NAS Project

[davidna2002]

Intel Core i5 6600K

32GB Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2133 MT/s (PC4-17000) CL15 DR x8 Non-ECC UDIMM 288-Pin Memory CT2K8G4DFD8213/CT2C8G4DFD8213

6 Western Digital Gold 10TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive Class SATA 6 Gb/s 7200 RPM 256MB Cache 3.5-Inch Form Factor (WD101KRYZ)

ASUS P10S-M WS Motherboard

Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540-T2 10GBASE-T Dual Port

Rosewill 4U Server Chassis / Server Case / Rackmount Case, Metal Rack Mount Computer Case with 12 Hot Swap Bays & 5 Fans Pre-Installed (RSV-L4412)

CableDeconn High Speed 6Gbps 4pcs/set Sata Cable Sas Cable for Server 1M

 

Had to swap out the power supply because there were not enough Molex ports on the non-modular PSU.

Going to do a RockStor install.

 

[themctipers]

was planning on buying some WD golds for my

pc (no nas, need a really reliable HDD)

 

seems like they've changed how Their drives look lol

[grimreeper132]

what RAID you going to be using???

This just for home use or for business???

Guessing the green PCB is a m.2 SSD for a SSD cache. What size is it???

Also how many people are you expecting to be hitting this server at one time???

[grimreeper132]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

was planning on buying some WD golds for my

pc (no nas, need a really reliable HDD)

 

seems like they've changed how Their drives look lol

looks like it, that being said they are great HDDs so you can forgive the looks of them

[themctipers]

21 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

looks like it, that being said they are great HDDs so you can forgive the looks of them

I think it looks great TBH lol 

expensive though, I might go Seagate. Money is a problem  and I want reliability also 

[grimreeper132]

Just now, themctipers said:

I think it looks great TBH lol 

expensive though, I might go Seagate. Money is a problem  and I want reliability also 

I have owned both seagate and WD and have never had a drive from either of them fail. So far as I am concerned both of them make very reliable drives

[themctipers]

Just now, grimreeper132 said:

I have owned both seagate and WD and have never had a drive from either of them fail. So far as I am concerned both of them make very reliable drives

Not as in Seagate is worse than wd

i mean it'll run for at least a few years without fucking up. All of my drives have died relatively quickly (~1-3 years)

[grimreeper132]

Just now, themctipers said:

Not as in Seagate is worse than wd

i mean it'll run for at least a few years without fucking up. All of my drives have died relatively quickly (~1-3 years)

I have drives which are a good 6-7 years old now which are running perfectly

[themctipers]

Just now, grimreeper132 said:

I have drives which are a good 6-7 years old now which are running perfectly

I have a wd black that's on its last leg (2008), and another from 2009 that died a few months ago. Then again that was on its last leg aswel. 

 

I had a 3tb WD green and that died (2012-2017) and a 2tb one (2011, isn't powered on as it stores my really important stuff; is in a drawer lol)

[grimreeper132]

Just now, themctipers said:

I have a wd black that's on its last leg (2008), and another from 2009 that died a few months ago. Then again that was on its last leg aswel. 

 

I had a 3tb WD green and that died (2012-2017) and a 2tb one (2011, isn't powered on as it stores my really important stuff; is in a drawer lol)

fair enough. I recently acquired a WD1500ADFD (it's one of those old clicky hard drives, and is using either SATA or SATA 2 (dunno which one is beings used on this drive) which was bought in 2007 I think and is still going strong. That being I anit using it as the click can get annoying and also it's only 150GB so there's issues of it can store an OS, and possibly only a few applications (depending on what applications)

[davidna2002]

On 6/2/2017 at 3:39 PM, grimreeper132 said:

what RAID you going to be using???

This just for home use or for business???

Guessing the green PCB is a m.2 SSD for a SSD cache. What size is it???

Also how many people are you expecting to be hitting this server at one time???

I am not sure what RAID to use.  RAID 6 more than likely.  I have been reading about ZFS and maybe will try that.

This is for biz archive server

using a "Transcend 32 GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS600 60 mm M.2 SSD Solid State Drive TS32GMTS600" from Amazon for the RockStor OS.  I may run the OS on a usb, because if m.2 is enabled then i lose the 8th sata port.  but now it isn't an issue.

this is more machine to machine connections for large file transfers.

 

 

 

[davidna2002]

On 6/2/2017 at 3:40 PM, grimreeper132 said:

looks like it, that being said they are great HDDs so you can forgive the looks of them

the power supply comes today so I haven't even spun up the golds yet.

[davidna2002]

On 6/2/2017 at 4:14 PM, grimreeper132 said:

fair enough. I recently acquired a WD1500ADFD (it's one of those old clicky hard drives, and is using either SATA or SATA 2 (dunno which one is beings used on this drive) which was bought in 2007 I think and is still going strong. That being I anit using it as the click can get annoying and also it's only 150GB so there's issues of it can store an OS, and possibly only a few applications (depending on what applications)

WD has always been my drive of choice.  but i have had every color pretty much fail on my except these gold drives which I have never used yet.

 

WD Green & Blue I've had lots of failures.

WD Black not too many but some.

WD Red only 2.

[davidna2002]

On 6/2/2017 at 3:40 PM, grimreeper132 said:

looks like it, that being said they are great HDDs so you can forgive the looks of them

they are pretty ugly compared to their Seagate counter parts.  but some dig the monolithic look.

[grimreeper132]

1 hour ago, davidna2002 said:

I am not sure what RAID to use.  RAID 6 more than likely.  I have been reading about ZFS and maybe will try that.

This is for biz archive server

using a "Transcend 32 GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS600 60 mm M.2 SSD Solid State Drive TS32GMTS600" from Amazon for the RockStor OS.  I may run the OS on a usb, because if m.2 is enabled then i lose the 8th sata port.  but now it isn't an issue.

this is more machine to machine connections for large file transfers.

 

 

 

sounds fun. Yea the disabling of SATA ports can be a pain in the arse at times when your trying to do something like this.

 

1 hour ago, davidna2002 said:

WD has always been my drive of choice.  but i have had every color pretty much fail on my except these gold drives which I have never used yet.

 

WD Green & Blue I've had lots of failures.

WD Black not too many but some.

WD Red only 2.

Yea I have been lucky with drives and never had any fail, that's touch and go though, and I hope that stays like that.

 

1 hour ago, davidna2002 said:

they are pretty ugly compared to their Seagate counter parts.  but some dig the monolithic look.

Yea I can see why some people do I just don't think they look the nicest. That being said I have never had one fail on me, and when they do, it's normally due to them being used for too long and it's (normally) expected or it's due to an environmental reason rather than the drives themselves

[grimreeper132]

1 hour ago, davidna2002 said:

the power supply comes today so I haven't even spun up the golds yet.

hope it goes well and it actually works. You dinny want anything to be broke before you even start.

[davidna2002]

Powers supply is in and drives are spinning.

[Jarsky]

Beautiful... if only the currency conversion didn't make those drives prohibitively expensive they would be my choice for an upgrade