removed 4 1.5TB drives and a 2TB drive
added 6 3TB drives
Current drive count:
2x Seagate ST3000DM001
12x Toshiba DT01ACA300
Also, the list seems to have me as using 2012R2, should be 2008R2.
ssd isn't mounted properly yet, need to dig up another 5.25" adapter for it... sitting on top of the Cooler Master 4-in-3 for now.
This thread might just be the kick in the pants I needed to swap in 3 3TB drives into my server that have been collecting dust since April, but here's the current setup.
Waiting to replace some drives: 3 more Toshiba DT01ACA300
Software and Configuration:
This server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 currently with two hardware raid-6 volumes.
The 2TB replaced a dying 1.5TB Seagate, thus 500GB is being wasted there.
Current total usable capacity to OS is 22.5TB from 32TB worth of drives installed.
Usage:
System runs Windows Server Update Services and I have all my other windows machines get Windows
updates through it and save bandwidth/download times every patch tuesday. Machine also stores all my
media (movies, music, TV shows, other videos) as well as other things I download. I tend to keep every
version of NVIDIA and AMD video drivers I download, every Java JRE/JDK update, every LibreOffice and
OpenOffice I download, etc. Also a large collection of ISOs for various operating systems, etc. Also has
installers for various games that were downloaded from download helper apps or DRM free humble bundle
purchases. I also have a large collection of software from my brief access to MSDN-AA. The system also
runs a Ubuntu Server Guest under Hyper-V which mounts the Windows Server host via NFS for /home and
/var/www.
Backup:
Currently only relying on raid-6 to save me. Have enough blank BD-R disks that I could archive
most of my movies/TV shows at some point in the future.
Additional info:
This machine idles at about 330watts and even with the 3 extra Antec spot coolers temperature alarms
will sound if I use this machine for heavy CPU workloads. Fully Buffered DIMMs are horrible power
sucking heat generators. Besides the Onboard NICs, I use additional network cards and have this
machine connected to a managed switch with a link-aggregation-group as well as dedicated connections
for the VM and RAID card. One additional CAT5 cable for the KVM Transceiver. Theres no good reason
i have the sound card installed other than the fact the motherboard has no audio and I wanted the case's
front panel connectors to actually all be wired up properly.
zyk got a reaction from alpenwasser in LTT Storage Rankings
