I posted the other day about the new NAS I am building.
NAS stands for Network Attached Storage and is basically a computer dedicated to storage. In my case, it will be used as a storage server as well as running a few virtual machines. This will allow me to replace my Synology NAS and a couple of Dell R610 servers I have running miscellaneous tasks.
I ended up with a couple better deals than I initially expected.
| Quanity | Component | Total Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosewill 4U 15 Bay Case | $144 |
| 16 | Mini SAS to SFF-8087 Cables | $54.36 |
| 4 | 15 Pin Sata to 4 Sata Power Splitter | $24 |
| 1 | Gelid Thermal Compound | $16.62 |
| 5 | Arctic 120mm PWM Fans | $27 |
| 5 | Arctic 80mm PWM Fans | $23 |
| 2 | Silicon Power 256GB SSD | $64 |
| 2 | Arctic Freezer 33 CO CPU Fan | $68 |
| 1 | Gigabyte GA-7PESH2 MB | $175 |
| 2 | Intel Xeon 2690 v1 | $110 |
| 1 | HP SAS Expander | $10 |
| 8 | 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz ECC Reg Ram | $160 |
| 16 | 4TB Seagate 7200RPM SAS HD | $720 |
| 1 | Intel X540 T2 Dual 10GB Network Card | $100 |
Total Cost: $1,696
Total Space: 60TB (52TB Usable) w/ Spare
I'll need to pick up a dedicated UPS for another $120-150. Unfortunately, I just missed a nice sale on a 1000 VA BackUPS for $115 as I wasn't quick enough. I will also likely order another spare drive to have on hand for $45-50 which will give me two cold spare drives.
I chose to go with a different drive than my original post, the Hitachi drives went up to $70 a piece I was able to find some Seagate 4TB 7200RPM Enterprise SAS drives for $45 each. These drives are used by enterprise drives last nearly forever. I will have two spares on hand and running raidz2 (AKA Raid 6) so two drives can fail without any data loss.
Be sure to check out my original post if you want to check out an overview of the build.
I should receive everything over the next few days. Will be making posts as I get further along all the way until the end.