So got everything in the pelican case and started to do a limited transfer of some of my datahoard and even with the case open and the monitor not on there was an insane amount of heat that i am going to have to find a way to mitigate. If anyone has suggestions besides .....Fans.....let me know. The 2 main contributors to the Btu's are the CPU and the HDD's Those 20 TB drives generate some serious kelvins when they are at high use. Also got done with all the EM hardening that i could do with all the components outside of the motherboard and the drives themselves.
Need to find someone with a decent CNC so i can finish the cover for the components because doing it by hand is going to be a royal mess and only have one PEEK sheet to work from as they are hella expensive.
Swapped the 2 port SATA PCI-E card for a 4 port and added a 5TB Cache and a 2.5 TB Log drives to the array to make transfers faster and have better redundancy and some expansion later.
I am also going to swap out the 17" monitor that i have in the lid for a smaller form factor touch screen to be able to add some more control with the touch sensitive keyboard that i am working on from 2 RPI 7" touchscreens but not sure if that is going to work out and may have to use some sort of fold able KB/Touch pad combo
Haven't had much time to dedicate to Polaron lately as the job has been keeping me on my toes lately but will try to add some more build logs as i go
Today the monitor came in for the box and i wasted no time shucking it and starting to do the placement for where its going to live. Now that it is here i can start to make the bezel that is going to hold it into the lid
The size is perfect (17") to be able to fit into the 19" lid....Tried to put a 19" in there and it was just a touch too big to fit but with the 17" i am able to mount all the monitor hardware to the lid and have enough room to spare for other things in the future
The control boards are affixed with a plastic backing so there is no chance of shorting at all. I plan to also heat shrink the boards to better protect them.
The TPLink Mini wireless router came in today. Had 2 GLNet ones that i attempted to put ddWRT onto but gave up after i bricked one of 2 of them that i have. From what i read the TPLink one should be easier to flash
Last 2 20TB Drives come in a few days and then i can reload the O/S for the NAS part and then start to do the first part of final assembly.....
Today was just some light weight stuff. Added EM isolation tape and kapton to all the bundles of the power supply and rerouted the power cables a little better. Did a little more work on the shaping of the case cover to get a better fit and get the lid to close air tight. Still need to lay out all the holes that need to be drilled and milled out of the base-plate
Ordered the last 2 20 TB drives and the monitor for the lid
Began forming and routing the face plate for the monitor - This is much harder than it seems with a wood router without a plunge base,,,,, Much sanding and filing to do to get it into shape
Have to reload TrueNAS as it is corrupted. Will wipe 250Gb SSD and reload....considering VMware to expand scope of options this may overload the Pi Router RAM and NIC. may PoC what other Open Source options there are with Nix
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