The Perfect Home Server Build! 18TB, 10Gbit LAN, Quiet & Compact

18tb? where will i store my totally legal collection of games and movies?

Can someone explain why Noctua continues to manufacture these absolutely horrid, grotesque, makeup-palette-colored fans? And further, why would anyone buy one? These colors clash with every component and motherboard ever made. At least we have Arctic and beQuiet, who have enough sense to sell simple, black fans that match any case and layout just fine.

IMHO if you dont have pi and looking at getting a pikvm then spend that money on a server motherboard with IMPI.

if i remember correct, my qnap ts-453a also cost around 400+€ back in 2016, no 10GbE, only 4 hdd´s, max 8GB ram, celeron. i think the price here is okayish for the potential performance, but i am not my wife^^

PCI-Express X1 to SATA 3.0 6Gbps

Why would you need so many SATA slots directly on your motherboard when you can buy a SATA Expansion Card and use external HDDs as your storage?

Buying used Xeons are actually worth and really cheap, and there's some decent mATX Supermicro motherboards too, but technically that's a bit overkill if you want just a simple NAS and home assistant solution. So, I guess that's more than enough.

Currently researching server builds that can support file storage. Mostly for repositories and media. :) any suggestions would be great!

Rest of the world please invest atleast 50% of your budget of server on power reliability, as servers to run on reliable power on router and server both is required otherwise everytime router resets are required.. And when working out of home with server..

Nice video! You say it can fit 3 more hdd's. Where could these extra hdd's go? In front of the top half of the motherboard?

I've been building home servers for years all based on Windows Server OSs. What I have learned is that 5400 drives have unbearable latency on both reads and writes. I also haven't had the success I've wanted in mid-priced consumer drives. I prefer to run RAID 10 clusters and have found that the WD Gold drives are much more failure proof. And, they've been coming down in price where you can get one 14TB drive today for what used be the cost of a 4TB.

I am looking for for the power supply you used in this video

all fine and till your showed your shitty fruit themed mac. thumbs down.

Looking for recommendations for a mobo (any size) with 2x M.2 slots and 6-8 sata slots

What the power usage on sleep mode?

Nice build! Really clever use of parts like the pi KVM!

Is there a video about your 10gig network setup?

it's only 18tb :\

i'd want at least 6 drives so i can do a zfs raidz with 2 redundancy drives.
also i'd want ecc ram.

If you bought a motherboard with 4-5 nvme m2 slots, would that not be better?

I recommend the ASUS P10S-I as well, it is a C232 ITX Mainboard. It has 2x SATA and SAS (4x SATA), M.2 NVMe 2242, PCIe x16, IPMI and an internal USB 3.0 port for operation systems like unRAID.

Good video. I went with a Lenovo Thinkstation P510 with a Xeon E5-2680 V4 CPU, 4 GB ECC ram and 1TB SSD for just under $350. Mainly for its ability to support 4 3.5" drives and 4 2.5" drives for a total of 8 drives with a SAS backplane. I think the total cost was just over $650 with the WD Red Plus drives and a couple of 1TB SSDs but it's a beast.

Just a important hint: Stay away from WD-Harddrives!!
WD is not a good harddiskcorporation.
they will be destroyed really fast.

Use Seagate instead. they have good server disks, too.
I have since 8 Years 15 x 4 TB drives in my Server and there are just normal desktopdrives, because serverdrives are really expensive.
but with raid6 and 2 spare drives, in all those years just one drive failed 2 years ago.

super

I don't know what a chassis you're talking about when mentioning the possibility of mounting 18 drives in total.
Streacom DA2 V1 & V2 supports: 3 x 3.5″ or 8 x 2.5″ (/Bracket)

I wonder how much power this build consume in stand-by

What do you use to cooling CPU?

Do not use a regular drive in a NAS setup

Hmm, drives kinda small, cpu ancient, case + psu +board very expensive. I went for literally the cheapest asrock a520 board with 4 sata + used amd 4300ge (lower power use), used 10TB WD gold drives x3, a salvaged psu and re-used a old case i had. Running DSM 7.1 on it. Using 2 x 2.5gbe cards. SMB3 Multichannel. Maybe I should do a YT video, I just think my own rig is better, uses less power, cost less and is faster.

where to buy the hardwares?

