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On 5/9/2019 at 7:49 PM, interwebtech said:

StarTech.com 12U Adjustable Depth Open Frame 4 Post Server Rack with Casters/Levelers and Cable Management Hooks 4POSTRACK12U Black
2x StarTech.com 1U Adjustable Mounting Depth Vented Rack Mount Shelf
CyberPower OR1500LCDRM1U 1U Rackmount UPS System
NORCO 4U Rack Mount 24 x Hot-Swappable SATA/SAS 6G Drive Bays Server Rack mount RPC-4224
EVGA Supernova 850 G3, 80 Plus Gold 850W Modular Power Supply 220-G3-0850-X1
ASRock EP2C612 WS Motherboard
2x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Six-Core Haswell Processor 2.4GHz LGA 2011-3 CPU
2x Intel LGA 2011-3 Cooling Fan/Heatsink
8x Crucial 8GB Single DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-2133) CL15 SR x4 ECC Registered DIMM CT8G4RFS4213 (64GB)
2x Samsung 970 EVO 1TB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E1T0BW)
2x QNINE M.2 NVME SSD to PCIe adapter
LSI Logic LSI00244 SAS 9201-16i 16Port 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Controller Card
1x NORCO Computer Parallel (reverse breakout) Cable (C-SFF8087-4S)
4x 10Gtek Internal Mini SAS SFF-8087 Cable, 0.5 Meter
2x Gigabit network adapters bonding to single interface
Unraid OS Pro 6.x
1TB RAID1 Cache Pool
2x 8TB parity
15x HDD array @100TB

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I dig your case choice :). You should show us what it looks like inside.

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44 minutes ago, mytime34 said:

Threadripper 2920x (12core/24thread)
32GB ram
10TB NMVE Cache
33TB spinners (24 drive array and SAS HBA, 8ea 3tb, 6ea 2tb)
10GB Ethernet
Watercooled CPU (and soon video cards)
Soon to be added (2ea GTX1070 FTW cards for VMs and rendering)

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I do LIKE your white Thermaltake X9 case. I have 2x Black for some Crunching Rigs, They are AWESOME..

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On 3/12/2019 at 7:40 AM, fr0stbyt3 said:

It's a custom wood frame build roughly based on this guide. https://tombuildsstuff.blogspot.com/2014/02/diy-server-rack-plans.html

My build is a 16U instead of 20, I omitted a few of things like wheels (furniture movers work just fine on wood floors). I don't have a real use for a rear door either.  

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I built something similar.  Like if a 9 year old had tried to build what you built, that's what mine looks like.  I used MDF.  Is that safe to use?  How do you know how much weight it holds?  Maybe I'll have a larger friend sit in mine.  I was going to put 2 servers in mine, but now I'm afraid it could break.  I also wanted to add bracing in like you have built into your rack design but also braces the sides.  How do you add brackets inside and have them sit flush with sides?  I never could get it right and sanding it down to fit takes forever and then I feel like I'm either pushing the side walls out, or will be too small.    My caster holes were not drilled into a 2 by 4 bracket inside like yours are.

 

In how bad shape am I?

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1 hour ago, ezhik said:

 

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What is inside? I like the case. Can you break it down into parts ? Much appreciated.

Absolutely Sir.  Here it is for both unraids:

 

UNRAID -1

- Case: U-NAS NSC-800 Server Chassis

- Power: Model: KW-3011F-1M1

- Mobo: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F - Mini ITX - Intel Atom C2758

- CPU: Intel Atom C2758 4 cores / 8 threads - built in motherboard

- 4 Ethernet ports + IPMI Management Port with license

- RAM: Samsung 32GB ECC (2 x 16)

- USB Drive Sandisk 64G - on the motherboard

- 2 X SSD Drives - Kingston 480GB - cache drives

- SATA: LSI 9220-8i IBM M1015 SAS P20 IT Mode For ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 6Gbps SAS HBA US

- Pcie Riser Cable PCI-e PCI Express 8X Extension pci-e 8X Card

- 8 X 8 TB SATA Segate drives 5200 RPM

 

 

UNRAID -2

- Case: U-NAS NSC-800 Server Chassis

- Power: Model: KW-3011F-1M1

- Mobo: Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F - Mini ITX - Intel Atom C3558

- CPU: Intel Atom C3558 4 cores / 4 threads - built in motherboard

- 4 Ethernet ports + IPMI Management Port with license

- RAM: Supermicro 64GB ECC (2 x 32)

