Rick Sanchez

Upgrade of my old server using all of the hard drives that I have in my flat, I was left a load of 1/2Tb drives by my late father and it is not worth the hassle selling them So I am going through them, clearing and re-using them in my new and final home server build, hopefully for a long time... Although I might upgrade to WD Reds based on their power consumption, but I'm in no rush!

Just bought another two M1015's as the Intel RES2CV240 was over double in price!

True, I'll phone a couple of companies on Monday and see what I can do. So I need another 2x M1015 of these to handle all 24 drives?

£209 though, the US is £156 from Newegg. I'll see if I can find it cheaper. Can you not run any of these cables directly off the motherboard?

The CPU is being a pain to acquire especially for a decent price in the UK. I can only find one supplier for it and there is a two week wait time, unless I order the v2? Will that be ok? Any suggestions?

That's what I was going to suggest as well or an Antec 1200

Do you want a tower or rack mount case? What country are you in? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

Wow that's a big drop! I shall look in to doing the same...

Is it an audio rack?

How many hard drives mate

Oh cool what cabinet you got? Sent from my Nexus 4 using Tapatalk 2

I thought the power consumption was high

Nice build but why go for WD Reds?

Ah ok. What's the length of the new case?

Ok, how do you mean better caddies? How are they better?

Your case, is it a modified Norco 4224 or a different model?

£50 cheaper though I found a UK supplier

Is this the Norco RPC-4224?

I honestly have no idea. I will do that. Ok. So one of those cables can connect to the SAS port on the case and connect four drives? And the remaining two SATA ports for datastore drives which I assume means ESXI stuff

Is there any other PSU you would recommend as their seems to be only one supplier for that specific PSU... Ok, I'll send my ones back as the supplier told me they were correct. Could I not use the reverse breakout cables to any motherboard SATA sockets? Or is that a bad idea? Honestly, I have no idea, maybe 3? Not sure. I have a 60GB Vertex 2 SSD spare, would that be suitable? It'll be placed in my home office either on my desk or in a rack, all depends on the weight. I was just browsing Xcases website and noticed their is a "homeserver" version, but I couldn't see the difference other than it's length. Is having a shorter case better or? http://www.xcase.co.uk/x-case-home-server-box-p/case-homeserver24.htm

How?

Hi, I am a brand new member, so "hello everyone". This is my current setup: 12Tb File Server: Fractal Design Array R2, Intel D510MO / D510 Intel MN10, 4Gb DDR2 800Mhz. This server runs UnRAID. I love my setup mainly due to it's extremely low powered! But file transfers are painfully slow and it doesn't handle multitasking. I am thinking of upgrading and using ESXi to combine systems into one unit. My major bugbear is power hungry systems especially when electric is not cheap. So I want my new build to draw as little power as possible! My proposed new setup: Case: Norco 4224 - Need to find the 120mm fan plate Motherboard: SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O RAM: 2x 8GB KVR1333D3E9SK2/8G CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 Power Supply: ? SATA Expansion Card(s): 3x IBM M1015 - Purchased: £261.37 New Cables: Total Cost: Hard Drives I already have: Parity Drive: 2TB Data Drives: 17x either 1TB, 1.5TB or 2TB Cache Drive: 1x 500GB 2.5" Total Drive Capacity: Unknown at present as it depends on the state of the hard drives I have Although I am thinking of swapping them all for 3TB WD Red as power consumption is tiny! WD Red: 2TB/3TB: Read/Write 4.4W, Idle 4.1W, Sleep/Standby .6W WD Green: 2TB: Read/Write 4.5W, Idle 2.5W Idle, Sleep/Standby .7W The primary uses of the new server will be: - Computer backups (rsync) - Web server - Virtual machine (Windows 10) - Plex - Home Automation - If possible? What would you change if anything? Does anyone have an idea on how I can work out the potential power consumption on my proposed build? Thank you

Advert you reackon?

Oh yeah! What about light use?

Is this at idle? Could I be a pain in the rear and ask if you you would mind testing that for me please