# Z490 Photo Gallery

The Z490 Server photos and cable management. For details about the parts, please see the [Z490 Parts List and Cost](https://thehomelab.wiki/books/server-builds/page/z490-server-parts-list-and-cost).

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What a stringy mess! But a beautiful mess at that.

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This small CPU cooler is such a blast! I'm keep temps in the low 30C range consistently.

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CPU cooler box just for referencing later.

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Ready for installing OMV. Where is my iodd?

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Ah yes, there you are! If you don't have an iodd, add it to your Christmas wishlist. These things are so underrated!

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Install successful now to install Glances to check those CPU temps! Then tidy up those cables.

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All the hot-swap drive bays! Mmmmmm yes!

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Morerrrre!

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Temps are doing good but I'll let it run for an hour to make sure. [Click here for a closer look](https://snip.lol/JipE3/ViMucaMU00/raw.jpeg).

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Clean, minimal setup. Nothing too fancy.

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Cables look good. I like the cross bar on this case for helping tidy up the cables. It really does make this case/chassis clean up well!

Why no LSI card? Well, I did think about it but I already had these SATA cards. I may switch to one in the near future but most cards I could find were 8 port cards I need at least 12. That and LSI cards are not cheap by any means. Data transfers are not any faster so I really can’t justify the cost. All I’d really get out of it is a bit more cable management and less frustration if a drive were to fail.

if I were doing much more data transfer intensive work, I would have went with a hardware RAID setup. I don’t feel like it’s something our household needs at this point however.

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