Posted October 28, 2013 Author I thought you meant to put in red. Whoops. The RE4's were actually transferred from a previous build. When I bought them in 2011 the Red drives were not yet out, the only 24/7 drives available were server drives. While the RE4's are totally awesome, I would probably have bought Reds if they'd already been on the market though since the RE4's are very expensive and I don't really need their performance. At least I bought them right before the floods in Thailand, prices went up about 150% for the RE4's after that where I live. But yes, three of the drives are actually Reds since they were bought newly this year for this build. I'm beginning to think that all you ever do is build awesome stuff. Haha, thank you, I do my best! BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2013 nice build. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2013 The RE4's were actually transferred from a previous build. When I bought them in 2011 the Red drives were not yet out, the only 24/7 drives available were server drives. While the RE4's are totally awesome, I would probably have bought Reds if they'd already been on the market though since the RE4's are very expensive and I don't really need their performance. At least I bought them right before the floods in Thailand, prices went up about 150% for the RE4's after that where I live. But yes, three of the drives are actually Reds since they were bought newly this year for this build. Haha, thank you, I do my best! First of all, now I'm going to try and find some of the RE4's. Second, no problem. I may not be 15 yet (only 7 more days!!!) but I try to be as mature as possible on here. And my new sig rig (Kind of My Rig one) was built for just over $450 USD. Which isn't that bad. Main rig on profile VAULT - File Server Spoiler Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C Spoiler Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro Mac Mini (Late 2020) Spoiler Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 28, 2013 Author nice build. Thank you! First of all, now I'm going to try and find some of the RE4's. You mean you want to buy some? I'm not sure about that, price/performance isn't really that great unless you need a hardened high-performing server drive (and keep in mind that there are newer alternatives: the RE series without the 4 in it, and the slightly less expensive Se series). Having said that, they are great drives, and I certainly won't tell you how to spend your money. I myself have most definitely bought many things that people would probably not have recommended me to buy. *cough* Titan *cough* Second, no problem. I may not be 15 yet (only 7 more days!!!) but I try to be as mature as possible on here. And my new sig rig (Kind of My Rig one) was built for just over $450 USD. Which isn't that bad. The correlation between maturity and age is overestimated by many (it does exist, of course), and the fact that you're striving to be mature is a huge step in the right direction IMO. There are people three times your age which are far less mature from what I've seen personally. And we all have to start somewhere, don't we? BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 29, 2013 Thank you! You mean you want to buy some? I'm not sure about that, price/performance isn't really that great unless you need a hardened high-performing server drive (and keep in mind that there are newer alternatives: the RE series without the 4 in it, and the slightly less expensive Se series). Having said that, they are great drives, and I certainly won't tell you how to spend your money. I myself have most definitely bought many things that people would probably not have recommended me to buy. *cough* Titan *cough* The correlation between maturity and age is overestimated by many (it does exist, of course), and the fact that you're striving to be mature is a huge step in the right direction IMO. There are people three times your age which are far less mature from what I've seen personally. And we all have to start somewhere, don't we? I actually really began on a really low end Pentium 2 (I think it was like 233MHz), 32MB of RAM, 2 4GB IDE hard drives (ATA-33) and some crappy 2MB video card. And Windows 98. It took FOREVER to boot, but luckily it died so I got my even older rig (in my sig. I'm simply too lazy to copy it.) which had XP. Then one of the chips on the hard drive touched a piece of metal, so I ended up with a smoky basement, and an HP Pavilion 8490 (BEST desktop computer I have EVER used http://goo.gl/rIRV32)that I took the RAM up to 768MB (even though it didn't "support" it) and I still used the sound card up until I got my SoundBlaster Live 5.1 Digital a month ago, and them my mom scrapped that becuase it was sitting on my floor and thought I didn't use it anymore, which brings me to my P4 rig (in my sig. Still too lazy.) I may or may not ramble a lot... EDIT: Forgot about my ASUS Eee PC 1005HA netbook, which has been happily serving me for the past 2 or so years, no matter what I put it through. And thanks for calling mature. I feel so accomplished. Main rig on profile VAULT - File Server Spoiler Intel Core i5 11400 w/ Shadow Rock LP, 2x16GB SP GAMING 3200MHz CL16, ASUS PRIME Z590-A, 2x LSI 9211-8i, Fractal Define 7, 256GB Team MP33, 3x 6TB WD Red Pro (general storage), 3x 1TB Seagate Barracuda (dumping ground), 3x 8TB WD White-Label (Plex) (all 3 arrays in their respective Windows Parity storage spaces), Corsair RM750x, Windows 11 Education Sleeper HP Pavilion A6137C Spoiler Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.4GHz, 4x8GB G.SKILL Ares 1800MHz CL10, ASUS Z170M-E D3, 128GB Team MP33, 1TB Seagate Barracuda, 320GB Samsung Spinpoint (for video capture), MSI GTX 970 100ME, EVGA 650G1, Windows 10 Pro Mac Mini (Late 2020) Spoiler Apple M1, 8GB RAM, 256GB, macOS Sonoma Consoles: Softmodded 1.4 Xbox w/ 500GB HDD, Xbox 360 Elite 120GB Falcon, XB1X w/2TB MX500, Xbox Series X, PS1 1001, PS2 Slim 70000 w/ FreeMcBoot, PS4 Pro 7015B 1TB (retired), PS5 Digital, Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Wii RVL-001 (black) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 The name of the project tells it all: this gotta be the greatest god of all the Define mods I've seen. There really ain't nobody winning your incredible skill set ! Keep it up mate! