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donald
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My DIY NAS build

Post by donald » Sun Sep 12, 2010 5:09 am

Hi

I just finished building my new fileserver/NAS. I had a synology 207+ before but i wanted a real server and space for more than 2 harddrives.

Here's what i ended up with

Housing: Fractal Designs Array (rev 1)
Motherboard: Zotac NM10 DTX
Memory: 2x2GB Corsair DDR800
Harddrives: 4 x 2TB WD EARS + 1 x 80GB intel SSD (X-25M g2) -
4 of the seagates in raid10
NIC: Onboard

I started out with Intel's D510MO-motherboard and a promise TX4310 raidcontroller, but the performance was really bad. So i went with the Zotac instead.

The server is running Windows 2008 R2, and a virtual linux-server in vmware workstation.

I am getting ~75-80 Mbyte/sec over network from the raid10.

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psyopper
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Post by psyopper » Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:41 am

Why a virtual Linux server inside Windows 2008? Seems like a waste of money buying the Windows license when you could do all the file serving work with Linux.

Also, why an SSD in a NAS? Is there some sort of performance advantage?

Unless there's something I'm likely missing...
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Post by Ramses » Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:23 am

Looks good and still spacious enough inside! How is the noise level from 5 HDDs + fan? Any noticeable harmonic vibration?
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donald
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Post by donald » Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:05 am

psyopper wrote:Why a virtual Linux server inside Windows 2008? Seems like a waste of money buying the Windows license when you could do all the file serving work with Linux.

Also, why an SSD in a NAS? Is there some sort of performance advantage?

Unless there's something I'm likely missing...
I am using the server for remote desktop as well. I have a MS technet subscribtion from my work, so i am using the license from that.

SSD: Again i am using it for remote desktop, as well as virtual machine storage. I also uses less energy and has not moving parts, so i hope it lasts long then a normal hdd.
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donald
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Post by donald » Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:08 am

Ramses wrote:Looks good and still spacious enough inside! How is the noise level from 5 HDDs + fan? Any noticeable harmonic vibration?
It is pretty low noise, i can only hear the fan in the PSU when the harddrives a idle. When the harddrives are working, then i notice them.

No vibration what so ever.
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Post by twitch » Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:08 pm

Could you potentially use another virtual machine and run win7 for htpc? I also have technet so I have the apps.
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donald
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Post by donald » Sun Oct 10, 2010 11:17 pm

twitch wrote:Could you potentially use another virtual machine and run win7 for htpc? I also have technet so I have the apps.
I dont think HD-material would run smooth inside af VM...
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Post by twitch » Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:33 am

donald wrote:
twitch wrote:Could you potentially use another virtual machine and run win7 for htpc? I also have technet so I have the apps.
I dont think HD-material would run smooth inside af VM...
Yeah, probably need RemoteFx for that (coming with SP1)
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Re: My DIY NAS build

Post by donald » Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:40 am

Updated with 4 x 2Tb WD EARS harddrives :)
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