What Hardware Are You Using?

Figured I'd add my 2cents

I just refreshed my system. Since OMV4 I've been running a hacked up Dell Optiplex 9020 i7 / 16GB RAM with a SSD for OMV and a 8TB drive internal.

I acquired a stack of 8TB NAS drives from work, & I've had a bunch of extra components lying around so figured it was time to put them to use & buy the rest.

Case: Fractal Node 304

MB: Asrock H370M-ITXac (6 Sata connectors!)

CPU: i5-8600

RAM: 16GB DDR4

HDD: 4x 8TB

SSD: 2x 900GB MLC Server drives

NVME: 256GB - System/OMV

So far it's awesome, but the stock fractal node 304 fans are just basic 3pins, so a bit noisy. I'll adda controller or upgrade to PWM later.

It's stupidly overpowered, but I do run multiple 4k streaming now and again, and will use it as my NVR soon too once I can get a Coral TPU at a reasonable price. I do my entire home network in docker containers, so I end up needing more power than the old dell could provide. The Node 403 case is great for the price & has room for a GPU for later needs (real time transcoding)

x3 8TB drives are mergerFS & snapraid data, x1 is snapraid parity.

The SSDs..I don't have a need for the speed at the moment, but one is for my docker appdata, the other? I dunno yet.

A love this topic!
On the last week, make my base "definitive" config.

OMV 6

CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1265L v2 @ 2.50GHz

RAM - 4GB

System/Docker/VM - HD WD Black 500GB

Storage - 3x HD Seagate 2TB

Docker: Portainer, Netdata, Plex, Speedtest, Tautulli e Transmission.

VM: working in progress

Case: Raidmax Scorpio V

This my omv system:

MB: JW J3160 thin , with J3160 CPU, TDP 6W

RAM: DDR3L 8GB

SSD: Toshiba MLC 128GB mSATA for system

Intel SSD 1.92TB MLC SATA for data and temporary using.

HD: WD 4TB for backups and photos and videos.

Timed backup oerations are set to backup SSD's data to HD, and USB-backup from HD to movable disks, for those important datas and video/pictures.

Running docker containers for a blog, a git repo, a mysql database for testing, trasmission for downloading and shareing.

So this is my pretty small home server, and it runs well.

I'm moving this from the RPi5 thread as it's more applicable here. I am probably in the minority who run RPi 4 as my primary NAS but it's working great as a photo dump and media server.

My two NAS use two different Geekworm products, designed for RPi4:

1. 2 - 5T 2.5" drives / RPi4 in this one: https://geekworm.com/collectio…age/products/naspi-gemini

2. 2 - 16T 3.5" drives in this one: https://geekworm.com/collectio…products/naspi-gemini-3-5

A third recent addition is a low end Synology

2. 2 - 8T drives - Synology DS223 - Setup as JBOD to backup #2 and serve as a backup media server.

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)

Bilder

I finally found the bill of all my components bought back in 11/2014, since then running 24/7.

Fractal Design Node 804

Enermax Triathlor 450W

ASROCK Z97M Pro4 (was my choice because of an Intel onboard NIC)

Intel Core i3-4160

2 * 8GB DDR3

4 * WD-Red 3TB (one of them has died and was replaced)

In 12/2019 I added a Toshiba 8TB NAS drive for (rsync) backup purposes.

Oh boy, it's almost 9 years old but running without any issues.

Just setup everthing, started saturday 14th of October and finalized the build this saterday 21st of October.

Ran into a lot of issues, but I'm happy with the endresult.

SBC: Raspberry Pi 4B

CPU: Broadcom BCM2711

RAM: 8GB LPDDR4-3200

μSD: 128 GB Sandisk cat10 System/OMV

OS: RaspbianOS Bullseye 64bit (Legacy/ Headless)

Case: Flirc RBpi4

HDD: 2x Seagate Ironwolf Pro 4TB (RAID 1)

HDD enclosure: Icybox IB-RD3802-C31

OMV: 6.9.4-2 (Shaitan)

Docker containers:

- Portainer

- Nextcloud-AIO

- Cloudflare tunnel (as my ISP blocks port-forwarding)

- Netdata

- Uptime Kuma

- Home Assistant

Edit: added OMV version

Primary NAS:

Asrock J5040 itx board

PicoPSU 120Watt + 12V/50 Watt Power Supply

8GB RAm (2x4GB DDR4)

Old airy ITX case

16 GB Sata SSD (Sandisk U110) for system and Jellyfin containers

4TB SATA SSD for data (Transcend)

Backup NAS:

Dell Wyse 5070 Thin Client with J4105 and 65 Watt Power Supply

8GB Ram (2x4GB DDR4)

System + Jellyfin on built-in 16GB eMMC

4TB Sata m.2 SSD for data (Transcend)

Dell Wyse only occasionally in operation to back up the primary NAS.

