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Storage with minis (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Dus1988@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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Hey all. So I am currently running a r720 (8x3.5 variant), rpi4, and my router is on a antsle fanless box. All 10GB except the rpi of course.

I recently moved into a new house and space is limited and hd to put my rack in my office. Well, my office now gets up to 82 degrees and I can't stand it. The main culprit for heat is the r720.

So for this reason I am considering going to a 3-4 mini cluster.

But, I still want ample 3.5" storage. How are you guys who are running minis, also doing storage? Jbod enclosures?

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[–] BOOZy1@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You might want to consider a typical desktop/tower with a consumer CPU. The noise and heat from a simple desktop PC, even of you have the case filled with 10 drives, is so much less than a server chassis.

[–] Dus1988@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm maybe so. My gaming PC is currently a 5950x. Maybe I lll repurpose that and get a better pure gaming cpu.

The problem with that though is only limited to 128GB RAM. My r720 has that, and since I'm using heavy zfs on everything I kinda will need more eventually

[–] Royal_Error_3784@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Two drives in each and configure a ceph filesystem.