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I Made My Own JBOD Enclosure For CHEAP
I Made My Own JBOD Enclosure For CHEAP
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The janky builds are always way more interesting
I put together a 100tb system like this using an HP z440 with Xeon1660v4, 64gb ECC RAM, Nvme boot SSD, Sata boot SSD's , 8x12tb Hard drives, LSI 9300-8i controller for under $300 ( hard drives extra. ) I use as my Everyday computer runs Triple boot Win-10, Win-11, Linux. Fully supported by Microsoft , HP, and Linux ( Plug & Play Hardware. ) This computer is Rock Solid Stable and Reliable. Never Crashes or Hangs and Everything works Perfect.
Since you're already factoring in the price of the PSU, you might use an SFP one – it should fit into the enclosure, making the whole buld cleaner. Using a fully modular PSU would also take care of the cables, but those are usually pricier. Finally, I'm a great believer in plugging unused ports with plastic cover/plugs – a 3d printer is a great help there if you have one, can even print the side panels for cost saving. Overall, a good build though.
i was just thinking of going to the recycling centre getting an old case so and strip it on the inside and then id have a case to start 3d printing hard drive bays into also it has the PCI slots in the back because i have board to board cables so i need the PCI slots also the case would have a SPOT fot the PSU
Interesting solution. Thanks for the video.
I have a similar setup with a ThinkCentre m720q, I'm using a 2-port hba to make the NAS. I need to find a way to use the 650W PSU to power the drives but also the 3-node of ThinkCentre… So that I don't have 3 psu for the nodes and 1 for the drives…
Also I'm thinking of getting a sas expander to expand my drives collection.
JBOD enclosures HDD
Love the noctua fans on the front, elevates it to proper nerdy. However – not pet's paws or child's finger friendly. if you can solve that with a v2 then hat's off to you.
theres some cheap "sata hubs" the problem is that for whatever reason, mine started to work the way i wanted to, but then worked more like a hub that needs some form of input to be told which drive needs to be accessed
i wonder if thats because i used the floppy connector rather than the USB cable that was included
i checked, and it electrically is connected 5v-5v GND-GND 12v-12v, etc etc.
those extra connectors could be some form of "enable" for a special mode, but it does mean that its far less usable than id like
just get a shelving standard and cut it to size for 4 whole dollars
Another option is to look for spare server parts, namely their hot swap drive cages. These will probably take 1 sff8087/8643 and 1 molex per 4 drives. Then you do everything you did here with the appropriate cables. It will probably be slightly more expensive, but much much easier to assemble and maintain.
Edit: ah okay you mentioned those at the end never mind 😅
A heads up while there is still time to do something about it. If you hard-mount the drives all to a common plate like that, the drives will vibrate each other to death, rapidly. Don't do that. I recommend some sort of dampener between the drives and the plates. Don't be shocked if you get batches of sudden drive failures. Google among others learned this lesson the hard way in their data centers long ago. As did I, and a few other people. Metal is far worse than plastic, and denser metals like steel being the worst, but any common hard-mount is going to cause problems. I'd print up some TPU isolation pieces to go between the drives and plates. A lot of ways that can be done but if you can do mixed material printing you could print them out of a rigid plastic with TPU in the middle. If you can't do that, I'm sure there are some options you can find that can be purchased and used as a go-between. Or instead of screwing the drives in, use a damping material inside each plate, and run a rod between the plates to clamp the drives into place with the dampening material as a buffer (though that is my least favorite option because the dampening material would be under compression and likely be less effective).
70 watts is pico psu territory, get rid of that giant psu and put a pico on it.
Should have mounted the power supply with cage
MY DIY NAS project from Summer 2023:
Repurposed prior desktop machine that's just gathering dust:
– Mobo: AMD FX-8350; 32GB RAM; 7 int SATA ports
– case: 4 @ 5.25" ext bays; 6 @ 3.5" int bays; 2 @ 2.5" int bays; 4 @ 120mm fans (3 front, 1 rear); 1 @ 140mm fan on side panel, 2 @ 200mm fans on top panel
I added:
– Add converter tray: 1 @ 5.25" ext. bay ==> 6 @ 2.5" ext. bay, hot-swappable
– Add converter tray: 3 @ 5.25" ext. bay ==> 5 @ 3.5" int. bay
– Add PCIe card: dual 2.5Gbps NIC
– Add PCIe card: SATA controller, 10-port
– Add PCIe card: M.2 adapter = 1 m.2 NVMe + 1 mSATA (uses only 1 SATA port)
– Add 5-in-1 SATA power splitter cables
All PCIe slots and SATA ports are utilized, but I still have 3 drives open drive slots. However, thanks to this video, I know I can swap to a 16-port HBA if I want full drive slot utilization.
I'd probably have superglued the washers in place and when I wanted to remove a single drive, loosen one side to give it wiggle.
Instead of the SATA power splitter cables you can buy SATA punch down power connectors. You basically can just push more connectors onto your existing cables so you can space them as far apart as you want to cut down on some cable clutter.
