Great job! One thing anyone trying this on older backplanes should be aware of is some don't support the 'Power Disable Feature' provided by the SATA/SAS drive Pin 3 of larger/more modern hard drives. If a smaller, older drive spins up when insert into the backplane, but a newer typically 6+ TB drive doesn't then this is the issue. I have an older Lenovo server I refused to e-waste. Thinking it was something wrong with the backplane I finally discovered the reason and an easy solution. I just placed Kapton tape over pin 3 on each of the drives I'm using as detailed here ua-cam.com/video/9W3-uOl4ruc/v-deo.html
Dude for a small channel you have the whole setup pretty well figured out. Already got the scripts and concise content down. This had everything you need and nothing you don't. Great job.
I bless the algorithm this day, period. What an excellent find. And an extremely viable case for someone who wants to tinker and enter the DIY NAS space. [EDIT] The youtube effect has struck. These jawns are pricey on ebay. BUT, may find one locally or wait for price to drop.
Finally someone did it. I bought this summer HP ML330 G6 with one PSU and one LFF 3,5" sata caddy and moddified it for my NAS build. It is awesome that these old HP ML cases are so wersatile and easy to moddify. Actually you can swap many parts between ML series. I bought, so ML110 G7 for my collegue and took his LFF caddy, just needed to drill holes for mounting, nothing special. It is really awesome that homelabers can buy and reuse these old, but still great cases and that they use standard parts. BTW I made that front panel to work, just repinned original one to single pins.
Damn, nice channel. I own a server rack myself with my gaming PC and server in it, still missing a firewall tho :D Love the shelf in the background with all these systems and old monitors
Nice work, far better than my own janktastic Dell T5810 "thing" but then mine is for a somewhat different usecase, found it cheap with 32gb, quadcore xeon and 500gb disk -- it is now a 96gb ram equipped 14core with 2Tb SSD and 10Tb HDD and a Quadro P4000 GPU. Not what you'd expect from the outside as the front has transport damage making it a proper jankylooking sleeper. The GPU is for AI LLM stuff and encoding but the thing can play games too, better than I expected based on the cores being pretty slow on the e5-2683v3 it has. Also stuffed a 4port GBE in it, so it can run properly isolated VM's with multiple dedicated cores, ram and NIC. There are probably "smarter" ways to arrive at a similar result but I absolutely did not want a heavyass rackserver or something too loud to sleep in the same room with. It has an ML350G10 next to it that serves as the storage server among other duties, the ML350 has one 2,5" and one 3,5" disk cage, the smaller one stuffed with mirrored 480Gb SSD's for boot and 3x 15krpm SAS 900gb drives for fast storage, and the bigger cage has 16Tb bulk storage drives. So with a 10GBE in the HP fiber linked with Mikrotik CRS310 plus the DELL 1+ quad gigabit for now it's a decent homelab I think.
use the solering iron to apply heat-shrink tubes since it is already hot and it's in your hands, instead of open flame get a jet lighter highly improove the results ;)
These are Delta double ball bearing fans aren't they? I really wouldn't replace them. Maybe take out the bearings and put some heavy grease on the shaft to damp the bearing rattle against it, maybe wash the bearings themselves first in degreaser then when dry in gear oil if they no longer feel great, or replace just the bearings. Fundamentally these fans are built to outlive us all.
That is a good point, and definitely something I should look into. The original front fan doesn't work, but the rear fan definitely still has some life in it. However, the main reason I would consider replacing them is noise, since they are very loud.
Love this kind of content. Great job!😁👍 Nice to see. Would you use only Sas drives or split the two cages between Sas and Sata? Also do you know if the back planes support Sata 3.0?
There typically isn't much benefit to using SAS drives in setup like this, so I would personally just use SATA. Mixing drive types within an array or ZFS pool is typically not recommended. Considering the ML150 G6 supported 6 gigabit SAS when it was new, the backplanes should support SATA3 speeds with no issues.
Solid video, great example of reusing older tech, just a question about noise levels , of the server power small fans vs standard power fans, and do you know if the server power fans are constant speed? and when i went to sub to your channel, I had allready done in the past
Great job! One thing anyone trying this on older backplanes should be aware of is some don't support the 'Power Disable Feature' provided by the SATA/SAS drive Pin 3 of larger/more modern hard drives.
If a smaller, older drive spins up when insert into the backplane, but a newer typically 6+ TB drive doesn't then this is the issue.
I have an older Lenovo server I refused to e-waste. Thinking it was something wrong with the backplane I finally discovered the reason and an easy solution. I just placed Kapton tape over pin 3 on each of the drives I'm using as detailed here ua-cam.com/video/9W3-uOl4ruc/v-deo.html
I completely forgot about this, thank you!
