Hardware
I only considered an AM4 platform as the basis for the server. Why? Because I had all the components available and therefore didn’t have to make any additional investments. In addition, the planned Ryzen 5 3400G has more than enough computing power for my purposes, has a reasonable idle power consumption (at least for hobby purposes) and comes with an integrated graphics unit. The Wraith Spire Box cooler is easily sufficient for the small APU and fits perfectly under the drive mount of the case. An old ASRock X370 Killer SLI is used as the board, which I more or less accidentally bought for a ridiculous price on eBay. This is joined by 16 GB DDR4 memory with 2400MHz, here it’s not about the last bit of performance but about lasting stability. The whole system is powered by a 650W Sharkoon power supply with 80 Gold certification and modular cable management.
Mass storage
Traditional mechanical 3.5″ hard disks are used for archiving data. Since the data does not need to be accessed constantly, there is no need for high-speed SSD or NVME drives, which would completely break the cost-benefit factor. Seagate Germany supported us in the project with three mechanical hard disks, specifically the Ironwolf NAS disks with 4TB capacity. These are managed by the UnRaid operating system as an “array”, whereby one disk is used as a “parity drive” and the data can be restored in the event of a defect. However, this means that only 8 of a total of 12TB are available as usable storage.
The disks arrived in exemplary packaging:
Perfectly protected in a plastic holder and all individually wrapped in anti-static film.
No longer very common in the gaming sector: Traditional mechanical 3.5″ HDDs
And because it was so nice, all three together again.
Cache drive
To avoid bottlenecks when writing data to the array of mechanical hard disks and to ensure that the small server remains responsive even when the disks are shut down, a fast NVME drive is also installed. Thanks to a capacity of 500GB, I can copy files to the server all day long (at least with my user profile) without the mechanical disks having to spin. At night, the “mover” then moves the data from the cache drive to the array.
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Installed components
Processor |
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G |
Cooler |
AMD Box Cooler Wraith Spire |
Mainboard |
ASRock X370 Killer SLI |
Memory |
Ballistix DDR4 2400 16GB Dual Channel Kit |
Power supply |
Sharkoon Silentstorm 650W 80 Gold |
Cache drive |
Seagate Firecuda 520 NVME 512GB |
Mass storage |
Seagate Ironwolf NAS 4TB x 3 |
Boot drive |
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB USB 2.0 |
Chassis |
Yakkaroo IPC-C430B |
Fan |
Yate Loon D80SM-12 80mm (intake) x 2 Xilence XPF80.R 80mm (intake) x 2 |
Accessories |
NFHK Dual S-ATA 180° connector x 2 |
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