Shaqalac

The quite beautiful Lian Li PC-O5S :-)

Hi @Shaqalac - The RGB-W are a 5-pin header design, so they wouldn't be directly compatible with the ASUS Aura. You could purchase an individual RGB strip for the adapter, and then purchase the RGB-W's and have control of the RGB portion of the RGB-W kits, but you wouldn't have control of the W portion like you would if you purchased a kit with the included controller.

net exactly tech related, but i'm pretty damn hyped already!

Yes. You can run
sudo mdadm --detail /dev/md0 or
cat /proc/mdstat

Nope, that command should just grow whatever XFS file system you throw at it to the maximum size available

Maybe I should upgrade at some point then. For now my focus is to expand the Raid array and upgrade my main rig to Win 10
 
Here's a screenshot of the command "lsblk"

 
From this picture I can see that the command I should run to expand the array should be
mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdfmdadm --grow --raid-devices=5 /dev/md0

So today I come with big news and a big request.

First up, let's get the request out of the way shall we?

As some of you may know, voting began a few days ago for the Cooler Master World Series modding competition. Some of you may also know that every year this competition turns into a massive popularity contest, thankfully moderated by a panel of judges. However, the votes are still vitally important, and this is where you come in. Please, please pop by and lend a vote for this mod if you enjoyed the log. This week is likely to be the last hurrah for Loramentum as now it has begun its (hopefully) long life as a functional PC, maybe popping to a LAN or two.

The voting page can be found here:
http://woobox.com/bpkyfp/vote?web=1

I'm going to need every vote you can muster, this competition is wide reaching and you can bet your bottom dollar that people are promoting their builds like mad. If you want Loramentum to gain a placing, then please show your support there also. More than 300 people followed this project on LTT, that's insane, you've been a blast to talk to and I loved the journey of getting to know you.

But I don't want to be unfair to you all either, so I figured now would be a good time to let the cat out of the bag on what's in store for the future to an extent:
 
Argentum - The Sequel to Loramentum!
 
So shortly after completing Loramentum, Justin of Parvum Systems contacted me with a very interesting proposal.  To make a sequel to Loramentum, but with balls to the wall crazy hardware and an all new design.  How could I resist?
 
Here are the current proposed specs:
 
CPU: Intel Core i7 5960x
Motherboard: Asus X99-E WS
RAM: 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4
Power Supply: Superflower Leadex Platinum 2000W 8-Pack Edition (!)
Graphics: 4x Nvidia GTX Titan X (yes, that does say 4x)
Storage: TBD
 
As you can see, this is going to be ridiculous spec-wise, hopefully the build will be able to match also!
 
As the name would suggest, whilst Loramentum was gold, Argentum will be silver.  As for the design, well, you'll have to wait and see
 

Heard about this topic on the WAN Show Thought I'd brag a little about my tiny little NAS box (mrbig), and the backup for it (boris).
 
Mr Big:
 
Hardware
CASE: Lian Li PC-Q25B
PSU: Seasonic G 450W (I think)
MB: Intel DBS1200KP mITX LGA1155 C206 Server Motherboard
CPU: Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.3GHz 
HS: Noctua NH-L9i
RAM: 16GB Kingston 2x8GB DDR3-1333 CL9 ECC
RAID CARD 1: IBM M1015, Flashed with "IT" firmware
SSD: OCZ Vertex 30GB
HDD 1: 5x 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001
HDD 2: 2x 2TB Western Digital Red WD20EFRX
RAID 1: 11TB 7x2TB md RAID5 "data"
 
Software and Configuration
Running OpenMediaVault 1.16 (Debian Wheezy Based NAS distro)
 
Usage
Mainly used to store media (videos, music, photos), a apt mirror, and "random downloads" folder for all computers on lan.
 
Backup
Backed up nightly to a secondary 5x3TB RAID5 array in another box.
 
