Soldato
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A bit long winded, but not sure what exactly to do here.
Currently my "office" is in our 3rd bedroom which soon must become a nursery.
This means moving the office in to our loft space.
I don't forsee the loft space looking particularly pretty to begin with, but if funds and time allow it might get decorated at a later stage, I do plan on having it at least insulated however.
Currently my NAS is in a cheapo 4U rackmount case which has about reached it's capacity in terms of HDD space, not to mention the HDD mounting system is bloody awkward/fiddly.
It is housed in a fairly smart looking 18U rack, which has a wooden top.
So the move in to the attic space comes at the same time as the NAS requires upgrading.
The NAS upgrade can be put off for a little while, I have ordered the additional drives and SAS card however.
The current rack will not fit through a loft hatch, so rivets will have to be drilled and the cabinet taken apart that way to make it fit, should I decide to keep it.
The cabinet can house a case with a depth of 470mm tops, which limits me in terms of buying another case if I do decide to keep this rack/cabinet.
So my question is (kind of) 2 fold,
1 - do I upgrade to a different (bigger) rack or keep the current one ?
I haven't ran out of vertical space, and it doesn't house a lot of equipment, But also it doesn't matter what it looks like as I can box it off in it's own little room now if needed. so I could buy a tatty 2nd hand one from the bay.
2 - do I go for a rackmount case again or a normal case ?
hardware is standard ATX gear with 3.5" HDDs.
I was hoping to go for hot swap with this "upgrade", I will be expanding to 8 drives now and want to leave space to expand further later.
I have found a rackmount case with 10 hot swap bays for ~£200 (which should fit in the current cabinet) and one with 16 hot swap for ~£260 (not so sure this one will fit in the current cab however, they also do a deeper version for the same price).
Or I could buy a normal case and fit some 5.25" to 3.5" hotswap caddies, for ~£60 you can convert 3 x 5.25" bays to 5 x 3.5" hot swap.
I don't know if I really need a rack now.
I will list the equipment that's (currently) in it though
1 x 24 port GigE patch panel
1 x 24 port GigE HP managed Switch
1 x 1u cable tidy
1 x 4u Rackmount case housing my NAS
1 x BT modem
1 x Asus router
Your thoughts ?
Currently my "office" is in our 3rd bedroom which soon must become a nursery.
This means moving the office in to our loft space.
I don't forsee the loft space looking particularly pretty to begin with, but if funds and time allow it might get decorated at a later stage, I do plan on having it at least insulated however.
Currently my NAS is in a cheapo 4U rackmount case which has about reached it's capacity in terms of HDD space, not to mention the HDD mounting system is bloody awkward/fiddly.
It is housed in a fairly smart looking 18U rack, which has a wooden top.
So the move in to the attic space comes at the same time as the NAS requires upgrading.
The NAS upgrade can be put off for a little while, I have ordered the additional drives and SAS card however.
The current rack will not fit through a loft hatch, so rivets will have to be drilled and the cabinet taken apart that way to make it fit, should I decide to keep it.
The cabinet can house a case with a depth of 470mm tops, which limits me in terms of buying another case if I do decide to keep this rack/cabinet.
So my question is (kind of) 2 fold,
1 - do I upgrade to a different (bigger) rack or keep the current one ?
I haven't ran out of vertical space, and it doesn't house a lot of equipment, But also it doesn't matter what it looks like as I can box it off in it's own little room now if needed. so I could buy a tatty 2nd hand one from the bay.
2 - do I go for a rackmount case again or a normal case ?
hardware is standard ATX gear with 3.5" HDDs.
I was hoping to go for hot swap with this "upgrade", I will be expanding to 8 drives now and want to leave space to expand further later.
I have found a rackmount case with 10 hot swap bays for ~£200 (which should fit in the current cabinet) and one with 16 hot swap for ~£260 (not so sure this one will fit in the current cab however, they also do a deeper version for the same price).
Or I could buy a normal case and fit some 5.25" to 3.5" hotswap caddies, for ~£60 you can convert 3 x 5.25" bays to 5 x 3.5" hot swap.
I don't know if I really need a rack now.
I will list the equipment that's (currently) in it though
1 x 24 port GigE patch panel
1 x 24 port GigE HP managed Switch
1 x 1u cable tidy
1 x 4u Rackmount case housing my NAS
1 x BT modem
1 x Asus router
Your thoughts ?
