18,9l Low power NAS build

[Janis.S]

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

[denishay]

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

 

[IrishMarty]

Bought the case off the back of this build and review, many thanks. What are the noise levels like with the 20TB disks running?