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^^Poofy is right about HPA causing problems with an unRAID server, however most (if not all) newer Gigabyte MBs have HPA (aka Backup BIOS Image to HDD) disabled by default. If you have a Gigabyte board that you want to use for unRAID and HPA is disabled by default in the BIOS then it's perfectly fine to use (I've used three like this with no problms at all). If you are going to buy a new board then check the manual to see if the BIOS option for Backup BIOS Image to HDD is disabled by default. If this is the case then feel free to buy the board. Just make sure that in either case (used or new board) you don't enable the Backup BIOS Image to HDD BIOS option.
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Can unRAID work with NTFS formats? I currently use Windows 7, though would love to switch to unRAID for my storage needs. I have two 2TB western digital green drives, and one 1TB western digital green drive in my unit with windows 7 installed on an SSD (30GB). All 3 'green drives' are loaded with data, so purchasing another single 2TB drive for redundancy is ok, though I don't have the space to back up what I already have on those 3 drives. What do you know about unRAID?
Thanks.
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In short, no- Unraid can't use already filled NTFS drives. It needs empty drives which it will format with a Linux file system that it uses to do its magic.
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3.2GHz per core = can play 1080p on the CPU
I would spend the $8 bucks just to make your system future-proof.