With my external hard drives near to bursting, and my Mac Mini 2,2 struggling with keeping up with the zenphoto site it hosts, it is finally time to commission a new home server. The requirements are as follows:
- Storage: lots of it for Time Machine backups, photo, audio and video libraries, and NFS mounts for virtual machines
- Hypervisor for virtualized machines: Windows 7 workstation, LAMP server, maybe this blog if it scales past Heroku’s free offering
- Plex server
- other lab related activity
In keeping with my LOTR naming convention, I needed a name in keeping with the size and strength of this beast - hence Treebeard.
##BOM
| Item No. | Part No. | Description | Qty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | X9SRH-7F | SuperMicro X9SRH-7F LGA 2011 Motherboard | 1 |
| 2 | E5-1650 | Intel Xeon Six-Core Processor E5-1650 3.2GHz 5.0GT/s 12MB LGA 2011 CPU | 1 |
| 3 | HMT42GR7MFR4C-PB | Hynix DDR3-1600 16GB/2Gx72 ECC/REG Hynix Chip Server Memory | 4 |
| 4 | HUA723020ALA640 | Hitachi Ultrastar 0F12455 3.5in 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA3 6.0GB/S Internal Hard Drive | 6 |
| 5 | SNK-P0050AP4 | SUPERMICRO SNK-P0050AP4 Heatsink for Supermicro X9DR3-F Motherboard | 1 |
| 6 | LSI SAS 9207-8i | LSI LSI00301 (9207-8i) PCI-Express 3.0 x8 Low Profile SATA / SAS Host Controller Card | 1 |
| 7 | AX860i | Corsair AX860I 860W ATX 12V V2.31 80 Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply Active PFC 120mm Fan | 1 |
| 8 | FD-FAN-SSR2-92 | Fractal Design Silent Series R2 92MM Quiet Cooling Fan 1300RPM 24.6CFM 13DBA w/ Rubber Fasteners | 1 |
| 9 | FD-FAN-SSR2-140 | Fractal Design Silent Series R2 140mm Quiet Cooling Fan 1000RPM 65.9CFM 19DBA w/ Rubber Fasteners | 2 |
| 10 | CBL-SFF8087-05M | LSI 3WARE Multi Lane Internal SFF-8087 to 4X Serial ATA Breakout Cable 0.5M | 2 |
| 11 | Koutech Accessory IO-UU220 USB2.0 Header-Pin to Dual Type-A Adapter | 1 | |
| 12 | MB974SP-B | ICY DOCK MB974SP-B Tray-less 4 in 3 SATA I/II/III Hot-Swap Backplane RAID Cage Module w/ eSATA&USB2.0 | 1 |
| 13 | MB996SP-6SB | ICY DOCK MB996SP-6SB Full Metal 6 x 2.5” SATA Hard Drive & SSD RAID Backplane Cage in 5.25” bay | 1 |
| 14 | SanDisk CruzerFit 16GB USB2.0 FlashDrive | 2 | |
| 15 | CP-8920052 | Corsair Professional Series Individually Sleeved DC Modular Cable Kit Type 3 (Generation 2) - Metallic Graphite | 1 |