{"id":385,"date":"2023-08-14T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/?p=385"},"modified":"2024-01-16T11:47:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T11:47:49","slug":"nas-build-collecting-parts-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2023\/08\/nas-build-collecting-parts-round-2.html","title":{"rendered":"NAS Build \u2013 Collecting Parts (Round 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I was never really happy about using the tower PC case that I mentioned in the previous NAS post, it was just too big and bulky, so I continued looking for alternate solutions.<\/p>\n

Eventually I settled on using an EMC KTN-STL3 unit that can hold 15 x 3.5″ SAS drives in a short 3U enclosure.<\/p>\n

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The version I found on Ebay came with 9 x 3TB SAS ‘data’ hard drives and 5 x 200GB SAS solid state ‘flash’ drives and I picked it up for \u00a3220.00 and collected it from 5 minutes around the corner from where I live.<\/p>\n

I will look for an additional 6 or more 3TB SAS drives and at least one more disk caddy.<\/p>\n

This is just a dumb disk unit with a couple of controllers, so it needs some form of ‘head unit’ to provide the Operating system and ‘brains’<\/p>\n

I found a Sophos WS500 Web Appliance 1U server on Ebay for \u00a350.00 and free P&P, this is basically a SuperMicro 512L case with a SuperMicro X7SBi<\/a> motherboard with an Intel Xeon E2160 1.8GHz CPU, 2GB of RAM and a 250GB HDD.<\/p>\n

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I was effectively buying the item for the 1U case and power supply as the current internals were not really going to cut it.<\/p>\n

The new motherboard was a SuperMicro X10SLH-N6-ST031<\/a> that has 6 x 10GB ethernet interfaces on-board and an IPMI interface, it has one x16 and one x8 PCI-E slot.<\/p>\n

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I purchased an Intel Xeon E3-1271 V3 Quad Core 3.60GHz CPU ($27.98 – I was going to be in the USA on holiday), 4 x 8GB ECC DDR3 PC3L-12800E DIMMs of Server Ram (\u00a335.00) to complete the server end.<\/p>\n

I also needed to buy a right angle adapter ($16.00) to mount a SAS9201-16E<\/a> HBA card (\u00a335.00)<\/p>\n

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I reused the 2 x 360GB 2.5″ SATA disks on which I did the initial install for the Tower case build, I just needed to connect to the IPMI console and change the network interface settings.<\/p>\n

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Current layout of the internals, although I will almost certainly replace the squirrel fan with some 40mm case fans as it is pretty noisy, I may also replace the 40mm fan on the power supply.<\/p>\n

Connection between the ‘head unit and the disk chassis will be with one or more Mini SAS 26 Pin SFF-8088 to SF 8088 cables.<\/p>\n

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