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Good NAS case?
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Off-The-Chart
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Something basic like this should do:
http://www.zapsonline.com/coolermas...rc-310-skn1-elite-310-case-frch-ce310swn.html
With this add-on:
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542
what form factor the board and budget?
http://www.zapsonline.com/coolermas...rc-310-skn1-elite-310-case-frch-ce310swn.html
With this add-on:
http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542
what form factor the board and budget?
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
This case: http://www.zapsonline.com/coolermas...rmaster-rc-334-elite-334-case-frch-ce334.html
Has meshed front panel which is great for ventilation if you are running a bunch of drives. Also has a ton of space for drives and more with the goodie that I put at the end of the list.
Recommended PSU: http://www.pc-direct.co.za/pCMPSU-650TXV2/CMPSU-650TXV2---CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-V2-650Watt.aspx
This PSU has great efficiency, loads of connectors and has a nice big low noise fan.
Cheaper PSU (but still good): http://www.zapsonline.com/psu-pc/46...0-80plus-certified-500w-psu-frps-c500cxe.html
Not as good, but still a good quality PSU.
And one of these for drive expansion:
http://www.zapsonline.com/45961-lia...ernal-hdd-mounting-bracket-frch-laex36a3.html
The above setup will be able to fit your maximum of 10 drives just fine.
Has meshed front panel which is great for ventilation if you are running a bunch of drives. Also has a ton of space for drives and more with the goodie that I put at the end of the list.
Recommended PSU: http://www.pc-direct.co.za/pCMPSU-650TXV2/CMPSU-650TXV2---CORSAIR-Enthusiast-Series-V2-650Watt.aspx
This PSU has great efficiency, loads of connectors and has a nice big low noise fan.
Cheaper PSU (but still good): http://www.zapsonline.com/psu-pc/46...0-80plus-certified-500w-psu-frps-c500cxe.html
Not as good, but still a good quality PSU.
And one of these for drive expansion:
http://www.zapsonline.com/45961-lia...ernal-hdd-mounting-bracket-frch-laex36a3.html
The above setup will be able to fit your maximum of 10 drives just fine.
DrJohnZoidberg
Honorary Master
Looking forward to that too!
PostmanPot
Honorary Master
Depends on the size of the mobo?
Not in a major rush... Still need to get a hdmi capable tv for the bedroom... So im using one of the HP microservers for storage
Think its a micro atx... Will need to check.
Think its a micro atx... Will need to check.
Cadavre777
Expert Member
Give us an idea of exactly what you want, how you will use the system what its requirements are. How much can you budget for, and would spending a little bit more be out of the question.
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Its time...
I need the case...
I have a decent power 600 odd watt power supply, and a old 3Ghz AMD processor and board with 8 SATA connectors (4x SATA and 4x SATA2) I then have a PCI SATA card with 4.. I need the case... Thinking of Antec offerings from Esquire
Anyone care to recommend one with a lot of easily accessible drive bays?
I need the case...
I have a decent power 600 odd watt power supply, and a old 3Ghz AMD processor and board with 8 SATA connectors (4x SATA and 4x SATA2) I then have a PCI SATA card with 4.. I need the case... Thinking of Antec offerings from Esquire
Anyone care to recommend one with a lot of easily accessible drive bays?
This is what I've done:
Front:
Inside:
It has 12 bays. Will be my future NAS.
In case you are wondering, the case is a cheap (R499 excl from Esquire) case. AEROCOOL RS-9 Red Devil Edition or some sh#t like that. I just bought it because it has 8x5.25" bays in front with plenty of ventilation and possibility of bottom mounted PSU.
Front:
Inside:
It has 12 bays. Will be my future NAS.
In case you are wondering, the case is a cheap (R499 excl from Esquire) case. AEROCOOL RS-9 Red Devil Edition or some sh#t like that. I just bought it because it has 8x5.25" bays in front with plenty of ventilation and possibility of bottom mounted PSU.
Nope, they are 4x IcyDock MB973SP-B
But in general I would recommend a case with plenty of ventilation.
I can maybe post another pic tonight of the final build but the PSU fan pulls air in from below the case and the CPU cooler is mounted so that the largest surface area is exposed to the top (where the hot air is expelled).
