ahwxinator (ahw-xi-na-tor)

ahwxinator is meant to be my new storage server, as well as serve some websites, do some management for my other servers, containers and it might have a windows vm in the future.

why?

• i, my family and youtube videos need storage
• i dont want to upgrade (the case atleast) any time soon
• i want to have it rackmounted
• i am somewhat of a a data hoarder
• it's a cool project
• i want silence (thus liquid cooling)

what?

detailed spec sheet:

nerd talk go brrr

case: inter-tech 4f28 rack

psu: cooler master silencio 700w 80+ gold

motherboard: asus rog strix b450-f gaming (v1)

cpu: amd ryzen 7 2700x @ 4.3ghz (base)

cpu cooler: coolermaster masterliquid ml240l v2

ram: 48gb gskill (2x8gb 2133mhz, 2x16gb 3000mhz both @ cl16).

vga: nvidia geforce 210, will upgrade (to a gtx750ti) since i "need" more power for jellyfin

boot: 120gb corsair force 3 ssd, nothing fancy

ssd cache: 512gb kioxia nvme

networking: still wip, currently 1gbit default from motherboard

remote management: ssh :)

os: debian rolling

storage:

• 2x 16tb toshiba mg08 7200rpm cmr
• 3x 2tb seagate barracuda 5900rpm cmr (2x nas, 1x normal)
• 3x 1tb wd {green+blue} and seagate
• 2tb toshiba canvio basics
• this makes for a total of 43tb of raw storage, and about 22tb usable currently

buildlog

* = bought

= = arrived

- = planned

= case: inter-tech 4f28 rack

= 2x 16tb toshiba mg08 7200rpm cmr

= psu: cooler master silencio 700w 80+ gold

= motherboard: asus rog strix b450-f gaming (v1)

= cpu: amd ryzen 7 2700x @ 4.3ghz (base)

= cpu cooler: coolermaster masterliquid ml240l v2

= ram: 48gb gskill (2x8gb 2133mhz, 2x16gb 3000mhz both @ cl16).

= vga: nvidia geforce 210, might upgrade if i need more power for jellyfin

= boot: 120gb corsair force 3 ssd, nothing fancy

= ssd cache: 512gb kioxia nvme

- networking: 10gbit connectx3, planned in summer 2023 for now

- remote management: pi-kvm, when those are cheap ish again

- storage: more 16tb drives, when i run out of storage

- ofsite backup: will probably use backblaze.

- cooling: a couple of arctic and/or noctua fans

current state

server is up and running. i do need to get 10 gbit, since its quite cheap and pretty nice for a link to my workstation