My First Big Boy NAS

[TwoStroke]

I had to open my NAS up to put some new 2.5" SSDs in it for my LANCache to run on as it had just been running on my HDDs as a test, so I figured what better time than now to take some photos and do a post?

Specs:

Case - Sliger CX3702
Motherboard - Asus Pro W680M-ACE SE
CPU - Intel 14600k
Cooler - Noctua NH-D9L
RAM - 2x Kingston 32gb ECC DDR5
HBA - LSI 9400-16i
Power Supply - Corsair 850W SF850L
HDDs - 2x 4tb Ironwolf Pro, 2x 16tb Ironwolf Pro, 2x 18tb Ironwolf Pro
SSDs - 1x 128gb 2.5" Samsung Boot Drive (This is an old SSD that I used to have in a PC?)
          - 2x 2tb NVME Drives
          - 2x 2tb 2.5" SSDs

Notes for people in future - If your rack is 18" deep and the server is 17.72", you won't have room for cables, so I needed to get some tin snips and cut a hole in the back of my rack so that ethernet and power would fit..

 

But then I used tape so it wasn't sharp on the cables! (Also, I promise I vacuumed those spider webs...)

 

Looks just like a bought one! 

Here's a photo before I tidied my rack, still has the old Synology on top of the new NAS before I transferred all my data. I'll add another photo after I get everything back in the rack, I have tidied things up a lot since then

 

Other items in the rack: Synology DS916+ (Replaced with this new NAS)
Intel NUC (Runs my Plex server until HexOS supports intel GPU passthrough)
Eufy Homebase (For my doorbell)
Raspberry Pi 4 running HomeAssistant (Only until HexOS official VM support comes!)
Unifi UDM-SE
Unifi 24Port Pro switch

Edited 7 hours ago by TwoStroke

[TwoStroke]

Next item for me on the list is probably looking at a 10Gbps NIC, but at the moment 2 x 2.5Gbps on the motherboard has been plenty in a bond.