Finalizing my NAS build based on the 9-bay Chinese motherboard and case

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Welcome back to my channel! Last time, we dove into the unboxing and detailed review of a top-tier motherboard, exploring its specs and putting it through rigorous benchmarking tests. This episode takes things to the next level as we embark on an exciting journey to construct a high-capacity NAS system from scratch, featuring an impressive array of 8x18 TB WD Gold hard drives.
Why 18 TB WD Gold? These drives are known for their reliability and performance, making them the perfect choice for our NAS setup. Throughout this video, you'll join me in the step-by-step process, from assembling the hardware components to configuring the software settings. Expect a mix of tech insights, practical tips, and, of course, a few unexpected challenges along the way. So, grab your favorite beverage, get comfortable, and enjoy the ride as we build this powerhouse NAS together. Don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and ring the bell for more tech adventures!
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@pereiradanu16 3 месяца назад

I liked your NAS build, please if possible to post the links of the parts used

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Thank you, here's a list of everything I used for my NAS setup. Just so you know, I'm not affiliated with any of these products and I'm not promoting them. These are just the parts I used, hope it helps: text.is/TechnicallyUnsure9BayNAS

@seantellsit1431 3 месяца назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure Thank you kind sir!

@turkeyphant 3 месяца назад

I'm so glad someone finally tested out this case! Thanks so much :)

@yeetusj8152 7 дней назад

Awesome build I’m about to do one soon too! One thing I probably would have thought to do differently is switch the fans around so you’re pulling the air through the front over the hard drives instead of trying to push through the backplane and over the hard drives

@pereiradanu16 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the parts links

@diablobarcelona 3 месяца назад

I bought exactly the same motherboard. Really impressed. I also run TrueNAS CORE. I've been running FreeNAS then TrueNAS for 12 years, and this motherboard was my first motherboard upgrade since the original build. I also run WD GOLD's 8 x 10TB, and a 500GB Samsung NVMe for FreeBSD jails, a 120GB SSD for the boot OS.. finally 64GB DDR5. It's a shame that the CPU temp is not available on CORE. BTW, really nice to see you using CORE rather than SCALE.... the roots of TN are FreeBSD, not Linux. So thanks for keeping the faith.. far too many people have jumped on SCALE IMO....

@nadtz 3 месяца назад

As much as I enjoy FreeBSD and Truenas Core the reality is now that ZFS works on Linux (almost at parity) it makes more sense to develop scale.

@diablobarcelona 3 месяца назад

@@nadtz Sorry, we'll agree to disagree on this one.

@nadtz 3 месяца назад

@@diablobarcelona It's not an opinion based assessment, there are objective reasons Linux is the better platform to develop Truenas on, and I say that as someone who has been runninng ZFS on FreeBSD since it became available. That said I'll be running Core for as long as it makes sense since I don't use Truenas as a one stop shop appliance.

@ostrov11 3 месяца назад

спасибо, хорошая работа.

@milk4chillout 2 месяца назад

Hey, thanks for the review. Did you have experiences with the S3 Sleep mode? That does not work on my side with unraid.

@TechnicallyUnsure 2 месяца назад

No, didn't try that. You want to put your NAS to sleep?

@TyroSean 3 месяца назад

Nice work! I'm curious, what is the power draw at idle and under load?

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Sorry for the late reply. Finally got the time to shut it down, plug in the power consumption meter, turn it back on. So all 8 disks populated, all in use, it's idling around 70W when I hit it hard a bit, like copying from and to NAS at the same time and running some CPU stress test in a jail etc, it goes up to 90W sometimes. But overall, I would say it's 75W on average

@TyroSean 3 месяца назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure thanks, that’s really great to know!

@HaimPeretz 3 месяца назад

Great video. 1. Why don't you choose the Jonsbo N3 if you have a mini itx board? 2. I think you can replace the part of wood screen with the same size. 3. Is the board supporting ECC?

