NateWoodruff
Cadet
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- Mar 29, 2017
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After reading the build guide and other comments here, I'm thinking pre-configured used hardware is the way to go for me.
So from Ebay, pre-assembled and tested working:
SYSTEM SUPERMICRO 2U 6027R 12 BAY SERVER
DUAL INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2660 EIGHT CORE 20M CACHE 2.20GHZ
MEMORY 48GB MEMORY (12X 4GB) DDR-3 ECC REG
NO HARD DRIVES INSTALLED( 12X TRAYS WITH SCREWS)
RAID CONTROLLER 2X LSI 9210-8I
SYSTEM BOARD X9DRI-LN4F+
BACKPLANE SAS826A
CHASSIS CSE-826
POWER SUPPLY DUAL 920W POWER SUPPLIES
This would take care of Case, Cooling, MB, CPU, RAM for $730 including shipping.
I would stuff this with 8 4TB or 6TB drives, the seagate ironwolf series is on sale at Newegg in packs of two. (The marketing on these say 1-8 bay NAS devices, can I assume that can be safely ignored, if I want to fill out the other 4 slots later?)
I think I would need to flash the two LSI 9210-8Is, correct?
The SAS826A back plane does not have expander functionality, so disk size should not be an issue... right? Would that apply to speed as well, SATA3 vs. SATA2?
System drive would be something I find around the house here somewhere..
Any obvious screw-ups so far? Forgetting something? Just a bad idea in general?
And for bonus points....
While I need my NAS to be a NAS, if it could replace my PVR machine, that would be nice. I think that would involve running a virtual windows 7 instance with WMC in order to utilize my cable card hd homerun box. Is this hardware in the neighborhood of that sort of extra tasking?
For an extra $170 I could get it with 96GB of RAM instead of 48GB .... worth it?
Thanks (a lot),
Nate
So from Ebay, pre-assembled and tested working:
SYSTEM SUPERMICRO 2U 6027R 12 BAY SERVER
DUAL INTEL XEON PROCESSOR E5-2660 EIGHT CORE 20M CACHE 2.20GHZ
MEMORY 48GB MEMORY (12X 4GB) DDR-3 ECC REG
NO HARD DRIVES INSTALLED( 12X TRAYS WITH SCREWS)
RAID CONTROLLER 2X LSI 9210-8I
SYSTEM BOARD X9DRI-LN4F+
BACKPLANE SAS826A
CHASSIS CSE-826
POWER SUPPLY DUAL 920W POWER SUPPLIES
This would take care of Case, Cooling, MB, CPU, RAM for $730 including shipping.
I would stuff this with 8 4TB or 6TB drives, the seagate ironwolf series is on sale at Newegg in packs of two. (The marketing on these say 1-8 bay NAS devices, can I assume that can be safely ignored, if I want to fill out the other 4 slots later?)
I think I would need to flash the two LSI 9210-8Is, correct?
The SAS826A back plane does not have expander functionality, so disk size should not be an issue... right? Would that apply to speed as well, SATA3 vs. SATA2?
System drive would be something I find around the house here somewhere..
Any obvious screw-ups so far? Forgetting something? Just a bad idea in general?
And for bonus points....
While I need my NAS to be a NAS, if it could replace my PVR machine, that would be nice. I think that would involve running a virtual windows 7 instance with WMC in order to utilize my cable card hd homerun box. Is this hardware in the neighborhood of that sort of extra tasking?
For an extra $170 I could get it with 96GB of RAM instead of 48GB .... worth it?
Thanks (a lot),
Nate