8 Bay Network Attached Storage
Parts copied from a
forum, practically part for part
PSU U-NAS 400W 80+ Gold included with case
CPU Intel i5-8500T
CPU Cooler Arctic Alpine 12 LP
Motherboard ASRock B365M-ITX
RAM TEAMGROUP 1x 16GB 2666MHz
SSD Samsung 970 Evo 250G
SAS HBA LSI 9207-8i after OBO
PCIe Riser LEIHONG x8 to x16
Screws UXCELL #6 countersunk for 3.5 HDD
Case arrived, the front panel was of that rubbery finish that was decomposing and kind of gooey. Stripped it off with paint remover, cleaned with acetone and sprayed with Rustolem 2X satin in a color called Ink Blue.
While the front cover was off for paint I removed the back cover and re-routed the SATA cables and fan wiring to move them out of the way of the fans.
Motherboard has a M2 drive for the OS. First install is Windows. OS install recognized nearly everything and was ready to go. I am not familiar with the controller card that will accept 8 hard drives but it worked. I've filled it with all of my leftover drives, all are WD, 6 are WD Reds that were removed from external units and 2 are a couple other 2TB drives that were available/
Using Windows Storage Spaces to merge and add up all the drives gives 30TB.
It's the Plex server.
From there it was