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Thank you! 1. Going to be honest here, had no clue that existed. I looked around and bought the first one I could find that I could get my hands on fastest. 2. You are correct. 3. No, this motherboard doesn't support ECC, they are saying and I quote "All DDR5 come with inline ECC" (sic)

@user-kg6uj6ji5p 3 месяца назад

some people reports this board has support ecc on specific processor

@dorinxtg 3 месяца назад

Great video! Those QVO SSD's have a very slow write after the first few gigabytes (if you copy big files) Also, 2 VDEV for 8 disks? why? RAIDZ-2 should give you sufficient storage and resiliency if needed IMHO

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

You are correct, even TrueNAS documentation says that multiple vdevs should start from around 10 disks+. But regardless, by choosing to configure my 8x18TB HDDs into 2 vdevs with RAIDz2 in my TrueNAS pool, I basically improved performance since data can now be read and written to both vdevs at the same time, essentially doubling my throughput (considering I'll add a 10G ethernet card to the motherboard). This setup also increased my redundancy, as each vdev can independently withstand two disk failures. But you are correct. More common way would be just a single vdev with RAIDz2

@JonathanSwiftUK 3 месяца назад

I thought I was seeing things. $463 for the motherboard, includes CPU but no ram. It seems quite expensive, but hopefully works well. I'm a bit concerned nameless motherboards might not have the sort of availability, warranty and support ones from Asus or similar have.

@mamdouh-Tawadros Месяц назад

Great video. I hope more people subscribe as I did.

@Ohwowryanwtf 29 дней назад

Let me get a better understanding; You swapped the rears with 2 noctua fans and used the Default Air fan it came with the case? What size are the Noctua fans?

@TechnicallyUnsure 29 дней назад

Correct, 120mm, used these: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFCRATC

@Ohwowryanwtf 29 дней назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure if you swapped the default cpu fan with something bigger would you still have clearance? It mentions only 2 inches in height, but none I see anywhere especially in white are even close to that.

@TechnicallyUnsure 29 дней назад

I think you would still have some space, it's not that tight I would say

@MajorisMons 2 месяца назад

What PSU did you use to power the 4 individual molex/IDE backplanes?

@TechnicallyUnsure 2 месяца назад

www.amazon.com/dp/B08BF1H5R1

@MajorisMons 2 месяца назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure Did you have to use a molex splitter by any chance?

@TechnicallyUnsure 2 месяца назад

Yes, I did use molex splitter as I mentioned in the video

@MajorisMons 2 месяца назад

@TechnicallyUnsure Ah, you sure did. I should've watched longer than 3mins before asking questions o7

@MrakCZ 3 месяца назад

What about Asmedia for SATA drive? In Truenas community it's not favorite. They recommend HBA cards a lot.

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

This motherboard doesn't need Asmedia or HBA card, that's the point of the motherboard. The motherboard comes with 2xSFF-8643 ports and cables for it.

@MrakCZ 3 месяца назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure Yes, but those SFF are connected to Asmedia1166 and Asmedia 1164 controllers. Not to chipset itself.

@OnlyMon0 2 месяца назад

How much power does it use at idle?

@TechnicallyUnsure 2 месяца назад

70W-ish

@ewenchan1239 3 месяца назад

Great video! Good choice on the 18 TB WD Gold HDDs. Better than Seagate, which is what a lot of tech RU-vidrs use.

@MrakCZ 3 месяца назад

It's about preferences and needs. Those HDD will be loud with 7200rpm. I have 6x8TB Seagate ironwolf 5400rpm and they are quiet enough. I like WD, but company is somehow doing wrong things Last few years (SMR, useless warnings in synology, Those kind of things) and it's piss me off. That's why I choose Seagate last year and I am happy with it for now.

@ewenchan1239 3 месяца назад

@@MrakCZ The data from Backblaze shows that Seagates have the highest annualised failure rates out of the various HDD manufacturers that Backblaze uses. I agree that the WD Red NAS where they tried to stealthily put SMR drives, hoping that people wouldn't notice -- that was some BS. On the other hand, drive ramp load/unload is a tech that has been around since at least 2001, and many Seagate drives, STILL don't have it, to prevent their read/write heads from crashing into the drive platter(s).

@MrakCZ 3 месяца назад

@@ewenchan1239 I saw it and I agree. I had few HDD, a lot of them from WD. So far I am lucky, no failures so far. Not even Seagate. Still have 500GB Seagate for testing purposes and it's working like a charm.

@ewenchan1239 3 месяца назад

@@MrakCZ Yeah....I'm an all HGST "shop". They're not necessarily the fastest performers, but they are one of the most reliable.

@zazelskycrest2525 3 месяца назад

@@ewenchan1239 when i read the report from backblaze, i got a feeling the reason why seagate shows higher failure rate is because backblaze use a lot more seagate drive WD drive

@OnlyMon0 2 месяца назад

20:37 If I were to use a 10G NIC would it be able to fully saturate the network connection?

@TechnicallyUnsure 2 месяца назад

Absolutely, I tried it with a PCIE 10G card and I got 1Gb/s transfer

@Airbag888 15 дней назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure Which card did you use and how much power is it drawing at the wall?

