My NAS setup currently.

8 8TB drives (the NAS is like 6 years old) in RaidZ2.

Edit: The scribbled spot is a SSD that had the barcodes visible. The SSD is a 1TB drive for VM installs and other stuff that isn’t deep storage.

Edit2: The SSD isn’t anchored because it has no moving parts and it was placed like that for testing… 4 months ago… It’s just temporary I swear!

Edit3: For those curious the case is a Darkrock Classic Storage Master

  • @[email protected]English
    9•7 days ago

    Seconded on asking what case this is.

    Also, can I ask you why you have the CPU fan pulling air off the GPU and creating turbulence in this otherwise beautiful NAS? I know the cooling is probably perfectly adequate even with that, but ahhhhhh lol.

    • @SoupEnglish
      4•7 days ago

      Now that you point it out I’m surprised the cooler even goes that way, most of the time they’re pretty locked into the horizontal direction.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•7 days ago

        I’ve had something similar due to the limitations of a narrow ILM vs square ILM board, but I think my solution was to rig/butcher it until it pointed the cooler correctly, that or I bought a mounting adapter or something. Either way, I remember that I viscerally hated it and wouldn’t let it sit like that despite being 45w CPUs, and this post reminded me of it haha.

    • GormadtOPEnglish
      2•7 days ago

      The case is a Darkrock Classic Storage Master

      The CPU cooler is in that orientation because it’s the only way it’d mount on the board. The good news is that the GPU is a blower style GPU so the CPU isn’t really affected.