Hi All, I’ve just finished my first Unraid build. I’m really pleased with how it’s turned out. I basically needed something that was quiet enough to live in our living room. I’d been looking for quiet components, and had heard good things about the Define 7 case. However, props to @phea on their build, after seeing how great that looks, I was sold on the case. I wasn’t disappointed either, it’s a real piece of quality engineering. I’ve built a few PCs over the years, but nothing for at least 10 years now, so quite a lot has changed (I still don’t know what UEFI really is lol). Anyway, we don’t really have a table in our house, so this was all put together on a foot stool. I really wanted to hide this server down the side of the sofa, but had second thoughts when I realised that’s where my wife sits, and she’s known to knock her drink over. It blends in quite well though, just a shame I can’t hide the UPS somewhere.
So my build is:
OS at time of building: unRAID 6.12.6 Trial
CPU: i5 9600k 6c
Motherboard: Asrock z370 Extreme 4
RAM: 64GB Corsair VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 RAM (4x16GB) 3200MHz CL16
Case: Fractal Design Define 7 Mid (White)
Power Supply: CORSAIR RM750x Shift
HBA: LSI 9223-8i
Cables: HBA to SATA (came with card)
Fans: 3 x 140mm stock fans with case. Seem to be working fine, but bought ARCTIC P12 PWM PST (5 Pack) just in case.
HDD Drives: 8 x 20TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro
Cache Drive: 2 x Samsung 980 1 TB PCIe 3.0 NVMe SSD
Download Drive: Kingston 240GB SATA SSD
Total Drive Capacity: 162.24 TB
Primary Use: Data storage, media streaming.
Likes: Very quiet, looks good.
Dislikes: Power LED is a bit much, and ugly UPS next to it.
Add Ons Used: Unassigned Devices, Fix common problems, community plugins, that’s all so far, any suggestions?
Future Plans: Complete preceding, Figure out how to best configure storage: 80TB main array for media, 80TB zfs z1 pool for data, 2x 1TB nvme zfs mirror for cache(possibly upgrade to 2x4tb), 240GB SATA SSD as a temp download disk for Sabnzb??? Advice really appreciated.
Boot (peak): unknown yet
Idle (avg): unknown yet
Active (avg): 124 W (Preclearing so far)
Light use (avg): unknown yet
Really would appreciate any advice and tips, apart from watching a few Spaceinvader One videos and reading some of the Unraid Docs, I’m a complete noob. Thanks!