paulvincit

My wife has longevity in her genes, I don’t so it’s highly likely that I’ll predecease her. She’s smart but not particularly tech savvy. Our unraid server has a ton of favorite music, movies, photos, videos .. you get the picture. The unraid web UI is great for me, but I wish there was an appliance like interface for her. As a parallel our home automation system has a programming UI for me but Anne sees a relatively simple control / status dashboard. Ideas would be welcomed – Thanks.

This is in response to a YouTube comment from lapdcrash. I can't post the link on YouTube so I'll do it here. Q:wow, that is? quiet......... Nobody asked yet on the forum, what are you using to hold up the hard drives? A:I'm using metal shelf brackets to hold the array together. The whole thing is attached to the rack by 4 nylon ties and can be removed as a unit in a couple of minutes. Here's a link to the original post where I described this http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1311.msg8879#msg8879

Here's a short 1080p movie clip demonstrating the noise level & vibration (8 drives are spun up). You also get to see the home automation pc (shuttle) and the family room htpc which share the rack.

Some Seagate drives are well known for reporting wrong temperature measures, maybe that's one of them. exactly

The drive reports 30 degrees high. Its actually at about ambient 28 degrees.

It's almost silent, the fans are connected through a speed controller and rotate quite slowly. I should post a movie. The drives don't vibrate. Even though the house has an electrostatic precipitator it does get dusty but it sits next to my air compressor and gets a blow out annually. Disk 15 has always reported 30 degrees high, its actually at 28 degrees (just about ambient).

Its sitting on a metal mounting plate salvaged from an ATX case. The plate is mounted on the wood

Back in 2008 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1311.0 I posted my first attempt to create a headless caseless minimalist server. I thought that I’d post today’s version to show how it evolved. The cool thing is that I can swap any drive, sata cable , or interface board in less than two minutes, the motherboard in less than five. Runs cool and silent too (disk15 reports 30 degrees high, always has)