Celeron J4105 based NAS build

Here comes some info about my NAS I build in Febuarry 22

ASRock Celeron J4105 (10W TDP ),

150WPicoPSU,

Raid 5 Array: 4x WD Red 2TB,

250 GB NVMe SSD on PCIe V1,

2x 4GB RAM SO-DIMM 2400,

(read/write 950/850 Mb/s over GE (84 GB-file with i5 8th Gen, NVMe SSD as exchange partner).

It's in a Lian Li (PC_Q08) Alu-Case with 2 Fans controlled by MB.

272 x 227 x 345 mm. I replaced the huge 350W Powersupply by a tiny 150W PicoPSUYou can't even see on the pics, but it's inserted in the powersupply socket on the MB and an external 90W AC-Adapter. It is very silent and only needs 12W.

All for EUR 280,- most ordered as used parts by bits and peaces. (excluding the four WD Red drives, I had before, about EUR 65,- each)

Additionally I have a 6 TB external USB3 Drive to backup the entire Raid 5 array regularly via rsync of all shared folders. (cause there is no 5ht Sata-port left on the MB)

Hi Stratosrv,

Yes I took a Xiwai Low Profile PCI-E 3.0 x1 Lane to M.2 NGFF M-Key SSD Nvme AHCI PCI-Express Adapter.

Fist have look to your free PCIe Slot what physical iterface it is and then You should take care that it is compatible with your SSD Module.

In my case it was a just a small PCIe x1 Slot. And i had a NVMe SSD. Just had a look to asrock page and saw that it seems to be the same slot on Yours.

This is what it looked like when I did my first proof of concept

Fresh measured at the Wallsocket:

Total power consumption is about

23,5 W with spinning raid array

and

26,5 W sending large files with about 800 Mbit/s.

The 12W were only CPU, RAM, SSD Systemdisk and the 2 Fans without any rotating HDDs connected.

I configured spindown for every single disk in the raid array after 5 min. Then there is 19 to 20W power consumption. But i can't really see if, or when they actually spin down.

As mentioned in the manufacturers Product Features the 4 WD Reds have a power consumption of 4.1W (Read/Write) and 2.1W (Idle) each one

( Standby/Sleep 0.4W ).

But they can deliver 210MB/s (intern. transferrate) what no one else in my entire network can support. Top bandwidth in my 1Gbit Network would be 128MB/s . So it should be less.