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Hello, I am building a NAS for home, with the top req. that it must be very quiet. This will be a small NAS, say, 4x 2.5" and SSD's only. Can anybody please recommend a compact chassis designed for 2.5" drives? Ultimately in the future I want to build an SSD pool where most of the reads and...

This is my primary use case, i.e., provisioning new servers. Especially when I need to bring a portable monitor to the server.

Thank you Zinn . I will look into these options.

Hello all! I am looking for a slim and portable monitors whose characteristics include the following: less than 30 inches, so more like 23-27 inches or thereabouts; slim, as in shallow depth; despite being slim and lightweight (see below) it not be flimsy; I would like one that is sturdy and...

Do you mean that the R5 can house up to 12 drives? (I'm counting 10-12 in the specs here: https://www.fractal-design.com/home/product/cases/define-series/define-r5-titanium )

The point is that I don't need NVMe/SSD for... at first when I started on trying to solve this problem, the immediate answer seemed to be, build an SSD NAS so it's silent locally and then sync that remotely upstream to its master NAS. But this would either get very complicated if the SSD array...

Dear Meeho, Spartacus09, and mwroobel, Thank you so much for your replies. I initially started with a very complicated solution, where I had multiple NVMe disks in a RAID configuration, sync'ed to the main NAS in an upstream remote location. The possibilities for things going wrong are, well...

Hello, I am deploying ZFS-on-Linux as its own separate appliance on the following setup: U-NAS 800 chassis with 8 bays A1SRi-2758F board with 32 GB ECC RAM Debian Buster running as the OS, with ZoL A simple configuration where exports are shared over NFSv3 to my LAN 4x WD Red 8 TB in RAIDZ2...

Thanks for the info, Smitty2k1. (For SFX I've been looking at Seasonic, which is my go-to brand for PSUs.). Also, I've heard that SFX (and TFX, Flex-ATX) is generally louder than a very high quality ATX PSU. Is this true?

Hi! I'm upgrading a lot of my hardware, partly due to health reasons, and I'm very keen on getting a nice monitor... IPS I think might be good. I haven't yet decided on the size, brand, or other features. All I know is that I want something that has all the standard features a modern, medium...

Thank you Alexreffand!! This information is most appreciated!!

I'm looking for this thread now...

Hello! I'm just curious, apart from size and shape, what are the major functional differences between SFX and TFX PSUs? Are there specific advantages of one over another? Of course, using a full-sized ATX PSU is often not desirable when building and SFF machine, so that really leaves SFX and...

Holy moly!! These are some of the loveliest micro-ATX cases I've ever seen. Until now I've been particularly attracted to the InWin CE052.FH300TB3, InWin CE685.FH300TB3, and some of the Silverstone offerings. There are probably a few others, but that perfect micro-ATX case has been so elusive...

Hello, Can somebody please recommend a no-BS introductory tutorial ot the theory and practice of hyperconvergence? I've searchd but most things I find seem to have been written with marketing in mind or for an enterprise target audience. I"m looking for something a little bit more... real...