10/29/2022 0 Comments Video fractal design node 804![]() ![]()
When adding the drives to the drive cage, write down the serial numbers of each drive. The case has lots of room, unlike trying to work in a mini-ITX case. If you use this exact build, then plug the Noctua fan for hard drives into FANA on the motherboard so you can control it separately from the other motherboard fans. VIDEO FRACTAL DESIGN NODE 804 INSTALLIf you want to run from flash drive, you need at least 2 to do the install 1 will become your boot drive and the other is used to install FreeNAS (after FreeNAS is installed you don't need the 2nd one, so if you have any flash drive laying around that should work I guess?). They are very small, barely bigger than the USB connector itself. There were several people who liked Sandisk Cruzer, and 32gb was the cheapest available. The drive prices fluctuate from day to day though. Of the WD Red drives, 4TB currently has the best price-per-TB, and the next best is 10TB. Watching the RAM usage, I've occasionally seen it spike to 20gb when running PLEX and other stuff at the same time, so it seems good to get more than 16gb. I'm a little wary of RAM brands I never heard of, but NEMIX ram is made by Hynex supposedly, and people have said it's decent. VIDEO FRACTAL DESIGN NODE 804 UPGRADEThe drives in your case won't be hot-swap, so if you want to do the 1-drive-at-a-time hard drive replacement to upgrade your RAID, it's gonna suck. There is a window in the case, but it is opposite the side that has the USB connector & power button so the window isn't visible in the location where I placed the NAS. I used one of the drive compartment additional spaces to install the Noctua fan. There is room to mount an additional 7 fans in the case, with 2 of those in the drive compartment. If you turn it around to blow on the hard drives, then it will suck dust into the case. There is only 1 fan for the hard drives, and it is an exhaust fan blowing out of the case. One compartment has the PSU and hard drives, and the other has the motherboard. It is the height of a mini-tower but twice as wide, divided into 2 separate compartments. At the time I purchased these, the 750 was cheaper than the 650. However the 650 and 750 come with 2x cables with 4 SATA connectors, which works really well with 8 hard drives. The PSU is overkill, you could use anything with at least 400W I think. 18" was a perfect length, leaving a little slack to tie down with the included velcro in the case. The other bay has more room, so you could use any kind of cable. One of the drive bays is a very tight fit with the PSU, so you should probably get at least 4 of the SATA cables with a 90-degree connector. I probably didn't need an additional CPU fan, I didn't realize I was getting one with the CPU. ![]() I installed the iPPC-3000 as an additional fan in the hard drive compartment, blowing across the drives. If you plug it into the motherboard, use the FANA connector. The Noctua iPPC-3000 is a 4-pin fan and it won't plug into the 3-pin connectors for the case's fan controller. The hard drive compartment can get hot with 8 drives, so an extra fan is needed. The controller/fans are powered from a SATA connector and are independent of the motherboard, so you could use the case fans and still plug 5 fans into the motherboard. ![]() The Node 804 comes with a 3-speed fan controller and 3 fans (2 for the motherboard compartment, 1 for the drives/PSU compartment). You could also plug all the fans straight onto the motherboard and not use the case controller. Since I had 8 HDDs, I used a spare modular SATA power cable from another Seasonic, but you could use a Molex to SATA instead. ** Note, the PSU comes with 8 SATA power connectors and the Node 804 case needs 1 for the included fans. Total cost was about $3000 USD $1300 for the case and the rest for the drives. SATA Cables: 8x 18" SATA3 cable with 90 degree connectorĪdditional cable: Rosewill Molex to SATA 1 needed** VIDEO FRACTAL DESIGN NODE 804 PLUSPSU: Seasonic Focus Plus SSR-750FX 750W Gold All of these parts are well-known and have been previously discussed as being great for FreeNAS so the compatibility won't be a surprise.ĬPU: Intel Xeon E3-1240 V6 (includes a fan) There were some things I wish I'd known in advance, so hopefully this will help the next person. I did some analysis planning what I wanted to build, and these forums were very helpful. ![]()
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