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1 minute ago, Gronnie said:

What are you building, and is it for business or pleasure?

A NAS (qnap) to mimic what we use in development; so that I have something at home to test against since I shouldn't make live changes to our development storage.

 

TL;DR, a bit of both ;)

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22 hours ago, Dark said:

A NAS (qnap) to mimic what we use in development; so that I have something at home to test against since I shouldn't make live changes to our development storage.

 

TL;DR, a bit of both ;)

I feel compelled to ask, who sponsored/paid for it?

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4 hours ago, Mikensan said:

I feel compelled to ask, who sponsored/paid for it?

My company.  I certainly wouldn't be interested in paying for that many disks. 

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Yayyyy, I can finally join the ranks!

 

Hardware

SERVER 1: IBM x3650 M2

DISK ENCLOSURE: Dell MD1000

CPU: (2x) Intel Xeon L5630

RAM: 96GB ECC DDR3L (6 x 16GB)

RAID CARD 1: HP H221 HBA

HDD 1: 2x 300GB 10k SAS - IBM branded

HDD 2: 14x 1TB SAS - Dell Barracuda ES.2 (Seagate rebrand)

 

Software and Configuration:

The IBM server is running VMware ESXi 6.0, and I have FreeNAS 9.10 running in a VM. The boot drive is

a virtual disk, but the FreeNAS VM has a PCIe passed-through HP H221 HBA (LSI 9207-8E rebrand),

which is then connected to the Dell MD1000 chassis. For those wondering if FreeNAS is able to be

virtualised; if used in this kind of fashion, then yeah totally! There has been many discussions of whether

or not virtualised FreeNAS is recommended, but that's only because people do it wrong. ZFS needs

hardware access to the drives (hence why people use 'IT mode' RAID cards, otherwise known as HBAs,

or host bus adapters) and with used with PCIe passthrough, FreeNAS doesn't know the difference!

 

Anywho, to the storage details xD I have the disks split into two arrays, one RAIDZ2 array of 10 1TB

drives, then another 4 1TB drives in a RAID10.

 

Usage:

The RAIDZ2 array is to be a general purpose NAS. Media, documents and whatever is stored there.

The RAID10 is a dedicated NFS storage array for my hypervisors. I have other servers with various

different hypervisors that are going to use it for shared storage. 

 

Backup:

No backup solution as of yet. Most of us Aussies don't have the luxury of fast connections for mass cloud

backup, so I'm likely leaning toward an LTO-4 tape backup solution for now since it's getting so cheap.

Cloud for important stuff like documents and photos should be fine though.

 

Additional info:

I did have a 15th drive in the arrray as a hotspare for the RAIDZ2, but I had a RAID10 disk failure literally

this week. So I used the hotspare to replace the failed drive, hence the one empty drive bay in the photo.

The whole setup is pretty much brand new. I haven't started loading all of my media to it just yet. My

datahoarding days have only just begun ;)

 

Photos:

 

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Ignore the Dell C6100 in the middle, it's not a NAS :( It's a pretty neat piece of kit though! The hypervisors

installed on it's nodes are what I plan on using the NFS RAID10 for.

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UPDATE: @alpenwasser 

Hardware

 

 

 
MB: ASUS P8B-X LGA 1155 Intel  repurposed to esxi server only 
CPU:  Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge 3.2GHz LGA 1155 80W repurposed to esxi server only 
RAM: Kingston Technology ValueRAM 32GB Kit of 4 (4 x 8 GB) DDR3 1600MHz PC3 12800 ECC  repurposed to esxi server only 
RAID CARD 1:  Intel RAID SAS/SATA 8 internal port w/ 512MB cache memory Retired

MB: ASUS Sabertooth Z77 
CPU:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz

HS: Stock intel (yes i know this is the worst sin ever but ohh well)
RAM: Ripjaw 16GB Kit of 2 (2 x 8 GB) DDR3 

NIC 0: Intel® 82579V, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s)

NIC 1:  671798-001 HP 10GB ETHERNET (SFP+)
HDD 0:  5 of Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s in raid 5 [15TB actual][10 usable]

One of them is reporting smart errors will be replacing once i have the funds todo so
HDD Hot Swap Bays:  ICY DOCK FlexCage MB973SP-1B Tray-less 3x3.5
 
Software and Configuration:
This is now just a storage server running FreeNAS 9.10.2 that host storage for my ESXI server for those who do not know this is a tier 2 hypervisor put out by VMware!
This allows me to run virtual machines. I eliminated the raid controller because i was not happy with the speed of it and opted to go the route of a esxi server with just a boot drive and have it store VMs to a separate server. this has increased the speed and reliability of my storage this machine can saturate a 1gb link with no problem, the esxi machince has direct 10g connnection to the box.

