Recent content by JoanTheSpark

As long as you're aware of the fact, that if one drive fails you're out of redundancy and need to rebuild the pool (higher workload) with a big chance of another drive failing during this period - that's when you're in trouble. ;) For media your choice might be good though, as it's not as...

Your argument is a little flawed as top of the notch tech will still progress and your tiny little NUC+miniGPU combo will be 'obsolete' within a year or two anyway and you need to get the next iteration of it. It's even better with the NUC as I won't expect them to put sockets on there for you...

If you're enrolled/employed at an university you can try to get Autodesk Inventor as full working version for a couple of years via their education program, just don't do any commercial work with it. I don't know how useful FreeCAD is for this (I got it installed and can do stuff with it, but as...

eewwww.. my fault :o Ok, let's take a WD Red, probably most popular around hobbyists. Personally I took them as they use the lowest amount of power (HGST would had been my preferred choice but they run at 7.2k rpm and use more power) and according to the 'pros' in the FreeNAS forums it doesn't...

Well, one thing is for sure - don't try to ask over in the FreeNAS forum if you get their 'sign of approval' for running with a PicoPSU. They'll burn you on a stick if you do :cool: I'm also not sure if the media/file-server cross over is really a good use case of FreeNAS, you might ask that...

Afaik this board only needs 12V, which can be delivered by either an 8 pin connector on the backpanel (probably for rack installs) or an adapter that was in the box that grabs the ATX 24 pin and the Intel 4 pin 12V wires and puts them into the little black mini-ATX connector at the 'top edge' of...

Little bit of cross-posting from over here Thanks borz - for the green light on the uATX in that particular case, much appreciated. :cool: Thanks veryrarium - for the MT-C224 reminder, you saved me a lot of time. :) I finally got: ASRock MT-C224 (so I don't have to modify the case, but get the...

The case will be 'long' in any direction if you want to argue that way, as the PSU has to go 'somewhere'. And most people will put it so, that the mains cable attaches to it once at the outside, the opportunistic move (being caused by large GPUs and small MBs) taking unused space at the 'front'...

That problem will vanish down the road.. just look at the (possible) size of the GPU vs the motherboard.. it's nearly 2 times as big. This won't last. These days you have the 'luxury' to use the gap that is being created by the GPU size vs mITX boards to downsize the case envelope.. The mITX...

Ha, I ruled those boards out earlier on the search for one that just fits into mITX, but you made me look at them again - even they need modification of the back of the case (be it Node 304 or Array R2 Mini).. the MT-C224 might actually fit out of the box: source...

Ha yeah, I corrected my request to FD right after I sent it.. made the opposite typo there for the width :o ASRock E3C222D4U would be the board of choice atm (LGA1150). There are plenty of mATX boards from Supermicro (X10SL*****) that would work too, but a bit more expensive & maybe more...

Ok, Fractal Design Support was so nice and gave me my answers :) This means I'm going to do this..

it's for a NAS, no use intended for the PCI/PCIE slots to tell you the truth(*).. I'm more after the price (mITX is dearer than the uATX) and more memory slots.. 32GB total possible instead of just 16GB. This actually brings me to the next question, vertical space underneath those drives in the...

Anyone knows if a uATX board would physically fit into the Array R2 Mini? So far I only found this piece of info: I don't care for the standoffs or the cutouts, I can modify those if I need to. Just need to know if I can fit 244mm x 244mm uATX board inside that case.. :cool: Thanks for...

Hi woodoo, any chance for a link to that fan please? Would like to read it's specs if available. Thanks!