KentState
Diamond Member
I'm looking to take a little more control over my home storage. Currently running a Synology NAS with 10 6TB drives for around 42GB of usable space. Since it's nearly 7 years old, it lacks things like 10Gbe, virtualization, SSD caching and so on. I also have a Ryzen 2700X in a small server chassis with 4 8TB drives, 4 1TB SSD and a 1TB NVMe.
My plan right now is to consolidate all of this, plus my VM server into a single box. So far, the Supermicro 846E16-R1200B used seems like a good option. I finding many with dual Xeon processors and a decent amount of ECC ram with the latest SAS/SATA backplane for sale on ebay.
Has anyone messed with this type of server? If so, anything to consider when configuring the build of the server? For example, I'm going to pay for the quieter dual PSU option. Already have a SAS controller, 10Gbe 2 port card.
My plan right now is to consolidate all of this, plus my VM server into a single box. So far, the Supermicro 846E16-R1200B used seems like a good option. I finding many with dual Xeon processors and a decent amount of ECC ram with the latest SAS/SATA backplane for sale on ebay.
Has anyone messed with this type of server? If so, anything to consider when configuring the build of the server? For example, I'm going to pay for the quieter dual PSU option. Already have a SAS controller, 10Gbe 2 port card.
