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Two Xeon E5-2630 2.3 GHz Six Core Processors, 64GB DDR3-10600, PERC H310 Mini
Overkill is underrated as they say.
Filled with drives I had laying around the house, Three (3) 146GB Dell 15k SAS, Four (4) 600GB Dell 10k SAS, One (1) WD Blue 750GB for parity. Plan is to fill out the rest with 1 TB or 2 TB drives, then, replace the smaller drives one at a time. Luckily for me, the PERC H310 Mini allows for passthrough, so I didn't have to flash to LSI firmware for IT Mode.
A good eye will see that I took this picture after the first boot...because the monitor is hooked into the R610...I added 16GB of DDR3-10600 to it, bringing it up to 48GB. It's used solely as a lab environment now, as all production Docker containers have been moved to the R720.
First boot of unRAID 6.7.0, works like a charm!
ThisOldCPU
Is this really an efficient solution? A lot of noise, heat, and power draw for something that can be beaten by newer NAS in every way.
ThisOldCPU
Don't get me wrong, I love this older gear, but the efficiency and power loss is so, so terrible.
GregLXStang
I noticed less than a ten dollar difference over the last couple months when I was running my R610 24/7, so we will see with the R720.
GregLXStang
Efficient? Maybe not completely, but it's what I wanted to do rather than a Synology or something else. lol I just like Power Edge servers.
ThisOldCPU
I feel you, and I love RAID tinkering. I went through that phase myself and realized how badly it hit my power bill vs storage capacity.