phea

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  1. No special tools, I took the right angle connecter from power sata adapters. It splices into existing cables. I do recommend a flat head to push down on the wire to get good contact. I found the sata cables on amazon for cheap Also, i took recommendation not to group the SATA cables so closely and instead left them looser. I did get an error in the array but it was able to resolve it self. Idle with (no HDD's spinning), windows vm and a handful of dockers running. 27watts. Parity check (all HDD's spinning) 162watts.
  2. From a non-technical standpoint, I can report that so far so good. Regarding if it is safe or not, I would have to defer to any electrical engineers. Here was my mindset going into the build - Use a 12v single rail PSU - Not go crazy with power splitters (ended up removing the connectors and adding it to the original as pictured). I figured the weakest point would be at an adapter/splitter. - Majority of the disks will be spun down idle. Utilizing this server mainly for plex and I organized the structure so that a group of media (example season 1 of a show) to be on a single disk. - Hopefully my punchdown technique of the power connectors is adequate. Since there seems to be a lot of concern on safety, I found some info on the wire itself. AWM STYLE 2468 18AWG 80°C 300V Cable specifications: conductors gauge (AWG) 18 material bare copper cord size (strands) 41 x 0.16 jacket material 80°C, 48P, PVC color black diameter (mm) 4.4 ± 0.10 electrical properties rated voltage (V) 300 rated temperature (°C) 80 rated current (A) 7 insulator resistance (Ohm/Kft) 2.5 operating temperature (°C) -10 ~ +80 resistance at 20° C (Ohm/Km) max 23.2 spark test (Kv) 3.0/4.0 humidity rating <75% I didn't know about crosstalk or bundling could be an issue. I just did some quick searches and found a lot of people talking about it as you said. I'm curious to see what symptoms would occur if it happened. For example, i'm not noticing performance degradation as my parity rebuilds are averaging 180-220 MB/sec. I would be concern if there is any data corruption. I appreciate everyones comments and feedback and I take it constructively whether positive or negative. So far i'm really happy with the build and unraid has been fabulous. Thank you for recognizing that there was a lot of time and effort put into this and I also want to make sure my investment lasts. The remaining 4 SATA cables are actually right under the 4 that you see on top. However taking a second look, you really cant see that there are 8 cables running to the side from that angle.
  3. Hi All - wanted to share my first Unraid Build. The Define 7 fit my criteria of having enough space and being quiet. The build was very easy and enjoyable. Only caveat was having to buy additional hdd mounts (I ended up purchasing more than i needed), it comes with 6. I currently have 10 hdd in place but you could have 11 vertically. Fractal designs give you options to mount the HDD all over the place, but wiring would be a headache. If you want more than 11 HDD, I recommend going for the XL. Happy to answer any questions. FD-C-DEF7A-01 Intel i5-10400 GIGABYTE W480 VISION W LGA 1200 Intel W480 Cache - Intel SSDPEKNW010T9X1 665P 1TB - 2x Array - WD Gold 10tb - 10x Seasonic FOCUS Plus 650 Gold SSR-650FX