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Instead of Raid 60 across multiple controllers why not a redundant controller device with a replicated copy of it's data on another device.
Look at a NetApp cluster of 2x FAS 2552s, The two devices each have two controlelrs (servers) built into each that work together and are cross wired for SAS. If one of the servers were to restart, fail etc the other takes over until it's partner returns. On the second FAS 2552 you could configure a SnapVault to take copys of the data from the first FAS and in the event of a failure on the first simply take over it's job.
 
I'm expaining this poorly I think.
FAS 2552 - 1
[{server 1 with disks}{server 2 with disks}] SAS between all wired together                    
(super important volume one on Virtual interface with ip 10.0.0.10, if Server 1 fails server 2 takes the Virtual interface and access the disks through the shared SAS cabling)
 
2x 10 Gbit High Speed connection each (2x switches interconnected with 4x interconnects, one conection per switch for redundancy) for inter cluster talk (internal data transfer)
 
FAS 2552 -2
[{server with disks}{server with disks} ]SAS between all wired together
(Snap mirror/vault/metro...whatever of data from super important volume on FAS 2552 -1, if FAS 2552-1 fails, FAS2552-2 can provide the version of the data it has with the same IP as the virtual LIF from FAS2552-1) when you fail back you can reverse update the original volume to get data back to current.
 
Again I'm terrible at explaining so here.
 
Edit:FFS sorry for the necro. to much work in this post to just delete and hide embarrassment.

Kotatsu type computer desk heated by i9-7980xe on some kind of radiator. Potential for best winter pc desk imo.
 
https://www.ebay.com/p/Square-Kotatsu-Table-Heater-Top-Reversible-White-60x60cm-From-Japan/2130111045?
iid=153085467840

I would say the impeller is disconnected, stuck, or your pump is DOA. Remove the pump open it up and see or RMA your pump...

EDIT: The pump sounds like the impellerer is off balance and rubbing on the case.

That sounds like a hard driver, my guess is the impeller isn't correctly aligned as other mentioned,. Look up the manual for the blown up diagramme of the thing and take it apart.

Check how he opens it and see if anything's not right in there, or don't bother and RMA.

Unplug everything important when lightning comes round. 
 
 
My house has had 1 lighting hit and 2 near hits in the last 10 years. A UPS is great for balancing out power spikes and brown outs but a direct hit to your house will nuke any UPS. I had a 1000VA UPS that cost me ~$1000 back in the day protecting my NAS in a closet and a smaller UPS for my gaming PC. Lightning stuck my house (watched arks jump from my lighting fixture to GFC plugs in the bathroom).  
 
The surge killed both UPSs the motherboards of each system behind it and about half of my houses electrical (Stove, AC, Washer/dryer, Computers, modems, switches, Roku, ps3, etc...) All of my devices were behind a decent $20+ well rated surge protector. Additionally the hit conducted through my modem to the connection point street side where it blew the connector end to bits, Cable guy said it's built to do that to protect everything behind it. 
 
My near hits only fried a mouse, modem, microwave, SNES and a fan. The strike was somewhere between my neighbor's bathroom and my gaming room. Electricity jumped from a desk high socket to my arm through my mouse and shut my computer off (luckily it turned on but my mouse was toast). Funny side story I had just had a nuclear scan done earlier that day and could be technically considered as someone radioactive that got stuck by lightning (no powers  ). 
 
TLDR: When lighting hits directly nothing will stop it, from taking a dump on your equipment. A good sine wave ups is worth the cost to protect you from nasty power instability in older homes but If you love it and are prone to lightning strikes unplug. (side story, i actually had a full aluminum laptop near a socket with the big hit that got fried, wasn't even plugged in) Make sure you have lighting coverage in your insurance if you are truly worried I had a1k deductible and a 16k payout for replacement. 
 
Edit: my recommendation https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cyberpower-1325va-sine-wave-battery-back-up-system-black/4961801.p?skuId=4961801

You should proably look at running a hypervisor on that box and running those operating systems as virtual machines.
 
Server 2016 Hyper-v server is free https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-hyper-v-server-2016
Vsphere Hypervisor server is free https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor.html
 
Run those and connect with Rsat or what have you and go to town. If you are a student register with your school email and get the datacenter version of 2016 free to have all kinds of fun.

Save your money for cyber Monday IMO. Hopefully this mining thing is over by then. 

do this to test disk read write speeds from the shell to rule them out as an issue.
http://www.benwagner.net/uncategorized/test-readwrite-speed-in-freenas/
 
# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=50000
# dd if=testfile of=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=50000
 
If that shows good I would attempt to check the physical layer a bit further rule out as much as possible.

do this to test disk read write speeds from the shell to rule them out as an issue.
http://www.benwagner.net/uncategorized/test-readwrite-speed-in-freenas/
 
# dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=50000
# dd if=testfile of=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=50000
 
If that shows good I would attempt to check the physical layer a bit further rule out as much as possible.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1400 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($156.08 @ OutletPC) 
Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard  ($59.99 @ Newegg) 
Memory: G.Skill - Aegis 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory  ($65.99 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Team - L5 LITE 120GB 2.5" Solid State Drive  ($50.98 @ Newegg) 
Storage: Toshiba - P300 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($43.99 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB GAMING Video Card  ($269.98 @ Newegg) 
Case: Rosewill - RANGER-M MicroATX Mini Tower Case  ($19.99 @ Amazon) 
Power Supply: Corsair - CXM (2015) 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($34.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $701.99
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2017-08-31 01:08 EDT-0400

Open Box but SPICY
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834332753R
 
 
 

building your own server isn't going to help with networking. 
 
