My Unraid for Smarthome and Mediasharing


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little history

 

10 years ago i built my first homeserver with an amd x2 64 6000+ and a normal office pc mainboard. i used basic sata disks and the os was windows homeserver 2011. then, 5 years later i bought a used chenbro sr 107 case with 1 4x backplane and a promise raid adapter but kept the mainboard and cpu.

 

2 more years were gone when i got a cheap supermicro x8sie-ln4f with an intel xeon x3430 and 8gb ram later i got an ibm m5015 raid controller.

I bought a second 4x Backplane and switched to openmediavault as os and it worked for a while but it wasn't exactly what i'm looking for.

 

Then I changed the raid controller to an ibm m1015 hba, flashed it to it mode and tried Unraid in June 2020 and this was exactly the system that has all features that i needed.

 

In November 2020 I replaced the motherboard to x9sca-f with an intel xeon e-3 1220 v2.

 

hardware

 

OS at time of building:

      Unraid 6.8.2

CPU:

      Intel Xeon E-3 1220 v2

Motherboard:

      Supermicro X9SCA-F

RAM:

      Kingston 16 GB ECC DDR3 1333 (4x 4GB)

Case:

      Chenbro SR10766

Backplanes:

      2x Chenbro MiniSAS 4x Disk Cages HotPlug

      2x Chenbro Sata3 1x Disk Cage HotPlug

PowerSupply:

      Inter-Tech Combat Power CP 650W

SATA HBA:

      IBM MegaRaid M1015 (flashed to IT Mode)

Fans:

      Front: 2x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fans with builtin temperature-diode

      Back: 1x Revoltek 120mm Fan

      HBA: 1x Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM 92mm Fan

      CPU: 1x Intel Stock Cooler

 

Drives:

      Parity:

                 1x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

      Data:

                 2x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

                 2x Western Digital Red 3TB 3,5" WD30EFRX

                 2x Western Digital Red 1TB 3,5" WD10EFRX

      Cache:

                 2x SanDisk SSD Plus 128GB 2,5"

      Total Data Capacity:

                 16TB

 

Primary Use:

      Smart Home like OpenHAB, Homematic, ioBroker (vm/docker)
      Datastorage for movies, music, tv-shows, own files and backups (smb shares)

      Recorder for twitchstreams (streamlink-recorder)

      Jellyfin (Mediasharing for FireTV and Chromecast)

      NextCloud (docker)

      TeamSpeak³ (docker)

 

Future Plans:

      add a nvidia gt 1030 graphics card for hw encoding

      SSDs with more capacity

      1 TB HDD replacement with more capacity

      More RAM (32 GB instead of 16GB)

      much better psu

      change all fans and the cpu-cooler to Noctua

      more powerful cpu with 4cores plus ht

 

pictures

 

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the upper one is the productive server, the other one is just my little playground

 

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opened door to access the disks and power/reset-button

 

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Internal view to mainboard, addin-cards and rear-fan

(I have to clean it up and remove the dust) 

 

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view to the backplanes and cable-management

 

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The very simple and basic power supply

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update

 

the hardware updates over the year 2022

 

hardware

 

OS now:

      Unraid 6.11.5

 

CPU:

 

      Intel Xeon E-3 1220 v2

      Intel Xeon E-3 1230 v2

 

Motherboard:

      Supermicro X9SCA-F

 

RAM:

 

      Kingston 16 GB ECC DDR3 1333 (4x 4GB)

      32 GB ECC DDR3 1600 (2x 8GB Micron + 2x 8GB Hynix)

 

Case:

 

      Chenbro SR10766

      Chenbro SR10766+ U3

 

Backplanes:

 

      2x Chenbro MiniSAS 4x Disk Cages HotPlug

      2x Chenbro MiniSAS 4x Disk Cages HotPlug 12Gb/s

      2x Chenbro Sata3 1x Disk Cage HotPlug 6Gb/s

 

PowerSupply:

      Inter-Tech Combat Power CP 650W

 

SATA HBA:

      IBM MegaRaid M1015 (flashed to IT Mode)

 

Fans:

      Front: 2x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fans with builtin temperature-diode

      Front: 2x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fans PWM

      Back: 1x Revoltek 120mm Fan

      Back: 1x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fan PWM

      HBA: 1x Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM 92mm Fan

      CPU: 1x Intel Stock Cooler

 

Drives:

      Parity:

                 1x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

      Data:

                 2x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

                 5x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

                 2x Western Digital Red 3TB 3,5" WD30EFRX

                 2x Western Digital Red 1TB 3,5" WD10EFRX

      Cache:

                 2x SanDisk SSD Plus 128GB 2,5"

                 3x Kingston A400 SSD Plus 480GB 2,5"

      Total Data Capacity:

                 16TB

                 26TB

 

Primary Use:

      Smart Home like OpenHAB, Homematic, ioBroker (vm/docker)
      Datastorage for movies, music, tv-shows, own files and backups (smb shares)

      Recorder for twitchstreams (streamlink-recorder)

      Recorder for twitchstreams (streamlink-recorder/livestreamdvr)

      Jellyfin (Mediasharing for FireTV and Chromecast)

      Teedy (docker)

      NextCloud (docker)

      TeamSpeak³ (docker)

 

Future Plans:

      add a nvidia gt 1030 graphics card for hw encoding

      SSDs with more capacity

      1 TB HDD replacement with more capacity

      More RAM (32 GB instead of 16GB)

      much better psu

      change all fans and the cpu-cooler to Noctua (the stock fans of the new sr107+ are much better than the old ones)

      more powerful cpu with 4cores plus ht

 

new pictures will follow...

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update

 

the hardware updates over the year 2023

 

This year I decided to do a bigger update and changed the platform to AMD instead of Intel.

 

The Ram has no ECC, but I ordered already some with ECC-Correction.

 

 

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Unraid Dashboard

 

 

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closed front in Rack

 

 

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opened front in rack

 

 

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unmounted front

 

 

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opened sidepanel full view

 

 

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mainboard

 

 

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power supply

 

 

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ssd mounts from the back

 

 

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hdd fans

 

 

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backplane

 

 

 

 

 

hardware

 

OS now:

      Unraid 6.11.5

 

CPU:

 

      Intel Xeon E-3 1220 v2

      Intel Xeon E-3 1230 v2

      AMD Ryzen 7 2700x

 

Motherboard:

      Supermicro X9SCA-F

      Asrock Rack X470D4U

 

RAM:

 

      Kingston 16 GB ECC DDR3 1333 (4x 4GB)

      32 GB ECC DDR3 1600 (2x 8GB Micron + 2x 8GB Hynix)

      32 GB ECC DDR4 (2x 8GB 3000MT/s + 2x 8GB 2400MT/s)

 

Case:

 

      Chenbro SR10766

      Chenbro SR10766+ U3

 

Backplanes:

 

      2x Chenbro MiniSAS 4x Disk Cages HotPlug

      2x Chenbro MiniSAS 4x Disk Cages HotPlug 12Gb/s

      2x Chenbro Sata3 1x Disk Cage HotPlug 6Gb/s

 

PowerSupply:

      Inter-Tech Combat Power CP 650W

      Seasonic S12III 500W

 

SATA HBA:

      IBM MegaRaid M1015 (flashed to IT Mode)

 

Fans:

      Front: 2x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fans with builtin temperature-diode

      Front: 2x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fans PWM

      Back: 1x Revoltek 120mm Fan

      Back: 1x Stock 120mm Chenbro Fan PWM

      HBA: 1x Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM 92mm Fan

      CPU: 1x AMD Stock Cooler

 

Drives:

      Parity:

                 1x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

      Data:

                 2x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

                 5x Seagate IronWolf 4TB 3,5" ST4000VN008

                 2x Western Digital Red 3TB 3,5" WD30EFRX

                 2x Western Digital Red 1TB 3,5" WD10EFRX

      Cache:

                 2x SanDisk SSD Plus 128GB 2,5"

                 3x Kingston A400 SSD Plus 480GB 2,5"

      Total Data Capacity:

                 16TB

                 26TB

 

Primary Use:

      Smart Home like OpenHAB, Homematic, ioBroker (vm/docker)
      Datastorage for movies, music, tv-shows, own files and backups (smb shares)

      Recorder for twitchstreams (streamlink-recorder)

      Recorder for twitchstreams (streamlink-recorder/livestreamdvr)

      Jellyfin (Mediasharing for FireTV and Chromecast)

      Teedy (docker)

      NextCloud (docker)

      TeamSpeak³ (docker)

      Crafty 4 (docker)

 

Future Plans:

      add a nvidia gt 1030 graphics card for hw encoding

      SSDs with more capacity

      1 TB HDD replacement with more capacity

      More RAM (32 GB instead of 16GB)

      much better psu

      change all fans and the cpu-cooler to Noctua (the stock fans of the new sr107+ are much better than the old ones)

      more powerful cpu with 4cores plus ht

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