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Another cringefest video.

Better cable management than Linus had before the server room upgrades :33

you get a free cardboard vr and then you get to watch porn with it ? thats a win win situation ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'll reach out to Scott and see if he wants to borrow ours.

Given my job involves playing with mahoosive storage arrays I really should put some effort in and get my personal rig higher up the list
 

 
 
 
I've got 4x Seagate 8TB Archive drives on the way for ZFS cold storage, will hopefully be able to provide some feedback on them next week

UK has 20% VAT, Australia has 10% GST.
 
US cost of living is significantly lower, including median house price compared to Australia.
Our wages are higher before tax, but we also pay significantly more tax as a percentage... equals much lower disposable income.. so no it doesn't work out.

Thanks lol. Ghetto mods are the best mods
 

MetallicAcid's

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thank you to my sponsors:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
Updates... 
Parts and stuff!
 
 
 
 
This Z97N-WIFI motherboard has been sponsored by:

Thank you to Josefin and Ted at Gigabyte who believe in my work, and who have provided this motherboard to my latest project. The colour scheme matches perfectly, and all of the functionality I need for a HTPC is there.
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
Kind regards,
Justin "MetallicAcid" Ohlsen

That cable management....

Update:
 
The storage node now also has four 1TB Samsung 850 Pro's in RAID 10 for my ESX node.
The two nodes are now also connected with a 10Gbit NIC.
 
Listed storage is now 152TB
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

New 152TB server:
 
Hardware I
This is the hardware of the Storage node:
Case 1: Supermicro SuperServer 6027TR-DTRF
Case 2: Supermicro SC847 E16-RJBOD1
PSU Case 1: 1280W Redundant High-efficiency Digital Power Supplies w/ PMBus 1.2
PSU Case 2: 1400W high-efficiency (1+1) redundant power supply with PMBus
MB: Supermicro X9DRT-HF
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2609V2
HS: Stock Supermicro heatsink
RAM: 4x Kingston 8GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC Reg CL13 DIMM
RAID CARD: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9286 8e SGL 8 + LSIiBBU09
SSD 1: 2x Samsung 850 Pro 512GB (RAID 1)
SSD 2: 4x Samsung 850 Pro 1TB (RAID 10)
HDD: 37x 4TB Seagate Barracuda Desktop (ST4000DM000)
NIC: Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S 10Gbit NIC 
 
Hardware II
This is the hardware of the EXS node which is in the same chassis as the storage node (storage not counted for 10TB+)
Case: Supermicro SuperServer 6027TR-DTRF
MB: Supermicro X9DRT-HF
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2650V2
HS: Stock Supermicro heatsink
RAM: 8x Kingston 16GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC Reg CL13 DIMM
NIC: Supermicro AOC-STGN-I2S 10Gbit NIC & 2x Quad Gbit NIC
 
Software and Configuration:
My server is running windows server 2012R2 on which I have 2 arrays.
Array one consist of 4 4TB drives in RAID 5 and array two consists of 32 4TB drives in RAID 60.
The remaining 4TB drive is being used as a global hot spare.
 

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.

Backup:
The is arrays backed up to LiveDrive, this is a online cloud backup service. (I have 100/100 Mbps connection)

Photo's:

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

I can't be arsed to real all that but there are graphs so that must be true.

haha yeah.
 
Some one said on another forum that it looks like a bag of fruit salad sweets lmao.
 

 
lmao.

Guardian of Peace, please go fuck with MPAA, and leave Sony alone.

Hardly a surprise, most pirates just switched to kickass, isohunt or some other source. I hope this shows that this kind of actions make no difference to piracy, they should instead focus on better distribution and such

Eset still ok.

The Photos are now here!!! Tell me what you think of the build!!!!


Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
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Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Envy by Mat Teague, on Flickr

Part 5!

Started leak testing and bleeding the loop!


Watercooling overhaul! Part 5 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Watercooling overhaul! Part 5 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Watercooling overhaul! Part 5 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
Part 6 and glamour shots will be coming very soon! Also the Shak mod cables will be installed and they look so sick! 

Part 2!
 
Draining the old loop!
 

Watercooling overhaul! Part 2 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 

Watercooling overhaul! Part 2 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
Much dust!

Watercooling overhaul! Part 2 by Mat Teague, on Flickr
 
New CPU block installed!

Watercooling overhaul! Part 2 by Mat Teague, on Flickr

Ill admit I was scared to click the title...

Floop flippity fuck that is sick

The desk is now ready to be painted. I decided to go with a nice gloss black on the outside and the raised platform in the desk. The inside walls of the desk are being wrapped in carbon fibre vinyl.

Desk Painted:
 

 

 

 

 

 
Now that i have built the desk and painted it, i started installing some components such as fans, speakers, amplifier and i also installed my water blocks onto the computer components.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Since installing a lot of my components i have made some real progress with the desk. I have installed 2/3 of my tubing and now im just waiting for some extension cables to come in the mail before the desk can be finished.

Progress pictures:
 

 

 
Now that the desk is around 2/3 built i decided to add some LED light strips to illuminate all of the components. I wired all of the LED strips up to switches and i put some perspex under my amplifier,
HDD's and SSD's to create a green illuminated boarder around them. There are LED strips under the perspex to illuminate it even further.
 

 

 

 
Heres a diagram on how to wire your LED's or any other device up to a switch.

 

 
And here is the led lights all wired up to switches and dimmers:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This is my build as of the 12/06/2014. I am currently waiting for some extension cables in the mail so i am able to put the motherboard side in the desk and work on some nice cable management.
Hopefully i should receive the goods next week. Please stay tuned and ill upload more progress photos as i continue with the build.
 
 

and again as an european I am surprised this is even surprising.