What kind of load and run time do you get on battery? Two of the recent cuts were barely a couple of minutes long, so four to five minutes with elegant shutdown for longer cuts would be ideal. I have no issue with battery noise in use, it's just the couple of UPS devices I've had experience with both had audible whiny fans in normal use.
Haven't tested the 1000VA to depletion, but the older 650VA model used to keep my MicroServer ticking for about 45 minutes no sweat - until the battery aged, obviously.
This unit is fanless, it has a gentle electronic type noise, but is completely overshadowed by the NAS it sits next to. The batteries that were in it died a while back, so I fitted a couple of 55AH units I had laying about. With the load as it's under its probably good for over a day
I found one of these on the local free ads, this afternoon: Rated to 185W, which is about six or seven times what my NAS will draw, fully populated at full chat. £30 Seems ok so far - but it's probably worth it even if I have to cough up for a new battery in the near future.
Digging this thread up with the results of many minor hand based injuries (mainly missing knuckles) and a sore lower back (the ups is ~90kg and racking it was an ordeal) this week... Almost there in terms of kit for now - I have a 1U server in my office in bits that will be going in as another ESXi host and I'd like to add another large-ish server once I decide exactly what it is... and potentially an iKVM depending on whether I go for a proper server board or desktop stuff. Of course the main thing that's missing in here is cables... there's still several hundred metres to be pulled back to here from various points in the house. Top to bottom... USG Pro CloudKey Gen2+ in the frivolous rackmount plate USW-Enterprise-24-POE USW-48 UNVR Misc monitor and a mobile terminal and "could really use a windows machine about now" thinkpad room for expansion Unifi XG-16 ESXi host The other ESXi host Synology RS1219+, RX418 APC 32A monitored PDU PowerControl C300R 3Kva + Battery expansion Brush plates instead of patch panels, as I've chosen to patch the cables outside the rack, at the end of the cable tray on the ceiling above. I'm just using whatever cables I happen to have that reach from A to B for now, and once everything is cabled up messily, will work out lengths and colour schemes and swap them all out big-bang.
Feck no... I looked at those to start with, and stopped looking shortly thereafter. This is AGM, and I can replace the cells likely a dozen times over with what a Li-ion of the same capacity would set one back.
No pics, but the following HP N36L Microserver 16TB - OMV - General backups HP N56L Microserver 16TB - OMV - Plex Media Synology DS118 + 14TB HDD - Primary long term backups SuperMicro 1U ESXi host - VM's and VM storage 2TB (SSD's) No-name 12-bay 24TB - UNRAID - VM testing and ESXi VM backups All via Ubiquiti network, currently 1gig, but need 10gig soon Need more storage
Arise thread, long since dead... UPS battery finally kicked but, luckily, replacements have dropped in price significantly in the last year or three. £33 shipped. Could be worse and the 185W capacity is still sufficient, as my main issue is still minor power drops, lasting seconds to a minute or two. I mean, not often, but three or four times in the last ~ 12 months. Main and backup NAS boxes draw less than 60W between them, which is good for more than 10 minutes. Potato pic The N2 will probably be my goto NAS once I figure out some upgrades but, for now, it's just going to be for playing with VMs and such.
Well overdue an upgrade at this stage but here's my ghetto basement rack! Main system is a Dell R510 with dual X5650s 64GB memory and 8x 3TB HDDs in RaidZ2. Running TrueNAS Core because I refuse to leave FreeBSD for pastures (possibly) greener. Mainly used for Plex and keeping my leccy bill high. Bottom server (Chenbro RM13704) is rarely used these days. Think it has dual E5-2650s but can't be certain! Bonus sign:
forgot about this thread.... aaand my addiction kind of took over... Built myself a second server rack.. Got the final piece of the puzzle last week of a kvm screen. generic switch KVM screen/keyboard KVM switch 3 x r710's all with 128gb ram, dual X5675's all running proxmox emc 24bay jbod PBS server with same dual x5675's and 64gb ram
Apologies my rack is not in a location that makes it easy to photograph well. So I settled for photographing not-so-well. The latest and I expect final loadout: - Unifi UXG-Pro (Gbit symmetric XGS-PON primary, 4G secondary WAN) - Unifi CK-Gen2+ - Unifi Enterprise 24 POE - Unifi Switch 48 - Unifi UNVR - 32" 4k Philips monitor - HP DL380 (2x2630L v4, 265GB) - Unifi XG16 - 2x 1U Supermicro (1220L v3, 32GB) - Synology RS1219+ - Synology RX418 - APC 32A Netshelter PDU - PowerControl C300R 3Kva UPS - Battery Expansion
I need something to play 4k UHD Remux torrents on my projector + store lots of movies. Does anyone have a suitable suggestion? I was looking at one of those NAS Mini PC's on Ali Express? Something like this What do people think?
Reviews seem good however you'd likely want to replace the fan and stick with lower RPM drives to keep heat down. The storage tends to be the most expensive part of the NAS so I tend to stick with established brands lest a cheap PSU or fan failure fry my data!
I also thought about building my own. Anyone got any recommendations for a super low power ITX Mobo/CPU combo?
The Cwwk motherboards on aliexpress come recommended on NAScompares and such if you wanted to keep it cheap and lower power. That and a Fractal node or some such would be a good combo.
