Fun! I used the exact same chassis for my NAS. Thanks for sharing!
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I searched far and wide for the perfect chassis. Silverstone make some awesome stuff.
Yeah, the quality is really good. It's also not cheap. I bought this case mostly because it's rather shallow and did fit into my previous server rack.
I'm now at a point where I should buy another drive cage but I'm a bit hesitant to spend 150€ for it. Well...
Edit: Any reason you decided to go with a non-server mainboard without IPMI and ECC support?
My thoughts exactly! I recon that I’ll probably keep the case the longest of all, out of all those a hardware.
How much did you pay in total?
I haven’t dared summed it up yet. It’s been purchased over a stretch of time. Guesstimating to around €3000.
Ouch indeed! I'm sure you want to run powerful applications to justify the costs :-)
About half the cost was just the disks 😅
With 5x10TB WD Red, I 100% believe you!
Jealous! I gotta upgrade mine soon, the hardware is 12 years old and I’m down to 3TB free.
Meanwhile I have less than 3TB total lol
Hey man, it doesn't matter how much you have, it's never enough!
I choose to believe it's 2003 and everyone envies how much storage I have.
My trick is setting a monthly saving for this a few years ago. Today me thanks past me.
Also, I started out with 2x 4TB in raid 1 in my previous server. Or really just an unused desktop with a 1TB disk before that.
My very old HTPC which acted as a home server died a couple years ago and I just never replaced it lol. So my "server"/NAS is well, my own PC. Thankfully my 3800x/32GB RAM doesn't seem to mind too much.
Worst thing is, I'm a senior/lead developer, I'm very familiar with server administration, networking, provisioning and all that stuff. I just... never got around to it, I guess? It's just expensive enough that I don't want to get buyer's remorse. I don't really know what I want lol. I'm thinking Plex (although I want to move to Jellyfin) and Radarr/Sonarr/Lidarr. But also Docker and/or TV a small K8s cluster for personal projects and self-hosting some stuff... basically some general purpose thing?
It’s why I went with TrueNAS. It has built in support for VMs and containers in K3s. So far it’s been super nice. A lot to read up on, but you seem to have the same background as me so it should be fine. I find it fun!
Interesting. Will check that out.
That's awesome. Thanks for posting the pics and assembly.
Damn, Red Plus really are the best, so quiet.
I really wished they made them 20+TB (I switched to Exos X20 and was pleasantly surprised with the noise profile ... tho my expectations were preset to low).
Awesome, what server chassis is that?
Case: Silverstone RM41 with FS305-12G drive cage
Looks like a Chenbro rm-42000
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
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