Seani
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Hi there.
I am building a Server/NAS mainly for storage purposes (mainly movies, music and RAWs from my entire family) and would appreciate your input regarding sufficient hardware.
What I own already:
Case: Lian-Li PC-D8000 (enormous cube case)
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-d8000/
I bought this case since it offers space for up to 20 3,5" HDDs (24 if you insert a 3x 5,25" to 4x 3,5" cage in the front), 2 PSUs and sufficient cooling/upgrade possibilitys.
PSU:
Corsair HX850i
Mainly for the option of connecting up to 24 SATA devices directly, the platin level and decent spare power for spin-on-surges (also, I got it quite cheap).
HDDs:
10x Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS drives
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-ds1904.5-1609us.pdf
I got them cheap and 3 years warranty seemed insuring to me (otherwise I would not have gone with Seagate). I intend to run them in a single RAID-Z2 pool of 10 drives (since I have 2 separate backups I think I can live with the risks that implies).
Cooling:
I installed 6 120mm radiators (bequiet Pure Wings 2) on the sides of the 2 harddrive cages for a continous airflow from one side to the other and connected them to a BitFenix Recon to adjust the rotation speed/the noise.
What I still need is a motherboard+HBA wich combined support
- a minimum of 20 SATA ports (I will upgrade to 20 drives in a few years|if the mobo alone supports 11x SATA (10 drives + boot device) that would also suffice for now)
- 8 DIMM slots which each support at least 16GB of RAM per DIMM
- IPMI since I intend to use an UPS (I heard good things about this one: http://xtreme.metacomp.de/Shop/DE/Product/Details/3943/880559/false/)
Also a fitting CPU that supports that much RAM and has decent computing power (at least 4 cores with 2,5GHz).
And at last a boot device. I read a lot about using USB drives but I would tend to go with a small SATA-SSD.
After reading the hardware recommondations multiple times I came up with this stuff here. But I have the feeling that this is serious overkill and unnecessary for my purposes (wich are safe storage and media streaming with a max. of 5 people simultaneously accessing data).
mobo:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10srh-cln4f.cfm
ram x4:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MDZL2B6/?tag=ozlp-20
cpu:
http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Intel-Xeon-E5-1630v4--4x-3-70GHz--tray_1110441.html
As a boot device I would use an old 60GB SSD from one of my old PCs.
I am completely open to other (and hopefully a bit cheapter) suggestions and you can always call me a moron if this is serious overkill.
I'd be delighted if you guys could help me to narrow down CPU, MOBO, RAM and boot device. I am a little lost since I never build a NAS/Server before and can't estimate what server-grade gear is overkill and what is needed. My experiences from building windows PCs do not really help me a lot here.
At last: I know that my english skills aren't perfect since I am from germany and therefore not a native speaker.
I am building a Server/NAS mainly for storage purposes (mainly movies, music and RAWs from my entire family) and would appreciate your input regarding sufficient hardware.
What I own already:
Case: Lian-Li PC-D8000 (enormous cube case)
http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-d8000/
I bought this case since it offers space for up to 20 3,5" HDDs (24 if you insert a 3x 5,25" to 4x 3,5" cage in the front), 2 PSUs and sufficient cooling/upgrade possibilitys.
PSU:
Corsair HX850i
Mainly for the option of connecting up to 24 SATA devices directly, the platin level and decent spare power for spin-on-surges (also, I got it quite cheap).
HDDs:
10x Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS drives
http://www.seagate.com/www-content/product-content/ironwolf/files/ironwolf-ds1904.5-1609us.pdf
I got them cheap and 3 years warranty seemed insuring to me (otherwise I would not have gone with Seagate). I intend to run them in a single RAID-Z2 pool of 10 drives (since I have 2 separate backups I think I can live with the risks that implies).
Cooling:
I installed 6 120mm radiators (bequiet Pure Wings 2) on the sides of the 2 harddrive cages for a continous airflow from one side to the other and connected them to a BitFenix Recon to adjust the rotation speed/the noise.
What I still need is a motherboard+HBA wich combined support
- a minimum of 20 SATA ports (I will upgrade to 20 drives in a few years|if the mobo alone supports 11x SATA (10 drives + boot device) that would also suffice for now)
- 8 DIMM slots which each support at least 16GB of RAM per DIMM
- IPMI since I intend to use an UPS (I heard good things about this one: http://xtreme.metacomp.de/Shop/DE/Product/Details/3943/880559/false/)
Also a fitting CPU that supports that much RAM and has decent computing power (at least 4 cores with 2,5GHz).
And at last a boot device. I read a lot about using USB drives but I would tend to go with a small SATA-SSD.
After reading the hardware recommondations multiple times I came up with this stuff here. But I have the feeling that this is serious overkill and unnecessary for my purposes (wich are safe storage and media streaming with a max. of 5 people simultaneously accessing data).
mobo:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon/c600/x10srh-cln4f.cfm
ram x4:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MDZL2B6/?tag=ozlp-20
cpu:
http://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Intel-Xeon-E5-1630v4--4x-3-70GHz--tray_1110441.html
As a boot device I would use an old 60GB SSD from one of my old PCs.
I am completely open to other (and hopefully a bit cheapter) suggestions and you can always call me a moron if this is serious overkill.
I'd be delighted if you guys could help me to narrow down CPU, MOBO, RAM and boot device. I am a little lost since I never build a NAS/Server before and can't estimate what server-grade gear is overkill and what is needed. My experiences from building windows PCs do not really help me a lot here.
At last: I know that my english skills aren't perfect since I am from germany and therefore not a native speaker.