A compact tower holds 9 hard drives for a home storage server
A rack setup based on a Supermicro SC826 with 11 was replaced with a smaller Fractal Design Epoch tower. Two 2TB drives were removed, leaving 9 installed and one open slot for a future drive if prices improve. The system runs Unraid with an i5 12600 processor and 32GB of memory.
It uses two 500GB NVMe drives for app data and one 2TB NVMe drive for cache. Usable storage is about 68TB. Cooling worked better than expected: during a , s stayed under 30°C with three 120mm fans running at half speed.
The 3D print files for the layout are free to download, use, and remix.
Key points
- The build moved from a case to a smaller tower case.
- It now runs 9 , with one empty slot left for later expansion.
- The system uses Unraid, an i5 12600, 32GB of memory, and three NVMe drives.
- Usable storage is about 68TB.
- Drive s stayed below 30°C during a with fans at 50% speed.