Any advice on network cabling?
The unRAID users’ favorite place to buy good quality cables and cable accessories seems to be MonoPrice, great prices and quality. Since gigabit networking is very highly recommended (even if you don’t have it yet, you probably will in the future), we recommend Cat5e or Cat6 network cables. Cat5e is the absolute minimum, but Cat6 is better, especially for the future as network speeds continue to climb, and it only costs a little more than Cat5e. The Structured Wiring – How To site has some very good tutorials and pictures and diagrams of network wiring. It covers from designing your network to tools that are useful to the nitty gritty of network cabling, with lots of good advice. Unfortunately, it is a little out-of-date, with no mention of gigabit, Cat6, or Wireless-N, but it still covers the fundamentals very well. See also Running cat6 cables.
