Hi to All fellow UnRAIDers!
I have a slightly modded CM-690II as a desktop-PC and I love it for the looks and the great ventilation.
So no surprise that I have been toying with the possibility to cram 22 drives into a similar case for my first full UnRaid setup.
Would look nice side-by-side by my desk.
Been running a 6-drive "test"server for a couple of months now and it's been great.
With few weeks of "design" and parts hoarding I feel I'm ready (or mad enough) for the challenge.
The parts I have gathered so far:
CPU: Pentium G620
Motherboard: AsRock Z77 Pro3
RAM: Kingston Valueram 2x 1GB DDR3
Power Supply: CORSAIR AX850
Case: Cooler Master CM-690II White
Hard Drive Bays: a bunch of Cooler Master HDD-Brackets and cages
Expansion Card: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 x2
Hard Drives: 10x2TB Seagate LP & WD Green (for starters)
USB Drive: Kingston DataTraveler G2 4GB x2
UnRaid License: UnRaid Pro License x2
There's my Desktop computer and the new case I will be hacking into.
Desktop started it's life as a full-white case too as I got it well before CM released the B&W version to the public.
Anyways like the all-white interior and rear much more than the black on the B&W.
And here is some of the stuff I'll be stuffing into the case.
Big THANKS to RUUD in the CM-Store.eu for finding me those two 3-drive cages to build onto.
So this is the rough idea...
Two stacks of 11 drives and 6x140mm fans. (3 stacked at the front and other 3 in between the two HDD-stacks.
Will be removing the 5,25" cage of course and hacking into the case quite a lot too.
Hopefully I'll be getting a MB for a test fitting later this week. As you can imagine it will be a quite a tight squeeze.
Have some ideas but have to wait for the MB first to see what's what.
Personally I'm very interested to see if I can pull this thing off?
Wish me luck!
-s.