2012-09-04, 22:52
So my current NAS case (Antec 300) is finally maxed out with hard drives. I think its 11 now, they are mostly 2TB samsung f4's or 2TB seagate drives, plus 1 SSD for the OS:
This has lead me to upgrade of the case. I bought a Fractal Design Define XL today (impulse buy, someone was selling one virtually brand new for £60 on ebay, I couldn't help mysef ). I already have a Startech 4in3 hot swap bay in my Antec so I should be able to get 15 bays out of this new case, maybe 16 one day if I swapped it for a 5in3.
I'm currently running it as a Ubuntu server (specs in signature), its has a SAS card and a dual tuner DVB-S2 card.
Questions:
1) is my PSU (Antec TP-650) beefy enough to handle all 15 drives plus pcie cards?
I've not run in to any problems yet with 11 drives. It is a multi-rail PSU but I'm not currently running the drives as RAID.
2) Further down the line I plan to get a new ATX mobo & cpu (with lots of PCIe slots and which will support vt-d) for my server. I will then want to cram in a couple of gt430 or similar and turn it into a XEN or ESXI box with multiple hosts/OS's. One of which will be a (the current) Unbuntu server (NAS) sharing all the hard drives as a couple of ZFS mounts.
Again would my current PSU be up to the task, if not any recommendations?
Just want to find out now as their is no point swapping the cases over to find swap out the PSU a few weeks later. Damn XBMC for being such an expensive hobby
Thanks in advance
This has lead me to upgrade of the case. I bought a Fractal Design Define XL today (impulse buy, someone was selling one virtually brand new for £60 on ebay, I couldn't help mysef ). I already have a Startech 4in3 hot swap bay in my Antec so I should be able to get 15 bays out of this new case, maybe 16 one day if I swapped it for a 5in3.
I'm currently running it as a Ubuntu server (specs in signature), its has a SAS card and a dual tuner DVB-S2 card.
Questions:
1) is my PSU (Antec TP-650) beefy enough to handle all 15 drives plus pcie cards?
I've not run in to any problems yet with 11 drives. It is a multi-rail PSU but I'm not currently running the drives as RAID.
2) Further down the line I plan to get a new ATX mobo & cpu (with lots of PCIe slots and which will support vt-d) for my server. I will then want to cram in a couple of gt430 or similar and turn it into a XEN or ESXI box with multiple hosts/OS's. One of which will be a (the current) Unbuntu server (NAS) sharing all the hard drives as a couple of ZFS mounts.
Again would my current PSU be up to the task, if not any recommendations?
Just want to find out now as their is no point swapping the cases over to find swap out the PSU a few weeks later. Damn XBMC for being such an expensive hobby
Thanks in advance