nickt
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Hi all,
Have been enjoying reading all the great posts here - nearly ready to get started on my first FreeNAS build. But first I have a question about power and thermals with a Fractal Design Node 304 and an ASRock C2750D4I.
I want to build with 6 HDDs, but I am concerned that the 304 is too small and the passively cooled C27540D4I may not get sufficient airflow with all 6 drives installed. I'm also interested in any comments on typical power consumption for this build.
I am building for a file / media server at home. My two key goals are that the file server can comfortably saturate a Gbps link and that energy use is as low as possible.
Besides general file serving duties, primary use is to store older Photoshop / RAW files from my Lightroom catalog. Most of my photo editing work is done on my MacBook Pro (i.e. from high speed SSD), but with only 500 GB on the MBP, I have to move off older photos, which will get edited over the LAN from time to time. Media server duties will be modest - only occasional transcoding, and [almost] never to more than one device at a time. Some very light duty MySQL / web serving duties also.
The parts list I have in mind is as follows:
* ASRock C2750D4I
* Fractal Design Node 304
* 16 GB Crucial ECC unbuffered (CT2KIT102472BD160B)
* Seasonic SSR-360GP 360W
* 6x 3TB WD Red (as RAIDZ2). Maybe green.
Has anyone used the passively cooled C2750D4I with 6 drives in a Node 304? Thermals OK or a bit marginal? What about power consumption - is a 360W supply too much for this setup?
I love the case - I really want this combo to work!
Any other comments would be very welcome.
Many thanks! Nick
Have been enjoying reading all the great posts here - nearly ready to get started on my first FreeNAS build. But first I have a question about power and thermals with a Fractal Design Node 304 and an ASRock C2750D4I.
I want to build with 6 HDDs, but I am concerned that the 304 is too small and the passively cooled C27540D4I may not get sufficient airflow with all 6 drives installed. I'm also interested in any comments on typical power consumption for this build.
I am building for a file / media server at home. My two key goals are that the file server can comfortably saturate a Gbps link and that energy use is as low as possible.
Besides general file serving duties, primary use is to store older Photoshop / RAW files from my Lightroom catalog. Most of my photo editing work is done on my MacBook Pro (i.e. from high speed SSD), but with only 500 GB on the MBP, I have to move off older photos, which will get edited over the LAN from time to time. Media server duties will be modest - only occasional transcoding, and [almost] never to more than one device at a time. Some very light duty MySQL / web serving duties also.
The parts list I have in mind is as follows:
* ASRock C2750D4I
* Fractal Design Node 304
* 16 GB Crucial ECC unbuffered (CT2KIT102472BD160B)
* Seasonic SSR-360GP 360W
* 6x 3TB WD Red (as RAIDZ2). Maybe green.
Has anyone used the passively cooled C2750D4I with 6 drives in a Node 304? Thermals OK or a bit marginal? What about power consumption - is a 360W supply too much for this setup?
I love the case - I really want this combo to work!
Any other comments would be very welcome.
Many thanks! Nick