Dude for a small channel you have the whole setup pretty well figured out. Already got the scripts and concise content down. This had everything you need and nothing you don't. Great job.
I bless the algorithm this day, period. What an excellent find. And an extremely viable case for someone who wants to tinker and enter the DIY NAS space.
[EDIT]
The youtube effect has struck. These jawns are pricey on ebay. BUT, may find one locally or wait for price to drop.
I bought mine locally from facebook marketplace. I honestly didn’t even think to check ebay prices before I made this.
Finally someone did it. I bought this summer HP ML330 G6 with one PSU and one LFF 3,5" sata caddy and moddified it for my NAS build. It is awesome that these old HP ML cases are so wersatile and easy to moddify. Actually you can swap many parts between ML series. I bought, so ML110 G7 for my collegue and took his LFF caddy, just needed to drill holes for mounting, nothing special. It is really awesome that homelabers can buy and reuse these old, but still great cases and that they use standard parts.
BTW I made that front panel to work, just repinned original one to single pins.
Nice work, a reasonable home server for starting with! I think its superb thank you 😀😀
Always great when one can reuse a case like that.
Excellent structure and well researched video. The algorithm was right with this one. Subbed and looking forward to your future projects.
Awesome video, gonna check these out, thank you!
Damn, nice channel. I own a server rack myself with my gaming PC and server in it, still missing a firewall tho :D Love the shelf in the background with all these systems and old monitors
8$ for a 8 bay case and 2 750w PSUs is a great deal
Nice work, far better than my own janktastic Dell T5810 "thing" but then mine is for a somewhat different usecase, found it cheap with 32gb, quadcore xeon and 500gb disk -- it is now a 96gb ram equipped 14core with 2Tb SSD and 10Tb HDD and a Quadro P4000 GPU. Not what you'd expect from the outside as the front has transport damage making it a proper jankylooking sleeper. The GPU is for AI LLM stuff and encoding but the thing can play games too, better than I expected based on the cores being pretty slow on the e5-2683v3 it has. Also stuffed a 4port GBE in it, so it can run properly isolated VM's with multiple dedicated cores, ram and NIC. There are probably "smarter" ways to arrive at a similar result but I absolutely did not want a heavyass rackserver or something too loud to sleep in the same room with.
It has an ML350G10 next to it that serves as the storage server among other duties, the ML350 has one 2,5" and one 3,5" disk cage, the smaller one stuffed with mirrored 480Gb SSD's for boot and 3x 15krpm SAS 900gb drives for fast storage, and the bigger cage has 16Tb bulk storage drives. So with a 10GBE in the HP fiber linked with Mikrotik CRS310 plus the DELL 1+ quad gigabit for now it's a decent homelab I think.
use the solering iron to apply heat-shrink tubes since it is already hot and it's in your hands, instead of open flame get a jet lighter highly improove the results ;)
Awesome. Great info thank you.
This is brilliant!
These are Delta double ball bearing fans aren't they? I really wouldn't replace them. Maybe take out the bearings and put some heavy grease on the shaft to damp the bearing rattle against it, maybe wash the bearings themselves first in degreaser then when dry in gear oil if they no longer feel great, or replace just the bearings. Fundamentally these fans are built to outlive us all.
That is a good point, and definitely something I should look into. The original front fan doesn't work, but the rear fan definitely still has some life in it. However, the main reason I would consider replacing them is noise, since they are very loud.
Great video!
Love this kind of content. Great job!😁👍 Nice to see. Would you use only Sas drives or split the two cages between Sas and Sata? Also do you know if the back planes support Sata 3.0?
There typically isn't much benefit to using SAS drives in setup like this, so I would personally just use SATA. Mixing drive types within an array or ZFS pool is typically not recommended.
Considering the ML150 G6 supported 6 gigabit SAS when it was new, the backplanes should support SATA3 speeds with no issues.
Solid video, great example of reusing older tech,
just a question about noise levels , of the server power small fans vs standard power fans, and do you know if the server power fans are constant speed?
and when i went to sub to your channel, I had allready done in the past
My google fu is lacking as I could not find this unit online and I too am an Aussie
WOW I'm seeing them for $80-350
the screws on the mounting plate for the psu's looks like it just might fit a regular atx style psu, im not going crazy right?
The case wouldn't fit an ATX psu without drilling new mounting holes (or the bracket included with the original psu).
How did you connect power to the drive backplane?
The redundant power supply setup has four molex power connectors, intended for the drive backplanes.
Awesome
keep going my man!
Stay making videos.