- USB Drive Sandisk 64G - on the motherboard

- 2 X SSD Drives - Kingston 480GB - cache drives

- 1 X NVME Drive - Samsung 960 - 256 GB  - FreeNAS dual boot or cache drive

- SATA: LSI 9220-8i IBM M1015 SAS P20 IT Mode For ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 6Gbps SAS HBA US

- Pcie Riser Cable PCI-e PCI Express 8X Extension pci-e 8X Card

- 4 X  5TB SATA Segate drives 5400 RPM

- 4 X  4TB SATA Segate drives 5400 RPM

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23 minutes ago, johnwhicker said:

Absolutely Sir.  Here it is for both unraids:

 

UNRAID -1

- Case: U-NAS NSC-800 Server Chassis

- Power: Model: KW-3011F-1M1

- Mobo: Supermicro A1SRi-2758F - Mini ITX - Intel Atom C2758

- CPU: Intel Atom C2758 4 cores / 8 threads - built in motherboard

- 4 Ethernet ports + IPMI Management Port with license

- RAM: Samsung 32GB ECC (2 x 16)

- USB Drive Sandisk 64G - on the motherboard

- 2 X SSD Drives - Kingston 480GB - cache drives

- SATA: LSI 9220-8i IBM M1015 SAS P20 IT Mode For ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 6Gbps SAS HBA US

- Pcie Riser Cable PCI-e PCI Express 8X Extension pci-e 8X Card

- 8 X 8 TB SATA Segate drives 5200 RPM

 

 

UNRAID -2

- Case: U-NAS NSC-800 Server Chassis

- Power: Model: KW-3011F-1M1

- Mobo: Supermicro A2SDi-4C-HLN4F - Mini ITX - Intel Atom C3558

- CPU: Intel Atom C3558 4 cores / 4 threads - built in motherboard

- 4 Ethernet ports + IPMI Management Port with license

- RAM: Supermicro 64GB ECC (2 x 32)

- USB Drive Sandisk 64G - on the motherboard

- 2 X SSD Drives - Kingston 480GB - cache drives

- 1 X NVME Drive - Samsung 960 - 256 GB  - FreeNAS dual boot or cache drive

- SATA: LSI 9220-8i IBM M1015 SAS P20 IT Mode For ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 6Gbps SAS HBA US

- Pcie Riser Cable PCI-e PCI Express 8X Extension pci-e 8X Card

- 4 X  5TB SATA Segate drives 5400 RPM

- 4 X  4TB SATA Segate drives 5400 RPM

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Very Nice!

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UNRAID Fanless & Silent

 

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Case:
Streacom DB4 Fanless Chassis


Power:
Streacom ST-NANO120 Pico


Mobo:
Supermicro X11SCL-IF


CPU:
Intel Xeon E-2236 6 Cores | 12 Threads @ 3,4 GHz


RAM:
2x Kingston 16GB DDR4


NET:
2x 1GB Bond (Onboard), 1x Gigabit IPMI


USB-Drive for UnRAID:
16GB Verbatim Store'n'Go USB 3.0


NVME-SSD (VMs & Cache):
Samsung 980 Pro 512GB


HDDs:
3x Seagate ST12000VN0007 12TB

 

VMs:
Windows 10 22H2
Windows Server 2019 & Exchange 2019
Proxmox Mailgateway

 

DOCKERs:
swag
piHole
mariaDB
Nextcloud
vaultwarden
photoprism
airsonic
jellyfin
quake 3 server
unifi controller

jetc...

 

Build this little beauty in the beginning of last year and i am still loving it.

The chassis is a bit expensive but the best case i have ever laid my hands on: well designed and thought out: simply fantastic!

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On 8/28/2020 at 7:30 PM, roncamaro said:

UNRAID Fanless & Silent

 

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Case:
Streacom DB4 Fanless Chassis


Power:
Streacom ST-NANO120 Pico


Mobo:
Supermicro X11SCL-IF


CPU:
Intel Xeon E-2134 4 Cores | 8 Threads @ 3,4 GHz


RAM:
2x Kingston 32GB DDR4 ECC


NET:
2x Gigabit (bond; fault tollerence), 1x IPMI


USB-Drive:
16GB Verbatim Store'n'Go USB 3.0


NVME-SSD (VMs & Cache):
Samsung 970 Pro 512GB


HDDs:
3x Seagate ST12000VN0007 12TB

 

VMs:
Windows 10 2004
Windows Server 2019 & Exchange 2019
Proxmox Mailgateway

 

DOCKERs:
letsencrypt
piHole
mariaDB
Nextcloud
bitwarden
photoprism
airsonic
jellyfin
dokuwiki
calibre
quake 3 server
unifi controller

jitsi (in planing ...)

