WITHDRAWN: Self-built NAS, 32TB total storage (disks included) - £450

digitalscream

I've just built this NAS, but it turns out that it's not practical (read: the wife doesn't like it in its intended place in the lounge, despite prior negotiation). It's in a Jonsbo N4 case, which looks like this:

(I'll post a photo of the actual unit tomorrow)

Specs are:

Ryzen 3400G quad-core CPU

16GB DDR4-3200

8-port LSI SAS card

4 x 8TB SAS disks (although it'll take SATA drives as well)

1 x 120GB SATA SSD for logs/cache

1 x 120GB M.2 SATA SSD for the operating system

2.5Gbe network card

The 8TB drives are dated 2021, but only have two years of powered-on time, and all tested good without errors as of a couple of days ago. The SATA 120GB SSD is a sacrificial freebie, I've no idea what sort of usage it's had, but I suspect it's probably been hammered a bit as it was the OS drive in a server. The M.2 SATA SSD has had minimal use, I can get the health data from it if you want, but it's only been used in a very short-lived mini-PC build for the wife that she never really touched.

The CPU cooler and intake fan are both Noctua, so it's reasonably quiet when the drives aren't busy. Also, the 8TB disks are hot-swappable.

In terms of performance, it's easily capable of saturating the 2.5Gbe network interface, so ~280-290MB/s for large files. These are spinning rust drives, though, so it'll obviously be a fair bit slower than that with tons of tiny files.

It's got TrueNAS Scale already installed - can configure it however you want ahead of time (within reason, nothing exotic please), but it's not that hard and there are tutorials all over the place.

Looking for £450, collection or meet up within 50 miles of Peterborough. No postage, because I don't trust couriers with something like this.

Sorry, now withdrawn.

digitalscream

...bump?

notanon

Incredible value. Although not as powerful, my backup and storage is in place.

GLWTS

TeleKinesis

Nice case!  

Also sorted for storage, but that looks great. GLWTS

digitalscream

Cheers, guys. It's definitely priced to sell, but it's a bit of a niche thing I think. I could probably get it done on eBay, but shipping would be a nightmare (and I never trust couriers not to brutalise machines with HDDs in, no matter how well they're packed).

TheMarlin

What would you use it for?

digitalscream

TheMarlin said:

What would you use it for?

Well, I use mine for backups and archive storage, a media server to the TV (music and TV/films), a Minecraft server, a database server and AI services (this one won't do AI, though). You can install the server applications on it via Docker images.

TheMarlin

digitalscream said:

TheMarlin said:

What would you use it for?

Well, I use mine for backups and archive storage, a media server to the TV (music and TV/films), a Minecraft server, a database server and AI services (this one won't do AI, though). You can install the server applications on it via Docker images.

Thanks. 

mrkb

I’m looking at options to replace my QNAP TS219 3TB NAS - is this still available?

digitalscream

mrkb said:

I’m looking at options to replace my QNAP TS219 3TB NAS - is this still available?

I'm afraid not...I sold the disks, and I've filled it with Intel 1.6TB SSDs now so it's a lot more useful to me. I was going to combine it with my AI server, but I don't really want AI stuff running on the same machine as all my archives...