First Unraid- Coffee Lake ITX

[rbmatt1s]

I introduced myself here when I was planning to move to Unraid.

 

Took me a few hours but I'm up and running with the following specs:

Hardware

SilverStone DS380B (with the cardboard ducting)

SilverStone SST-ST30SF PSU

AsRock H370M-ITX/AC

Intel Core i3-8100

Noctua NH-L9i Cooler

2x Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 case fans

Noctua NA-SRC10 Low Noise Adapters all around (my Unraid is in our bedroom so it has to be silent)

16GB G.Skill DDR4

Internal USB 2.0 to Female USB connector

Storage

Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB Fob

Cache Pool

2xSamsung 840 EVO 250 GB

Parity

5TB WD Green (w/ Idle Timer Reset)

Array
3x5TB WD Green (w/ Idle Timer Reset)

 

Software:

Unraid 6.6.5

 

Right now the machine is building the Array.

Attached are the pics.

As you can see, it needs better cable management. That said, I'm not really sure how you can "manage" 6 SATA Cables inside of such a tiny case.

 

Also, I'm tapping all six SATA ports on the Mobo, so the expandability is currently limited even though it can physically fit 4 more 3.5" drives and 2 more 2.5" drives (and an M.2 if I wanted to get cute).

 

When the Array is done I'll start to set up User Shares, Docker, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2018 by rbmatt1s
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[egtrev]

12 hours ago, rbmatt1s said:

Took me a few hours but I'm up and running with the following specs:
 

Also, I'm tapping all six SATA ports on the Mobo, so the expandability is currently limited even though it can physically fit 4 more 3.5" drives and 2 more 2.5" drives (and an M.2 if I wanted to get cute).

 

Nice build!

 

I have a similar Mobo spec and faced the same expandability issue but I found once I started running short of space the bigger HDD's had dropped significantly in price and I was able to double my storage by just upgrading my array drives from 4TB to 8TB and gain enough space to last a few more years. You could probably squeeze a PCIe SATA card in there too if you got stuck.

I use the M.2 for an unassigned NVMe SSD to play around with some VM's, works well.

 

Have fun playing around with shares/docker/plug ins once your array is built 👍

[rbmatt1s]

Tbh, I'm not the media consuming machine I used to be. With 15 TB usable and only 6 TB in use I will probably be replacing failed drives long before I run out of space.

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