Since @LivePono reached out and was curious about my build here is a few photos of what I did with the HP 290 and Silverstone DS380B
I’m running 8x8TB shucked WD drives in the Silverstone in ZFS RAIDZ2 with Ubuntu 20.04 installed to an 1TB M.2 drive in the HP 290. There’s also 2x Samsung 860 EVO’s in a ZFS Mirror acting as the storage backend for LXD. The HP 290 was upgraded to an Intel I5-9400 and has a full 32GB of DDR4 2666 RAM.
This is running the following perfectly fine in various LXD containers:
- Plex
- Ombi
- Radarr
- Sonarr
- Jackett
- Unpackerr (better than rutorrents auto unpack)
- rtorrent/rutorrent
- Tautulli
- grafana
- prometheus
- varken
Used a blank I/O shield from Supermicro to cover the empty I/O due to lack of motherboard in the Silverstone.
SAS HBA with Noctua 40x20MM fan mod. Connected to the CPU fan header with a Y cable since Noctua is awesome and includes one with every fan.
Spare SAS HBA with the fan mod so it’s easier to see without having to remove the one currently in use from the 290
