure none will miss it then.

I doubt it. You can probably get away with using only the two frontal fans sucking air from outside and mounting the heatsink on top of everything with fans sucking air from inside the case.

I think you may be right about the fans. I wasn't intending to go for a gaming rig, we were really annoyed about not being able to have the Node 804 but when we started looking for a full ATX, the case had all the bays needed and the cooling as standard and a ton of room to expand. I know I probably shouldn't have got carried away with the purple LEDs but you have to admit it's going to look shiny lol.

On a different note, just had my mate knock on the door and hand me a small packet guess what it is?

It's got Intel etched on it

It's passed initial tests but I'll make sure I run it through its paces when it's up and running it might still have a fault (although I doubt it). The only small point is that there are a couple of minor marks on the heat spreader, but nothing major. I guess that's why I only paid £350 and a crate of beer for it (oh, and helping change his Cambelt next weekend). Still, a win is a win

@ftriscari

I knew it would be an ST4000DM000

No mention of any warranty stickers or warnings not to open the enclosure. Only on the drive.

I've got the other 2 I need ordered.

Like I said above, I can't see why seagate wouldn't honour a warranty on just the drive if it hasn't been tampered with. I could be wrong, so maybe double check with them unless you don't mind taking the risk. It's about £30 cheaper than the drive itself- sell the enclosure too, and if it all goes wrong you've probably only lost £70 (assuming you can't RMA it). The enclosure was easy enough to get open with some gentle but firm prying with a guitar pick style pry tool and there were no warranty stickers on it, only the drive as you can see. Vids on YouTube:

Edit: RMA, not RMAS.. damn you auto correct. All I seem to do it edit my posts

Couldn't say. I have a single bay Orico that's built really well. If I need to get one of these drives out or use it for something else, I won't be putting them back in the Seagate plasticrappy things that's for sure. They'll be long sold.

Plus, if I remember correctly, the chipset in the original Seagate Desktop drives like the one in the video with the shiny black plastic and obviously more than 2TB (the one I ordered is matt/rubbery) has some kind of XP compatibility crap with it. It split the 4TB into 2 x 2TB in an MBR type partition setup, then kind of pieced them back together. This way, XP could use the 4TB with no extra drivers, but if you got it out the enclosure and plugged it into a normal enclosure or SATA port, it would show as unformatted! I don't know if this applies to these USM ones... They're being marketed for Macs, so it's probably not an included feature as most likely GPT/GUID OTB.

@tekkb your backup setup is similar to mine, but I remove the drive and take it off site. I have the Orico 7618SUS3-BK and I love it. It was £29.99 on eBay a while back. Gotta love that.

@edwardwong not heard of Century, they look good though. Orico definitely wins on price, that's what first attracted me to them.

Bedroom upgrades are here

Just waiting for these now from HK so I can overclock:

Maybe not. But it won't hurt. And the whole lot was £3. I plan to overclock the crap out of them (but without force_turbo=1). I can't imagine they'd run cool.

I noticed quite a drop in temps (don't remember the exact figures) when I got a heat sinks on my first RPi B. The Broadcom in the RPi B throttles when it reaches about 85c IIRC, I'm hoping to avoid it throttling after, say, a LOTR marathon. That's about 11 hours of 1080p for a small chip.

What kind of temps does your 2 reach?

Interesting. Looks like the ARM 7 has made all the difference.

I'll probably still run the fan in it and definitely put the heat sinks on, but if it's as fast as you say, I'm tempted not to overclock it in order to preserve as much life as possible. That said, they're like £29 boards.

Have you tried the Emby plugin for Kodi? I think Luke mentioned that it wasn't great on the original B but it worked on the 2. I'm wondering how smooth it is because Plex and Emby are more resource heavy than Kodi.

Before I moved to a client/server environment for our media, the Gotham build of XBMC worked really well and very fast on my overclocked B, for example, but RasPlex wasn't a smooth experience at all and it was maxed out. Emby is more resource hungry than Plex, in my experience (another reason for this whole upgrade).

I'll probably reassign the original B as an AirPlay receiver or similar.

Really? That surprises me. Being a "server-centric" person (if I may say that) I thought you'd favour a client/server solution over just pointing a client at a share.

I've found quite the opposite. I started on XBMC with a HDD plugged into it. When I got all content moved to the server, it annoyed me because each client needed refreshing when there were changes, then there's manual alterations to do for special editions it didn't pick up and shows it doesn't know, blah blah etc. also, Plex and Emby allow you to continue where you left off on another client OTB Kodi can't do that without a something like a SQL server manually setup.

I think Lifehacker called this something like the great divide or similar lol. Half of them are hardcore Plex and the other Kodi. So you'll never see a Lifehacker article favouring one or the other.