Placebos work. This is a very eco-friendly product. Makes customers happy without polluting specturm, wasting power, or components.
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This 
applies here 
The intent of this thread is to showcase SNO effort in building a storagenode rig. If we start posting stuff we find hilarious then people will find it difficult to locate what other SNOs are building. Please respect the topic.
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Ok, got it. Unfortunately, there are no pictures in the last 999 posts…
You asked, I deliver.
Here is my rig:
- PC - it has been running non stop since 12 years ago. All is original - motherboard DELL Sandy Bridge PCIE 2.0, CPU Core i5 2500 @ 3.30GHz, 2 fans, 2 RAM sticks 2GB DDR3, PSU, even the cell battery is factory original. What I added: couple of 8GB Kingston RAM sticks making 20GB together with originals, 1TB SSD in nvme pci adapter, 30 TB HDD, TP-Link TX401 10 Gbit LAN card (in System it is present as Marvell AQtion), that is directly connected to Synology.
Beside of number of other tasks, it runs one Windows native storj node.
Seagate Exos M 30TB SATA
WD RED 1TB in AXAGON PCEM2-1U
TP-Link TX401
- Synology DS923+
Beside of number of other tasks, it runs one Docker storj node.
added 32 GB RAM (Kingston SO-DIMM 16GB DDR4 2666MHz CL19 Server Premier)
10Gbit LAN card (directly connected to the PC above)
2x 4TB nvme SSD
SATA SSD and bunch of HDDs
Storj node load is negligible…
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Three crimes against humanity:
- Power button right next to the usb port. This is pure evil hostile design.
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Horrible placement of memory ports. Human fingers don’t bent like that. Why am I forced to remove all the drives just to install memory ?
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Power connector from mid-1950. Unsecurable. Fragile. Right next to other cables. Like esata. That is designed to be hot plugged and unplugged. Perfect placement if the goal is to sabotage user data integrity.
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External power supply to begin with.
As if they are spitting in their customer faces intentionally, having an audacity to charge money for this industrial and hardware design failure.
Evidently, looking at products like ds1618+ they do know how to build appliances. So these abominations are intentional insults to their value customer base. My contempt towards this company is immeasurable. Seeing this garbage again ruined my day.
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Why do you remind me of these annoyances? I try to be zen and ignore them.
I secured the power cable with the ethernet cable. 
The power button very easy to be pressed and sticking out of the case is a master class design choise. 
The 220 has the button on the corner, and when you grab the case for whatever, in 99/100 cases you press it by mistake.
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I secured the power cable with the ethernet cable
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Upgrade to 1618+, if you have to stay with Synology. If you tolerate this abomination — you will absolutely love 1618+. This is the hight of their engineering. Everything else is downhill from there. Internal PSU, metal shielding, fan grille on the inside! Fan assembly that lets you replace fans without turning the NAS off! Ram access from the bottom, not through abdominal surgery. ECc memory. Real processor. It’s perfect. If I could install freebsd on it I would have bought five.
Then offload the current crap on eBay to unsuspecting consumer. The proceeds will probably cover cost of used 1618.
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If I could install freebsd on it I would have bought five.
You probably can. My rs3617xs uses a normal SATA DOM.
The ds1819+ I had before that used something akin. This Russian site shows the top of the motherboard, with the DOM in the top left. I’d wager it’s a an EMMc chip on a custom, but not proprietary riser board.
Interestingly, the board has silkscreening for two additional RAM slots, which is probably used in a similar xs model somewhere. I also really enjoy the use of the two sideways PCIe 1x connectors, that connect to the drive backplane
I recently got my hands on a very cheap second hand rack for some of my servers:
I think this is a huge upgrade to using tables and “homemade” racks 
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Did you get the one that was listed on DBA for a few months? I looked at that, before I built my own 
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I found it on marketplace and did a bid - perhaps it was the same! 
Some guys preffer a fridge full of beer. You baught a fridge, to make money for the beer.
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He’ll yea - allready considering my next project in this huge rack 
Indeed, looks like they use fairly standard boot loader, no secure boot, and serial console is readily available.
The main obstacle would be making whatever they use for fan control and disk lights work.
(I just stumbled on xpenology project… people want to run DSM, on non-synology hardware, on purpose, on their own volition, and are ready to jump through hoops to accomplish that?! the horror…)
I super love seeing those ancient Dells still working. especially with a 30TB hard drive installed. No show, all go.
would you please share what’s inside, how it works, power consumption, pictures…
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30TB already in Storj farming? Nice…
I can share a bit here:
Supermirco with 36 storage bays.
2x Xeon
320GB ram.
Running some personal things and products I work on. And storj ofc.
Second machine is old gaming hardware. 12 bay inter tech case. I5 9400 CPU, 16GB ram, some storj nodes.
I’m still considering what the next machine in there shall be. And perhaps I will make a video with the rack on a YT video, we will see 
Not really, in fact storj occupies 4 TB on the disk. I have other, more important stuff stored there.
It would be interesting to see something with emphasis on power consumption optimization, especially in near-idle states.
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