Designation: ANBU
Purpose: HTPC/Home Server
D-O-B: June 2012
Spec
BitFenix Shinobi Case – Black, non-windowed version.
Gigabyte H61MA-DV3 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Intel Celeron G530 2.4GHz Socket LGA 1155 Processor
Corsair Builder Series CX 430W V2 ’80 Plus’ Power Supply
Kingston HyperX Blu 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Dual Channel RAM
Sapphire HD5450 ATI Radeon 1GB DDR3 graphics card
Seagate 2TB BARRACUDA – 3.5″ SATA-III Hard Drive – 7200RPM 64MB Cache
Seagate 500GB BARRACUDA – 3.5″ SATA-III Hard Drive – 7200RPM 64MB Cache
Western Digital 1TB Green – 3.5″ SATA-III Hard Drive – 7200RPM 64MB Cache
LG DVD 24x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter
BitFenix Spectre Plain Black 120mm Fan x2
BitFenix Alchemy PreBraided Molex to 3pin x3 Fan adapter
BitFenix Alchemy PreBraided SATA 6GB/s cable
Windows Home Server 2011 – OEM
Changelog
04 Apr 2013 – Added a 1TB Western Digital Green hard drive.
?? Sept 2012 – Added Bitfenix optical drive bay stealth cover to the optical drive. Sleek!
04 Aug 2012 – Added a Sapphire HD 5450 1GB DDR3 graphics card and added D-Link powerline adapters to the network at home.
?? July 2012 – Swapped out 64GB Crucial M4 SSD for a Seagate Barracuda 500GB for the OS as the power of the SSD was going to waste. Also added another Bitfenix 120mm fan to the front of the case.
Blog Posts
16 Sept 2012 – HTPC/Server Aug Upgrades
24 June 2012 – Server Build: Final
18 May 2012 – Server Build: Components
05 May 2012 – Future Projects
Planned Future Upgrades
These are only pipe-dream upgrades to be added if there ever became a need for it. Right now, apart from hard drives the server doesn’t need very much to run well at all.
More hard drives!
Bitfenix Spectre fans (red/orange theme – may change!)
Bitfenix Hydra Pro fan controller
Intel Core i3-3220 3.3GHz CPU
Corsair H80i CPU Cooler
HD 7750 1GB DDR5 GPU
8-16GB Corsair XMS3 RAM (for VMs)
Game controllers for emulators