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My Energy Efficient unRAID Build
My Energy Efficient unRAID Build
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Core i3 9100:
Gigabyte C246M-WU4:
Rosewill Case:
Crucial Server Memory DDR4:
SATA 4 port PCIe card:…
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any issue with that sata card ?
good job!
I'm not sure what you use your unRaid server for outside of NAS, but figured id share my tips I used on my build. I'm always looking for suggestions to improve my setup… Anyways I bought the 10600k CPU for my build, not for overclocking, but to allow underclocking…. I was able to underclock/undervolt mine stable down to 33 watts idle power and still reliably power all my docker containers and run plex on the iGPU…
The loudness is what gives it character!
Did you use powertop? I think you can squeeze more efficieny from this build
very nice build does this Sata card give same high speed for 4 HDD?
From what I hear, those SATA cards are often really cheap and can die easily. I.E: Anything more than 2 SATA on a card, and I guess it just dies at some point. You can get legitimate used 8i SAS HBAs for like $60 or less these days.
This motherboard is very expensive, and no way to buy a whole new one, or used one.
How is that SATA card working out? do the drives ever become disconnected?
How did you power the drive modules? You mentioned in the previous video about this case the two 4 pin molex connections to power each of the 3 drive modules, but in this video you don't have any of them wired up.
Great video, but I have some questions ? to take advantage of the ECC Ram, it also needs to be supported by the CPU, and as far as I am aware, Intel removed the EEC use from there CPU's after gen 5. So now only Xeon CPU support the EEC function of the ram. Or have I got that wrong ?
Why unraid not freenas?
Hey there! I just stumbled across this video and enjoyed it! (And subscribed). I'm sitting on a pile of hardware from my old unraid server and I'm itching to do something with it. Wanna give me some ideas? If not just disregard this gigantic comment lol. The systems has an X370 Taichi AM4 motherboard (with 10 sata ports), 64GB of non-ecc ram and right now I have eight 4TB HDDs. The system HAD a ryzen 5 3600 but the CPU is failing and has an issue. I didn't know this at the time (the server would just reboot after a random amount of time, finally figured it out with a L3 cache error I found in a kernel log while running ubuntu… If the system is running windows it's 100% stable, so I dont know what's up with it lol. But the server ran fine for around 3 years running unraid). Anyway, when this all went sour I picked up a used HP Z4 G4 workstation with a Xeon-W 2133 and some refurbished 16TB toshiba drives from newegg. So the my entire NAS setup is on new hardware.
So right now I could pretty much buy any Zen 2 or Zen 3 CPU and have this system back up and running. I just don't know what I should do. A current idea is to get something a little more high-end like a ryzen 7 5700X (or better). Install manjaro or whatever desktop linux I want, then setup a ZFS RAID Z2 with the 8 HDDs and mount it into my /home. Then all my data on my primary unraid server will have a second home and I'll have a cool workstation in the process. I have a GTX1660 Super I can throw into and have a cool little workstation with some fat storage, but idk if ZFS has a lot of CPU + RAM resource overhead where gaming on a setup like this would be a bad idea.
Is it even worth it to invest in AM4 anymore? Should I just install windows on this computer, put the 1660 super in it and sell it? 😛 then save for something that will use DDR5 memory? Or save up and buy a board with more enterprise-class features?
I was thinking if I wanted to go more of the NAS / Storage route of picking up a lower TDP APU so I don't need to also have a GPU plugged in… Maybe do truenas scale?
Right now in terms of my desktop workstation I run VMs on UNRAID and pass through my GPU and a PCI-E USB card and it works pretty well. But a Zen 3 AMD cpu would outperform that Xeon-W… however my RAM isn't ECC. 😛 "
Anyway, just brainstorming and want to do something cool with this junk lol
Honestly, if power efficiency is what you want, you simply have to adjust your usecase. My server runs an EPYC 24 core cpu with 256gb mem im consuming 100watts on average idle with just my CCTV stuff running, (so thats 2 WD purples, the other 14 HDD's are standby, and i'm prefering an NVME cache pool to move data away from every 12 hours). Normal operation is about 160watts when all disk are spun and utilization is around 25%. So i geuss, im paying a bit for the headroom.
Hey, what did you end up using to plug those 4 pin fans in at the back? I'm about to migrate a build into this case and I'm not sure if I should just buy two new fans to stick in there or buy some 4-pin-to-sata cables to meet my power supply, or buy some dedicated peripheral cables from corsair. Btw, how are your temperatures in this case? I'm thinking about drilling a bunch of holes into the side of it and flipping the PSU around so that it can suck from the side of the case as opposed to sucking air from within–but my box will be in a basement anyway so not sure it will be that big of a deal.
Great video. I just built my first server and I put in an ITX MB with an i5 and 32 Gb of memory. I did add a SAS card and I currently have it running 12 3.5-inch hard drives, all 10 Tb with 2 parity drives. I am now moving my stuff from a 2-bay TerraMaster and a 4-bay TerraMaster to it. Once done those will go to my son for his gaming storage. I do golf videos for clients and I also do photography and video at events as a hobby I just needed the storage capacity. The only difference is that I used a full tower PC case which can probably fit 24 hard drives if needed. It is so quiet that my wife thought it was off the other day when she went into my office. It wasn't. BTW, I run unraid and I can't be happier with it.
Could you check if case linked in the description has the same item? Looks different.
UNRAID vs TrueNAS in a reply. 🙂 (I run OpenMediaVault and want an upgrade.)