$1000 on ebay from China for this board.. can buy alot of synology for that alone.
otherwise, cool build!

Wife-approval rating should be averaged-measured. It's not about the first reaction, it's how easy it would be for her to use it for her files, how quite it is and how fast it is. The server builds often are loud, require more maintenance more than off-the-shelf solutions.

WOW! I had no idea that Noctua a.k.a. Team Brown made a fan that sucked!😮
Learn something new everyday.

Very nice home server! Love the way you added your own "remote management" solution! 💯

HP Gen 8 Microserver off ebay. Awesome! :D

Just buy used server on ebay for $200... with 128gb of ram and 16 cores... how people can be so stupid...

It’s a PC, not a server

My gaming PC has 16TB of HDD and 4TB of M.2 SSD. So I basically have this already built into my PC. I know it's still not a lan server. But I really only access files from my desktop PC. So it's all I need.

Is there a better case to buy?

I'm trying to find a solution that will act and a firewall/wireless router and NVMe NAS for a more efficient, snappier, cooler and quieter AIO box, but there's a bunch of hurdles in the way:

Researching an OS solution that can be a wireless router, firewall and wireless NAS under one instance or virtual machining multiple different OSes.
Finding a small enough board (Mini-ITX) that can support very low power CPUs and also support PCIe 4.0.
$/GB on the highest capacity m.2 drives is diabolical, the only real option for high capacity would be using a bifurcation adapter in the PCIe slot to run a RAID 0 of lower capacity NVMe drives and enjoy the overkill read performance.
Getting my hands on newer wireless adapters used in Wi-Fi products.
Waiting for said OS solutions to include driver support for said Wi-Fi adapters.

We're about to move on to the 802.11be wireless standard which can carry anywhere from 172MB/s to just over 5700MB/s depending on the configuration. My idea is that as time goes on, newer wireless standards will be introduced and all I would need to do is swap out the wireless adapter for a modern version and the storage will still be able to saturate the connection bandwidth fully.

You and I pretty much have the same build! I haven't met many folks using the C236.

Not sure if you're aware, but the C200 chipsets have vPro capability. Meaning when you pair a supported intel CPU you're able to do KVM. That was one of my main draws to this platform. Intel AMT isn't as fleshed out as iLO, but it gets pretty close. Any Xeon series ending in "5" and some i7's have vPro.

I've been searching for the last 6 years for something that would replace it. But no serious contenders seem to have come out. I refuse to get the C246 board... More expensive, and they moved the 4 SATA ports to a oculink... without including any cables.

Just to clarify, it looks like for this case to fit 6x3.5" you would need to sacrifice the pcie expansion slot and go with a small CPU cooler is that correct?

how about using this board? "AsRock Rack Micro ATX Server Motherboard LGA 1151 Intel C246 Model C246M WS" (exact title on amazon)

368$ for a Tower ist NOT cheap, Elon 🤣🤣🤣

Hi thanks for your video i learn a lot , this configuration can be build on this kind of case ?
regards

CPU
AMD Milan 7413 EPYC
Cores
24 cores @ 2.65 GHz
Boot
1 x 480 GB SSD
Storage
1 TB NVMe + 2 TB NVMe
Memory
512 GB
Network
Dual 10Gbps NICs with 300 Mbps commit, burstable
Security
DDOS Protection Included on all servers

Thank god I did not find your video earlier or I would have probably spent more money than reasonable :) That IS the perfect build I have been looking for, but I am curious how quiet is it really ? Because you have the fan for the CPU and the fan for the PSU. Also is that really enough ? No fans or dissipators for the case ?
In the end I went with a Synology and I must admit I do love building, but it feels damn good to just plug it and connect to the web UI. I put anti-noise pads under the NAS and around the drives and it's barely noticable noise-wise.
Personally I have been looking for the most passive solutions with the added criteria to be able to fit a GPU (a not too big of course)

Cheap???????