I want this unit for a FreeNAS box, and I want 2 full physical machines in this one box, 2 Motherboards, PSUs, etc. Will that work?Is it large enough?
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It has cutouts and mounts for a single PSU and a single motherboard so to fit two you would have to do a lot of customization. You are probably better off going with 2 2U cases with 12 drives each.
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No it takes a proprietary PS. and it supports dual redundancy. Also the motherboard does not support standard connections it would require an adapter from 24 to 14 Pin before you could use it. This is a server not a PC and the ThinkServer 450W Hot Swap Redundant Power Supply is what you need.
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Hello, You could definitely add upto 4 disks into the synology NAS drive. The maximum capacity for this server is 16TB. I have put 3, 2TBs of drives as those were the ones easily available.
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It only uses One physical Slot, But takes up two spaces worth. Most motherboards have the PCIe slots spaced enough that this is not an issue.
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I had a two case setup for awhile. One case had my motherboard and controller cards and power supply and the other case had all my hdds including one rack inside. I bought some long sas and data cables to connect the two cases. I eventually built an open air case using wire racks and plywood.
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Yes you can do that (that is what I do) but I suggest you buy the DS213j, the newer version of this. It has more RAM, a newer CPU, and floating-point and it is cheaper! You can attach two external drives or a powered hub with, I believe up to seven devices total.
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Works perfectly fine in my FreeNAS server (FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (a752d35))
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yes it is. We use six of these units in a enterprise NAS and they seem to work well - no problems...so far :)
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It depends on your O/S. I used mine with Ubuntu and 4x4TB and it worked fine.
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Sure, I don't see why not. For all intents and purposes it's just two more network ports. I'm using mine in an ESXI box.
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I put a ASUS AMD A85X SATA 6.0 Gb-s 240-Pin DDR3 2400 Motherboards F2A85-M PRO in and it takes both size cards. Looks good too. Using it as a xbmc media box.
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You are paying for their software, which is arguably the best one. I haven't tried FreeNAS but I would be very surprised if it was better. In any case the enterprise drives are the bigger part of the cost. Also these boxes come with excellent cooling and temperature monitoring.
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Yes just make sure whatever raid utility you choose can utilize 4tb partitions otherwise you'll have to have 16 2tb partitions. Also make sure not to use anything such as Western Digital Green drives that have auto off or time out features as it will break the array every time one of the drives powers down. I use Seagate Barracuda drives in mine.
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I contacted startech & they said it will work with up to 6 drives per port with multiport external bays. SO a a total of 12 drivers per card will work. They said they have tested & has been verified. I have 2 mediasonic non raid bays i will try to see if it works when i get the card
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That depends more upon your selected motherboard than the case. This case has plenty of room inside and cooling fans to serve as a NAS server.
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You could put 2 3 rack systems side by side. It would probably take up a bit more space than a 6 rack system, but would work if you have sufficient space.
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It should work as RAID set, if you do not need to see multiple drives, but if you want USB3.0 adapter support port multiplier protocol, look for "U3eSATA" in AMAZON