Fans are much more efficient blowing into heatsinks than sucking out of them. 99% of heatsink/fan combos are designed this way for a reason.
@Chris these rubber grommets work great with the following screws. I just purchased this case and the screws and grommets and they work great!
I really appreciate this thread! I too purchased option 3. It came with 8 GB RAM (Samsung) already, I then purchased 3 more sticks of Hynix 8GB PC3L-12800E DDR3 2RX8 1.35V ECC UNBUFFERED Memory Ram HMT41GU7AFR8A-PB When I plugged them all in I got beeping when trying to boot up. It didn’t boot, so I tried several combinations 1 Samsung 1 Hynix, Both in the blue RAM slots. That booted fine with 16 GBs. I then did 1 Hynix and 1 Hynix and that booted totaling 16GBs So then I purchase a 4th Hynix and plugged all of them in thinking I might just have to use the same brand/speed in all slots, now I get the same beep on boot up as I did with the Samsung and 3 Hynix. What am I doing wrong?
What RAM is your first stick?
Samsung was the first stick, but then I removed that and just put in all Hynix RAM in.
The brand isn’t the issue. Your new RAM is PC3L-12800E, what is your old RAM?
Ok, try adding the other sticks one at a time.
Won’t I need to do Ram slot 1 skip slot 2 Ram slot 3 skip slot 4 then boot up, or can I do RAM slot 1 and 2 boot, and then go from there?
Refer to the manual for population order.
I’ll try this when I get home tonight, thanks again for creating this site so that we can afford to build NAS’s!
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Got home and looked at the manual. Here it says the compatible RAM is Hynix HMT41GU7AFR8A-PB I got home and looked at the RAM I received and it’s Hynix HMT41GU7BFR8A-PB would that make any difference? I see the ebay listing says Hynix HMT41GU7AFR8A-PB as well.
I did try adding RAM one at a time, but I got the beep when I added the second Hynix stick right next to the first Hynix stick.
Any ideas as to what I’m doing wrong?
@R_Xmas see both of the comments from JDW and Riggi above. That was the key in finding the right memory. This is what I got but the link is not working on ebay but you should be able to find in search
8gb hp p/n 712288-581 / micron pc3-14900e-13-13-e3 ddr3-1866 reg ram
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Thanks for all the great info. Any chance you can guide me to the discussion to change the mode on the LSI HBA? I’ve not been able to find them. Thank you in advance.
That helped a lot. Put 16gb on it and solved that issue. Now I’m trying to turn on the LSI controller.
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I made an account just to post this. This thread has been SUPER helpful for me. I bought a system with just the CPU, sourced ram seperatly as I was able to find it cheaper than what they are selling on ebay now as a package. I bought 4 8gb Nemix DDR3-1333 PC3-10600 ECC UDIMM sticks, and have no issues, buy them directly from Nemix, the ones I initially purchased from amazon were mislabeled 4gb stick. I found a way to get the iKVM working, it required Internet explorer and Java 6, but it works without any issue at all, and all features seem to work, was able to install my os remotely through it. Im trying to find a way to get it working on mac now, as thats my main machine. About to flash the LSI controller using the guide thats been posted on this thread a bunch, I plan to use Truenas as long as the drives im going to shuck are CMR. I got 3 8tb WD external drives to start out, and plan to add 3 disk vdevs everytime i need to scale. Performance isnt an overall factor for me as this is mostly a backup system so all of my working external drives can be backed up into one place instead of the about 23 tb of external drives i’m using. I am a recording engineer and photographer and do a lot of high resolution work in both fields so I horde a lot of data. Not gonna run any VMs, just using it as one big disk, might possibly add an FTP server in the future, or some easy file interface for someone to send me files through a secure web interface. This is a start to whats going to be a very expensive hobby.
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This thread is great, I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to plan my home server, and I think this setup will work for me. I was recently gifted 6 SAS Seagate x12 12 tb drives from a decommissioned server.
If I’m reading correctly this setup can support up to 8 SAS drives, plus 4 more sata. Which would be perfect for what I’m looking to do. Am I missing anything? I want to create a media server for my home.
I don’t think you’re missing anything! You’re on the right track. Keep in mind that SAS controllers also support SATA drives.
For running a media server, nas storage, what is would you recommend?