#unraidos

First thoughts on the Rosewill RSV-L4500U server chassis: the drive bays are FUUUUUCKED. If you’re getting one of these, which is a bargain price btw, just make sure you have all your drives already purchased and ready to install. This is not a hot swappable or easy drive bay to work with. I literally had to take a multitool and punch down some of the metal in some parts.

That being said, everything fits my use case for converting my SFF NAS to a rack mounted server chassis. The mini ITX board fit, I had to finagle with the PSU but she’s in there in place, only thing I have to worry about is slowly replacing these random SSD’s over with 10 TB WD RED PLUS NAS HDD’s

I’m one of those techs who makes friends with the recycling guys whenever my contractors are looking for their write offs, luckily I’ve been able to get some decent recycled inventory and I can finally make use of these old SSD’s laying around

Behold, my stuff’s (what’s left of the ssd inventory):

I had this little SSD drive bay that I had to cut off the end pin to make fit into the HDD bay

I saw a few battle stations on Reddit and immediately fell in love with the Fractal Terra case

Taking these pics on iPhone does not do this case justice :( gonna need to invest in a camera one of these days

Et tu, Brutus?

HUMBLE beginnings:

Buddy of mine from work (thanks Brian!) recommended UnraidOS to start off with since I had a ton of spare SSD's laying around

Very happy with the build but as soon as I got everything setup, docker containers communicating properly and services running stable, I realized that SFF is NOT the way to go for a NAS/Server build.

Went back to the drawing board and decided will convert this to a SFF gaming/hometheater system for the living room, gonna have to order a GPU and I'm just gonna keep almost all the internal components the same. Depending on the temps, may need to think about adding another fan.

For the updated NAS case, I'm thinking of getting a Storinator since I finally have a server rack for my lab, but DAMN $$$$. If I can't get my hands on a storinator, I wouldn't mind building a Full ATX Tower server case, but wouldn't make sense to not build something for the rack.