Janis.S Posted November 10, 2023 Share Posted November 10, 2023 (edited) Low power NAS build After experimenting with different hardware, this is the result of building a compact NAS with support for up to 6 HDDs that consumes as little power as possible. The case layout is not ideal due to the position of the PSU directly above the CPU cooler, but with the Alpenfoehn Black Ridge I was able to find a cooler that fits perfectly in terms of height and blows the air through the heatsink from below. The front cover is magnetic and I replaced the included plastic mesh filter with a custom made magnetic nylon filter. Hardware: Case: Space Auriga 18,9l MB: Fujitsu/Kontron D-3644B mATX CPU: Intel Xeon E-2174G 3,8GHz (iGPU for hardware transcoding) RAM: 2x 32GB 2666MHz Kingston Server Premier ECC DDR4 PSU: Corsair RM550x (2021) PCIe: Delock PCI Express x4 Card > 1 x internal NVMe M.2 Key M CPU-Cooler: Alpenfoehn Black Ridge + Arctic P12 Slim PWM PST 120mm Case Fans: 4x Arctic F9 PWM PST 92mm Parity Drive: 20TB Toshiba Enterprise MG10ACA20TE Data Drive: 20TB Toshiba Enterprise MG10ACA20TE Cache Drive: 2x 2TB SK hynix Gold P31 NVMe Cables: 2x Corsair sleeved molex cable (for sata backplane), 6x SATA to 6x SATA cable UPS: CyberPower VP700ELCD Power consumption with 12 docker running / no VM: Idle (both disks running): 15-17W Idle (both disks spun down): 7-8W Idle (both disks spun down + UPS consumption): 9-10W Temps: CPU (idle): 29-31°C CPU (all cores at 100%): 67°C max HDDs: 27°C HDDs (parity check): 35°c max Edited November 25, 2023 by Janis.S 6 Quote Link to comment
denishay Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 Nice set of photos and nice build. If I may add... if you place your NVME controller in the first PCIe slot, you would have enough space wuth a custom bracket to hold 1 for sure, maybe 2 extra drives there Quote Link to comment
IrishMarty Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 Bought the case off the back of this build and review, many thanks. What are the noise levels like with the 20TB disks running? Quote Link to comment
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