Hey Chaps,
I've been looking for a Server Chassis that I am able to fit up to 16/24x 2.5 drives in for a self build, as I am looking at changing my current box for something that's a little bit more power efficient. Can anyone recommend any beard bones chassis? It also need to be somewhat quiet.
I've found a few on a large market place and also a few from Supermicro. The Supermicro ones look good but the 80mm 5600 rpm fans put me off a little.
The reasoning behind looking at the 2.5 form factor is the power savings which can bit had. In the current setup I am using 5 Seagate 7200.14 2TB (ST2000DM001) drives which leaves me plenty of space for storage and my virtualization lab. Looking at the power usage in watts. These drives typically idle @ 5.80w and under loads this would normally rise to 8+w Spec
I then started looking at other manufactures drives which seems to be about on par or work for a similar spec drive, which when you start adding drives it soon mounts up. Looking at the WD RED range, they seem to be the best fit for my requirements as their power requirements in 3.5 versions are half that of the current Seagate drives for similar levels of performance. Then I noticed that 2.5 (WD10JFCX) drives, these come in at 1.4w under load and 0.6w when idle. This means with my current HDD setup is using 50~w with 5 drives if I moved to the 2.5 drives id require 9 of them but the total watt usage would be reduced to 12.5~w which is a 37.5 watt saving. So this got me thinking about my whole storage solution and how I can optimise it, I can reduce the Xeon E3 - 1230 which is 80w TDP for a 1220L which is 20w TDP. As this is running ZFS a 1230 is a little bit over kill to be honest.
So looking at the HDD and CPU option I could potentially save around 100watts.
I've been looking for a Server Chassis that I am able to fit up to 16/24x 2.5 drives in for a self build, as I am looking at changing my current box for something that's a little bit more power efficient. Can anyone recommend any beard bones chassis? It also need to be somewhat quiet.
I've found a few on a large market place and also a few from Supermicro. The Supermicro ones look good but the 80mm 5600 rpm fans put me off a little.
The reasoning behind looking at the 2.5 form factor is the power savings which can bit had. In the current setup I am using 5 Seagate 7200.14 2TB (ST2000DM001) drives which leaves me plenty of space for storage and my virtualization lab. Looking at the power usage in watts. These drives typically idle @ 5.80w and under loads this would normally rise to 8+w Spec
I then started looking at other manufactures drives which seems to be about on par or work for a similar spec drive, which when you start adding drives it soon mounts up. Looking at the WD RED range, they seem to be the best fit for my requirements as their power requirements in 3.5 versions are half that of the current Seagate drives for similar levels of performance. Then I noticed that 2.5 (WD10JFCX) drives, these come in at 1.4w under load and 0.6w when idle. This means with my current HDD setup is using 50~w with 5 drives if I moved to the 2.5 drives id require 9 of them but the total watt usage would be reduced to 12.5~w which is a 37.5 watt saving. So this got me thinking about my whole storage solution and how I can optimise it, I can reduce the Xeon E3 - 1230 which is 80w TDP for a 1220L which is 20w TDP. As this is running ZFS a 1230 is a little bit over kill to be honest.
So looking at the HDD and CPU option I could potentially save around 100watts.