 

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Usage:


stores the machines that do the following things, host my web server, and media server which is all Linux based setup and my ap controller and network monitor machine running windows 10. it also hold all my other random stuff!

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Very jealous. Right now I want to build one where there are different folders for my music (I have a ton of music) My movies (good amount too) and my raw and rendered video files (Have about 350gb) and then a 1tb external drive completely filled (the external drive was purchased in 2012)

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Hardware

SERVER: HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8

CASE: Stock case

PSU: Stock power supply

MB: Stock motherboard

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

HS: Stock Passive Heatsink using Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound

RAM: 16GB ECC Unbuffered Memory (2x Corsair 8GB PC3L-12800 DIMM)

RAID CARD: HP Dynamic Smart Array B120i

SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB

HDD 1: 4x 4TB HGST NAS 7200 RPM

 

Software and Configuration:

For the OS, it’s running the latest version of UnRaid. When I was building it, I was considering using FreeNAS, however the more I read up on ZFS the more I learned about the memory requirements of it. I wanted this machine not just to be a NAS, but also a Plex server and anything else I may need. So, because 16GB was the max amount of RAM that this server can handle my decision was made to use UnRaid with it's lesser memory footprint. For the SSD I had to do some modification to the inside; the server is designed for a DVD drive on top and gives a 4-pin floppy power connector on the top for it. I simply bought a Molex to SATA converter off amazon, cut each of the connectors off, solder them together and applied some heat wrap. I also bought a license of iLO Advance so I can remote into the server at any time including into the bios at startup.

 

Usage:

Home NAS for storing all of my wife’s and my data. Hosting a Plex Server that is serving our Blu Ray and DVD collection that I’m still in the process of ripping. Last, but not least it’s also hosting a private ARK Survival Evolved server under a VM using Ubuntu Server 16.04 as the OS. This was originally being hosted under a CentOS 7 server, but started throwing segmentation faults, out of memory exceptions, and kernel panics. With switching to Ubuntu Server I'm able to run the VM with less memory with zero issues.

 

Backup:

We are currently using CrashPlan to backup our personal data to the cloud. (I'm not sure what their policy is on movies if anyone on here knows please let me know!)

 

Additional info:

This is my first server build. It’s probably a bit overkill for our needs, but that is what made it fun to make. My favorite part of this server is how small and quiet it is with a single 120mm fan at the back.

 

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So I have updated my storage array once again:

 

 

Hardware

CASE:  Supermicro 6017R-N3RF4+

JBOD:  Supermicro SC847 E16-RJBOD1

MB: Supermicro X9DRW-3LN4F+

CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2650

HS:  Stock Supermicro heatsink

RAM: 24x 8GB Micron ECC DDR3 12800 (192GB)

HBA: LSI SAS 9200-8e

ZIL SSD: 2x Intel DC S3610 100GB

HDD 1: 8x 4TB Seagate ST4000NM0033

HDD 4: 37x 4TB Seagate ST4000DM000

 

Software and Configuration:

My updated server is now running ZFS under freenas.

Its using the following configuration: 

config:

        NAME                                            STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        FloppyD                                         ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-0                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/93108990-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/97d47490-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9a98d29c-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/94808bdc-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9c2e2cf7-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/936061b7-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9f4a75ab-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a6c61557-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a1d94dd6-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-1                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/91e97661-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a39d4540-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/908760af-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a11c8a81-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9ee2ec62-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a618af0c-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a3b56e8f-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a5bca058-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a72cba93-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-2                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a517fa6f-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a63ff419-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/95c7c648-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9e76827b-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/9fa4abb1-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a2031236-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a4c14ba4-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a7c82eac-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/a58aa746-e48a-11e6-b1e3-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-3                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/eb182455-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/ec8d32b0-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/edc1526f-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/eef20607-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/f002450f-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/f123b618-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/f270ac82-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/f3a227a9-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/f4ba3d44-e802-11e6-839a-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
          raidz2-5                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6aabafbe-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6b784ec3-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6c4eda10-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6d1e48c6-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6de63bf2-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6eb83a2d-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/6f85f888-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/705afb37-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/71f29dae-f056-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
        logs
          mirror-4                                      ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/ac395a9a-f04f-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0
            gptid/acd503c6-f04f-11e6-a043-0025907e82ce  ONLINE       0     0     0

Usage:

I use the storage for movies and series, i have media players around the house that access it.

