Hard to believe it's been nearly two years since my last major home server rebuild, but here's the writeup for that: Home Server Rebuild: S-35-DE5SL, E3-1230v3, E3C224D4I. That server has worked great. My only real complaint was the 16 GB RAM limitation (though I didn't actually need more).
I recently moved into a new house. I actually purchased the house a while ago, but wasn't able to move due to not wanting to make my kids switch schools in the middle of the year. Though the house is in a nice, quiet suburban area, I was still concerned about having it sit vacant. So I took the opportunity to build up a camera PVR system using Zoneminder. The Zoneminder system was built using an Asrock H110M-ITX board, i5-6500 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and a 1 TB Crucial MX300 SSD, all contained in an iStarUSA D-213-MATX 2U chassis. Here's a pic:
My plan after actually moving was to consolidate the Zoneminder system with my existing home server, mentioned above. Unfortunately, the old server didn't make the move for some reason. So I took the opportunity to rebuild it, opting for a Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D 1541), and sprung for 32 GB RAM.
Previously, I used the iStar S-35 case because my old house had space limitations in the "server closet". Specifically, I didn't have room for any rackmount devices deeper than about 10" or so. So I just used a rack shelf and the S-35 case. It worked great!
But the new house has a big unfinished basement, so no space limitations. Now I can get back to "normal" depth rackmount cases. So, wanting to consolidate the Zoneminder system and the home file server, and not wanting to spend any more cash, I decided to put it all in the D-213-MATX 2U chassis I already had.
I was initially concerned about heat/airflow in the 2U chassis; I asked about it in this thread: How much airflow for X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D 1541)?. However, after migrating everything to the 2U case, I ran a couple hours of prime95, and found temperatures were will well within the acceptable range, and only a few degrees C higher than in the S-35 case. Here's a quick pic of the x10sdv in the S-35 case:
Before we get to pics of the finished project, one comment: the D-213-MATX is advertised as working with two 80x25 fans. And that is true. But in my build, there might be room for 80x38 fans. I measured the gap between my current Arctic F8 PWM fans and the hard drives, and it's 13mm. 25+13=38, so a thicker fan might just barely fit. Notice there is some wiggle room with where the drives end up due to "pill-shaped" mounting holes on the HDD brack:
OK, enough rambling! Now for the pics of the (mostly) finished project. I can clean it up a bit more with some zip ties and shorter SATA cables. Even though temps are fine, I do want to get some higher airflow chassis 80mm fans. But for now, it looks halfway decent (or maybe my standards are declining). Certainly not neat, but there are little nooks in which to tuck cables. In case it's not obvious from the pics, I'm using an adapter in the 5.25 bay that supports up to four 2.5" drives. So, total specs for this build:
I recently moved into a new house. I actually purchased the house a while ago, but wasn't able to move due to not wanting to make my kids switch schools in the middle of the year. Though the house is in a nice, quiet suburban area, I was still concerned about having it sit vacant. So I took the opportunity to build up a camera PVR system using Zoneminder. The Zoneminder system was built using an Asrock H110M-ITX board, i5-6500 CPU, 8 GB RAM, and a 1 TB Crucial MX300 SSD, all contained in an iStarUSA D-213-MATX 2U chassis. Here's a pic:
My plan after actually moving was to consolidate the Zoneminder system with my existing home server, mentioned above. Unfortunately, the old server didn't make the move for some reason. So I took the opportunity to rebuild it, opting for a Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D 1541), and sprung for 32 GB RAM.
Previously, I used the iStar S-35 case because my old house had space limitations in the "server closet". Specifically, I didn't have room for any rackmount devices deeper than about 10" or so. So I just used a rack shelf and the S-35 case. It worked great!
But the new house has a big unfinished basement, so no space limitations. Now I can get back to "normal" depth rackmount cases. So, wanting to consolidate the Zoneminder system and the home file server, and not wanting to spend any more cash, I decided to put it all in the D-213-MATX 2U chassis I already had.
I was initially concerned about heat/airflow in the 2U chassis; I asked about it in this thread: How much airflow for X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D 1541)?. However, after migrating everything to the 2U case, I ran a couple hours of prime95, and found temperatures were will well within the acceptable range, and only a few degrees C higher than in the S-35 case. Here's a quick pic of the x10sdv in the S-35 case:
Before we get to pics of the finished project, one comment: the D-213-MATX is advertised as working with two 80x25 fans. And that is true. But in my build, there might be room for 80x38 fans. I measured the gap between my current Arctic F8 PWM fans and the hard drives, and it's 13mm. 25+13=38, so a thicker fan might just barely fit. Notice there is some wiggle room with where the drives end up due to "pill-shaped" mounting holes on the HDD brack:
OK, enough rambling! Now for the pics of the (mostly) finished project. I can clean it up a bit more with some zip ties and shorter SATA cables. Even though temps are fine, I do want to get some higher airflow chassis 80mm fans. But for now, it looks halfway decent (or maybe my standards are declining). Certainly not neat, but there are little nooks in which to tuck cables. In case it's not obvious from the pics, I'm using an adapter in the 5.25 bay that supports up to four 2.5" drives. So, total specs for this build:
- Chassis: iStarUSA D-213-MATX
- Motherboard+CPU: Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F (Xeon D 1541)
- RAM: 32 GB via 2x16 GB Kingston ValueRAM KVR21E15D8K2/32I
- PSU: Antec Earthwatts 380W EA-380D
- HDD: 2x8TB Hitachi Helium, 1x6TB WD Red, 1xCrucial MX300 M.2, 1xCrucial MX300 SATA, 1xIntel 320 300GB SATA
- FANS: case 2xArctic F8 PWM, Delta EFB0512HHA (stock CPU fan)
- ROLES: MythTV backend, Zoneminder, NAS, media storage, family fileserver
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