Hello all,
I'm making a whitebox build for a FreeNAS server, which will be designed to hold A/V multimedia as the bulk storage for an HTPC, which will stream it from the NAS. The NAS needs to be capable of transcoding in CPU (the HTPC is sorted out). So far I am toying with the idea of 2x E5-2630L v4 CPU's in an X10DRi-T board in a Fractal Design Define 7 XL tower chassis.
Quietness or near silence is the #1 criterion. I am trying to avoid buying hardware I don't already have. Here I would need to buy Noctua HSF's and fans, and a PSU.
I plan to start with 8x LFF HDD's (8 TB - 12 TB), and possibly move up to 12x LFF HDD's later. I'll use a few SSD's here and there for OS and OpenZFS.
A lot of people are using heavily modded Supermicro CSE-846 chassis and say they are nearly silent. I am wary that going down this path could be wading too far into the reeds. But if there's a positive and confident recipe for success (success means near silence), then I would give an SC846 a shot.
Does anybody have any ideas, suggestions, or thoughts? Thanks!!
I'm making a whitebox build for a FreeNAS server, which will be designed to hold A/V multimedia as the bulk storage for an HTPC, which will stream it from the NAS. The NAS needs to be capable of transcoding in CPU (the HTPC is sorted out). So far I am toying with the idea of 2x E5-2630L v4 CPU's in an X10DRi-T board in a Fractal Design Define 7 XL tower chassis.
Quietness or near silence is the #1 criterion. I am trying to avoid buying hardware I don't already have. Here I would need to buy Noctua HSF's and fans, and a PSU.
I plan to start with 8x LFF HDD's (8 TB - 12 TB), and possibly move up to 12x LFF HDD's later. I'll use a few SSD's here and there for OS and OpenZFS.
A lot of people are using heavily modded Supermicro CSE-846 chassis and say they are nearly silent. I am wary that going down this path could be wading too far into the reeds. But if there's a positive and confident recipe for success (success means near silence), then I would give an SC846 a shot.
Does anybody have any ideas, suggestions, or thoughts? Thanks!!
