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    Silent Build: Silverstone DS380 Build [DAEDALUS]

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

    Posted · Edited by Rick Sanchez

    Hi,

     

    I have been running a small UnRAID setup for a couple of years to hold everything; business backups, computer backups, media etc.  But the time has come to separate the content over two boxes, I cannot afford to lose some of the data storage.

    This is my current setup:

    12Tb File Server:

    Case: Fractal Design Array R2,

    CPU & Motherboard: Intel D510MO / D510 Intel MN10,

    RAM: 4 GB DDR2 800Mhz.

     

    I have a lot of spare hard drives laying around my flat, so I will not be upgrading the drives at this present time, I will however use or sell what I have to effectively reduce the total cost of my new home server.  The drives I currently have are:

     

    Parity Drive: 2TB

    Data Drives: 17x either 1TB, 1.5TB or 2TB

    Cache Drive: 1x 500GB 2.5"

    Total Drive Capacity: Unknown at present.  Due to not knowing the state of the hard drives I have and if I can sell them, to help pay for required upgrades.

     

    I love my current setup due as it is extremely low powered system and virtual silent!  My plan is to swap all of my hard drives that are not in use in my computer, media server and my networked attached storage (NAS for short) for a dozen for 4 or 5TB WD Red drives if the reviews of these drives prove to be positive.  I am aiming to purchase WD Red drives purely for their ultralow power draw.  This server project will enable me to downsize all of my IT equipment throughout my flat into one single machine.  I might look into integrating my computer and/or my media centre into the server.  My concern with this train of thought is reliability.  If my server goes down, I cannot do any work.  I will have to think long and hard about this before I make any purchases.

     

    I am upgrading my current setup, with the view of not needing to upgrade for at least 5 or 6 years, hopefully longer.  The aim is to run a couple of virtual machines on my new server using either Hyper-V, UnRAID 6 or ESXi.  This will enable me to combine as many systems as possible into one machine.  Although I have my concerns, the main one being power hungry systems.  There are two reasons for this, the first one; environment.  I try to make my flat and my business as efficient as possible.  The second reason is electric is not cheap in the UK. 

     

    The primary uses of the new server will be:

    Computer backups using rsync or similar

    Virtual machines (Defiantly one that I can run Windows while at university as the campus is all Macs)

    - VM: Home security; IP Cameras

    - VM: Home Automation, maybe?

    - Blu-Ray Film/TV Episodes, Music etc Storage

    - Plex streaming/content provider

    - Backup server

     

    Update

    I’ve moved away from virtual machines at the moment and concentrated on Docker [https://www.docker.com/] which has been a steep learning curve which has been frustrating at times and has caused a lot of late nights!

     

    New Parts Ordered 16/06/2014

    Case: Silverstone DS380 - £107.04 PURCHASED

    CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1230 v3 - £181.86 PURCHASED

    MOBO: ASRock E3C226D2I LGA 1150 Mini-ITX [iPMI] - £130.99 PURCHASED

    RAM: 16GB Kingston 8GB ECC KVR16E11/8 - £119.56 - PURCHASED

    PSU: 450W Silverstone SST-ST45SF-G - £76.14 - PURCHASED

    UPS: APC BR900GI 540 Watts /900 VA - £139.98 PURCHASED

    Total Price: £755.57 – £102 Cashback

     

    Let me know what you think?  Any comments, suggestions or questions are most welcome

     

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