Photo's
 

 
Boris
 
Hardware
CASE: Antec 900
PSU: Antec Trupower 
MB: Supermicro X9-SCM-FO
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 
HS: Silenx Tower HS (no fan)
RAM: 16GB Kingston 4x4GB DDR3-1333 CL9 ECC
RAID CARD 1: IBM M1015 (not flashed with 9211-it firmware)
HDD 1: 5x 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001
HDD 2: 3x 1TB Seagate ST31000524AS
HDD 3: 2x 500GB Seagate ST3500418AS
RAID 1: 500GB 2x500GB md RAID1 (system LVM vg0)
RAID 2: 12TB 5x3TB md RAID5 (backup for mrbig)
RAID 3: 1.8TB 3x1TB md RAID5 (currently unused LVM pv, may be extension for vg0, or new volume group for virtual machines)
 
Software and Configuration
Running Debian (Sid) Linux, with a primary 5x3TB md RAID5 array, and a secondary 3x1TB RAID5.
 
Usage
Backup for Mr Big's "data" volume.
 
Backup
Primary RAID5 Array is NOT backed up, it IS the backup.
Secondary RAID1 Array is used as the system drive, and as a destination for the nightly rsnapshot backups of all machines on my lan.
Rsnapshot backups are duplicated to two (or will be, currently just one, need to fix the S3 destination) remote sites.
 
note, formatting looks a little borked in the preview, but is fine in the editor, not sure what's up there?

Hardware
CASE: Norco RPC-4224
PSU: Corsair CS850M
MB: ASRock E3C224
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220V3
RAM: Kingston 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3 1600 ECC SDRAM [KVR16E11K4/32]
HBA: 2x LSI 9211-8i (Flashed P16 IT Mode FW)
HDD: 12x WD Red 6TB
HDD: 1x WD Red 3TB
USB: 16 GB USB Flash Drive for FreeNAS Install
 
(Yes the PSU is overkill but I got a good deal on it.  Also, reverse breakout SFF-8087 cables are used to interface MB SATA with RPC-4224 front panel.)
 
Software and Configuration
Running FreeNAS 9.3
Main ZFS storage pool configured as two raidz2 vdevs striped together.
Last 3TB drive running in a pool by itself for misc/scratch storage.
 
Usage
Media server.  Running Plex, transmission, etc.
 
Pictures

Totally agree. If I were to buy it, it would be as a collectors item only but it's a damn cool one.

Bah, got tired of waiting, went to the tech mall to grab a keyboard I'd reserved....it's a DS4 69 Fire Edition.

I think it's been 3 months since I got this keyboard and I've finally got around to take photos of it.
It has become my new daily driver, I really like the heavy Cherry MX Milk switch.
That's about enough text, time for a few pictures. For full album check my signature.

I think it's been 3 months since I got this keyboard and I've finally got around to take photos of it.
It has become my new daily driver, I really like the heavy Cherry MX Milk switch.
That's about enough text, time for a few pictures. For full album check my signature.

I think it's been 3 months since I got this keyboard and I've finally got around to take photos of it.
It has become my new daily driver, I really like the heavy Cherry MX Milk switch.
That's about enough text, time for a few pictures. For full album check my signature.

Well there's a few thing you need to figure out first.
 
- What size keyboard do you want (full size, TKL, 60%)?
- Backlit or not?
 
I'm not sure how well made QPad's keyboards are.
If you're looking for something similar to the QPad, try take a look at Cooler Master's keyboard. 

I think it's been 3 months since I got this keyboard and I've finally got around to take photos of it.
It has become my new daily driver, I really like the heavy Cherry MX Milk switch.
That's about enough text, time for a few pictures. For full album check my signature.

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:

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
 

 

 

Just a general FYI, I haven't forgotten about this, but I'm in the middle of exams at the moment and will then be away for a while, so I'll update the list when I get back.

Anyone else rage a bit at the fact this is dressed up blue yeti?

Really nice deal there!
Saw this on their facebook page, Liked, and moved on. For some reason I just don't feel any interest in this board at all....

That would be the 78 edition, which is completely sold out. You will have to search fora and eBay and remember to bring a big bag of luck 

yep.

So you just went from 48TB of raw HDD storage to, I presue, 101TB of what I presume is formatted storage?

I've only just begun to use my YoTH, after I've had it for some time now. I'm not joking, within the first 5min of usage, this was exactly my thought as well. The arrow keys are not easy to access at least not quickly. The way the 2013 Ducky mini's function keys are placed seems more convenient at least for easy and quickly navigation and gaming.