First build with recycled HW

[kimawari]

Hi all, my first post in here!

I came across some second-hand HW at a relative good price so I decided to build a home NAS only for backups, as for the moment, I just make incremental copies of some valuable data using a borg script and a 8 TiB HDD.

I do have a low consumption server running a bunch of docker containers and I'm not yet planning to replace it.

The hardware I bought is the following:
- MoBo: Supermicro X11SSL-F
- CPU: Intel Xeon E3 1220 v5
- Memory: 16GB DDR4 ECC RAM 2133MT/s

I'm looking for suggestions regarding a small good-looking case and a modular? PSU of 400-500 W.

Regarding drives, I've read that a small one (500 GB NVME should be enough, I guess) is needed for booting and then, depending on your needs, two-four HDDs. At the moment, with a single 8 TiB HDD I still have plenty of space, so I'm considering two 8 HDDs, for redundancy, and in the future, add another two.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

 

[NugentS]

For boot you want 16GB or better. If you can get one of the Optane 16GB or 32GB M.2 gumsticks they make perfect boot devices
Are you planning on Scale or Core?
16GB is minimum memory for either Scale or Core

Cases and PSU - the world is your oyster. Just remember for the PSU that it powers everything - do not cheap out on that

 

[kimawari]

For boot you want 16GB or better. If you can get one of the Optane 16GB or 32GB M.2 gumsticks they make perfect boot devices
Are you planning on Scale or Core?
16GB is minimum memory for either Scale or Core

Cases and PSU - the world is your oyster. Just remember for the PSU that it powers everything - do not cheap out on that

Thanks for your reply!

I think I'll opt for Core at the moment and see how it goes.

Regarding the Optane M.2, I guess this one should work, right?
Intel Optane 16GB

I guess I'll also need an PCI adapter for the M.2 drive.

Lot of things to learn!

 

[NugentS]

USB to PCIe adapter from Amazon or similar