Hello all of you amazing people.
First of, let me just thank you for ALL of the help you guys have provided already, it's truly fantastic how much I've learned from you guys and how well you've explained everything I've needed to know!
I'm creating a NAS for my business, and I've found a slightly more elegant solution, to get a more aestheticly pleasing setup, but before I go ahead and buy any hardware, I wanted to run it buy you guys and get some input. I do apologize for the following text becoming quite lengthy, but I'm looking for all the input I can get, as I want to make sure it doesn't fail on me in the future.
I want to build a workstation in a SilverStone Technologies RM42-502, no specs there yet, I'm only posting it to show the aesthetics I had in mind, to further understand the choise I want to make.
Then I want to make a NAS Server, originally I was going to use an RM400, but I've found the SilverStone Technologies RM201, which have the same aesthetics as the RM42-502, but only being a 2U instead of the 4U the RM400 offers. Because of the layout of the RM201, I would limit myself to only having 3x 3.5" Hot-Swap bays, but if I change to 2.5", I'll be able to get 8x Hot-Swap bays, using the SilverStone Technologies FS208. This have a 70mm fan and unfortunately Noctua doesn't make 70mm fans and unfortunately there's no dBA information on SilverStones website. I can't imagine it being quiet though, running at 3.000 rpm.
For storage I'd either use SSDs, although the do cost more, the 1TB WD Red SA500 is fairly affordable in my country (Denmark), otherwise there's the 1TB WD Red Plus 2.5" HDD. Another benefit of using this setup is, I don't have to buy an HBA card, as the Supermicro X11SCH-F comes with 8 SATA3 ports, enough to cover my needs there. This is just overkill for a NAS server, but using RAID1 on the 2 NVMe will give me plenty of space and good stability to run UNRAID.
For a CPU I'm going to run an Intel Celeron G4900, both for it's low power, but also for it's iGPU. I need that to be able to run both Plex Media Server and stream 4K edits for costumers at locations. This APU have a thermal solution specification of 65W from Intel, but I'm planning on replacing that with a Noctua NH-L9i, as it's reasonably quiet and should be able to perform the job. To create ample airflow through the server, it's my plan to fit 4 Noctua NF-A8 ULN fans.
My only real concern about this is the Hot-Swap cage and the noise of the 3.000 rpm 70mm fan, but I've never built a server before and I'd like some feedback if this is underestimating the cooling solution?
Best regards and thank you for sticking with that much text, once again I do apologize.
First of, let me just thank you for ALL of the help you guys have provided already, it's truly fantastic how much I've learned from you guys and how well you've explained everything I've needed to know!
I'm creating a NAS for my business, and I've found a slightly more elegant solution, to get a more aestheticly pleasing setup, but before I go ahead and buy any hardware, I wanted to run it buy you guys and get some input. I do apologize for the following text becoming quite lengthy, but I'm looking for all the input I can get, as I want to make sure it doesn't fail on me in the future.
I want to build a workstation in a SilverStone Technologies RM42-502, no specs there yet, I'm only posting it to show the aesthetics I had in mind, to further understand the choise I want to make.
Then I want to make a NAS Server, originally I was going to use an RM400, but I've found the SilverStone Technologies RM201, which have the same aesthetics as the RM42-502, but only being a 2U instead of the 4U the RM400 offers. Because of the layout of the RM201, I would limit myself to only having 3x 3.5" Hot-Swap bays, but if I change to 2.5", I'll be able to get 8x Hot-Swap bays, using the SilverStone Technologies FS208. This have a 70mm fan and unfortunately Noctua doesn't make 70mm fans and unfortunately there's no dBA information on SilverStones website. I can't imagine it being quiet though, running at 3.000 rpm.
For storage I'd either use SSDs, although the do cost more, the 1TB WD Red SA500 is fairly affordable in my country (Denmark), otherwise there's the 1TB WD Red Plus 2.5" HDD. Another benefit of using this setup is, I don't have to buy an HBA card, as the Supermicro X11SCH-F comes with 8 SATA3 ports, enough to cover my needs there. This is just overkill for a NAS server, but using RAID1 on the 2 NVMe will give me plenty of space and good stability to run UNRAID.
For a CPU I'm going to run an Intel Celeron G4900, both for it's low power, but also for it's iGPU. I need that to be able to run both Plex Media Server and stream 4K edits for costumers at locations. This APU have a thermal solution specification of 65W from Intel, but I'm planning on replacing that with a Noctua NH-L9i, as it's reasonably quiet and should be able to perform the job. To create ample airflow through the server, it's my plan to fit 4 Noctua NF-A8 ULN fans.
My only real concern about this is the Hot-Swap cage and the noise of the 3.000 rpm 70mm fan, but I've never built a server before and I'd like some feedback if this is underestimating the cooling solution?
Best regards and thank you for sticking with that much text, once again I do apologize.