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SOLD. ------------ This is pretty much a perfect FreeNAS file server and has been serving as such reliably in my homelab. Consists of a SC836 case from circa 2008 or so which had everything overhauled a few years back with 4 PIN PWM SuperQuiet fans (FAN-0104L4), a SuperQuiet 920W PSU and...

Hi Guys I'm looking for the best OS for an NFS san/nas. My requirements is - UEFI Boot - Support for PCI Nvme - Filesystem Snapshot - Filesystem Deduplication - USB Stick Boot optimised - Web Gui (I wanna think of this box like an San Appliance) System is an HPE DL20 Gen9 with 16Gb ram Boot...

** Update - 7 have sold. I now have 3 left. I have x10 WD Red 3TB 3.5" drives that have been used in Unraid and/or Drobo NAS setups in a homelab environment. I have included all the SMART reports in this post with the serial numbers. Each drive will ship in a protective case (see image), so...

Previous post: HERE So last year we had the opportunity to open our over stock of HGST Enterprise and WD drives for sale. I posted here and the reaction was great even though we had some small learning curves and growing pains. We've noticed a lot of our customers are in the server or...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a silent chassis with space for minimum 10 drives, but preferably 15+. (3.5 inch) m-atx would be perfect. -j

Build’s Name: nas01 Operating System/ Storage Platform: FreeNAS 11.2 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G4620 @ 3.70GHz (4 cores) Motherboard: SUPERMICRO X11SSL-F Chassis: Custom. 5mm polycarbonate. Made to fit specific dimensions. Drives: 16 WD Red 3TB, 4 Samsung EVO 860 500GB SSDs, 4 Seagate...

I want to build out a growable NAS using ZFS. I'm a bit confused about the chassis options when looking for chassis with a large number of drive bays. I have seen, on this forum and others, discussion about the supermicro chassis. However, when looking on ebay, I see that these often, but not...

Build’s Name: Dell R730XD NAS/DO EVERYTHING BUILD Operating System/ Storage Platform: FreeNAS CPU: 2 x Xeon E5-2678 12 core 2.5GHz Motherboard: Dell R730XD Chassis: Dell R730XD Drives: Deciding... RAM: 128GB (8x16GB) Add-in Cards: Perc H730 Power Supply: 2 x 750w Usage Profile: Plex Movie/TV...

Hello everyone, I have discovered this forum just a few days ago, but are already blown away by the knowledge and kindness here :) I am currently running Proxmox on an i5-4440 with 32GB non-ECC RAM with ZFS [4x 2TB-WD-RED in striped mittor (each mirror consists of 2 WD-RED) and a mirrored 250...

Finally getting around to selling this. I'm sure everyone is pretty familiar with this system. It was my main home server for near three years and would be an excellent NAS or home router: Supermicro | Products | SuperServers | 1U | 5018A-TN4 Importantly, I had it sent to Supermicro already...

I seem to be having an intermittent problem (potentially related to an update although I cant figure out which one) with my recently purchased LSI 9211-8i. The card came pre-flashed into IT mode and after installing it in my ESXi 6.5 server and passing it through to my NAS install (I use...

Build’s Name: Lion Operating System/ Storage Platform: KVM (CentOS) or ESXi CPU: Intel - Xeon E3-1220 V5 3GHz Quad-Core CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-L9i 33.8 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X11SSH-F-O Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1151 Intel C236 Chassis: U-NAS NSC- 810A Drives: 8x...

Hello all, I would like to build a home server, that will function as NAS + will run Bitcoin, Monero and possibly other cyrptocurrencies in Virtual Machines. I want to run full nodes - these are NOT minig, but they still verify the blockchaian and transactions signatures etc. I am considering 2...

Hi STH community! I'm struggling deciding what to do about an home server with different purposes. The real purpose of the system is to serve as a backup server in sync with my other systems (I was thinking of using Nextcloud). A large hdd would be used as a media/download bucket for torrent...

Build’s Name: Goodbye QNAP, Goodbye paycheck.. Errr, Hello Freedom and Performance! Operating System/ Storage Platform: unRAID CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2620 V4 Cooler: NH-U9DXi4 Motherboard: Supermicro MBD-X10SRL-F Chassis: Supermicro 846 w/ 920 SQ's Drives: 2x8GB WD Easy Stores Shucked White...

Hello, I am trying to pull some parts together from Supermicro and was wondering if you could give me some guidance on compatibility. I purchased a used X9SCA-F motherboard and had the following questions: 1. It appears that if the board is running BIOS revision 2.0 or above that it...

Components: Motherboard - ASRock Rack EPC612D4I Mini ITX CPU – Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 RAM – 4 x Crucial 16GB DDR4-2400 ECC SODIMM SAS Card - LSI MegaRAID SAS 9361-8i OS Drives – 2 x 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD (RAID 1) Data Drives – 8 x 3TB Western Digital Red Drives (RAID 10) Power Supply –...

Just upgraded two of our NAS boxes to the latest FreeNAS 11.1. We're facing the following issues: SNMP service bringing down one box NFS mounts timing out on the other box so no client at the moment can connect via NFS One of the boxes reverted its hostname to 'freenas' (minor issue but...

Hi, I am looking for a cheap "consumer" and used "NAS" enclosure like qnap, synology or wd my cloud. It must have at least 2 bays (it might be diskless), gigabit network interface (or two). and some sort of GUI/web interface where I can set scheduled power on / power off. Cherry on top? usb 3.0...

Hello people, As I read in some forums, some consider a so called "Bitumenbox" (Sorry, I came from Germany so I don't know if this term is also known in English. And 'cause I want to use HDDs for my DIY-NAS I consider to buy or built such boxes but I ave a few questions about this (thought...