If I didn't buy the docks I would simply have mounted 9x drives using mounting brackets that convert from 3.5" -> 5.25"
This build is overkill tho, WITHOUT hard-drives it costs about R6K for the NAS (which includes a Sandybridge 35w CPU, Motherboard, 16GB of RAM), so not exactly cheap. But I love this stuff and wanted to experiment a bit.
How many drives are you going to put in there?
But in general I would recommend a case with plenty of ventilation.
I can maybe post another pic tonight of the final build but the PSU fan pulls air in from below the case and the CPU cooler is mounted so that the largest surface area is exposed to the top (where the hot air is expelled).
If I didn't buy the docks I would simply have mounted 9x drives using mounting brackets that convert from 3.5" -> 5.25"
This build is overkill tho, WITHOUT hard-drives it costs about R6K for the NAS (which includes a Sandybridge 35w CPU, Motherboard, 16GB of RAM), so not exactly cheap. But I love this stuff and wanted to experiment a bit.
How many drives are you going to put in there?
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Was thinking of something like this: http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=MjcwNA==
As many as possible - going to look at an Unraid solution... initially, five 2TB.
As many as possible - going to look at an Unraid solution... initially, five 2TB.
Yeah I was going to buy that one.
Only thing I didn't like was the price (799 excl), the fact that a PSU cannot be mounted to pull in air from the bottom and it is too tall because of that 200mm fan for my space requirements.
Good case tho.
Why unraid rather than FreeNAS 8.0.2?
Only thing I didn't like was the price (799 excl), the fact that a PSU cannot be mounted to pull in air from the bottom and it is too tall because of that 200mm fan for my space requirements.
Good case tho.
Why unraid rather than FreeNAS 8.0.2?
Haven't looked into FreeNAS - I just like the possibility of different size drives...and redundancy.
My requirements are quite simple, it'll be for media storage (my ripped bluray movies, dvds, music, photo's (I have well over 500gb of photos) - and I need to be able to survive a drive failure, I don't anticipate more than one failure at a time... and will take that risk.
The ability to use different size disks would be a bonus...
Performance is not a major issue, as long as its fast enough to playback a full bluray off the network.
My requirements are quite simple, it'll be for media storage (my ripped bluray movies, dvds, music, photo's (I have well over 500gb of photos) - and I need to be able to survive a drive failure, I don't anticipate more than one failure at a time... and will take that risk.
The ability to use different size disks would be a bonus...
Performance is not a major issue, as long as its fast enough to playback a full bluray off the network.
Off-The-Chart
Expert Member
Doesnt that work out to more expensive than the Antec case though?
Those brackets are very expensive. I have some 5.25" -> 3.5" brackets I bought a while ago @ R35 ea. If they aren't available anymore I'd be willing to sell mine since I won't be needing them anymore.
Anyway, FreeNAS uses ZFS which is superior to any RAID 5 scheme (including the best of the best hardware RAID controllers). Do yourself a favor and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
I run RAID-z (RAID 5 essentially), so it can survive single disk failure. Unfortunately you can't have different size disks (you can but they'll have the collective size of the smallest disk * (disks-1) ).
Unraid is actually pretty bad in terms of data safety. I can point out why if you care?
Performance can easily reach 100mb/s (saturate gigabit LAN), depending on your hardware and hard-drives. I built a NAS for our office the other day (@ work not home office) and it gets around 100-115mb/s sustianed read/write.
Just download FreeNAS and install it and test it once (doesn't work too well in VirtualBox unfortunately).
Anyway, FreeNAS uses ZFS which is superior to any RAID 5 scheme (including the best of the best hardware RAID controllers). Do yourself a favor and read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
I run RAID-z (RAID 5 essentially), so it can survive single disk failure. Unfortunately you can't have different size disks (you can but they'll have the collective size of the smallest disk * (disks-1) ).
Unraid is actually pretty bad in terms of data safety. I can point out why if you care?
Performance can easily reach 100mb/s (saturate gigabit LAN), depending on your hardware and hard-drives. I built a NAS for our office the other day (@ work not home office) and it gets around 100-115mb/s sustianed read/write.
Just download FreeNAS and install it and test it once (doesn't work too well in VirtualBox unfortunately).
Off-The-Chart
Expert Member
well not going by Zaps.
depends on what it costs at distro and what you can get it for.
depends on what it costs at distro and what you can get it for.