Its also for backing up my computers and for general testing.

 

Backup:

The is arrays backed up to Yottacloud, this is a online cloud backup service. (I have 500/500 Mbps connection)

 

Additional info:

The server is nicknamed Abaddon as it's storage ranking score will be 666 AFAIK.

Pictures are the same as my original post, just with a full JBOD now.


PS: I'll be updating this topic now.

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@looney Wow, nice setup. Congratulations on the conversion to ZFS. Your ranking is still way up there...

 

@alpenwasser

Hmm, I'm at 10 WD 4TB Re SAS drives now...total of 16 4TB drives now.

 

Yeah, two drives failed and I sent them out for RMA / bought a new one because I was scared of losing the RAID6 array. Now I have 10 of them...

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6 hours ago, scottyseng said:

@looney Wow, nice setup. Congratulations on the conversion to ZFS. Your ranking is still way up there...

 

Hmm, I'm at 10 WD 4TB Re SAS drives now...total of 16 4TB drives now.

 

Yeah, two drives failed and I sent them out for RMA / bought a new one because I was scared of losing the RAID6 array. Now I have 10 of them...

WTB updated rankings....

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Update 

 

HDD 0:  5 of Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s in raidz1 [15TB actual][10 usable]

HDD 0:  4 of Seagate Barracuda 3 TB HDD SATA 6 Gb/s 

&

HDD 1:  1 of HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724030ALE641 6.0Gb/s 3.5" (Certified Refurbished) all in raidz1 [15TB actual][10 usable]

 

oh and there is one retired Seagate in machine that  i have not had the ambition to pull out since i have no drive to put there, but it is not assigned to any array and has been securely erased. it was retired due to it throwing an "end to end" smart error in freenas. there are no issues with the referb drive in the 3 weeks i have had it. 

 

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1 hour ago, Night_Rider0 said:

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I wish you luck with the refurbished drives. I bought five WD Re SAS 4TB refurbished drives, and after six months, one died.

 

Two months later, the replacement for that same drive dies. One hour later, another refurbished drive dies...currently sending them back for RMA.

 

I kind of went out and bought a new one (expensive, yes) because I was getting paranoid with two failed drives in my RAID6 array.

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19 hours ago, scottyseng said:

I wish you luck with the refurbished drives. I bought five WD Re SAS 4TB refurbished drives, and after six months, one died.

 

Two months later, the replacement for that same drive dies. One hour later, another refurbished drive dies...currently sending them back for RMA.

 

I kind of went out and bought a new one (expensive, yes) because I was getting paranoid with two failed drives in my RAID6 array.

yea testing the waters

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Hardware

CASE: Fractal Define R5

PSU: Fractal Edison M 450W

MB: taken from HP ML10 Gen9

CPU: Pentium G4400

HS: Stock HP heatsink

RAM: 4GB DDR4 ECC

SATA 1: built into mobo (6 SATA ports)

SATA 2: cheap thing from ebay (2 SATA ports)

USB: Sandisk Cruzer 16GB (OS)

HDD 1-3: 3x 3TB WD Red WD30EFRX

HDD 4-7: 4x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300

Software and Configuration:

This runs Unraid. Only 6 drives are active at the moment, configured as 4 data + 2 parity. 

Usage:

This is mainly a backup server, so it holds copies of data where the primary copy is elsewhere. There is a small quantity of low importance data where it holds the only copy.

Backup:

This is the backup server. I don't backup the backups, not until such time off site cloud storage is practical and affordable at this capacity.

Additional info:

I chose the HP ML10 Gen9 server as host since it was very cheap new and featured ECC ram. Linus, you don't need Xeons for ECC! The case it came with didn't have enough drive bays though, and I chose the Define R5 with 8 native 3.5" positions, and I could adapt the 5.25 bays if I need more. The mobo headers are not consumer standard so I adapted the power switch, and added the blue LED lighting to serve as power indicator. The drive mix are recycled from previous smaller NAS systems.

Photo's:

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Main system: i9-7980XE, Asus X299 TUF mark 2, Noctua D15, Corsair Vengeance Pro 3200 3x 16GB 2R, RTX 3070, NZXT E850, GameMax Abyss, Samsung 980 Pro 2TB, Acer Predator XB241YU 24" 1440p 144Hz G-Sync + HP LP2475w 24" 1200p 60Hz wide gamut
Gaming laptop: Lenovo Legion 5, 5800H, RTX 3070, Kingston DDR4 3200C22 2x16GB 2Rx8, Kingston Fury Renegade 1TB + Crucial P1 1TB SSD, 165 Hz IPS 1080p G-Sync Compatible

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Wow, this section of LTT forum is literally amazing...