You want some sort of enterprise gear if you want to learn the enterprise side of thing such as iLO/Management networks, RAID configurations,SNMP monitoring, etc...
So  you'd be best to look at second hand enterprise servers such as Dell R610/710's and HP DL360/380's. 
If you're interested in network you'll also want to make sure you have a managed switch so you can do VLAN's for creating management networks. 
 
Need more clarification on what you mean by 'networker' though, you're interested in getting into infrastructure?
I'm an infrastructure and a wintel engineer so my experience is primarily with:
- Server Hardware including Cisco UCS & HP Blade systems
- Unix/Linux OS
- Wintel (Server 2003/2008/2012/2016, Exchange, Skype, SQL Database)
- Hypervisor/Virtualisation platforms (primarily VMware vCenter and Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop)
- Storage & Backups (FibreSwitching/SAN, NAS, Hypervisor Datastores & Software backup solutions like TSM, Commvault, Netbackup, Veem, etc...)
- Cisco networking (routing & switching)
- Juniper & Checkpoint firewalls
 
You'll want to focus on just 1 aspect really, since each technology can be extremely involved in learning. 
 
So maybe consider what aspect of infrastructure you're interested in and do some research before buying hardware. 
 
Also maybe check out Lynda.com for learning and consider looking at doing a paper wether that be something as simple as an MCSA Server or CCNA qualification.
You'll learn a lot without having to buy/touch actual hardware, and it will help you decide what you're really interested in. 
 
 

I am a tier 3 for an ISP.
 
That trick does not increase speeds. You get what I provision you at. Period. 

Raid isn't the end all answer or what  you need. You need resiliency in your local storage but you also need a backup strategy. Raids can fail, if your data is important back it up. I highly suggest you contact someone from google, MS, Amazon, Backblaze about cloud storage that is compliant with regulatory guidelines for financial information. Let these folks do the work for you.
 
Keep complexity down and look into something like
https://gsuite.google.com/solutions/small-business/?tab_activeEl=tabset-companies
 

New system is in. Went with just the 240 rad while I wait on the 360 version (buyer of my old system wants the AIO). BitWit did a video with his 7700k OCD to 5Ghz and had decent temps with this cooler and a 1080 so I figured what the hell. Temps are good 28C CPU with no load 31C GPU no load. ~54C under prime 95 and ~45C Gaming. All in all, happy camper. 
 
Pictures below. Did a 2 hour leek test and I'm fairly comfy with the tubing. System is an absalute dream. Stable, quickly boots, OC was easy, everyrhting I wanted.
Had on fin quirk tho... the RGB ram that's on the QVL list only works if you put it in slots A1/B2, but dual Chanel is A2/B2 if i remember right.
 
Thanks again everyone. Pictures for fun. More once I cable manage and clean up tomorrow.
 

Then you should definitely delid it and crank that bitch to 5.2.  Let that big 360mm do some work.  High clocks are fun.

This.  It really sounds like OP has a defective mobo.
 
I have none of these problems with my 1600X and AB350M Pro4 with LPX 3200 running at 2933.  Haven't bothered overclocking the CPU because it's fast enough out of the box (3.7GHz) that I don't really miss that 200mhz.

Damn, that's pretty nasty. And yeah, I have to agree about their support. It isn't good (I got two damaged laptops from them in a row, and they would only accept returns and not an exchange, stopped buying laptops from them after. And they are barely understandable).
 
I just went with the Asus Prime B350 Plus since it had 8 USB ports, and I need all the USB ports I can get. Lol.
 
Anyway, hopefully whatever you buy after (7700K, I assume?) works out for you. Sucks you had so many issues as Ryzen CPUs are legitimately good products.

You might want to state the issues you have with your board so that the buyer can avoid faulty hardware. 

This tim issue is blown way out of proportion. This article is posted on January. 
I know for a fact that many motherboard makers were lazy and used the same voltage of Skylake overclocking settings on 7700k. Gigabye didn't roll out bios updates to adjust voltages which cut down ~15 degree until late February-March for z170/z270.
Most 7700k owners can use a top air cooler or some random 240 aio just fine.

Fire and forget.  If 7700K, pretty muc 100% chance it'll do 4.9Ghz.

If you delid, please make sure to remove the adhesive from the IHS/ use liquid metal to get max performance.

Well, the newest CPU I've built for a friend is a 6600K and that was painless to OC / get working. I have to give Intel credit, they do support more RAM than Ryzen (Though Ryzen is getting better with more BIOS updates...problem is with my friends, they aren't tech people. The idea of updating the BIOS by themselves scares them so a system like Ryzen is hard to sell to them).
 
I'd also agree with the above to wait some time after launch before buying new gear (so the bugs are ironed out).