To follow up on my previous blog entry I thought I would give an example of what I have been doing with the Older Tech I buy.
I intend to build a low power home lab consisting where possible of older repurposed machines that would perhaps struggle for relevancy in 2025 and possibly otherwise end up as landfill
One of the things I wanted is a simple back up server for my photos, documents and other stuff.
I decided that while it only has 2 SATA Ports and a gen 1 single lane PCIe the Mitac PD14R with a 6w dualcore n3060 processor may be a good choice. Case wise I was drawn to use the large pizza box sized Barracuda SSL-VPN 480
I opened the Barracuda up and proceeded to gut it
Once I removed the existing motherboard, I installed the MiTac ITX board
I noticed that after removing the 3.5″ drives there were more fitting points
I soon realised there were holes for both 3.5 and 2.5 drives!
I added 2 x 2.5″ SSD’s for testing and fired it up.
Without any kind of configuration and in a windows 10 test install it drew 15-16 watts of power
Now the concept has been tested I need to get a PCIe to SATA HDA card so that I may have a boot drive and at least 2 storage drives possibly In RAID
I guess I need to read up about how much bandwidth 1 lane of Gen2 PCIe provides and get a card suited for at least that. – Posts of advise welcome.
I will hopefully get this arranged sooner rather than later, although as always available funds will dictate the speed at which I can build and install suitable software (OMV?)
Laters folks