Jonsbo N1 Small Silver Vault

by Sam C Posted on: 4/4/2024

Build Description

Built small and sturdy. At only 13 liters volume, the Jonsbo N1 case is a solid 2.5 mm aluminum alloy shell on top a 1.0 mm thick steel frameset with 2.0 mm structual beams. The heafty 8.36 LB metal data vault fits a Mini-ITX board, an SFX PSU, and five 3.5-in. SATA/SAS hard drives. Easy 100+ TB NAS and/or Proxmox VE in a compact 8.5-in. x 6.5-in. vertical footprint.

My home office now runs on this one combined Proxmox NAS. It sports a Ryzen 5700G processor and a 4-drive ZFS RAID-Z1 array. Enough compute to provide basic services to a small network. The N1 with just one fan gets warm, so I'd recommend remove or change out the front panel for better airflow. In the future, I may populate its one PCIe expansion slot with a PCIe to 4x M.2 card, then add on a M.2 to 5-SATA card to use all five drive bays, add an M.2 2.5GbE card, (or 10GbE), and add extra M.2 NVMe drives.

Favorite Feature

Small case with five 3.5-in. drive bays

Parts contained in build

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Cezanne 3.8GHz 8-Core AM4 Boxed Processor - Wraith Stealth Cooler Included
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Cezanne 3.8GHz 8-Core AM4 Boxed Processor - Wraith Stealth Cooler Included
Qty: 1 $169.99
ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac AM4 Mini-ITX Motherboard
Qty: 1 $130.00
G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3200C16D-32G - Black
G.Skill Ripjaws V 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 PC4-25600 CL16 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit F4-3200C16D-32G - Black
Qty: 1 $64.99
Jonsbo N1 Mini-ITX NAS Chassis, Aluminum with Steel Plate, ITX Computer Case
Qty: 1 $150.00
Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache CMR SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal HDD
Qty: 4 $125.00
Samsung 970 Evo Plus SSD 1TB M.2 NVMe Interface PCIe 3.0 x4 Internal Solid State Drive with V-NAND 3 bit MLC Technology
Qty: 1 $130.00
Thingiverse 3D Model - Jonsbo N1 Faceplat with Vents
Qty: 1 $0.00

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