luzankia

Interisting, I was looking to change my LSI SAS2008 for a ASM1166 but, it doesn't seem to be a really good option.

Hello, As you can expect with my posts count, I'm new here. And from France, so expect some misspelling and other awkward sentence... Roughly 35 days in and for now, I regret nothing and learned a lot. Here is my build (and I will calculate the bills alongside). Case : Fractal design Node 604 (40€), a little beaten as the previous owner tryed to fit a µATX in. Processor : Intel i3-8100t (48.80€), used from ebay. Motherboard : ECS H310CH5-M2 (52.90€), the only big part that's new. (4 sata, 1Pci-e 16x, 1PCI-e 1x). Power Supply : a scavanged Silverstone modular PSU (20€) RAM : 16Gb 2*Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G (from my parts bin) Storage : 6*Seagate ST2000DM006 bought new some years ago between 25 and 35€ each on leboncoin. Cache : 2*128Gb sata drives in pool (appdata) from the parts bin and 1 Intel 512Gb nvme from the bin (but 59€ in 2019) too but with a PCI-e 1x adapter (7.96€ from amazon) HBA : LSI SAS2008 in IT mode because 6+2 drives is more then the 4 sata of the motherboard... Also from the parts bin. scews : 2*20 scews for the HDD, you know, the one that go through the rubber dampener (5.29€ from aliexpress). Fan : 1*140mm Noctua NF-P14s as the original one had a broken blade that I didn't saw when I brough the case... (15.90€ from amazon), and a Be Quiet Pure Wings 2 (10.70€) for the front, coupled with a Be Quiet Shadow Wings 2 salvaged from an old project. USB : a Samsung Barplus (16.18€) recommanded by SpaceInvader One with a internal USB to USB2 adapter for 3.50€ because what does not stick out cannot be wrecked. So in total : 456.73€ for a 8Tb+512Gb+128Gb unraid server. It peak at 140w at lauch, 80w with all disk spinning and 31 to 29w in idle. I'm trying to optimize the consumption but I expect the LSI to stop me in going lower then C3. I will probably refactor the server with more optimized component next year (I already sourced a Corsair RM550X for 40€).