SilverStone SST-CS381 : New NAS Build

[HEADRAT]

Hi,

Haven't treated myself to new toys in a while so I've just nabbed the following for a NAS upgrade from my trusty Gen8 Microserver.

SilverStone SST-CS381 (case was probably overkill but I can see it lasting me for years in one guise or other)

Supermicro X10SDV-8C+-LN2F (Intel® Xeon® processor D-1541, Single socket FCBGA 1667, 8-Core, 45W) - Nabbed off the MM, nice lower power and enough grunt for what I'm doing.

Sedna - M2 (2280) PCIe M Key to 5 x SATA 6G Adapter Card (to give me a few more SATA ports, I'm going to need the 1 x PCI-E 3.0 for NIC)

600W be quiet! SFX-L PSU

2 x SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB (going to play with SSD cache put might just end up being "fast storage")
6 x WD 6TB Red (I have 5 drives already), room later for 2 more discs
Intel 520 10 GigE NIC (10GBASE-T copper SFP)
16GB DDR4 PC4-19200 2400MH

Not 100% sure what NAS software I'm going to use yet, I know to some peoples disgust it might be XPenology again but time will tell

Will hopefully recoup a little from selling my Microserver on the MM once I'm done!

HEADRAT

 

[deFiniLoGy]

Love my UNRAID build Sustained an abrupt hardware failure (motherboard died suddenly) - changed the backbone to X470 based platform and partition just rebuilt itself

Look into Define R6 as well if you don’t need hotswappable bays

 

[HEADRAT]

I'm pretty much set on the SST-CS381 now but thanks for the input, UNRAID is certainly on my list.

 

[HEADRAT]

I didn't have much luck with Sedna - M2 (2280) PCIe M Key to 5 x SATA 6G Adapter Card, just doesn't seem to work with X10SDV-8C+-LN2F, I will just return. Also the m.2 port on the MOBO is shared with SATA0 so perf. wouldn't have been great.

So I would really like some more SATA ports but if I use the 1 x PCI-E then I can't use my 10GigE card (Intel x520-DA2), so it does seem that X10SDV-8C+-LN2F, supports 8x8x bifurcation on the 1 x PCIE-3 x 16 so I've ordered a riser. This will allow me to use both an HBA Card and the Intel x520-DA2 for 10GigE.