*cries in single 1TB*

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1 hour ago, PenPoint said:

Wow, this section of LTT forum is literally amazing...

*cries in single 1TB*

Don't worry I cry and I have a 8.17TB ReadyNAS Drive lol!

Main Machine:  16 inch MacBook Pro (2021), Apple M1 Pro (10 CPU, 16 GPU Core), 512GB SDD, 16GB RAM

Gaming Machine:  Acer Nitro 5, Core i7 10750H, RTX 3060 (L) 6GB, 1TB SSD (Boot), 2TB SSD (Storage), 32GB DDR4 RAM

Other Tech: iPhone 15 Pro Max, Series 6 Apple Watch (LTE), AirPods Max, PS4, Nintendo Switch, PS3, Xbox 360

Network Gear:  TP Link Gigabit 24 Port Switch, TP-Link Deco M4 Mesh Wi-Fi, M1 MacMini File & Media Server with 8TB of RAID 1 Storage

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Hardware

CASE: INTER-TECH IPC 4-HU-4424

PSU: EVGA 430W 80+

MB: EVGA Z68 FTW

CPU: i7 2600K

HS: Intel Boxed Fan

RAM: 24GB DDR3

SATA CARD: 3x LSI MegaRAID 9261-8i 

HDD 1: 5x 3TB WD RED WD WD30EFRX

HDD 2: 5x 8TB WD RED WD WD80EFZX

HDD 3: 8x 2TB WD Enterprise WD2003FYYS

USB: 2x 16GB Kingston DataTraveler

NETWORK: HP Mellanox Connext-2 10GbE

Software and Configuration:

It runns FreeNas with three RAIDZ-1 groups.

The 10GbE SFP+ connection goes to my workstation.

Usage:

The small volume is used for project data and other personal files.

The big volume is for movies (mainly Blurays), tv shows and music. I also run Plex to stream everything.

The third Volume with the enterprise drives is for backing up other computers.

Backup:

All the private files like pictures and music are backed up on OneDrive. For the other files on my small volume I have two mirrored 10TB drives. One is always in an fireproof safe at the bank.

Photo's:

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The 26 HE Server Rack.

 

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Everything at work.

 

WP_20170315_15_33_40_Pro.jpgThe top one is my workstation and the bottom one is the NAS before the upgrade.

 

WP_20161222_16_35_30_Pro 1.jpgAnd all the beautiful bricks...

 

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Not 10GBit but good enough for now.

WP_20171220_13_00_52_Pro.thumb.jpg.8c956dbf665242ebb075937b60d80aa7.jpgSome new old drives and some junk drives

 

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The new case

 

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Installed both systems at the moment

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I have 12 Severs in the cloud (azure) clustered each with 40 drives, each drive is 1TB  40 x 12 480 drives and about 480TB of storage Capacity :D

 

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On 22/03/2017 at 8:22 AM, AJW said:

I have 12 Severs in the cloud (azure) clustered each with 40 drives, each drive is 1TB  40 x 12 480 drives and about 480TB of storage Capacity :D

 

I can't even begin to imagine what you would need a clustered pool like that for, geez that must be expensive. As well as managing our companies internal infrastructure I also support our enterprise customers who use our cloud services and we're talking companies that deal in hundreds of millions to the billion+ of dollars and pay us in the 10's of millions, and i've never seen anything like this.

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Server: Fractal Design Define R6 | Ryzen 3950x | ASRock X570 Taichi | EVGA GTX1070 FTW | 64GB (4x16GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz | Corsair RM850v2 PSU | Fractal S36 Triple AIO | 12 x 8TB HGST Ultrastar He10 (WD Whitelabel) | 500GB Aorus Gen4 NVMe | 2 x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe | LSI 9211-8i HBA

 

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arrg, I really need to update this topic, cant right now, not at home on crappy hotel wifi.

 

anyway, bought this to future proof my setup: 

https://www.hgst.com/sites/default/files/resources/4U60-Storage-Platform-DS.pdf

 

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On 5/09/2013 at 1:20 PM, Jarsky said:

Old NAS

About time I actually update the details in here as I changed the build a long time back. 

