April 2021 | Technology Blog

Part 2: Building Direct Attached Storage

Part two of the creation of the 32TB external direct attached storage (DAS) box. I want to keep the costs down, its a bit homemade. Here I just cover the the assembly, as the motherboard in the computer I was intended to connect it to failed on the same day!

Building a homemade direct attached storage (DAS/NAS)

Part 1: Building Direct Attached Storage

I have fourteen 4TB SAS drives, 8 of which I am going to use in a homemade 32TB external direct attached storage (DAS) box. I will be using an old case that I have going spare. To connect it up a bunch of cables I found on eBay. This is part one, the cables.

Building a direct attached storage unit to upgrade the capacity of my workstation.

Running a Java OpenJDK Docker in Unraid

To allow me to use my UNRAID server to upload data into databases I built a OpenJDK Java Docker. The Docker runs a script which executes a Java program. I am not sure if this how you are supposed to use Docker, but it works nicely for me.