I'm building a NAS from random spare components, currently:
i5 4460s (65W)
24GB DDR3
z97 board mATX
4x2tb drives
120GB mSATA ssd (boot)
I have this ready to go into a Node 804 case, which is the only thing I'm having to buy.
I have a random no-name 500W PSU, which will do for now, but I feel it's likely noisy and not very efficient. I want to replace it. I want to have capacity to go to to 8 HDDs, I'm going to be running ZFS hence decent amount of RAM.
I figure ~450W should be enough, not using a GPU here. I'm a bit of a PSU snob, so I only really want to look at Superflower.
I see this, which is probably fine:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462
But then I see this, and the idea of fanless excites me:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462
But I feel like £85 is a bit silly, and with very similar efficiencies the fan on the fan model can't exactly be spinning hard to dissipate ~18W of heat at 50% load. Fanless also makes me think unreliable.
Of course, the CPU cooler isn't fanless, and even if it were, I'd want at least a 120mm fan on the HDDs.
Am I better just going for the model with a fan?
i5 4460s (65W)
24GB DDR3
z97 board mATX
4x2tb drives
120GB mSATA ssd (boot)
I have this ready to go into a Node 804 case, which is the only thing I'm having to buy.
I have a random no-name 500W PSU, which will do for now, but I feel it's likely noisy and not very efficient. I want to replace it. I want to have capacity to go to to 8 HDDs, I'm going to be running ZFS hence decent amount of RAM.
I figure ~450W should be enough, not using a GPU here. I'm a bit of a PSU snob, so I only really want to look at Superflower.
I see this, which is probably fine:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-002-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462
But then I see this, and the idea of fanless excites me:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-012-SF&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462
But I feel like £85 is a bit silly, and with very similar efficiencies the fan on the fan model can't exactly be spinning hard to dissipate ~18W of heat at 50% load. Fanless also makes me think unreliable.
Of course, the CPU cooler isn't fanless, and even if it were, I'd want at least a 120mm fan on the HDDs.
Am I better just going for the model with a fan?
