tritron Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I am planing on building nas based on node 804 and semptron 3850. So fair I am waiting on node 804 54$ I purchased asrock am1h-itx 29.99$ microcenter and semptron 3850 29.99 I have 4gb of ram Need some recommendation for power supply any inexpensive power supply that will support 12 hard drives ? What inexpensive raid card I can buy, i heard dell raid cards support 3tb+ hard drive and are inexpensive around 50$ Link to comment
tritron Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 I mounted motherboard, cpu and 16gb of ram and 5x 2tb of hard drives and 4tb hard drive. There are some pictures of progress: I am still looing for recommendation on controller card I see something like this for 62$ http://www.ebay.com/itm/191425648415?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT Or is M1015 better Link to comment
chickensoup Posted December 10, 2014 Share Posted December 10, 2014 I'm curious as to why you paired 16gb of ram with a Sempron? Why so much ram with a CPU that doesn't support virtualization? Also I would be cautious with that controller card.. while it says Linux 2.6x, a quick StartPage search (I'm ditching google) revealed uses dual chipsets to get 8 ports based on the Marvell 88SE9705 and I didn't get any search results for that chipset at all on this forum so I'm not sure if it has even been tested. Chipset ref: http://www.sybausa.com/productInfo.php?iid=1433 If you need an 8 port controller card, an M1015 would probably be a better choice though I don't have experience with these personally so I'm not aware of their limitations. Your case only supports 8 drives officially, unless you're planning on getting fancy with your drive mounting I'd go with something cheaper like the Adaptec 1430SA which is tried and tested (I even have one myself) - this will give you 4 drives onboard and 4 drives on the controller card: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adaptec-AAR-1430SA-PCIe-SATA-Raid-Controller-/331387439242?pt=US_Computer_Disk_Controllers_RAID_Cards&hash=item4d283b088a Link to comment
tritron Posted December 13, 2014 Author Share Posted December 13, 2014 IT does I am running server 2012 and arch linux under kvm no issues. It is running open change, doveport, sogo, freepbx under arch linux. Samba is setup as domain master. I also have torrent, couch-potato, sabnzbd and sickbeard running on it. Link to comment
chickensoup Posted December 14, 2014 Share Posted December 14, 2014 Wow, sorry- I didn't realize AMD had a multicore Sempron. Looks like a good setup. Link to comment
tritron Posted December 14, 2014 Author Share Posted December 14, 2014 There is Athlon cpu that is quad core 2.5 ghz and 25 wats also so I may upgrade to it . I am looking for recommendation on card for 8 additional drives. Link to comment
pkn Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 ... I am looking for recommendation on card for 8 additional drives. SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 (or the newer and more expensive SuperMicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 if you wanna be fancy for no other reason). Get it used (server pulls) from eBay for fifty bucks and don't worry - those are server-grade cards, they do perform and they do last. No BIOS flashing, install and forget. Link to comment
pkn Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 ... Need some recommendation for power supply any inexpensive power supply that will support 12 hard drives ? Any of the modern inexpensive power supply will support 12 hard drives. However, common wisdom of unRAID community is - do not cut corners on PSU. Because inadequate PSU might cause problems which are very time- and effort-consuming to debug. Brand of choice seems to be Seasonic. The must is single-rail +12 volts. Power rating you can compute yourself or search this forum. For 12 drives, I wouldn't go with anything less than 600 watts, but I do like overkills, so decide for yourself. What inexpensive raid card I can buy, i heard dell raid cards support 3tb+ hard drive and are inexpensive around 50$ See above... they do support large drives (threshold seems to be 2.2 TBs, not 3). Added: also, look into the unRAID hardware Wiki. Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 15, 2014 Share Posted December 15, 2014 I am interested in upgrading to this case. How is the noise and can you mount fans on top of the hdd brackets? How many fans do you have there and what kind? Link to comment
chickensoup Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 I am interested in upgrading to this case. How is the noise and can you mount fans on top of the hdd brackets? How many fans do you have there and what kind? Here's the manufacturer's page (give the images a few seconds to display): http://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/node-series/node-804 Link to comment
CaptainSpalding Posted December 16, 2014 Share Posted December 16, 2014 Yes I know the promo pages, but I could not get these specs from there. Link to comment
tritron Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share Posted December 17, 2014 The case came with 3 x 120mm Silent Series R2 fans they are silent. Link to comment
tritron Posted December 18, 2014 Author Share Posted December 18, 2014 I get 133 mb/s read write speeds. Link to comment
Reginald Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 I am interested in upgrading to this case. How is the noise and can you mount fans on top of the hdd brackets? How many fans do you have there and what kind? I love this case, you can find my build using it in my signature. The noise is based on a switch on the back of the case, you can turn the fans up and down, I moved mine to a utility room in my house so I don't hear it but it was in my room for about a month and it was silent. I used just the fans included. As far as I can tell there is not enough space but you can put one on either side of both cages. I used just the default 3 fans and I have not had an issue with heat, the room I was in was above a garage and not very well insulated, not very scientific but you know... Link to comment
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