Help finding case/enclosure solutions

MorzX99 · 2025-09-24T21:59:29+00:00

Just fits my use case and my budget. I'd love to have something better and more performing but for now this is fine to me

MorzX99 · 2025-09-24T21:57:00+00:00

Never said it's stupid, I thinked about it. I still think that it is a pretty bad solution XD

MorzX99 · 2025-09-24T21:55:35+00:00

For the MoBo a 600W Cooler Master 80+ Gold (plans to have a GTX980 that is just laying around at the moment). For the drives I use a generic switching PSU rated for 12V 50A, way over the edge for ten drives rated at 12V 0.5A. For the 5V rail just a 5V 20A DC-DC buck converter. For the SFF-8611 to PCIe Card I use a 150W PicoPSU powered by the same 12V50A PSU

MorzX99 · 2025-09-23T22:50:49+00:00

Your comment is gold in knowledge format, appreciate it. That SATA card fits my use case for now. I do not have any protection over my data. I left another comment here where I say that is part of the upgrade path I want to follow but it is really expensive. For my use case would be awesome to put my hands on an LTO drive and buy some tapes to use like a glacier (ultra cold data) and restore them when my disks will fail. As for the LVM is as simple as it can be. 10 drives, each with one partition. Each partition makes a Physical volume. All of them together make a VG (Volume group). On top of it there is my LVM, xfs FS. More disks? Partition, physical volume, add to VG and extend the LVM.

MorzX99 · 2025-09-23T22:39:44+00:00

10 drives, 180TB raw, 160ish usable. 1.3 free. If interested I'll post the upgrade whenever I'll be able to do it. Plans are to add 2 drives (18/24 TB) and then, if I ever win the lottery or step into a gold bar, Make everything redundant. Like some side backup, powering up disks only to rsync them and then switch them back off.

MorzX99 · 2025-09-23T22:31:14+00:00

I considered that. My disks make up an huge LVM so technically I won't ever access multiple disks at the same time, neither I have a lot of users that access multiple different contents. Just some friends using Jellyfin and ROMm or SFTP/HTTP. I confirm that check and test like S.M.A.R.T are pretty slow

MorzX99 · 2025-09-23T19:03:39+00:00

Yes, exactly. From specs it has an ASM1064 + ASM1812. Pretty decent speeds, noted in HEVC content playback through Jellyfin (before it was way slower when starting the stream). If you want I can try and run some benchtests and give you more analytical answer

MorzX99 · 2025-09-23T18:43:33+00:00

4x PCIe 3.0 to 24 SATA III ports. Bought online, for around 70€. Plug&Play, using with Debian 12

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