I recently purchased some 8TB WD Red Drives (the Best Buy EasyStore deal) and was quite disappointed with the pricing out there for a decent NAS unit. I priced out several Synology Units and an HP MicroServer Gen8 and neither one really got me excited about paying $300 for such anemic hardware.
Digging through the scrap heap I found an old Philips-branded E-ATX mid-tower server chassis with 8 hot-swap bays. Here is my proposed build so far:
Additionally, does anyone have any experience with EPS 8-PIN adapters? I would like to replace this old SeaSonic PSU with an 80 plus Platinum one I recently retired from my gaming rig, but I don't have a second EPS 8-pin connector available on it.
I realize that this will not be the quietest or most power-efficient build, but the only component I had to purchase was the SuperMicro board from eBay. Everything else is recycled from previous projects or the scrap pile at work.
I will post some photos of my build later this week when I have more time.
Digging through the scrap heap I found an old Philips-branded E-ATX mid-tower server chassis with 8 hot-swap bays. Here is my proposed build so far:
- Dual Intel Xeon X5650s (pulled from retired HP BL460c G7 blade)
- SuperMicro X8DTE Dual Socket 1366 E-ATX Motherboard
- 6x8GB Micron DDR3 PC3-10600R ECC Memory
- 128GB Samsung Enterprise SSD (Boot Drive)
- 4x8TB WD Red 3.5" SATA HDDs
- Mellanox ConnectX-2 10GbE NIC
- Intel 980X Stock Coolers (compatible with LGA1366 XEON mounting plates)
- SeaSonic 850W Power Supply (Unknown model, dual EPS 8-pin, ~2007 vintage)
- Dell Perc H310 Cross-Flashed to LSI 9211-8i
- Lite-ON DVD R/RW SATA Optical Drive
Additionally, does anyone have any experience with EPS 8-PIN adapters? I would like to replace this old SeaSonic PSU with an 80 plus Platinum one I recently retired from my gaming rig, but I don't have a second EPS 8-pin connector available on it.
I realize that this will not be the quietest or most power-efficient build, but the only component I had to purchase was the SuperMicro board from eBay. Everything else is recycled from previous projects or the scrap pile at work.
I will post some photos of my build later this week when I have more time.