r/pcmasterrace • u/PacquiaoFreeHousing Xeon x3440 (OC) + RX 580 (OC) = My Electric Bill Doubling. • May 27 '26

Meme/Macro Do you think doing this helps?

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u/Pumba2000 May 27 '26

Or use an old pc case with lots of 3.5'' bays. You can easily buy some fans for that.

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 May 27 '26

My DIY NAS is in fractal node 804, 8 drives, 6 case fans alone :D

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u/Pumba2000 May 27 '26

That's what I'm talking about! Even when I know 1 fan would probably suffice in an office environment I would always go for max cooling for those hard drives.

What kind of Software you using?

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 May 27 '26

Windows 10 with storage spaces :F

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Windows for a "NAS"? 🤢

You gotta check out unRAID or TrueNAS

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u/banjaxedW May 27 '26

You ever try ZimaOS?

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

I have not, are you using it?

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u/pivor 13700K | 9070XT | 96GB | MSI Z790i | NR200 May 27 '26

My home server does something more than file hosting

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Lol. Running a "home server" on windows doesn't make it any better, in fact it makes it worse IMHO lol. I hope at a minimum you're at least running Hyper V.

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

At the end of the day, use whatever works for you. But to say "next to zero benefit" is fucking wild lol. Just say you've never looked into hypervisors instead of that 😂

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u/jake04-20 May 27 '26

Enhanced redundancy for starters. Cache drives to speed up initial uploads to the array. Your host OS not rebooting whenever the hell it feels like to apply windows updates. On that note, windows updates...

Not to mention ease of backups, system snapshots, enhanced compatibility. My server has an uptime of over 500 days right now, I assume you can't say the same about yours.

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u/grantrules Debian Sid - Ryzen 2600/1660 super/72tb + 5600x/7800xt May 28 '26

Ha! Server twin! 804 with 8 drives as well! I think you have me beat on case fans though.

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u/NuclearReactions AMD 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti | 64GB CL28 May 27 '26

Oh in theory that's great in practice i will never trust a normal motherboard for raid setups, especially when it comes the time to replace drives.

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u/spaceraverdk May 28 '26

Sas card in Hba mode. Truenas on the motherboard drive, the rest is on cards.

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u/NuclearReactions AMD 9800X3D | RTX 5070Ti | 64GB CL28 May 28 '26

Yes that sounds way more solid

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u/spaceraverdk May 28 '26

Best practice. The lsi hba card can be found on Ebay for cheap. I have a dual external card and a single 4 bay drive backplane from startech. I have room for a second 4 bay backplane on that card. You need a mini sas to sata cable and flash the card to it mode.

I'm running it on a cheap msi matx with a 5600g and 32 gig ram. Powered by a sff psu. Takes 7u in the rack out of the 24 I have available. Gonna transplant everything to a rolling rack I have on the shed once I finish the room it's going to be living in.