Howdy guys, lets start with a couple of teaser pictures (ignore the clutter and mess I have 2 kids under 5 ):
I've been floating around the forum for a few months now offering and seeking advice when I can.
I even had the opportunity to meet @Patrick at the HPE conference in June ~ really smart, solid dude, and is as awesome as he seems.
I've finally found a groove for my NAS and part selection for my build for my first 'real' STH post.
I've been researching and hunting for a solution to replace my QNAP NAS. While the QNAP is great it was really pricey and I'm not getting the value out of it I was hoping for. While trying out various OS'es and collecting parts the past few months I finally settled on unRAID. I like the drive spindown, ease of use, single drive expand-ability, and dataloss handling in catastrophic scenarios ~ particularly since a large portion of the usage is for Plex so performance is back burner to efficiency.
So lets go with the parts list next... and yes, that is 15 hard drive slots plus the 3x 5.25" bays :
Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F (3008 flashed to IT-mode)
Xeon E5-2660 v3
Crucial 8x 16GB DDR4-R 2133
4x HUSML4040ASS600 Hitachi 400GB SAS SSD (Cache/VM Storage)
(The above parts were purchased from other members , shout out to @Esxi Novice, @sfbayzfs, @Spotswood, and @uppie1414)
Corsair 750D (w/ 3 extra HDD enclosure bays) ~ 20 data drives 4 cache drives
1x CSE-M35T-B1 (5x 3.5")
Dell H310 flashed to 9211-8i IT-mode ~ Snagged from work
Dell 9206-16e
Mellanox ConnectX-3 CX322A Dual port 10gb SFP+
Nvidia Quadro P600 ~ Passed through to Plex VM ~ (Upgrade to a P2000?)
4x x500GB Samsung Evo SSD (raid 10 brtfs)
2x 8TB WD Ultrastar SAS DC HC510 (parity)
18x 8TB WD White Shucks (have 15 currently)
PSU - RM 850x
Custom build DAS case made by @Spotswood ~ 10 data drives
1x CSE-M14TQC (4x 2.5")
2x CSE-M35T-B (5x 3.5")
4x 400GB Hitachi SAS SSD
10x 8TB WD White Shucks
PSU - Corsair CX600M
Only missing a few pieces bolded above (I'm waiting for the BF/xmas deals to pick up some more easystores).
All said and done should be just over 200TB usable .
I'll be posting more pictures and updates as I start moving the parts and pieces into the case.
Comments, suggestions, and feedback is welcome ~especially around PSU/parity drive selection
(the shucks are kinda set in stone as they're hard to beat on price).
Cheers!~
I've been floating around the forum for a few months now offering and seeking advice when I can.
I even had the opportunity to meet @Patrick at the HPE conference in June ~ really smart, solid dude, and is as awesome as he seems.
I've finally found a groove for my NAS and part selection for my build for my first 'real' STH post.
I've been researching and hunting for a solution to replace my QNAP NAS. While the QNAP is great it was really pricey and I'm not getting the value out of it I was hoping for. While trying out various OS'es and collecting parts the past few months I finally settled on unRAID. I like the drive spindown, ease of use, single drive expand-ability, and dataloss handling in catastrophic scenarios ~ particularly since a large portion of the usage is for Plex so performance is back burner to efficiency.
So lets go with the parts list next... and yes, that is 15 hard drive slots plus the 3x 5.25" bays :
Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F (3008 flashed to IT-mode)
Xeon E5-2660 v3
Crucial 8x 16GB DDR4-R 2133
4x HUSML4040ASS600 Hitachi 400GB SAS SSD (Cache/VM Storage)
(The above parts were purchased from other members , shout out to @Esxi Novice, @sfbayzfs, @Spotswood, and @uppie1414)
Corsair 750D (w/ 3 extra HDD enclosure bays) ~ 20 data drives 4 cache drives
1x CSE-M35T-B1 (5x 3.5")
Dell H310 flashed to 9211-8i IT-mode ~ Snagged from work
Dell 9206-16e
Mellanox ConnectX-3 CX322A Dual port 10gb SFP+
4x x500GB Samsung Evo SSD (raid 10 brtfs)
2x 8TB WD Ultrastar SAS DC HC510 (parity)
18x 8TB WD White Shucks (have 15 currently)
PSU - RM 850x
Custom build DAS case made by @Spotswood ~ 10 data drives
2x CSE-M35T-B (5x 3.5")
10x 8TB WD White Shucks
PSU - Corsair CX600M
Only missing a few pieces bolded above (I'm waiting for the BF/xmas deals to pick up some more easystores).
All said and done should be just over 200TB usable .
I'll be posting more pictures and updates as I start moving the parts and pieces into the case.
Comments, suggestions, and feedback is welcome ~especially around PSU/parity drive selection
(the shucks are kinda set in stone as they're hard to beat on price).
Cheers!~
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