The equipment that I post is not Enterprise Grade hardware. This is 100% consumer-grade hardware that I use. Mostly for cost, but also to help control electric costs and heat.
Current System:
- FreeNAS is installed on the USB drive
- First set of four 2.5" drives are setup as a RaidZ
- Second set of four 2.5" drives are set up as a Raid10
- The last two 2.5" drives are hot spares (one for each of the raids above)
- The bottom four 3.5" drives are setup as a RaidZ (Using as NFS share for my Proxmox Server)
- The motherboard is from a used Lenovo desktop (Planning on upgrading).
- 10-bay (5.25") AzzA computer case (currently using 6 out of the 10 bays)
- 3 5.25" iStar Hard Drive Backplanes (holds 4 2.5" drives each)
- 1 (3 5.25") Hard Drive Backplanes (holds 4 3.5" drives each)
- Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.20 Ghz
- 16 GB Ram
- Only has one network port (1GB)
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New System (01/21/2020):
- ASRock Motherboard (Z390M-ITX/AC)
- iStarUSA S-35 Compact Stylish 3X 5.25-Inch Bay Mini-ITX Tower
- 1 (3x5.25") iStar Hard Drive Backplane (holds 4 3.5" drives)