![]() There were several people who liked Sandisk Cruzer, and 32gb was the cheapest available. The drive prices fluctuate from day to day though. Of the WD Red drives, 4TB currently has the best price-per-TB, and the next best is 10TB. Watching the RAM usage, I've occasionally seen it spike to 20gb when running PLEX and other stuff at the same time, so it seems good to get more than 16gb. I'm a little wary of RAM brands I never heard of, but NEMIX ram is made by Hynex supposedly, and people have said it's decent. The drives in your case won't be hot-swap, so if you want to do the 1-drive-at-a-time hard drive replacement to upgrade your RAID, it's gonna suck. There is a window in the case, but it is opposite the side that has the USB connector & power button so the window isn't visible in the location where I placed the NAS. I used one of the drive compartment additional spaces to install the Noctua fan. There is room to mount an additional 7 fans in the case, with 2 of those in the drive compartment. If you turn it around to blow on the hard drives, then it will suck dust into the case. There is only 1 fan for the hard drives, and it is an exhaust fan blowing out of the case. One compartment has the PSU and hard drives, and the other has the motherboard. It is the height of a mini-tower but twice as wide, divided into 2 separate compartments. At the time I purchased these, the 750 was cheaper than the 650. However the 650 and 750 come with 2x cables with 4 SATA connectors, which works really well with 8 hard drives. The PSU is overkill, you could use anything with at least 400W I think. 18" was a perfect length, leaving a little slack to tie down with the included velcro in the case. The other bay has more room, so you could use any kind of cable. One of the drive bays is a very tight fit with the PSU, so you should probably get at least 4 of the SATA cables with a 90-degree connector. I probably didn't need an additional CPU fan, I didn't realize I was getting one with the CPU. ![]() I installed the iPPC-3000 as an additional fan in the hard drive compartment, blowing across the drives. If you plug it into the motherboard, use the FANA connector. The Noctua iPPC-3000 is a 4-pin fan and it won't plug into the 3-pin connectors for the case's fan controller. The hard drive compartment can get hot with 8 drives, so an extra fan is needed. The controller/fans are powered from a SATA connector and are independent of the motherboard, so you could use the case fans and still plug 5 fans into the motherboard. ![]() The Node 804 comes with a 3-speed fan controller and 3 fans (2 for the motherboard compartment, 1 for the drives/PSU compartment). You could also plug all the fans straight onto the motherboard and not use the case controller. Since I had 8 HDDs, I used a spare modular SATA power cable from another Seasonic, but you could use a Molex to SATA instead. ** Note, the PSU comes with 8 SATA power connectors and the Node 804 case needs 1 for the included fans. Total cost was about $3000 USD $1300 for the case and the rest for the drives. SATA Cables: 8x 18" SATA3 cable with 90 degree connectorĪdditional cable: Rosewill Molex to SATA 1 needed** PSU: Seasonic Focus Plus SSR-750FX 750W Gold All of these parts are well-known and have been previously discussed as being great for FreeNAS so the compatibility won't be a surprise.ĬPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V6 (includes a fan) There were some things I wish I'd known in advance, so hopefully this will help the next person. Reusing PSU, HDDs and GPU (HD6850 *cry*) from current build.I did some analysis planning what I wanted to build, and these forums were very helpful. I'll see in a couple of weeks if it's actually true or not. All of the panels fitted well, and no resonance vibrations were audible."Īfter having my quiet drives suspended in a tower case, this was music to my ears. Even my HP Microserver with just one hard drive was more noticeable than this one with five!. "Even with the mixture of hard disks in the system, the drives sounded very quiet with the vibrations quite effectively damped out by the rubber grommets. The review that pushed me over the edge was this one. This thread made me aware of the Node 804, and I've subsequently researched and ordered parts for a build involving this case. I'm not one for making new threads, so I'll comment here.
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