I have only been using unRAID for about 4 months but I am so glad I went with it instead of freenas. I did have a qnap 451+ but to me unRAID offers so much more use and flexibility.

I started off with an intel 6700k system and to be honest it would still be a super decent system but i got the build bug so here we are now.

 

OS Current: 6.8.2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3900x

Heatsink:  The prism air cooler that came with it that does the job
Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus X570 Master
RAM: 32GB Crucial 4 x 8gb 2666MHz 
Case: Corsair Vengeance C70 (Black)
Power Supply: EVGA 850 G3

GPU: ASUS GeForce GT710 2GB GDDR5 (Just for accessing the bios etc)

Drive Controller: Dell Perc H310 SATA / SAS HBA Controller (running 8 drives including the cache)

NVME Controller: Asus Hyper M.2 x16 Card V2 (4 x 1TB Crucial CT1000P)

Cache: 1TB (2 x Samsung 860 EVO'S)

Drives: 1 x 8TB, 2 x 6TB, 4 x 4TB, 1 x 3TB, 1 x 1TB SSD

 

I don't run a parity drive as I have a backup which is my old QNAP 451+ which is  running unRAID as well. It has 4 x 10TB's in it.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 20206 yr by JaseNZ

What are you doing with 12 cores?)

5 minutes ago, J05u said:

What are you doing with 12 cores?)

To be honest at this stage not a great deal, Was a case of building something that will give me plenty of room to grow and muck around with. 

 

Plans are more VM's of differing flavours.

 

 

ehm why do you have nvme drivers in your array? and why is your cache raid0?

I would toss a parity drive in there if I were you. I know you said you have backup, but still 

Impressive box.  Would like to see how you can maximize that box of fun

All in a new case now 😀

 

WIth a lot less drives / SSDs. Have you also switch to bigger disks and no cache?

No same amount of cache its just all the ssd'd are just in the back part of the case. I dropped a couple of smaller drives that I did not need and to keep things nice and clean.

Two questions 

I have a qnap 451 as well. 
how did u move the data over?

how do u configure it to act as a backup?

1 hour ago, Profezor said:

Two questions 

I have a qnap 451 as well. 
how did u move the data over?

how do u configure it to act as a backup?

Mounted the qnap share in unassigned devices and then used Krusader to copy what I wanted over.

Then used Syncthing to keep things synced in realtime.

 

I should note my Qnap is running unraid as well.

Edited May 30, 20206 yr by JaseNZ

Very cool. Thanks 

Hi mate

Nice clean set up, what is the new case that you are using.

Cheers

Steve

14 hours ago, SteveA said:

Hi mate

Nice clean set up, what is the new case that you are using.

Cheers

Steve

Cheers its a Corsair Carbide 678C LOW NOISE White Edition 

Thanks mate, I'll take a look

On 5/8/2020 at 9:35 AM, JaseNZ said:

All in a new case now 😀

 

I almost got a heart attack when i saw your first case lol, thank god you changed it.

 

This case i just awesome & very organized with ample space for air flow & no obstruction if work is needed.

Edited June 11, 20206 yr by PSYCHOPATHiO

30 minutes ago, PSYCHOPATHiO said:

I almost got a heart attack when i saw your first case lol, thank god you changed it.

 

This case i just awesome & very organized with ample space for air flow & no obstruction if work is needed.

Hahahahah yeah it scrubs up a lot better when done properly.

5 hours ago, JaseNZ said:

Hahahahah yeah it scrubs up a lot better when done properly.

just noticed something, you have only one intake, you might want to make it 2 intakes for cooling the driver & one exhaust for positive pressure air flow to pass all incoming air though the dust filter. The current airflow will suck air from any gap & will leak more dust into the case.

Edited June 11, 20206 yr by PSYCHOPATHiO

9 hours ago, PSYCHOPATHiO said:

just noticed something, you have only one intake, you might want to make it 2 intakes for cooling the driver & one exhaust for positive pressure air flow to pass all incoming air though the dust filter. The current airflow will suck air from any gap & will leak more dust into the case.

I have actually done this, the other photo was just after I had built it and did not have a spare fan sitting around. I have since added this fan in. Sorry for the red I must turn it all off in the bios lol.