I assembled my machine just now.So funny 
I prepared to store some anime on it.
Please share your unique machine to me
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Can you share some details about the hardware. It seems to be a custom build?!
sure!
- Asrock Intel J3455 motherboard with DDR3 memory(ITX)
- 250W power supply
- 4T HDD for store and 256g SSD for system
- The case was bought from shopping website
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I’m currently running a Odroid HC4-P with Armbian and OpenMediaVault.
I’ve had a stock Synology DS218+ for the last few years, straight 2TB BTRFS, and it’s been great. Hyperbackup to on-prem and cloud for resilience.
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I have a Synology DS1520+ that I’ve been running for probably 10 years or so.
Filled with five 8 TB hard drives. In RAID 6 configuration, for 24 TB total space (actually 21.8 TB). This replaced a couple dozen external USB drives, and made my local digital storage so much simpler. I still don’t know why I waited so long before getting a NAS.
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sounds so cool
these machine just exist in my dream.I hope I can build one after I graduate
arm platform?
Jep, it’s an Amlogic QuadCore SBC with dual SATA-Ports: https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-hc4-p-kit/
uh - what is this?! never seen before…
My homeserver:
Case: Antec P101 Silent
Cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming
Gpu: PNY Quadro P2000
Nvme disks: 2x Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
Storage disks: 2x WD Ultrastar DC HC580 24TB
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 128G
PSU: Delta GPS-1000DBA 1000W
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This is my “NAS”:
This is a Supermicro SC386 3U 19" Case which originally was the home for a dual Opteron Supermicro Board. I bought it from a recycler for quite some cheap money - was hunting a IBM Model M with my Birthday, still no luck, but found this beauty.
Inside is “THE” secret jackofalltrades-Motherboard-CPU-combo for the cheap DIY sucker: The Gigabyte MJ11-EC1. Those Motherboards where originally used in GPU-miningservers before Proof-of-Work became obsolete - so suddenly there were a LOT of those servers to be shelved. This motherboard comes with a 4 core 8 thread embedded EPYC CPU, is ECC compatible, has a full grown IPMI-Interface and is less than 65 Euros. I combined it with slow but cheap 64 GB of used DDR-4-ECC memory, put a 10g NIC into it and bought the cheapest m.2 with power loss protection to install TrueNAS core onto it. Thus I have now a quiet cheap enterprise grade NAS with all the whistles.
And because the board was SO MUCH FUN and I wanted to get rid of my old but untrusted Synology DS412+ I just bought everything but the case (and the disks, that is) a second time, but this time I put it into a Jonsbo N3:
This is just for the Backup of “important” Data. Remember: Data without reliable Backup is NOT important - consider it already lost!
Is this a little bit “over the top”? Well, yes and no. First of all I work for an IT provider, so knowing this things is part of my job, Secondly I love being a cosplay admin, and thirdly and most important: My wife is what we call in germany “Selbständig” - she is her own business, and while her store, homepage and everything is not hosted at home, the quality assurance and testing stages are - as well as all her business data. So I HAD to go full enrage here.
Btw, ignore the lenovo thingy on top of the N3…
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12 disk location.So huge 
Have you fill full of the case with disk,maybe you can tell me the power of it?
It’s 4by4, that makes 16. Not fully populated, inside are two zpools with 8 Disks in total and a cold spare disk.
Powerdraw is about 140w with both pools full speed. ~95w of this is just the disks + psu overhead aka heat.
Idling system brings this down to 40ish, but this beast never idles.
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