Current configuration of the 19″ 12 U cabinet:
- 2 x 120mm Noctua Redux fan on 12V power supply unit
- 24 port modular Keystone patch panel from Digitus
- 24 port gigabit switch HP V1910-24G
- 19″ brush strip
- 19″ shelf for Fritz!Box 7590
- 4 U dummy cover with digital thermometer
- 19″ socket strip, can be switched off individually from Infitronic
- 1 U dummy cover with air inlet
- RGB lighting 😉
And finally, the provisional status at which this first part of the series ends.
View of Part 2
As you can guess, the topic is far from finished at this point. Many mistakes were made, after all, this is where I gained my first personal experience with the topic.
What was done wrong?
The network cabinet:
I had opted for a small cabinet with a depth of only 45 cm, partly for cost reasons. A fatal mistake, for which you have to pay twice and three times later if you want to install another small server. Wink, wink, we’ll take a closer look at this in the second part.
The switch:
Not necessarily a mistake, because you can get a lot of functions for your money with an old 19″ managed switch for a minimal outlay. However, you can’t put such a device in the office or even the living room, at least not with the standard fan. Much worse, however, is the fact that the four SFP ports only support 1 Gigabit connections, so there is no chance of connecting a 10 Gigabit client (or NAS or server). An upgrade to 10 Gbit is planned in the medium term, but is not a priority for the time being.
What happens in the second part?
The second part will deal exclusively with the assembly and installation of the small home server. I had to search for a long time until I found an enclosure that offered the desired capacities and still had an extremely shallow installation depth to fit into the small cabinet. I found what I was looking for with my colleagues at Yakkaroo Serversysteme, who were able to provide us with a suitable enclosure. The aim was to build an UnRaid server that would primarily serve as a NAS, but would also be able to perform interesting tasks such as DNS filtering (e.g. to block annoying adverts on websites). HDDs and an NVME from Seagate are used for archiving data. The test setup was already running when I was still looking for a suitable housing:
The second part will follow later this month.
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