My DIY NAS build
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My DIY NAS build
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.
Some pictures.
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.
Some pictures.
Last edited by donald on Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:39 am, edited 1 time in total.
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.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...
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.
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.Ramses wrote:Looks good and still spacious enough inside! How is the noise level from 5 HDDs + fan? Any noticeable harmonic vibration?
No vibration what so ever.
Re:
Yeah, probably need RemoteFx for that (coming with SP1)donald wrote:I dont think HD-material would run smooth inside af VM...twitch wrote:Could you potentially use another virtual machine and run win7 for htpc? I also have technet so I have the apps.
Re: My DIY NAS build
Updated with 4 x 2Tb WD EARS harddrives