Primary and backup NAS run fanless.

Need to buy a case, right now my motherboard is underneath a cereal box.

CPU - Intel i5-8400

Motherboard - Gigabyte Z390

RAM - 16GB DDR4

System/Docker- HP S700 256gb SSD

Storage - 1x22TB Ultrastar HC570 (shucked from a MY Book, way more storage than what I need but got it for a really good price, ~260usd)

Docker - Changedetection.io, Emby, Komga, Plex, Qbittorrent, Tautalli, Transmission, Vaultwarden, Wireguard, etc.

I started with an oDroid XU4 (similar platform as a RPi 3) and an external HDD. It served me well enough until I ran out of space on it. I moved to a NUC like device oDroid H2 (Intel Quad-core processor J4115) with 2 native SATA ports and one M.2 port. It also served me quite well for 2 years until I wanted to add more HDDs (I was already using a SATA splitter that was ok most of the times). I upgraded my desktop to an 12900K and I repurposed my old desktop with i7 Extreme 5820K and lots of SATA ports to be my NAS. It doubled my power consumption, but I was expecting it to be more than that. Basically I have quite a powerful NAS at zero cost to me. I tried searching for a good mini ITX board with a decent CPU, but I had to sell my existing mobo+CPU and even pay extra to get a mini ITX with less power, just for the form factor. I preferred to keep my possible hungry setup and use it (it was pretty stable for all these years).

My 2 euro cents is to get whatever is cheaper. Ask around if anybody has old hardware that they are not using and use that, if you want to build a NAS now. Look for used hardware locally on your preferred sites like eBay or OLX. Think ahead about how it would be used so you don't have to buy a new build because your use cases have changed.

Datto S3B3000 chassis

Xeon D-1521 @ 2.4GHz

32GB ram

2 Dell Exos 18TB HDD mirrored

1 Team Force 450GB SSD for OS - OMV 6.9.4-2

1 Team Force 1TB NVME for applications

Hello all,

My setup.

Proliant Microserver Gen10 - AMD Opteron X3421

16GB Ram (2x8GB DDR4 ECC)

120 GB Sata SSD (Crucial) for sys, dockers and kvm vms.

5x1TB on RAID 5 for data.

QNAP TS-239ProII+

version 6.9.8-1
Orange Pi 5+ / 16GB + 256GB EMMC (in a case with a cooling fan)

2TB NVME

Containers::

• jellyfin
• qbittorrent
• mariadb
• piwigo
• pihole (using the spare eth port via maclvan)

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Fan's a little loud, but otherwise no complaints!

root@psg84nas:~# inxi -F

System: Host: psg84nas Kernel: 6.1.0-0.deb11.11-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 0

Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)

Machine: Type: Desktop Mobo: HC . model: HCAR357-NR serial: HC22380010314

UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5.14 date: 09/09/2021

CPU: Info: Dual Core model: AMD Athlon PRO 300U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx bits: 64

type: MT MCP L2 cache: 1024 KiB

Speed: 1400 MHz min/max: 1400/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1400 2: 1366 3: 1223

4: 1400

Graphics: Device-1: AMD Picasso driver: amdgpu v: kernel

Display: server: No display server data found. Headless machine? tty: 100x35

Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.

Audio: Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

Device-2: AMD Raven/Raven2/FireFlight/Renoir Audio Processor driver: snd_pci_acp3x

Device-3: AMD Family 17h HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

Device-4: C-Media Audio Adapter (Unitek Y-247A) type: USB

driver: cmedia_hs100b,snd-usb-audio,usbhid

Sound Server: ALSA v: k6.1.0-0.deb11.11-amd64

Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169

IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: 1c:83:41:31:a0:e5

Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169

IF: eno1 state: down mac: 1c:83:41:31:a0:e6

Device-3: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169

IF: enp4s0 state: down mac: 1c:83:41:31:a0:e7

Device-4: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169

IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 1c:83:41:31:a0:e8

IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: 02:42:61:66:ca:f7

RAID: Device-1: md0 type: mdraid level: raid-0 status: active size: 7.28 TiB report: N/A

Components: Online: 0: sdb 1: sda

Drives: Local Storage: total: raw: 8.21 TiB usable: 8.21 TiB used: 1.41 TiB (17.1%)

ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 model: NX-1TB size: 953.87 GiB

ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MG04ACA400E size: 3.64 TiB

ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MG04ACA400E size: 3.64 TiB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 936.39 GiB used: 17.43 GiB (1.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2

ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 152 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1

Swap: ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 977 MiB used: 654.2 MiB (67.0%)

dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3

Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 27.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 40.0 C

Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Info: Processes: 169 Uptime: 83d 5h 29m Memory: 21.45 GiB used: 1.91 GiB (8.9%)

Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01

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