Need a power supply for a FreeNAS build, any good recommendations?

[mhweb]

I'm building a FreeNAS box for up to 12 drives with a Xeon E5-2680 v3 and I'm looking for a quality power supply around $90 to $130, can any advise me on brand and model of power supply should I get? I'll be using the Rosewill RSV-L4500 case and the SuperMicro X10SRL-F ATX motherboard.

Thanks,

 

[JohnDigital]

If your serious, machine on 24/7? seek out a Gold or Platinum rated PS. Power savings over time will be worth the extra few bucks. Seasonic, eVGA, Corsair, Silverstone amongst others in the 500-850w range. Fully modular is worth serious consideration as well. Check out this calculator and give yourself an extra hundred watts or so minimum and you will be golden.

I meant to say that eVGA power supplies often have 10 year warranties, thats why I bought one.

 

[mhweb]

If I'm planning on having 12 drives, should I care about the number of sata connectors, or can I add adapter later?

Thanks

 

[JohnDigital]

I use splitters/adapters and you can convert all the molex to SATA too, just get high quality ones and you will be ok.

Edit: No I wouldnt care alot, any power supply thats about a hundred bucks will have several sata/molex connections to work with.

 

[Chris Moore]

We have a whole resources section that you should have a look at. I will link to this though because I don't think it is in the resources:

Proper Power Supply Sizing Guidance
https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/proper-power-supply-sizing-guidance.38811/