Silent NAS/Home server build - suggestions?

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(03-29-2014, 03:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: What exactly are you planning on storing on here? 10TB seems a bit excessive to me but then again we still don't really know much about your plans for this thing.

Tons of things, going from music to uncompressed video to games to massive (~25GB compressed) log files. Oh, and backups.

(03-29-2014, 03:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: How small do you want this thing to be?

As small as it can be with 6-7 not-too-expensive disks in there.

(03-29-2014, 03:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Like shuffle said SSDs are basically required to make a NAS truly silent. But I guess if you really need 10TB then that's not a practical option.

It's not.

(03-29-2014, 03:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Do you really need that much cpu power? According to tomshardware even Intel silvermont/bay trail-D would meet your needs:



You can get a fanless board for that and design a system that uses well under 100w at load before factoring in HDDs.

I do. Encryption is expensive, ZFS too (especially when using advanced features), and I might consider compression as well. I've had feedback from people with Bay Trail solutions saying that they got rid of FDE because it became the bottleneck quicker than IO on their system.

(03-29-2014, 03:08 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: Most reputable PSUs turn off the fan automatically when the load drops below 40/50%. You might not need to spend big bucks on a high end fanless model if you plan carefully. Or you could wire up an external power brick with a pico-psu. Those go up to 150-250 watts if I recall.

Any suggestion of good PSU that does that? I'd like to have high efficiency too, since this is going to run 24h/24. I don't think pico-psus are an option with the power requirements of this thing (at least around 300W).