Jonsbo N5 — eight-bay cube, hot-swap front cage.
Arctic Freezer 280 AIO, dual 140 mm on the front intake.
4 × 4 TB Toshiba SAS standing in the lower cage, loaded from the front.
RTX 4070 Founders Edition — transcode and local inference.
SAS host bus adapter feeding the four enterprise bays.
2 × Samsung SSD for VM and container volumes.
Samsung EVO NVMe — hypervisor and system datastore.
ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming with a Ryzen 9 5900X — 12 cores, 24 threads.
Wood door, eight bays behind it, one power cable and one network cable. Keep scrolling and it comes apart.
A Ryzen 9 5900X on an ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming board, held under an Arctic Freezer 280 AIO. Twelve cores is enough headroom to run storage, virtualisation and the security lab side by side without any of them noticing the others.
Enterprise SAS HDDs for bulk, SSDs for fast storage, NVMe for the cache — and an HBA Card so the drives can work with consumer hardware.
Every panel back on, the wood door shut over eight bays. It sits idle and ready to serve.
Four 4 TB SAS drives on a flashed IT-mode HBA — a parity-protected XFS array, ~16 TB usable, with a BTRFS NVMe/SSD cache pool and a dedicated 250 GB quarantine SSD. Every service below is a Docker container or a VM on top of it.
