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I'd go HP 1410-24G too. If anything ever goes wrong with it you'll be happy because their warranty is awesome.

What colour are the backplanes? Can you try to check the connectors are aligned properly?

If they're still in warranty I RMA them. If they're not it depends on the state of the drive: No smart errors - backups or externals to transfer through the sneaker-net. Smart errors but seem to be working - sneaker-net drives. Not working well. Put them in a drawer, sometimes stuff from there...

I've read around a lot and seen lots of people using red drives without issue. So I'm planning to use them in my build (20 drives) as well. Other than them I'd be looking at Seagate NAS drives or going up to the enterprise drives. Previously I would have gone for Hitachi or Samsung, but...

Somewhat interested as I probably want to upgrade to a switch that can do inter-VLAN routing at some point. I'd prefer an internal power supply though, and I'd also like to know the routing throughput.

ECC doesn't cost as much more as everyone seems to expect. Maybe $30 more all up, assuming you weren't going for a budget motherboard originally. Though it is hard to find Mini-ITX boards that support ECC, there's only a few of them. If you want data integrity you really should go with ECC...

In terms of space, the racks can (and normally would) sit directly side by side each other, the front and back space would be what you have to consider. That would be a minimum of 'enough space to open the door' at the back and enough space for the depth of your deepest server at the front...

Yeah Crucial or Kingston should be good choices for the RAM. I'd also recommend checking up on that CPU and what the motherboard supports with it. That model CPU has the integrated GPU, but I'm not sure if it can be used for anything on that board.

There is a mod where people place electrical tape over the pins. IIRC this is to get around vendor lock-in though. Have you tried a different slot in the board, some desktop boards will only accept GPUs in the primary slot.

Well you're already looking at spending a lot since that's a gamer/enthusiast motherboard designed with overclocking in mind. So you might as well change to a real server motherboard designed with 24/7 operation in mind and get yourself ECC support and IPMI at the same time. The prices are very...

AFAIK you can only fit 2.5" drives above the drive cage though. So I'd likely use that space for an SSD or two if I made a build in one. The ASRock board and U-NAS chassis would make a nice backup NAS I think. I'd end up wanting to mod it a little with an LCD for status/IP information and LEDs...

If you're concerned about uptime, keep a spare controller handy. If you're concerned about data loss, you should already be backing it up. As described above it doesn't really offer any security for your data. For that you'd want to secure your premises and potentially look at encryption if...

FreeNAS isn't really a light OS... unless you skip ZFS and just use UFS anyway. I'd look around a bit to get an idea of what support will be like for that HBA though, generally LSI HBAs are recommended.

Yes the $600 was just inflated because they were the first selling it. AcmeMicro has the Avoton model for the same price http://www.acmemicro.com/Product/13080/Supermicro-MotherBoard-A1SAi-2750F-Intel-Atom-UP-C2750-8-Core-DDR3-SATA3-4xGbE-1xPCI-Mini-ITX-Retail-MBD-A1SAi-2750F-O?c_id=272 If...

I stopped reading at Z77 motherboard since that means you don't have ECC RAM. ZFS without ECC isn't really a good idea, if things go bad they can go really bad.