 

 

Hardware
CASE: Corsair Carbide 400R with IcyDock MB155SP-B
PSU: Seasonic X-Series 650w PSU
MB: Asus Z8NA-D6C Motherboard
CPU: 2 x Xeon E5540's (16 threads)
HS: 2 x Dynatron Xeon Coolers
RAM: 2 x 4GB DDR3 ECC / 2 x 8GB DDR3 ECC (24GB total)
CONTROLLER CARD: 

LSI 9271-8i Raid card with BBU

Intel RES2SV240 SAS Expander

Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 SAS Card
SSD: 120GB Samsung 840 EVO

HDD 1: 8 x 3TB Western Digital WD30EFRX

HDD 2: 2 x 8TB Seagate Archives

 

 
Software and Configuration
Box is running Windows Server 2012 R2 installed on SSD.

The Western Digital drives are configured in a RAID5, the Seagates are stand alone drives connected to the Supermicro HBA.

 

Total disk = 40.1TB;  Total storage capacity = 33.54TB

 
Usage
Media server. Including storage functions, and autodl VM for automatically fetching TV shows & movies - and Plex media server installed. 
 
Backup
No backup, just for storing media files.

1000VA UPS for power failure
 
Additional info

Cooled by 2 x 140mm Corsair fans on top, 2 x 120mm Corsair fans on the front, 1 x 120mm fan on the IcyDock, 1 x 140mm Corsair fan on the rear, 2 x 120mm Corsair fans on the side (3 x 140mm and 5 x 120mm fans total).

 

Would still like to get a norco to rack it up with my other servers, but still prohibitively expensive to ship a 4U case here, with other priorities!

 

 

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Desktop: Ryzen9 5950X | ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wifi) | EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 | 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Pro 3600Mhz | EKWB EK-AIO 360D-RGB | EKWB EK-Vardar RGB Fans | 1TB Samsung 980 Pro, 4TB Samsung 980 Pro | Corsair 5000D Airflow | Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU | Asus ROG 42" OLED PG42UQ + LG 32" 32GK850G Monitor | Roccat Vulcan TKL Pro Keyboard | Logitech G Pro X Superlight  | MicroLab Solo 7C Speakers | Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT2 LE Headphones | TC-Helicon GoXLR | Audio-Technica AT2035 | LTT Desk Mat | XBOX-X Controller | Windows 11 Pro

 

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Server: Fractal Design Define R6 | Ryzen 3950x | ASRock X570 Taichi | EVGA GTX1070 FTW | 64GB (4x16GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz | Corsair RM850v2 PSU | Fractal S36 Triple AIO | 12 x 8TB HGST Ultrastar He10 (WD Whitelabel) | 500GB Aorus Gen4 NVMe | 2 x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe | LSI 9211-8i HBA

 

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22 minutes ago, Jarsky said:

About time I actually update the details in here as I changed the build a long time back. 

 

 

Hardware
CASE: Corsair Carbide 400R with IcyDock MB155SP-B
PSU: Seasonic X-Series 650w PSU
MB: Asus Z8NA-D6C Motherboard
CPU: 2 x Xeon E5540's (16 threads)
HS: 2 x Dynatron Xeon Coolers
RAM: 2 x 4GB DDR3 ECC / 2 x 8GB DDR3 ECC (24GB total)
CONTROLLER CARD: 

LSI 9271-8i Raid card with BBU

Intel RES2SV240 SAS Expander

Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 SAS Card
SSD: 120GB Samsung 840 EVO

HDD 1: 8 x 3TB Western Digital WD30EFRX

HDD 2: 2 x 8TB Seagate Archives

 

 
Software and Configuration:
Box is running Windows Server 2012 R2 installed on SSD.

The Western Digital drives are configured in a RAID5, the Seagates are stand alone drives connected to the Supermicro HBA.

 

Total disk = 40.1TB;  Total storage capacity = 33.54TB

 
Usage:
Media server. Including storage functions, and autodl VM for automatically fetching TV shows & movies - and Plex media server installed. 
 
Backup:
No backup, just for storing media files.

1000VA UPS for power failure
 
Additional info:

Cooled by 2 x 140mm Corsair fans on top, 2 x 120mm Corsair fans on the front, 1 x 120mm fan on the IcyDock, 1 x 140mm Corsair fan on the rear, 2 x 120mm Corsair fans on the side (3 x 140mm and 5 x 120mm fans total).

 

Would still like to get a norco to rack it up with my other servers, but still prohibitively expensive to ship a 4U case here, with other priorities!

