guermantes
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Hi,
I know the R5 case pretty well, and had decided on building my 4-drive home server in the R5 (with option of adding another 4 drives in the future). But it will be humongous sitting on top of my bookshelf since it is so big, so for aesthetic reasons I would prefer the Node 804. But I have never built a server and do not know what kind of heat issues I will be facing. The smaller case will likely be warmer than the larger, but what kind of difference are we talking about? Is the Node 804 quite well-suited to run an 8-disk freenas even though it is likely to be warmer than the R5?
i3 6100 (I plan to run the stock cooler, rather than installing an aftermarket CPU cooler).
16GB ECC RAM.
I know the R5 case pretty well, and had decided on building my 4-drive home server in the R5 (with option of adding another 4 drives in the future). But it will be humongous sitting on top of my bookshelf since it is so big, so for aesthetic reasons I would prefer the Node 804. But I have never built a server and do not know what kind of heat issues I will be facing. The smaller case will likely be warmer than the larger, but what kind of difference are we talking about? Is the Node 804 quite well-suited to run an 8-disk freenas even though it is likely to be warmer than the R5?
i3 6100 (I plan to run the stock cooler, rather than installing an aftermarket CPU cooler).
16GB ECC RAM.