This is an impressive bit of woodwork.
I am impressed that you followed your dream.
It looks a bit like a built in oven too
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Itās obviosly the file walkers, who are no longer needed 
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ā¦ āand nothing elseāā¦ Iāll ignore the metalic rails, nails, etc. 
At least you kept your word.
Why does it remind me of a modern electric oven?
@hwm.land - just barely out of view to the upper left of the old rack is an Ć100 pipe leading directly outside. Iāll have the entire front of the new rack sealed, as to only allow front-to-back airflow on my equipment and will then vent hotter air out in the summer, and leave a vent open to recirculate in the winter
@andrew2.hart - I have many excuses to why they are there, but the comment @PieceKeeper made is just too perfect 
@snorkel - āonly of wood and cardboardā does in fact not mean ā
acthually, no cardboard but a few wood and a lot of othersā. Iām happy that youāll accept my compromise!
@Alexey - Most likely because at itās current state, it has all the ingredients of an oven 
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and the best part is that it can cook a pizza in 30min. 
Darling! I have tried all buttons, but your funny oven will not warm my soup 
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You just need to switch off cooler fans!
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You could legit use that setup to proof bread.
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You could mask the entire thing with a fake wall and a few paintings.
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Great idea, I should totally add trim molding around the equipment. Not only is it playing on huge local traditions, it will also help hide my not 1000% perfect woodwork.
Iāll also need some paint. Iām thinking dusty red with brass rifled knobs, because while I like the 3D printed nobbins, they will not stay.
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Last picture before this project is finished; I swear.
New NAS cabinet landed in the mail today; will take the (very!) aging Synology out of production.
New cabinet is the top one, and it would seem as if the hole pattern has changed. This annoys me immensely, but otherwise itās a great case.
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!This is NOT just for StorJ! I would have made this system to host all my other stuff, no matter my involvement in StorJ
New machine is just about to enter production. It has some werid issues, that I think will be ironed out, once the new motherboard arrives.
Finalized Specs:
- 10x 20TB Toshiba MG10 (2x striped raidz1)
- 128GB RAM
- 4x 1.92 TB SATA SSDs for caching.
I canāt really figure out, how I want the caching to be done. Iām going between either striped-mirror of all disks, allocated to metadata special device with space for a lot of small files also, or if I should go threeway-mirror for metadata, and add the last ssd for l2-ARC.
I donāt intend to use ZIL/SLOG
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Thatās some clean cable management!
It looks like you went for a motherboard much smaller than you have space for: did you get in on one of those Minisforum deals they had around the holidays or something?
I never got much value from an L2ARC: with 128GB of RAM everything important lived in memory. However I did enjoy having a special-metadata device with a fairly generous definition of what a āsmall fileā was. Ten drives is also still reasonable to just go single RAIDZ2 withā¦ but I donāt know your workload.
Whatever you decide Iām sure youāll be happy with it: youāve built a little monster!
Edit: I think my eyeballs deceived me: with 10 bays across-the-front I assumed it was a tower case with rack earsā¦ but is it this Sliger model? Now I see itās much shallower than I thought, so I understand the motherboard. Very nice!
Why are you depriving us of juice details? Whatās the mobo model? CPU cooler? I love the fanless modelsā¦
I donāt understand - is it a rack mount but with a side fan?
I think normal rackmounts are deep enough youād have a fan-wall behind the drivesā¦ but this case is very short so thereās no room. If some air is coming in through the sides that will keep the CPU+memory coolā¦ but that back fan canāt have much leftover flow to pull some air across the drives in the front.
But the drives seem to have generous spacing: so should be fine.
Hmmm, sf450 is a desktop PSU and there is only one not the usual 2 for redundancy. It is also very short like the old telecoms pizza boxes.
It has cabling on the rear so not a fat blade. Side air so not traditional hot aisle/cold aisle.
Maybe central cold air?
Edit: Do you have one of these?
It sucks in air from the cold aisle and blows it down the side of your servers