kojack Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 I have had this acer mini server for years and it's been sitting just waiting for some love. Well, in the next week or so I will be firing it up for a NAS storage unit for our businesses. I have been doing some research and I can supposedly install a bootloader from sinology to make this into a "new" NAS unit. I will be adding the noctua cooling solutions to it as I think It has a 120mm fan space in the rear and I will get the low profile cpu cooler for the system. For drives I will install 4 8tb Seagates and run them in a raid array to give protection of data. If I can't get this to work correctly I may swap in a whole new board, chip and go that route for the server. Either way, it will be setup in the next two week for use! I will keep a progress report going once I start in on it! 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Keep us posted. 32tb is alot but there's no such thing as storage overkill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 I figure once I get up and running with the photography/videography/design business, I will need all the storage I can get. So building for future needs. I have over 10tb of personal stuff right now on 5 drives hanging around the house and workshop. I don't think it will take long to be going into more after doing work for others. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 like I say keep us posted. 32tb might sound like alot but in todays world is it really? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 I think it's all I can fit in there. It's an older system, and I think the max drive you can actually fit it 2tb each but I am going to try to see if it will see the 8tb drive. If so, plan moves ahead, if not. I will get a synology NAS box and load it up! 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Funny we are doing similar projects. I just put together an HP Mediasmart server and upgraded it to a quad-core xeon with 4GB of ram. I put 3x8TB drives and a 14TB drive in it for backups. It's not fast, but it runs UnRAID and is small enough to fit in my fire safe. 2 1 Desktop | Intel i7-12700k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3420DW | 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Intel I7-12700k | MSI Pro Z690 DDR4 | EVGA 3060 Ti 8GB FTW3 Ultra | 64GB 3600MHz CL16 Neo | 1TB SX8200 | 100+TB | Lenovo Thinkbook 16P Gen2 | AMD 5600H | RTX 3060 | 24GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 16:10 16" | Tweaked |Dell XPS 9310 2-in-1 | Intel i5-1135G7 | 16GB 4267mhz | 512GB | 16:10 | Tweaked | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 3 hours ago, Custom90gt said: Funny we are doing similar projects. I just put together an HP Mediasmart server and upgraded it to a quad-core xeon with 4GB of ram. I put 3x8TB drives and a 14TB drive in it for backups. It's not fast, but it runs UnRAID and is small enough to fit in my fire safe. That's why I want to use this system. It fits in my printer stand like a smack in the face. I will take a picture after of the spot it sits in. I don't need fast, I need Lots of storage after I am finished with a project. Got any pics of your system? 1 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 14 hours ago, kojack said: That's why I want to use this system. It fits in my printer stand like a smack in the face. I will take a picture after of the spot it sits in. I don't need fast, I need Lots of storage after I am finished with a project. Got any pics of your system? Sure, here it is next the the server: It's not a bad little build considering I have <$75 into it excluding the drives. 1 1 Desktop | Intel i7-12700k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3420DW | 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Intel I7-12700k | MSI Pro Z690 DDR4 | EVGA 3060 Ti 8GB FTW3 Ultra | 64GB 3600MHz CL16 Neo | 1TB SX8200 | 100+TB | Lenovo Thinkbook 16P Gen2 | AMD 5600H | RTX 3060 | 24GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 16:10 16" | Tweaked |Dell XPS 9310 2-in-1 | Intel i5-1135G7 | 16GB 4267mhz | 512GB | 16:10 | Tweaked | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 9 hours ago, Custom90gt said: Sure, here it is next the the server: It's not a bad little build considering I have <$75 into it excluding the drives. Cool. Love the older HP cases. shiny coolness. I will grab a shot of mine tomorrow and post it for you! I am into mine for zero since I scabbed it from our business when we were closing. ha ha.! mods will be my only cost. I love that little machine you have there though. reminds me of my DV7 notebook! awesome external system chitty motherboard. 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 Here's my little rig in it's home. Once upgraded I will see what it can do. 1 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 i like kojacks setup better...but nice setups guys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 I need to get my office cleaned up and set up correctly. The stand that the server is in, is going to be painted I think. I am still undecided on that, as the desk I am going to use for writing etc is the same color and my new editing desk is black. Decisions decisions. I love old stuff. Old cameras, old computers, old bicycles, etc. It brings me back to that time. Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Custom90gt Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 On 1/11/2023 at 6:32 PM, ryan said: like I say keep us posted. 32tb might sound like alot but in todays world is it really? Depending on the type of RAID @kojackruns, it may be less than 32TB. I don't have my backup server running any type of redundancy since it only has 4 bays and it's my 3rd line backup. It also lives in my safe unless I'm actively backing up files to it. 1 1 Desktop | Intel i7-12700k | ASUS ROG Strix Z690-F | 2x16GB Oloy DDR5 @ 6400mhz CL32 | EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra | AW3420DW | 980 Pro 1TB PCIe 4.0 | All under water | Server | SM846 | Intel I7-12700k | MSI Pro Z690 DDR4 | EVGA 3060 Ti 8GB FTW3 Ultra | 64GB 3600MHz CL16 Neo | 1TB SX8200 | 100+TB | Lenovo Thinkbook 16P Gen2 | AMD 5600H | RTX 3060 | 24GB 3200mhz | 1TB SX8200 | 16:10 16" | Tweaked |Dell XPS 9310 2-in-1 | Intel i5-1135G7 | 16GB 4267mhz | 512GB | 16:10 | Tweaked | Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojack Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 I am not sure how I am going to set up the drives yet. I need to find out if it will actually take more than 1tb hdds yet, that's what the owners manual says. But I am going to toss a 2tb in. If it runs that, there is no reason to think it won't run large drives. I may even say EFF it and put 16tb drives in it. will see what happens. The 8tb drives are inexpensive, so use them maybe until they fill up. I will want redundancy in my setup so 16tb of storage for now. It will be an interesting project anyways. 1 1 Workstation - Dell XPS 8940 - desktop creative powerhouse Mobile Workstation - Dell inspiron 5406 2 in 1 - mobile creative beast Wifey's Notebook - Dell inspiron 3169 - Little gem for our businesses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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