Project QuickNas

[Tristerin]

Inspiration - Digital Media Storage for Youtube channel in the works.  System will be used to retrieve from, and store raw 4k 30fps video, edited video, and final video from publisher.  

 

Why these components?  Some had on hand not being used, others purchased after asking questions here.

 

Components:

 

Case: ANTEC 300 Two

Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair Hero VI ATX X370

CPU: Ryzen 7 1700

CPU Cooler: Stock AM4 Cooler

RAM: G-Skill Tridentz 3200mhz CL16 2x8gb

GPU: Gigabyte HD7850 2gb 

PSU: Corsair TX650M

HDD: 6x 4tb WD Red Pro 3.5" drives

SSD: 1x 1tb WD Black SN750 NVMe drive

 

This was a quick slap together build, putting FreeNas on two USB drives for boot drives.  Spent about 30 minutes putting it together so no real focus on anything other than getting the components together, and taking some pics for PCB pr0n.  

 

Started with an NZXT case that was hidden behind crap at the shop for far to long.

 

 

Out of the case

 

RAMZ

 

 

About to do re-surgery

 

 

Moar storage

 

 

Storage going home to its home on Raid Island

 

 

Out with the small drive, in with the BLACKNESS

 

 

 

STORYTIME:  Welp it happened - that old dusty, crusty CPU cooler pulled the CPU out of the socket, which was glued so bad to the cooler I had to use a butter knife to pry it off.  Did I mention that I bent two pins on the CPU when the cooler pulled it from the socket?

 

Straightened them back up and in we went.  Oh and as for reusing that CPU cooler - not today AMD, not today.  Grabbed an old, new in the box, R7 1700 cooler from the parts pile.  Plus all my TIM is at the shop so I didnt have any and this still had the factory application!

 

 

And everything where its supposed to go.  Need to go to the store and get some longer threaded screws, front of case requires radiator length screws for the front intake, and all of that is at the shop (plus Im not sure how many extra I have).

 

All in all, the ANTEC 300 is SUPER EASY to build in.  But also super basic.  I could see myself using this personally, but would not be a go to for me.  Got this one for $54 shipped as it was an Open Box and got lucky.  Would not pay retail based on the lack of finish on the case.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for checking out my QuickNas build.  Was a quick project, quickly done, to get crap moving on our end for getting my next project going and thats taking a Threadripper system and doing similar with it.  Using the Fractal Design Meshify 2 for that.

 

If you want, and have time - please check out my other build log still in the works here at LTT - taking a little more time on it with the execution.

 

Project Odyssey - Build Logs - Linus Tech Tips

 

Thanks once again for looking at my PCB pr0n!

[SPARC]

Nice going dude! But the first pic is killing me, might want to put a NSFL filter on that...

[Tristerin]

4 minutes ago, SPARC said:

Nice going dude! But the first pic is killing me, might want to put a NSFL filter on that...

My favorite part is the RAM in slots A1/B1 lol.  My brother originally put it together than we moved on to bigger and better editing rigs.  I found it in this shape and was like dafuq you have going on here.  We were already in the works of sourcing a FreeNas server so I said instead we are using this lol.