T.Bone

I got the X13SAE-f Motherboard. I was holding out for the ASUS W680 boards to come out but got tired of waiting. a month after I purchased ASUS dropped their boards and a little cheaper then what I paid. Im happy with my system im happy it is finally up and running. I went a little over and got 128gb of ECC memory to just max it out. overkill for what I need but that is always what I wanted to do. What I need now is a HBA card for internal and external drives. I have an old sans digital id like to keep using for duplication of data. 

With the current issues going on with my EX-495 its pushing me more and more to new hardware. I have thought about either a Mac Pro, HP Gen 8, or a DIY rack mount build. My current set up is a Ex-495 with a Q9550s processor and a 5 bay san digital esata enclosure. These are the things I would like in my next machine ( give or take):
  1) Equal or higher performance CPU 2) CPU Capable of multiple 1080p streams (including Audio) Needs to support x265 and 10bit  3) File server of course 4) Hot swappable HDD (I know the Gen8 doesn't support this) 5) All Drives in same case 6) Small foot print if not rack mount (have home setup to garage where my rack is) 7) Should be #1 i don't want my power bill to go thru the roof. I would like to keep power usage at around the usage of the enclosure and EX-495.      I currently use Serviio and Air Media HD to stream my media to iPhones and TV. The current processor doesn't do much stuttering if at all which is nice when watching a movie. Currently I'm having issue with remote access (can get sign in page after sign in it times out) on WS2012e R2 but I would like remote access. Help pointing me in the right direction or suggestions on what i should do is greatly appreciated. With tax time coming up i should have a little extra coin to make something decent if not nice.

I just picked up 2 6tb drives to give me some wiggle room while I figure out my server build wants and needs. I noticed they are pretty quite but one makes a very very random ZZTT! noise for a second then is quite again. is this normal? I thought maybe it was wake up noise for the platter but I wasn't sure. Does anyone have these drives? is this something you noticed? If I need to return the drive I would like to know ASAP obviously. I turned on duplication just incase but I'm still a little short on drives to cover everything.
 
I did install drive sentinel as I didn't know what else to do....
 
I don't see anything stating good or bad. as I write this I just remembered you make a scanner also.

I just picked up 2 6tb drives to give me some wiggle room while I figure out my server build wants and needs. I noticed they are pretty quite but one makes a very very random ZZTT! noise for a second then is quite again. is this normal? I thought maybe it was wake up noise for the platter but I wasn't sure. Does anyone have these drives? is this something you noticed? If I need to return the drive I would like to know ASAP obviously. I turned on duplication just incase but I'm still a little short on drives to cover everything.
 
I did install drive sentinel as I didn't know what else to do....
 
I don't see anything stating good or bad. as I write this I just remembered you make a scanner also.

I just picked up 2 6tb drives to give me some wiggle room while I figure out my server build wants and needs. I noticed they are pretty quite but one makes a very very random ZZTT! noise for a second then is quite again. is this normal? I thought maybe it was wake up noise for the platter but I wasn't sure. Does anyone have these drives? is this something you noticed? If I need to return the drive I would like to know ASAP obviously. I turned on duplication just incase but I'm still a little short on drives to cover everything.
 
I did install drive sentinel as I didn't know what else to do....
 
I don't see anything stating good or bad. as I write this I just remembered you make a scanner also.

With the current issues going on with my EX-495 its pushing me more and more to new hardware. I have thought about either a Mac Pro, HP Gen 8, or a DIY rack mount build. My current set up is a Ex-495 with a Q9550s processor and a 5 bay san digital esata enclosure. These are the things I would like in my next machine ( give or take):
  1) Equal or higher performance CPU 2) CPU Capable of multiple 1080p streams (including Audio) Needs to support x265 and 10bit  3) File server of course 4) Hot swappable HDD (I know the Gen8 doesn't support this) 5) All Drives in same case 6) Small foot print if not rack mount (have home setup to garage where my rack is) 7) Should be #1 i don't want my power bill to go thru the roof. I would like to keep power usage at around the usage of the enclosure and EX-495.      I currently use Serviio and Air Media HD to stream my media to iPhones and TV. The current processor doesn't do much stuttering if at all which is nice when watching a movie. Currently I'm having issue with remote access (can get sign in page after sign in it times out) on WS2012e R2 but I would like remote access. Help pointing me in the right direction or suggestions on what i should do is greatly appreciated. With tax time coming up i should have a little extra coin to make something decent if not nice.

No I haven't made any real decisions yet. I waiting to find out about my tax return to set a budget. I figured this wouldn't be cheap so I'm guessing under 2000 for the build. I tried to read up on power supplies. I also noticed Xeon processors were expensive, some over $1000. I really need to figure out what kind of case I want. I've been looking at both rack mounts and that S21T still.
 
is water cooling that much of a benefit? seems like water would be the worst conductor, my ignorance about tech, I'm thinking in relation to some thing like a car radiator. I'm surprised its not some other liquid.