Alright so I’m planning out an NK4, gonna pull the trigger in the next month or so, looking for some feedback.
Gonna be moving all my media over to this so I’d like some failure tolerance and ease-of-access for my server, so unRAID seems to be the right choice. I can set up an NFS and boom, see the entire share of media I set up. This’ll basically appear in my media server as one single ‘drive’ with all my media on it, but on hardware it’s spread across, right?
For fault tolerance, it would be smart to use two parity drives, right? So if I make two 10TB drives parity I’m good to go on future expansions (for the most part) even though build and sync times might be really, really long.
And finally, hardware:
- E3-1260L on an SM X9SCL, with a NH-L9i for a cooler - I figure if this thing runs a bit hot that’s fine, and the air coming in from the chassis fan should help cool too. Might be possible to run just a heat sink instead?
- 8GB of 1333MHz RAM because I don’t really need the RAM since I won’t be running more than sonarr & radarr on this box.
- A 1TB cache SSD, definitely enough since I download less than 100GB/day to my server. Might prefer two 250GB SSDs instead, for some safety.
- Rosewill RSV-L4500 because I’m aiming for a lot of storage in this machine.
- EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W, I think that’ll be enough from the calculator I used, with a draw of like 440-460W max (which seems a little high?)
And over time I’ll add 10TB drives, I’ve got two now and I can add more as time goes on, yeah?
Type | Item | Price |
---|---|---|
CPU | Intel Xeon E3-1260L | $39.20 |
CPU Cooler | NH-L9i | $39.95 |
Motherboard | Super Micro X9SCL | $35.00 |
RAM | 8GB ECC 1333MHZ | ~28.00 |
Cache SSD | ADATA SU635 960G | $87.99 |
Controller | LSI 9201-8i | $24.95 |
Case | Rosewill RSV-L4500 | $135.00 |
SAS Cables | Two pack! | $11.99 |
Fans | Arctic 120mm 5-pack | $28.00 |
PCIe - SATA | Adapter | $14.00 |
SATA Cables | The Usual | $8.00 |
SATA Power | The Usual | $12.00 |
PSU | EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W | $74.99 |
UPS | APC BE850M2 | $87.00 |
$626.07 |
New Build after some deals:
Type | Item | Price |
---|---|---|
CPU | Xeon E3-1225v3 | $76.99 |
CPU Cooler | Generic Cooler (above) | $0 |
Motherboard | Intel S1200V3RP (above) | $0 |
RAM | 8GB ECC 1333MHZ | $0 |
Cache SSD | ADATA SU635 960G | $87.99 |
Controller | LSI 9201-8i | $24.95 |
Case | Rosewill RSV-L4500 | $131.76 |
SAS Cables | Two pack! | $11.99 |
Fans | Arctic 120mm 5-pack | $28.00 |
PCIe - SATA | Adapter | $14.00 |
SATA Cables | The Usual | $8.00 |
SATA Power | The Usual | $12.00 |
PSU | EVGA 750W GQ | $60.73 |
UPS | APC BE850M2 | $87.00 |
$543.41 |