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    Chenbro ES34169 power supply

    I ripped it out and replaced with a picoPSU. Working great!
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    Chenbro ES34169 power supply

    Does anyone have any experience of locating a replacement power supply for the above named case? I bought this case 2 years ago, however the PSU has failed a few days ago. I now realise it may have been a mistake to buy this one. The power supply is not a standard atx/flex-atx and does not...
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    NAS OS Help

    I have recently built my own NAS and used Ubuntu Server + Webmin. Very easy to setup (though I do have ubuntu server experience at work) and performance is great. The webmin interface is very comprehensive, pretty much anything you can do at the command line can be done from the GUI. This...
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    Case / mobo compatibility

    FYI the Zotac NM10-F-E mini-DTX DID fit in the newer Chenbro model without problems. Although if you plan on using the pci-e slots, it will not fit. Also my second drive configuration proved to be the best performance wise!
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    2 drive redundancy

    Nevermind. It was simple enough to setup via command line! Great read performance.
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    2 drive redundancy

    Raid1 or Raid10,f2? From what I can find f2 gives almost double the read performance of raid1. Can this be implemented with mdadm using the webmin interface? Any thoughts? Thanks,
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    Case / mobo compatibility

    I think it will be fine for my setup, I dont plan on using the wifi and my drive arrangement should not be a problem, but I do have a couple of options and not sure which is best performance wise... I will have 3 HDDs 1x OS drive 2x Raid drives, mirrored. The 2 options are: OS drive...
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    Case / mobo compatibility

    I was wanting to build a NAS using the Zotac NM10-F-E mini-DTX motherboard + Chenbro case. The original Chenbro ES34069 - stated mini-ITX/DTX compatible, however the newer Chenbro ES34169 seems to have lost the DTX compatibility, even though structurally it looks the same on the inside. I...
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