 

Build this little beauty in the beginning of last year and i am still loving it.

The chassis is a bit expensive but the best case i have ever had my hands on: well designed and thought out: simply fantastic!

A huge shoutout to "spaceinvader one" and everybody in this community introducing me to docker (which i completely neglected since its implementation in UnRaid) what makes this build more versatile than i could have ever dreamed of.

 

What do your temps look like? Considering things can get pretty hot when parity check kicks in, i am curious. This definitely looks great!

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Hi ezhik,

Temps are fine!

I have given the WS2019 & Exchange2019 VM all Cores and sometimes when a CU needs to be applied while theres plus 30° C in my office., the MoBo realizes that the CPU is getting to hot (above 80° C), beeps and cycles the CPU down until the reboot.

That happened as well when the missus put arround 5000+ 4K-Photos in the PhotoPrism-Share after our vacation, letting it render thumbnails in various resolutions until <BEEP> 🙂

 

Despite that:

Wether the CPU nor the Seagate Hdds ever got too hot during patity check, but unfortunatly for me, tests indicate that they don't last very long:

HDD reliability test

The Samsung nvme never exceeded its temperature limit.

 

Nonetheless i would love to have a CPU-threshold for VMs and Dockers in percentage instead of simply reducing cores in UnRaid but that belongs somwhere else 🙂

 

But anywho:

When the cube gets too hot for a few minutes:

Cold blow of a  Hairdryer will do 🙂

 

Best,

Ron

 

 

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On 2/12/2021 at 7:15 AM, jonathanm said:

How are you dealing with ventilation?

The bottom 1RU space is a vent. I also have a 3"x6" hole on the right side of the cabinet space towards the back to let air in (I can also reach the back of the server if need be). the the whole enclosed unit idles between 76f to 78f. I have the thermo controlled fan set to come on at 85f. This thing is brand new so I am in the process of moving about 38TB's of data from my old machine to this new one and with multiple disks spun up or while doing a parity check I can hear the fans come on occasionally but it cools back down to 80f within a minute or so. This closet is in my home office so I usually leave the door cracked open an inch or two. The one heat issue I am having is with my cache drive. I used a motherboard mounted Nvme drive and it gets very hot. I get multiple warnings from the unRAID dashboard while it's in use. Have any of you had this same issue or know if a heat sink would help?

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2 hours ago, Dropkick Murphy said:

This closet is in my home office so I usually leave the door cracked open an inch or two.

If you shave the top and bottom of the door so there is a 1/2 to 3/4 inch gap when it's closed, convection should take care of any heat buildup.

 

2 hours ago, Dropkick Murphy said:

The one heat issue I am having is with my cache drive. I used a motherboard mounted Nvme drive and it gets very hot. I get multiple warnings from the unRAID dashboard while it's in use. Have any of you had this same issue or know if a heat sink would help?

If the drive is actually outside the manufacturers recommended range, then yes, I'd put a heatsink on it. Otherwise, change the global disk alarm temp to match the manufacturer guidelines for the hottest drive, and bump all your spinner drives down to the range you want to see.

 

Ideally you should only get an alarm when something is truly wrong, like a fan gone bad or somebody blocked the closet door.

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On 2/13/2021 at 11:43 PM, jonathanm said:

If you shave the top and bottom of the door so there is a 1/2 to 3/4 inch gap when it's closed, convection should take care of any heat buildup.

 

If the drive is actually outside the manufacturers recommended range, then yes, I'd put a heatsink on it. Otherwise, change the global disk alarm temp to match the manufacturer guidelines for the hottest drive, and bump all your spinner drives down to the range you want to see.

 

Ideally you should only get an alarm when something is truly wrong, like a fan gone bad or somebody blocked the closet door.

I decided to try a heatsink and a fan which dropped the temps about 10C. I will have to test it under load next time I have something to transfer. Thanks for the tips.

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First computer I've ever built from scratch with parts I bought used and cheap lol....its a bit flashy but my kids like it. I love that I cant see any wires behind the glass. It's very quiet, especially to be air cooled. Sits in the living room with hdmi to the tv

 

Xeon E5 2960v3

Asus Deluxe II mb

32GB ram

36TB HDD

Radeon RX580

Two nic's bonded together 

 

 

 

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