Hi

 

This is my first build and runs about a week.

At the moment I use 6 3TB disks

 

OS: unRAID 5.0beta9 Pro

CPU: ATOM 510

Mobo: Supermicro X7SPA-HF

RAM: 4 GB Kingston 1x2GB, DDR2, SODIMM, PC5300, CL5

Case: Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum

Drive Cage(s):  3x Norco SS500 with Cooler Master Casefan Ultra Silent (80mm) runs about 12 deg above ambient temp

Power Supply: Corsair Builder CX430 V2

SATA Expansion Card: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 (have to buy when expand)

 

Parity Drive: 3 TB Hitachi 5K3000

Data Drives: 3 TB Hitachi 5k3000 (5)

Total Drive Capacity: 14 Drives

 

Power

Server standby 2W

Server boot max 125W

Server disk spin down 32W

 

Rob

Looking clean!  I love that case with those drive bays.  Sure wish that case was more easily available in the US...

Nice Build Rob, you did study the forum very well and took the best out with the parts available over here. Just love those Supermicro Atom Boards !!

 

Calling yourself a Newbie and starting like this !! :-)

 

Keep on going with those 3TB (or more) disks in the future and it will give you 14 -1 parity = 13 x 3 = 39TB minimal in your setup. And that in a normal midi-tower : WOW

 

I will stick to the 2TB models for now , just personally think the price difference is too big at the moment. (Also because i don't fully need it at the moment)

 

Do you also have pictures of the inside? just curious !! 

 

!!!!!

 

crap. that's a nice build.

low power, yet 14 drive capable.

Very nice case. I would totally use that same build with 3x SM cages (modded for silence).

 

what bios are you running on the SM board?

I noticed the "Intel storage manager option ROM" on my boards are pretty old (original version). I was wondering how it would work with 3TB drives.

 

there is a newer bios out. unfortunatly, I could not get it to flash from a USB drive. I figure i would have to make a floppy image and use the virtual floppy in the IPMI.

Hi Johnm

 

Don't now which BIOS Rom it runs but it runs so I don't want to change anything.

I mod the Norco's with other fan's and it's silent now.

But I have only 3HDD in each case,maybe with 5 per case it's not enough airflow.

 

Rob