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8-bay DAS Enclosure SATA/ SAS Guide: How to Build a 8-bay DAS Enclosure SATA/ SAS

I know I can’t deploy Synology Servers or replace drives if they will PERPETUALLY alert of “Important data may be lost”. I had been sitting on the unboxed drive for 6 months WAITING for Synology to add it to compatibility. In short (and not considering any RAM requirments of any other services running on your FreeNAS box), 8GB RAM is minimum and sufficient for 8 drives. Perfect for a freenas, soho/lab fw/router, and room for a home automation guest or other light weight options.XigmaNAS — Supports CIFS/SMB (Samba), Active Directory (Samba), FTP, NFS, TFTP, AFP, RSYNC, Unison, iSCSI, HAST, CARP, Bridge, UPnP, and BitTorrent. In 2015, I was a little green with envy after building that year’s NAS and comparing it to my own at the time. We don’t need too much power for our NAS server, 300 watts is fine and remember that ATX power supplies are switch-mode, meaning they don’t run at 300 watts all the time. The goal of STH is simply to help users find some information about server, storage and networking, building blocks. These are the best mini ITX NAS cases for personal or business use, with 4 to 8 hot-swap HDD bays that can be 2.

DS380 - SilverStone

A well-chosen non-modular PSU would have avoided modular PSU cables (almost) rubbing shoulders with the SATA connectors and buffer caps. This may not be readily apparent when looking online, so look at measurements, especially the depth. In this article, we are going to talk about the thought process behind the build, and what you can take away from it. ITX and ATX NAS cases differ in this aspect, with ITX cases being smaller and accommodating smaller motherboards compared to their ATX counterparts. Like with any other cache, how much of a performance gain a particular cache size will bring depends significantly on the usage scenario(s) that define the cache access patterns and the tiered cache hierarchy configuration (ARC and L2ARC).

Many users looking to spend their annual business budgets on an improved or extended data storage solution will find the balanced position of hardware vs software found by the Synology DS1821+ to be quite desirable, as well as the scaled potential to upgrade external performance via PCIe and storage via eSATA. Overall, QNAP is going completely in the wrong direction with its camera monitoring solution and licensing. In my early days, I used software/BIOS RAID for my workstation and had endless troubles with disks falling off the array with disastrous results, so I don’t recommend software RAID. After all, if it weren’t for Toby’s sharing of his own thoughts, this top three would look very different!

NAS Build - 8-bay Silent Low-Power SuperMicro My Latest NAS Build - 8-bay Silent Low-Power SuperMicro

At only 21 liters overall, the impressively small DS380 is perfect for anyone looking to build a powerful SFF NAS for home or office. Note that those requirements/recommendations are not based on a RAM-per-storage-capacity metric, but rather based on RAM-per-drive.The board has a male SATA power header for the drives, which was plenty capable of powering 4 NAS grade spinning drives. I recommend RAID-5 or RAID-6 because they provide the best redundancy and speed (I use RAID-5 as you still retain 66% disk space compared to 50% for RAID-6). All of these cases share one thing in common: I’m quite confident that they’d work well in a DIY NAS build, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see one wind up in one of my future DIY NAS builds!

Silverstone SST-DS380B 8 Bay Mini ITX NAS Case - Kustom

In fact, even with ‘worst case’ and ‘under load’ estimates from the manufacturers I will actually use under 97W at full load, leaving me 53W of headroom for any USB devices attached.There isn’t much demand for these drives because home users don’t have a clue what a SAS drive is, or if it will fit into their PC (which it won’t). Over the years I have seen several quirky NAS designs appear from brands looking to find gaps in the existing market between the traditional 2-bay, 4-bay, 8-bay and rackmount systems. Since the Silverstone case has PCI slots on its rear I figured I will do something similar to the Sans Digital DAS enclosure. It accepts Intel 12th Generation Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium and Celeron CPUs in a 10nm process so plenty of choices. It had SFP+ 10GbE, multiple expansion slots, enough onboard SATA to power all of the drives, 6x DIMM slots, and plenty of PCIe all perfect to go bigger and do a converged storage and virtualization platform.