LordMael Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 (edited) So this is my first unraid build thanks to retiring hardware at one of my offices. The case and a full complement of 4TB WD Black drives along with a supermicro X9SCM-F with 32GB of ram is what came with the case. I had spare E5 2650v2's and extra DDR3 ram lying around so I purchased a used X0DR3-F motherboard online along with the super quiet power supplies. The non 4TB hdd's came from my existing 8 bay synology that i was using previously. OS at time of building: 6.11.1 CPU: 2x Intel E5-2650v2 Motherboard: Supermicro X9DR3-F RAM: 256GB DDR3 Case: Supermicro CSE-846 Drive Cage(s): 24 Power Supply: 2x 900 SQ SATA Expansion Card(s): ARC-1882IX-24 Cables: no idea Fans: All stock supermicro cse-846 case fans Parity Drive: 1x 10TB Seagate Ironwolf and 1x 10TB Seagate EXOS Enterprise Data Drives: 1x 4TB Seagate Constellation, 13x 4TB WD Black, 7x 6TB Seagate Ironwolf, 1x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf Cache Drive: 2x Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD Total Drive Capacity: 106 TB Primary Use: Media Storage and NextCloud Likes: 24 bays of storage capacity Dislikes: the weight... ugh, it's not fun to move while i still don't have a rack for it Add Ons Used: My Servers, Nvidia Driver, rclone, Unassigned devices (and plus), user scripts, plex, nextcloud, swag Future Plans: More VM's for testing things and probably newer CPU / Mobo combo eventually Boot (peak): 413W Idle (avg): 333W Active (avg): 365W Light use (avg): 345 https://imgur.com/0opKlwv https://imgur.com/mvWh5Bh I would like to get the power consumption down but I'm happy with it currently. The hardware used was mostly hand me downs with only really purchasing the used motherboard, cpu heat-sinks, and the replacement super quiet psu's. All in, i think I've only invested around $250. I would not say you can build this for $250 to anyone. The case used alone is more than that on the open market. But, for equipment saved from going to the recycler and going to my house, I'm happy with the cost. [hr] Edited November 8, 2022 by LordMael 2 Quote Link to comment
caynam Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Your rig looks cool man! But why so much ram? 256GB is a bit overkill, isn't it? Mine is just 8GB and it's barely used half of it Cheers Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 I have 32GB and I barely use half of it well. Just keep in mind with 256GB he has plenty of room to Transcode into Ram and other things Quote Link to comment
craigr Posted November 13, 2022 Share Posted November 13, 2022 You sure did score some very nice hardware and make great use of it. The CSE-846 is one of my dream cases, but I don't have the space. 256GB is a lot especially if you want to get power usage down. Unless you are running loads of VM's and dockers you are probably fine with 64GB or even 32GB with moderate virtualization. I'm well under 100 watts idle and still under 300 watts all out. Really nice build though. Quote Link to comment
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