This is a long thread and lots photo. Basic goal is create a home lab and also a home nas environment + home media hub
My Network Diagram
My network Equipment
My first build of the node is using UNAS NSC800 Chassis with Intel I7-6700T with ASRock C236 WSI. I was a bit disappointed due to the chassis only support mini-ITX and the board only support 32GB of RAM.
Adding a 10GBe NIC is no hassle, however, I am not too fond of how air flow through CPU heatsink with this chassis design. So I sell it after a month of usage, though CPU never go above 40C due to its a I7-6700T CPU
My First PVE Node is using Silverstone CS280 with Asrock C236 WSI4-85.
It is a All Flash Array with 6 Samsung Enterprise SSD 960 GB using E3-1585v5 CPU which intended for testing VDI solution provided by Intel GVT-G.
NSC 810a is a well design chassis for 8 bay nas due its air circulation and it supports a m-atx motherboard
It has two revisions, one with a side USB 3.0 port another revision with two side USB 2.0 ports
I have to take the back+case fan off in order to reorganizing back-plane 4 PIN power cable
Now there is no objects blocking the case fan air flow
The revision with two side USB 2.0 Port
UNAS provided a PCIe expander, nice build quality. Durable and not easily ripped.
My Second PVE Node is built with UNAS NSC 810a Chassis, Supermicro X11SAE-M and Interl E3-1275v6
The board has two USB 3.0 ports which support the chassis with Front and Side USB 3.0 ports
It also has USB 3.1 x2, DVI/DP/HDMI, USB 3.0 x2, USB 3.0 x2 and HD Audio Output, which is very suitable serve as a media hub/output center
The PCI slot amused me.... who still using it anyway?
Its M2.PCIe Slot, decide not to use it due to potential air flow issue ( doubtful capable of keeping nvme ssd cool)
The board installed
Intel 750 SSD and Mellanox Connect3x EN NIC is added via soft pcie-expander Intel 750 SSD is using as ZIL and Cache for the ZFS Pool
PCIe Devices side view
I do have to buy extension cables for this board inter to get front power sw/reset sw to work. Its PSU which also in included by UNAS
I don't like this board that much due to it does not have USB 3.0 Type on the board itself and it is lack of ipmi feature. But I guess you can't have both multimedia features and server management features all in one board. The big boomer is that the board's default bios will not work with E3v6 cpu, you need an Intel 6th gen CPU or a E3v5 cpu to update the BIOS to latest version in order to get it working.
My Network Diagram
My network Equipment
My first build of the node is using UNAS NSC800 Chassis with Intel I7-6700T with ASRock C236 WSI. I was a bit disappointed due to the chassis only support mini-ITX and the board only support 32GB of RAM.
Adding a 10GBe NIC is no hassle, however, I am not too fond of how air flow through CPU heatsink with this chassis design. So I sell it after a month of usage, though CPU never go above 40C due to its a I7-6700T CPU
My First PVE Node is using Silverstone CS280 with Asrock C236 WSI4-85.
It is a All Flash Array with 6 Samsung Enterprise SSD 960 GB using E3-1585v5 CPU which intended for testing VDI solution provided by Intel GVT-G.
NSC 810a is a well design chassis for 8 bay nas due its air circulation and it supports a m-atx motherboard
It has two revisions, one with a side USB 3.0 port another revision with two side USB 2.0 ports
I have to take the back+case fan off in order to reorganizing back-plane 4 PIN power cable
Now there is no objects blocking the case fan air flow
The revision with two side USB 2.0 Port
UNAS provided a PCIe expander, nice build quality. Durable and not easily ripped.
My Second PVE Node is built with UNAS NSC 810a Chassis, Supermicro X11SAE-M and Interl E3-1275v6
The board has two USB 3.0 ports which support the chassis with Front and Side USB 3.0 ports
It also has USB 3.1 x2, DVI/DP/HDMI, USB 3.0 x2, USB 3.0 x2 and HD Audio Output, which is very suitable serve as a media hub/output center
The PCI slot amused me.... who still using it anyway?
Its M2.PCIe Slot, decide not to use it due to potential air flow issue ( doubtful capable of keeping nvme ssd cool)
The board installed
Intel 750 SSD and Mellanox Connect3x EN NIC is added via soft pcie-expander Intel 750 SSD is using as ZIL and Cache for the ZFS Pool
PCIe Devices side view
I do have to buy extension cables for this board inter to get front power sw/reset sw to work. Its PSU which also in included by UNAS
I don't like this board that much due to it does not have USB 3.0 Type on the board itself and it is lack of ipmi feature. But I guess you can't have both multimedia features and server management features all in one board. The big boomer is that the board's default bios will not work with E3v6 cpu, you need an Intel 6th gen CPU or a E3v5 cpu to update the BIOS to latest version in order to get it working.
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