Norco ITX-S4 NAS case (backplane replaced 2016)
Seasonic SS-300M1U 300W modular Flex-ATX power supply (replaced failed Seasonic 250SU in 2016)
Asrock E3C226D2I motherboard
Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3
2x 8 GB Kingston KVR16LE11/8KF 1600MHz DDR3L 1.35v ECC DRAM
Data pool
RAIDZ2 of 4x Western Digital Red WD40EFRX (originally all WD20EFRX, expanded in 2020)
L2ARC of 1x OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD with 2x striped 128 GB SandForce SSD sticks (only PCI-E SSD available in 2014)
ZIL of 1x 32GB Intel X-25-E SLC SSD
Boot pool
16 GB Kingston SNS4151S316G M.2 SSD connected via USB3-to-M.2 adapter (replaced numerous failed thumb drives 2018)
Backup method
Critical datasets mounted in custom basejail
Nightly borgbackup of these datasets to
rsync.net
Weekly manual replication to offline USB3.0 pool.