The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/issue9mm on 2024-12-23 20:12:02.

I’ve lucked into some hardware that was semi-affordable over time, but after some of them are now in disarray.

What I currently have running is a qnap 12-bay NAS running QTS and a super janky (but still extremely reliable) system I built into a new-two-decades ago Lian-Li PCA-77 aluminum case that still rocks, but is very dated. In that case, I’ve got 2 IcyDock FatCages that convert 3 5.25" bays into 5 3.5" hot-swappable bays, running on an Athlon FX-8350. Both of these are at ~50-60% capacity. I also have ~80 WD Red 8Tb drives, most of which were known-good when pulled (but are old.)

What currently is NOT running is a 45-Drives 45-bay chassis – it’s one of the old ones with the crappy HighPoint adapters and has at least a broken power supply that I can’t find a direct replacement for. I also have a Supermicro Superstorage 6047R-E1R72L 72-bay server that has never POSTed. I bought it earlier this year from The Server Store and while they were willing to help support it, I had a car accident and a medium-sized family emergency that pushed me out of the 90 days support for it before I could get it done, so now I just own this brick and I’d like to put it to use. I specced the Supermicro with 3x 10G Intel SFP cards so that I could have them in other devices. IIRC, the Storinator came with 10G onboard but I can’t remember the form factor (and it hasn’t worked in forever.)

So, I’d like either of these to work and do something. Happy to replace motherboards (and maybe go with something a little bit lower power consumption) – noise isn’t too big an issue as I’ve got a storage room in the basement that they run in, but if there was an opportunity to replace with a less-redundant / quieter power supply, I’d probably jump on it. Willing to buy new parts, but I haven’t built anything like this from scratch, so figured I’d ask you wizards. The ideal system I end up with should be able to run TrueNAS, which is just something I would really like to play with.