[Simple appliance interface for unraid.]

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.

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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

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How loud does it get?

 

Do the drives vibrate?

 

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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.

 

 

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I just love this build. I would however be worried about the 58Degree drive.

 

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

 

 

exactly

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I just love this build. I would however be worried about the 58Degree drive.

 

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

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Novel!

 

How loud does it get?

 

Do the drives vibrate?

 

Does it get dusty?

 

Why is drive 15 at 58 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).

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Very interesting!  I assume the fans are blowing upwards?  Is the motherboard on some sort of mounting bracket, or is it just sitting on the wood?

 

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

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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)