For the casual selfhoster, The Node 304 is hard to beat. Great cooling potential (U14S) with a 140mm exhaust, ATX power supply, 6 3.5" + 2 SSDs, and GPU all in <20L. I can literally sneak my server in anywhere!
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That is a really nice small form factor case. I was recently looking at Fractal's Define 7 XL because it can hold an amazing 18 3.5" + SSDs.
Yeah that is quite a few drives! But then you are reaching datahoarder levels.
I have been selfhosting for 3 years now and I am still on my first mirrored 4TB drive set ๐ I will get an 8 or 10 next and probably be set for like 10 years with 4 drives. If I pass that, I will need to saxrifice my M.2 boot drive for an M.2 sata controller. iTX problems.
Node 804 has something cool, 10 drives in a complete seperate chamber with separate cooling than the "normal" parts, plus micro ATX for a PCIe SATA controller.
Time is merely a perspective. I've been doing this for 20 years.
Perhaps it is overblown, but one of the reasons I have 8 drives is because I wanted to run raidz2 for the extra redundancy. I've had multiple drives die before and so as disk sizes have gone up more redundancy has been important (at least I thought so).
So when my first ZFS NAS (4 disks) developed hardware failure, I decided to get more serious about it. Hence larger rack device with a proper Xeon with ECC memory and an HBA for 8 disks + 2 SSDs and the old drives that survived as a play space. I've also used this server now for 9 years.
https://www.rosewill.com/rosewill-rsv-l4500u-black/p/9SIA072GJ92805
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Nice brand indeed.
I'm hoping to get this in the next few weeks, it's perfect for my needs.
Rosewill is just Newegg's brand. They also sell some stuff on eBay and Amazon.
The model to look for is RSV-L4500U
I have an Inter-tech Sc-4004 and Silverstone SST-CS350B, works well for me
Could look into the 45 drives hl15. It's not cheap, but it looks friggin awesome!!