Get a NAS in the rack

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Look through current hardware or acquire hardware to put together a NAS.

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On Thursday, October 17th during QOHN I investigated the possibility of using an unused 1U Hyve server and the 2U storage server that are sitting unused in the server room.

The 1U Hyve server throws POST errors that seem to show a BIOS issue. Need to investigate the possibility of flashing a new BIOS ROM onto the recovery EEPROM.

The 2U storage server seems the current easiest to implement solution if we need to rush a build. It needs HBAs and drives at the minimum.

Only concern is that this server is much too powerful to just use on a NAS; it is a dual CPU C216 chipset server with 128GB of RAM which gives it many more uses than just hosting an array or JBOD.

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Per discussion in #Retro

I've got a barebones 4U Supermicro(?) server chassis that can take standard ATX/E-ATX motherboards and fit 24 3.5" drives

Looking at ServerPartDeals at time of writing, we could purchase 24x 14TB drives for $3600.

Combined with the existing "spare parts" in the server room (Xeon v4 era motherboard/CPU/RAM, 40GB QSFP NIC's) this could make for quite a cost-effective NAS solution.

With 24 14TB drives in a RaidZ-3 (triple parity) system we would have 235TB(!) of usable capacity for a fairly reasonable cost.

This machine would also likely want to be situated in the upcoming "new server room" rather than the current server room for security reasons