@bluesquadron593 3 месяца назад

Perhaps TrueNAS Scale would be a better choice

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Totally see your perspective, and you could be right. I just have a special fondness for FreeBSD. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@tegolley 2 месяца назад

I have hdd the transfer speed for single drive is 250 mb/s "HGST He10 (HUH721010ALE601) 10TB 7200RPM" im doing raid 5 on 4 drives 10 tb each 40 tb total and with raid5 its 30tb super fast hdd almost half speed of sata ssd with no raid 0 or raid 10 needed

@Technoinandoutside 3 месяца назад

I would have used 2 ssds in raid 1 for system and then raid z2 hdd vdev for storage. Having truenas on the same drives is not a good idea

@Technoinandoutside 3 месяца назад

Also multiple vdev dont really give you more speed

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Good idea, the motherboard comes with 2 NVMe SSD slots, I used one and TrueNAS is installed on that one, I guess I can populate the other NVMe slot and use both for the OS with raid 1.

@wiedapp 3 месяца назад

I always wanted to build something like that, but... I don't have even remotely enough data to use that properly. Not even 1TB.

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

Yarrr, it be ne'er too tardy to set sail on the high data seas for some more digital loot, if ye be graspin' me jargon, me hearty!

@wiedapp 3 месяца назад

@@TechnicallyUnsure It's just that for my capacity needs the HDD are way too expensive. And HDD with an acceptable price to performance ratio are way too big and would burn their lifetime away 99% unused...

@TechnicallyUnsure 3 месяца назад

I completely understand your point. Keep an eye out, because I'll be releasing a video soon that you might find helpful. Of course, that's if everything goes as planned with my schedule and the arrival of the necessary components. I'm waiting for some parts.

@cinemaipswich4636 Месяц назад

This is the 4th Vlog of this motherboard I have seen. With or without ram, cooler,nvme. I will see this again next week.

@hertgsesrht3499 Месяц назад

Case link please?

@TechnicallyUnsure Месяц назад

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BXDCBZB2

@fteoOpty64 3 месяца назад

I built a similar NAS using chinese X99 board with e5-2680V4 14core CPU with 32GB ECC RAM, with NVme 6 sata port card, PCie X4 2.5GB 4-port card.Running Xpenology DSM7.2.1 10 Disk setup in a midtower case with internal mods and 3 fans. Probably cost half of your build and way easier to use and configure. Plus DSM allows me to spin up VMs!. 32GB is plenty....

@HaimPeretz 3 месяца назад

What is the name of your chinese board?

@Trotroyanas 3 месяца назад

@@HaimPeretz yes what a name ?

@Llyonard 3 месяца назад

The problem for that mb+cpu is the power efficiency. Anyway for the other on aliexpress you can find many of them, i have a machinist one

@tendosingh5682 14 дней назад

Spending so much on drives only to cheap out on an unproven chinese frankenstein board.

@CapComa 3 месяца назад

What a waste of cash

@bluesquadron593 3 месяца назад

What a comprehensive opinion😂

@neolordie 3 месяца назад

why do you think so ?

@frankwong9486 3 месяца назад

Suggest better option mate 😂

@noth606 3 месяца назад

Your comment is a waste of bytes.

@lawrencerubanka7087 3 месяца назад

Could you be more specific, or just a troll?

@paulmaydaynight9925 3 месяца назад

cha ching ￡408.35 motherboard: fail. use a £114 'MSI PRO B550M-VC WiFi ProSeries Motherboard (AMD AM4, DDR4, PCIe 4.0, SATA 6Gb/s, M.2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, HDMI/DP, Wi-Fi, mATX)' instead -with 4 pcie x16 slots/8 sata ports included.- might as well spend the cash on a better -49% £259.98 AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Processor (12C/24T, 70MB Cache, up to 4.8 GHz Max Boost) or any cheaper cpu & £36 dual 2.5Gb/s card or 4

@tamos2006 2 месяца назад

The MSI is Matx and not mitx Also the TDP of the 5900x is very high so cooler will not fit in tiny case

@paulmaydaynight9925 2 месяца назад

@@tamos2006 whats your point ?, it fits that -expensive- Matx White NAS case perfectly & -in the real world, no guessing required- any cheap low profile -4 pipe+- cooler works fine here -averaging 57C.. 72C- , no issue. or use a cheaper 8/16 core ryzen7 5700G & an Ark380 low profile gpu for a nice remote proxmox NAS/independant reEncoder machine