Server in a wall mounted cabinet?

champ222 · 16 Jan 2018 at 12:07

Hi all

in a large walk in cupboard in our office, we have a fairly typical (i'm assuming) wall mount rack cabinet where the phone stuff lives and the patch panels etc.

we need a small server for backups and stuff, and they make short 3U pc cases that will fit (a 400mm deep case will fit fine).

Its going to have a mATX board, ATX PSU and a couple of drives in.

I dont see heat being an issue, i assume there is no reason i shouldnt put it there?

Thanks

champ222 · 16 Jan 2018 at 12:27

no, but its a pretty big cupboard.

I plan on using some old pc hardware (pentium from the Core2Duo days i think) with a gigabyte G31M es2l mobo, as i have a windows 10 license for it. drive for storage, and drive for OS.

so we only need the Case, drives and PSU

champ222 · 16 Jan 2018 at 12:30

to be honest, we can put the server anywhere, its just convenient to have it in the cupboard. maybe that would be best...

champ222 · 16 Jan 2018 at 12:58

i like the idea of being able to pull the HDD for access in a windows PC if the hardware fails. can you do that with a QNAP or similar? or is it a different file system to NTFS?

champ222 · 17 Jan 2018 at 16:09

i was thinking of running the OS on a separate drive to the data, so if the PC fails, i can access the data by plugging it into any other pc (then that PC can take on that job temporarily), or use the backup drive or whatever, then fix/replace the PC, re-install windows, pop drive in and its done. seems easier to me, than faffing about with a NAS manufacturer using a file system thats unique to them, which is now different from last years version, and.... (ive made some sweeping statements here i know lol)