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Hardware
CASE: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black)
PSU: Corsair CX600 V2
MB: Asus M4A88T-M
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 455
HS: Arctic Alpine 64
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 4GB (2x2GB) 1333 MHz
RAID CARD 1: Sata II PCI-Express Raid Controller (Silicon Image SIL3132) from Monoprice.com
OS Drive:Transcend JetFlash 500 8GB
Parity Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 1-5: 5 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 6: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB (5900RPM)
HDD 7: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (7200RPM)
 
 
Software and Configuration:
OS: UnRAID 5.0-beta14
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB


Usage:
Used as central backup for all computers. Houses movies, TV Shows, Comics, Books, Music, etc...

 
Backup:
Currently have no backup of the server but I'm planning on putting together a small 3 Drive server for the most important data.

 
Additional info:
Will be updating within the next couple of week's. I currently have a 3TB and another 2TB sitting in the case, but I am unable to find my second RAID card. Ordering a new card and once it get's here I will update the spec's.


Photos:

Ooohh Shiny....
 

 

 

Lazy cable management.
 

 

 

I also have the white version of the Source 210. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Maybe another server.
 

Flash Drive with UnRAID installed.
 

UnRAID Booted up.
 
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB

Got an update coming within the next couple of weeks. Complete rebuild and another 12 TB added.

Got an update coming within the next couple of weeks. Complete rebuild and another 12 TB added.

I wonder if this is what @Slick looks like after a week with no sleep.

I wonder if this is what @Slick looks like after a week with no sleep.

Well then, looks like I found this topic just in time for my finished server. :)
Note: This rig also does some BOINC computing, hence the overpowered CPU and
cooling solution.

For those interested, build log is here.
 
UDPATE, 2014-MAY-10:
Most of the storage from this rig has been moved to APOLLO.
 
UDPATE, 2014-SEP-01:
Bought two WD Green 3 TB drives, yay, > 10 TB again! :D
 
Will mainly be using this as backup for APOLLO for now.
Hardware
CASE: Fractal Design R4 (modded)
PSU: Be Quiet 550 W
MB:  MSI Z77A-GD65
CPU: Intel i7 2600k (@ stock for the moment)
HS:  Custom water loop
RAM: 4 GB 2133 MHz Kingston HyperX
SSD: Intel 330 60 GB
HDD 0: WDC Blue 250 GB
HDD 1: Samsung 250 GB
HDD 2: Samsung 750 GB
HDD 3: WDC Red 3 TB
HDD 4: WDC Green 3 TB
HDD 5: WDC Green 3 TB


Software and Configuration:

I'm running Arch Linux as my OS. Filesystem is ZFS via ZFS on Linux.

As you can see from the screenshot below, I've configured my drives into two vdevs,
each running with RaidZ1, so total space available is 12 TB.
 
Usage:
Main data repository for me and my dad as well as storing movies and images
which then get streamed to our household. I will be setting it up so that the
machine is accessible from outside via VPN so that my dad and I can use our
data and keep it synced without constantly having to manually sync our laptops
with our main PCs.
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I'm still working on that at the moment though so that I don't screw it up and
accidentally create a huge hole in our network security. :lol:
 

Additional info:
As mentioned this machine also does some computing for BOINC, hence the i7. It
also servers as our main household media PC, although content can be streamed to
any other machine.
 
Photo's:

A screenshot of my storage arrangement:
(click image for full res)

 

And the machine itself:

(click image for full res)
 

(click image for full res)

Hardware
CASE: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black)
PSU: Corsair CX600 V2
MB: Asus M4A88T-M
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 455
HS: Arctic Alpine 64
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 4GB (2x2GB) 1333 MHz
RAID CARD 1: Sata II PCI-Express Raid Controller (Silicon Image SIL3132) from Monoprice.com
OS Drive:Transcend JetFlash 500 8GB
Parity Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 1-5: 5 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 6: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB (5900RPM)
HDD 7: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (7200RPM)
 
 
Software and Configuration:
OS: UnRAID 5.0-beta14
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB


Usage:
Used as central backup for all computers. Houses movies, TV Shows, Comics, Books, Music, etc...

 
Backup:
Currently have no backup of the server but I'm planning on putting together a small 3 Drive server for the most important data.