 

 

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All of your text (except headings) is invisible to night theme users.

 

EDIT: But the images look good!

Looking to buy GTX690, other multi-GPU cards, or single-slot graphics cards: 

 

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9 hours ago, brwainer said:

All of your text (except headings) is invisible to night theme users.

 

EDIT: But the images look good!

Should work now, apparently its some forum bug with night mode if you copy/paste text.

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Desktop: Ryzen9 5950X | ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wifi) | EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 | 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Pro 3600Mhz | EKWB EK-AIO 360D-RGB | EKWB EK-Vardar RGB Fans | 1TB Samsung 980 Pro, 4TB Samsung 980 Pro | Corsair 5000D Airflow | Corsair HX850 Platinum PSU | Asus ROG 42" OLED PG42UQ + LG 32" 32GK850G Monitor | Roccat Vulcan TKL Pro Keyboard | Logitech G Pro X Superlight  | MicroLab Solo 7C Speakers | Audio-Technica ATH-M50xBT2 LE Headphones | TC-Helicon GoXLR | Audio-Technica AT2035 | LTT Desk Mat | XBOX-X Controller | Windows 11 Pro

 

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Server: Fractal Design Define R6 | Ryzen 3950x | ASRock X570 Taichi | EVGA GTX1070 FTW | 64GB (4x16GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz | Corsair RM850v2 PSU | Fractal S36 Triple AIO | 12 x 8TB HGST Ultrastar He10 (WD Whitelabel) | 500GB Aorus Gen4 NVMe | 2 x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe | LSI 9211-8i HBA

 

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System Update from this post, Just added 5x2TB Drives

 

 

This PC is my all in one Workstation. I run multiple VMware machines, Stream films to house, Storage Server, and mainly while doing all that has the power for me to work for my day to day as well without slowdown issues. Best system i have owned.

 

So this system runs 24/7 and never gets turned off unless windows updates or upgrades so on.

 

Hardware

  • CPU
    2x Hex-Core Xeon X5650 12 Core 24 Threads

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  • Motherboard
    HP Z800 Motherboard
  • RAM
    48GB DDR3 ECC @ 1333mhz
  • GPU
    ASUS OC Nvidia 960 GTX Mini
  • Case
    HP Z800 Workstation
  • Storage
    1x Samsung 850 EVO 500gb Via Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x2 Card (On Its own to give full speeds)

    3x256GB Crucial M4 SSD Windows Storage Spaces Raid 0  Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x2 Card (Second Syba Card for 4=3x ssd and one 500gb 2.5inch drive)

    14x2TB Westren Digital Green 7200RPM Running In Two Way Mirror Windows Storage Spaces (Icy Dock MB975SP- B) and now some drives attached to side panel.
    So 4x drives inside stock bays, 5x drives in the Icy Dock, 5x drives attached to the side panel.

    500GB 2.5inch Drive Via Syba SATA III 4 Port PCI-e 2.0 x2 Card
 
  • PSU
    1110 Watt HP Z800 PSU
  • Display(s)
    3x 24inch Dell U2410 1x 24inch HP LP2475w
  • Cooling
    Stock
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G15
  • Mouse
    Logitech G502 Proteus Core
  • Sound
    Creative Sound Blaster Z PCIe (OEM Version)
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 With Start Is Back !!!!

Software and Configuration:
My Workstation is running Windows 10 Pro and i am using onboard SAS and Sata Ports with Windows Storage Spaces.

 

All Bitlockered at 256bit, and performance on the 14x2tb is around 100-120mb write. which is not to bad.

My main array consists of 14x 2TB (25.34TB) in two way mirror, so I end up with 12.67TB actual storage space on that array.

 

Second array Also Bitlockered is 3x256GB SSD's which are in raid 0 and i use these for running my VMware machines as they need the performance.

 

500GB 2.5Inch Drive just for weekly OS backups.

 

Windows OS is just a 500GB Samsung 850, which i have a Full OS backup which runs automatically weekly to the large array.

 

So total i have 19drives inside of the Z800 !!, next upgrade be second system i think.. as maxed out limit.

 

Total space all drives together formatted is 29.76TB or 29,768GB

Formatted space is about 27.25TB Or 27.257GB

 


Backup:
I have a APC Smart-UPS 1000 (Incase power failure)

Photo's:

 

Photos on last post, So add extra from recent work.. 

 

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Just waiting on the next batch of drives to arrive then will put my main system up.

 

Can I have more than one system in the list?

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