Build’s Name: Home 'All In One' Server
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Usage Profile: Plex Server, VM's, Storage Server
This is a build thread for my home server i've been keeping since January 2017, thought it would be worth posting here. Using a modified Fractal R5 case, Raspberry Pi and Display and some other custom bits.
Here's a fnsished (for now) picture, with a rather long build thread below:
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Way back in January 2017..........
Initial build - Phase 1
New Fractal Design R5 case arrived along with all the other bits and pieces to build.
Picked up an Asus - P8Z77-V motherboard for a good price on eBay, ideal as has lots of onboard SATA ports.
Decided to go for x2 140mm fans at the front as will have lots of disks. Got rid of and sold the Fractal ones that came with the case and installed some Corsair ML140’s.
Reusing the Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz from my old server. Will look into swapping out for a ‘K’ version at some point for some overclocking.
Starting to group together the various cables and braid together to keep things tidy.
Trial fitting some old RAM I have, will be a tight fit so will look into other options.
Got impatient waiting for my new RAM to arrive so put in the old sticks and got thing up and running. Have 16GB but want 32GB as will be running a few VM’s.
New RAM arrived, went for some Corsair - Vengeance LP 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600. Low profile so fits without any problems, kinds goes with the loose blue colour scheme too.
Added some custom black PCI slot covers ad didn’t like the look of the white Fractal ones.
Decided to make some custom SATA power cables to keep things neat. Did a few calculations and one rail from the PSU can easily cope with the max draw at boot of all the disks.
Installed the drives and added some 90 degree SATA cables. Decided to have the connections at the front rather than the back as looks more interesting, although not quite as practical for removing disks.
Done, everything installed and working correctly. A little messy at the back but couldn’t be arsed to try and make some custom length SATA data cables.
Nice and tidy at the front with plenty of space to add another bank of disks when I inevitably run out of space. Easy to do now in Server 2016 as it supports rebalancing. Running dual parity so gives me 21.84TB of storage with 2 disks redundancy.
Full Spec: PartPicker Link
Usage Profile: Plex Server, VM's, Storage Server
This is a build thread for my home server i've been keeping since January 2017, thought it would be worth posting here. Using a modified Fractal R5 case, Raspberry Pi and Display and some other custom bits.
Here's a fnsished (for now) picture, with a rather long build thread below:
___________________________________
Way back in January 2017..........
Initial build - Phase 1
New Fractal Design R5 case arrived along with all the other bits and pieces to build.
Picked up an Asus - P8Z77-V motherboard for a good price on eBay, ideal as has lots of onboard SATA ports.
Decided to go for x2 140mm fans at the front as will have lots of disks. Got rid of and sold the Fractal ones that came with the case and installed some Corsair ML140’s.
Reusing the Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz from my old server. Will look into swapping out for a ‘K’ version at some point for some overclocking.
Starting to group together the various cables and braid together to keep things tidy.
Trial fitting some old RAM I have, will be a tight fit so will look into other options.
Got impatient waiting for my new RAM to arrive so put in the old sticks and got thing up and running. Have 16GB but want 32GB as will be running a few VM’s.
New RAM arrived, went for some Corsair - Vengeance LP 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600. Low profile so fits without any problems, kinds goes with the loose blue colour scheme too.
Added some custom black PCI slot covers ad didn’t like the look of the white Fractal ones.
Decided to make some custom SATA power cables to keep things neat. Did a few calculations and one rail from the PSU can easily cope with the max draw at boot of all the disks.
Installed the drives and added some 90 degree SATA cables. Decided to have the connections at the front rather than the back as looks more interesting, although not quite as practical for removing disks.
Done, everything installed and working correctly. A little messy at the back but couldn’t be arsed to try and make some custom length SATA data cables.
Nice and tidy at the front with plenty of space to add another bank of disks when I inevitably run out of space. Easy to do now in Server 2016 as it supports rebalancing. Running dual parity so gives me 21.84TB of storage with 2 disks redundancy.
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