 
Additional info:
Will be updating within the next couple of week's. I currently have a 3TB and another 2TB sitting in the case, but I am unable to find my second RAID card. Ordering a new card and once it get's here I will update the spec's.


Photos:

Ooohh Shiny....
 

 

 

Lazy cable management.
 

 

 

I also have the white version of the Source 210. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Maybe another server.
 

Flash Drive with UnRAID installed.
 

UnRAID Booted up.
 
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB

:D
It is most replied again :p

Windows XP Pinball??

Hey olan,
 
I would recommend that you take a look at the LTT 10TB+ topic for some inspiration (link in my signature)
 
And I recommend you to take a look at FlexRAID if you want to stick with windows.

Yeah I guess it's a good option but the problem is most of the people that sell it don't have international shipping and since this would be purely for aesthetics then I would preffer waiting and saving some money so I can get the best option available. That's why I decided on getting the AX760 instead of the OCZ Fatal1ty 1000w because the sleeving on the OCZ psu doesn't look very good and since it doesn't give any performance increase I preffer saving some more money and doing it myself with the highest quality option.

Thanks. I'll be doing some cable management when I hook my other 2 drives up.
 
 
Thank you. And will do.

LTT Storage Rankings
Topic
Welcome to the LTT Storage Rankings! The purpose of this topic is to show off cool storage builds, to inspire with what you show and be inspired by what you see. And of course, also talk about those builds, ask their owners questions and all that good stuff. Criteria
System capacity of 10 TB or more 5 storage drives or more: We don't count OS drives, we also do not count cache drives, nor external USB drives. External SAS enclosures connected via SFF-8088 count, however. Drobos, Thunderbolt enclosures etc.: If they have a management interface which makes them somewhat autonomous, they count. It does not matter whether your storage drives is an SSD or an HDD, as long as it is used for storage. Don't forget to indicate vendor and drive size for all your drives for our statistics (see also below). For cases not covered here, we reserve the right to adjust the rules as needed to protect the spirit of the thread. It has to be a single system (everything running off of a single motherboard). Do not post your company server (except the ones from Linus Media Group ;)), this is for private systems. Pictures of the hardware required. That's the primary point of this thread, after all. Use looney's post as a template. Write a nice post about your system, give us some details on the nitty gritty inner workings of your beast. Make sure to give all the needed info for the statistics (Operating system, storage system, HDD vendors and sizes etc.) Ranking System
The rankings are based on ranking points, which are calculated as follows:
ranking_points = system_capacity ⨯ ln(system_drive_count) with ln(system_drive_count) being the natural logarithm of the number of drives in the system. Rationales
Minimum Requirements
Having both the 10 TB and the 5 drive minimum rules allows us to prevent being spammed by systems with a single or two huge HDDs (10 terabyte HDDs are a reality now, after all), while still allowing systems which were put together with smaller drives (or SSDs) to get into the list.
Ranking Points
Basically, this thread is about awesome storage systems, and we think that capacity isn't the only thing which determines how cool a storage machine is. Chances are that a system with a bit less capacity but quite a few more drives might be more interesting to look at. Therefore, the number of drives also counts.
However, we don't want somebody buying a ton of small cheap drives to outrank somebody who's bought a hugely expensive system with fewer big drives, which is why towards the upper end of the scale, the number of drives starts to no longer matter as much (see examples below).
Example for Large Systems
System 1: 100 TB capacity, 50 ⨯ 2 TB drives: 391.2 ranking points System 2: 150 TB capacity, 30 ⨯ 5 TB drives: 510.2 ranking points Amount of drives required for system 1 to surpass system 2, assuming capacities for both systems and drive count for system 2 stay the same: 165 drives, resulting in 510.6 ranking points. Capacity weighs much heavier than drive count as it grows, the influence of the number of drives on the ranking points falls prey to the law of diminishing returns. Example for Smaller Systems
System 3: 14 TB capacity, 7 ⨯ 2 TB drives: 27.2 ranking points System 4: 15 TB capacity, 5 ⨯ 3 TB drives: 24.1 ranking points Drive count has a higher weight for such systems, system 3 ranks ahead of system 4 despite having less total capacity. Identical Ranking Points
For systems with identical ranking points, post date is the ranking factor (more specifically: post number). Since no posts can have the same number, this is sufficient for unambiguous ranking.
Script
The rankings and plots are generated by a Python script, which can be found on alpenwasser's github here.
Capacity Calculation
We count raw storage as advertised on the drives. So, if you have 10 ⨯ 1 TB drives, that counts as 10 TB of storage.
Smaller Systems Not everybody needs a big server, and even smaller systems can be cool and interesting (or noteworthy, as we put it below). For such systems we have a secondary list, so feel free to post your machine even if it doesn't quite meet the ranking criteria outlined above. Please still use the template post for your system, and stick to the rest of the criteria as applicable to your machine.
External Sites This thread is inspired by the one on the [H]ard Forum, where you can find many huge systems as well. The Dutch thread on Gathering of Tweakers is also worth a look, although it is in Dutch, obviously. Serve the Home is also a great place for all things storage. Support/Bugs
At the moment, @alpenwasser is the primary maintainer of the script and stats, so contact him about that kind of thing.

