My PiNAS project, part yeeha, Design complete (essentially)

previous: https://imgur.com/gallery/B65iowe
This is the last print before the final ABS print and nickel coating. (Sever case will be ABS, backplane case is ABS with PC ears)
All up and running :D

Since I get asked a lot about my intentions and motivations I'll put this here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Duk1LUq/comment/2424103431/1

This took a year longer than I'd hoped for, but I'm essentially done with the production design. The lid needs some small adjustments, but those can be added to the final print. I have the parts for a power sequencing circuit, but since the issue that that solves is mostly cosmetic (lane errors during reboots only) I left that out for now. I can easily add it inline with the external power cable later.

The abs will be gray, but the translucent natural PLA has been neat.

Inside: https://i.imgur.com/oE1Hpr8.jpg

This is just a test rack I setup. The production rack is 6U, deeper, and enclosed.
The tape is just temporary until I make the aforementioned lid adjustments

Something I added for the PCIe switch. With its small heatsink, an individual fan worked better than pulling air over it with the exhaust fans.
It's an Adda branded, 5v 40x10mm
I toyed with the idea of some kind of heatsink attachment, but this was much easier. It's a separate part that I just solvent welded to the case.
Runs off the Pi's 5v because it was convenient

I have an AC power meter to monitor usage.

This pic is during a raid-z expansion operation of an 7 drive array. This is a newer feature of ZFS and involves redistributing all of the data across the array, so it's an I/O intensive task.
The 114w is at the wall and it hopped around only by a few watts.
This includes, 8 SAS HDDs, a SAS backplane, (2) 80mm backplane fans, 3 SAS SSDs, 10GbE NIC, SAS-12Gb HBA, PCIe 3.0 switch, (7) 40mm fans and the RPi5

When no drive operation is running, this configuration idles at 75w.
Putting the drives to sleep results in a 40w idle

I was hoping I could capture all the little drive noises but the phone camera amplifies the fan noise too much. It's about 60% less wooshy in person lol

The plan is 12 8TB with 2 parity drives. I'll be adding drives as I can afford them (thanks to the new raidz expansion feature). I currently have 5 8TB and a few smaller. The backplane can be daisy chained and I have 2 more, so I could get ridiculous with it ;)

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