Use higher capacity Hard Drives
I love it! I’ve been tempted to DIY my own enclosure for years, but never took the plunge.
Just a warning that while JBOD does in fact mean "just a bunch of disks" it does not necessarily mean the file system will write to them as individual disks.
There's a huge difference between JBOD and individual disks.
you can get some really cheap mesh grills for those fans predesigned for them so your cat doesn't have an accident
I built something similar, but it was just… too janky for my liking. I ended up buying a SilverStone CS382 case, it fits a mATX board and has 8 3.5" hot swap bays. It's a fantastic NAS case and solved all my high drive count issues pretty much completely
One thing missing: fan grilles for safety
@HardwareHaven how about Signum?
they have 3.5-inch Hard Drive Cage, 16-compartment Shock-proof Expansion rack, Multi-bay mobile External Hard Drive Cage on ali express and then you could add any slide in or hotswap drive mount or use the provided ones. You could even go down the rabbit hole of sata backplanes for the power so all you would need is prob 2 molex to power it (like on the silverstone 380b) for example. Cheers
That's funny, I just saw the video and that's pretty much what I did to add disks to an old 1U proliant DL360 Gen9 I use, I pretty much had everything except for the HBA and cables, I have a 3d printer so I didn't buy the HDD thing, but that's pretty much exactly the setup I made 1 year ago!! 😂
this is exactly what i was looking for. i have a SFF dell pc im using as a NAS but it only has space for a single drive. i also love enterprise network things and an external jbod with fancy sas cables etc is satisfying
I love this channel for the tidbits of info you dish out. Like the "add to psu" hickey. I had no idea that type of thing existed and didn't have much luck finding reference points for inspiration. You're providing a positive service to tech humanity.
I threw together a JBOD shelf that was full of jank. This was an enjoyable view.
Im running everything on a DIY Zimaboard NAS with 2 Harddrives in a woodworking diy case. This is exactly what I was looking into to add more drives. Thanks!
JONSBO N3 great little case, i just built a overkill nas box, 11900k 64 ram 10gbe nvme 8 drives 4 nvme, 1100watt power supply. it's a sleeper.
if washers are not installed correctly between screw and acrylic to spread the forces while tightening Your warranty is void.
You can probably get a NetApp disk shelf for cheap now since they're EOL. But I dont even want to imagine how much power those things would draw. They also take up a lot of space since they're 4U rack size.
While this is pretty neat and I've considered doing this myself, at 15:07 enterprise disk shelves are mentioned. I picked up a 24 bay 3.5" drive shelf plus controller and cable from the seller listed in the screenshot (disclosure, I am in no way affiliated, just a happy customer) and it comes with redundant power supplies and redundant controllers, and you can daisy-chain disk shelves together. Obviously it's a bit loud but has been running rock solid for years in my basement. The shelf is SAS-capable, but I can't remember if SATA will work as well (just because SAS has a compatible connector with SATA doesn't mean it will work with the controller).
It would be neat to see if you can bring that DIY version to its knees to see how reliable it is though.
FSP is quite reputable. If the PSU can master the spin-up current without going into OCP/OPP protection mode, then it should hold up in normal operation just fine, and it won't take any permanent damage anyway. I mean those 50W continuous consumption by drives really isn't much to worry about.
Glue. Glue the fan bridges to construct the cage first. If it's true acrylic and not a plastic of some kind you have to use acrylic safe glue or solvent to "weld" it. Most CA/Super glue will tint it white, but then again, you can just paint over that. Once it's built w/fans mounted it becomes waaaay more stable.
I'm thinking of buying one of those vertical test stand units and then build a shell around it. After watching this video, I'm now thinking that the test stand and something like this plastic HD stand maybe the way to go.
I am looking at making a shell that would enclose both stands by using those four(4) side slotted aluminum extrusions in each corner. Connect the extrusions to the bottom and then just slide the five(5) sided lid on to the extrusions.
Filtered fan ventilation is the only part of the design that I'm having problems coming to grips with.
Brotip: use the 1-to-4 splitter cables with capacitors, i.e. the Silverstone CP06-L-USA.
That smooths out the power delivery to your drives, as starting up 8, 10, 10+ disks at once is a huge stress on your power supply.
(Disk shelves generally have staggered disk startup for this very reason.)
If you want the case of the USB DAS but mote reliability, you can try to refit it to a SAS enclosure. Adapers for that are abundant. You 'just' need to scrap the electronics inside for them. Still, it depends a bit on the internal structure of the USB DAS and it is not very cost effective.
If you want vibration dampening without the hassle, one thing you can try are silicone grommets for M5, M6, or #6-32 screws. You may need to drill the holes out to a slightly larger size as grommets are supposed to fit inside the hole.
Some older cases, particularly Antec, used to come with those.
Oh, and one more thing you can do for vibration dampening the entire thing is adding earthquake-resistant gel pads. They are usually clear blue in color, and you should be able to find them at most online stores in the Asia region.
This is just what I was looking for. I had considered one of those JBOD cases but avoided it because of the cost. Thanks for the information.