Hardware
CASE: NZXT Source 210 Elite (Black)
PSU: Corsair CX600 V2
MB: Asus M4A88T-M
CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 455
HS: Arctic Alpine 64
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X 4GB (2x2GB) 1333 MHz
RAID CARD 1: Sata II PCI-Express Raid Controller (Silicon Image SIL3132) from Monoprice.com
OS Drive:Transcend JetFlash 500 8GB
Parity Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 1-5: 5 x Western Digital Caviar Green 2TB (5400RPM)
HDD 6: Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB (5900RPM)
HDD 7: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (7200RPM)
 
 
Software and Configuration:
OS: UnRAID 5.0-beta14
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB


Usage:
Used as central backup for all computers. Houses movies, TV Shows, Comics, Books, Music, etc...

 
Backup:
Currently have no backup of the server but I'm planning on putting together a small 3 Drive server for the most important data.

 
Additional info:
Will be updating within the next couple of week's. I currently have a 3TB and another 2TB sitting in the case, but I am unable to find my second RAID card. Ordering a new card and once it get's here I will update the spec's.


Photos:

Ooohh Shiny....
 

 

 

Lazy cable management.
 

 

 

I also have the white version of the Source 210. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Maybe another server.
 

Flash Drive with UnRAID installed.
 

UnRAID Booted up.
 
Total space W/O Parity: 16TB
Total space W/ Parity: 14TB

EDIT: Items will not be shipped until after September 1st or when all winners reply to Slick - whichever comes first!

Announcing our HUGE Computex giveaway powered by WD. This is a bit of a special giveaway. The more you watch our Computex videos from the Western Digital booth in Computex the more stuff we're going to give away. You can see the latest updates from WD at Computex here: http://www.wdc.com/computex/
 
EDIT: BONUS for readers/viewers from the USA/EU - Get 15% off internal hard drives until June 16th, 2013 (US & EU only) with promocode "COMPUTEX2013" - http://wdstore.com & http://bit.ly/12qcLsk
 
 
This thread will be updated daily from June 4th to June 8th to give you the links to the videos. In order to enter, all you have to do is post in this thread, but make sure you check back daily and watch all of the videos so that we can hit our targets and give away ALL the coolest stuff!
 
 
If you want to play through all of the videos you can see them here:   
 
Here are all of the eligible videos individually:
 

 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41LukUo-Yk&list=PL8mG-RkN2uTwEIByWErWuJ6OMBI-MQQ9K&index=3
 

 

 

 
 
 
This video thumbnail announcing the contest should give you some idea how crazy this is:
 

 
The contest closes June 30th and it's open to residents of the planet Earth.
 
TLDW: 
 
25,000 views average per video - 5x My Passport Ultra, 2x My Book Studio external hard drives
50,000 views average per video - 2x 1TB Velociraptor, 2x 4TB Black, 2x 3TB Red hard drives
75,000 views average per video - 2x Puget Systems Core i5 GTX 660 gaming systems
100,000 views average per video - 1x Steiger Dynamics LEET gaming grade HTPC worth over $2000
 

 
Here are the full specs of the Steiger machine. Please be sure to follow them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 

 
Subscribe to this thread so you'll see the updates!!
 
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5 entries if you do all three things!!
 
Also please like Steiger Dynamics on Facebook. These guys are building very cool systems, and they're working towards getting gaming and performance computing into our living rooms. Would you rather have one of these or an Xbox One... https://www.facebook.com/STEIGERDYNAMICS
 
Good luck everyone and stay tuned!