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk Current rig: i7-5820K, R5E, 1070ti (windows), Radeon HD7850 (Mac), a bunch of SSDs and HDDs, running MacOS Mojave, Windows 10 + a bunch of debian servers on Proxmox KVM hypervisor Laptop: MacBook Pro 13" 2017 Previous projects: Razmac G5, Server, zenbox HTPC See my GitHub profile! A coder/modder from Finland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 Author The name of the project tells it all: this gotta be the greatest god of all the Define mods I've seen. There really ain't nobody winning your incredible skill set ! Keep it up mate! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk Oh there are a few other R4 mods which are quite awesome as well methinks. *hinthint* :lol: But yeah, I'm pretty happy with this, the concept definitely is rather unique, and I'm quite satisfied with the execution. Thanks! BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 Oh stop it, you.. Ive been thinking about a black/green color scheme to some project, some day. Like gigabyte sniper(..?) perhaps. The blue looks nice tho! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk Current rig: i7-5820K, R5E, 1070ti (windows), Radeon HD7850 (Mac), a bunch of SSDs and HDDs, running MacOS Mojave, Windows 10 + a bunch of debian servers on Proxmox KVM hypervisor Laptop: MacBook Pro 13" 2017 Previous projects: Razmac G5, Server, zenbox HTPC See my GitHub profile! A coder/modder from Finland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 Author Oh stop it, you.. Ive been thinking about a black/green color scheme to some project, some day. Like gigabyte sniper(..?) perhaps. The blue looks nice tho! Sent from my GT-I9100 using Tapatalk I think my next build (if I can get the money together, and that's a big if) just might be something with green as well, but more due to the fact that it would be a proper server build with a proper server M/B (so, a green PCB). And yes, the blue is absolutely beautiful, especially in person. It's a bit of a shame that the newer gen higher-end MSI boards no longer have it, but are instead yellow or red in their accents. They're still awesome boards, but I just really love their shade of blue (much more than any blue I've seen on M/B's from other manufacturers, e.g. Asus). BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 Z77/X79 still a fully viable option tho Fractal Design Define R5 White/Window / Intel 4790K / EVGA Z97 FTW / EVGA G2 750W / Sapphire R9 390 Nitro / Samsung 850 EVO 500GB / Corsair Force Series GT 240GB / Seagate Barracuda 2TB - HGST Ultrastar 4TB / 32GB Kingston HyperX Savage 2600Mhz DDR3 / Cryorig H7 Lumi Edt. / Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted October 30, 2013 Author Z77/X79 still a fully viable option tho You're completely right of course. It's not like it really matters in my case anyway; if I build something new in the foreseeable future it will be server parts as mentioned. BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 5, 2014 Oh god! I am not sure if i have commented on this already but this is just too awesome! Those colours.. Ahh That psu mount looks soooooo good even if it is a weird place to put it And that quality of this...is just...something... !! WELL DONE! |OscillosC Build|+ Raspberry Pi [NAS] + Another G5 + Personal + HTPC: Asus Z87-A - Intel Core i5 4670K @ 4.5ghz 1.15v - Noctua NH-D14 - Gigabyte Radeon HD7870 OC @ 1170mhz core- Kingston HyperX 8gb 1600mhz CL9 - Samsung 840 PRO 128Gb SSD for Windows- Kingston V300 120gb for Ubuntu- WD Caviar Black 1Tb For games and programs - WD Caviar Green 2Tb For videos, photos, music, and backups- Seasonic P660 XP2 Platinum - Windows 8.1 PRO - Ubuntu 14.04 - Modded Bitfenix Ghost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 5, 2014 Author Oh god! I am not sure if i have commented on this already but this is just too awesome! Those colours.. Ahh That psu mount looks soooooo good even if it is a weird place to put it And that quality of this...is just...something... !! WELL DONE! Thank you very much for the kind words, they are highly appreciated. And yes, overall I must say I'm pretty happy with this build and how it's turned out. There are things I could have done better, but for my first proper moding project I'm satisfied. BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 22, 2014 Wow....... Speechless, really nice job. I like that you had an idea and rolled with it so far away from conventional and it turned out perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted February 22, 2014 Author Wow....... Speechless, really nice job. I like that you had an idea and rolled with it so far away from conventional and it turned out perfect. Thanks! Yeah it is a bit of an unusual one; took me a while to come up with it, but once I had the idea it was an obvious fit for what the rig needed to do. EDIT: Also: 50k views, huzaah! BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 13, 2014 I'm not sure if you've dismantled this due to APOLLO, but you could possibly put in a single slot 750TI if you wanted to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 13, 2014 Author I'm not sure if you've dismantled this due to APOLLO, but you could possibly put in a single slot 750TI if you wanted to. It's still intact, but it's not our primary server anymore. It now serves primarily as a backup server and our media PC. I've moved most of the HDDs from ZEUS into APOLLO, but have kept some in ZEUS for backing up the most crucial data from APOLLO onto ZEUS. BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 13, 2014 (edited) Starting the New Back Panel The Case I'm sure all of you have seen an R4 before, so I won't be posting pics of it in its stock form. Here it is after removal of the back panel. The Back Panel The old back panel out of its natural habitat. Rivets A few rivets had to be sacrificed for the greater good Paint Jobs Ah yes, the happy coincidence of this build The new back panel will be made from the Caselabs SMH10's bottom plate. I have replaced the stock bottom plate in my SMH10 for HELIOS with a meshed version, so this one is no longer needed. It has the perfect width for this and is high enough (the unneeded height will be cut off, naturally). Besides the good dimensional fit, the Caselabs bottom panel also has a very nice powdercoat job that matches the R4's very nicely. Not that this will ever be seen (placed in a sideboard), but it's still nice to have this matching. Dimensions As mentioned above, perfect width. Tape Low adhesion tape. Sadly it is not available here in a wider version, but this will do nicely. Edges Starting the tape job at the edges. Corners And the corners. First Tape Layer The first tape layer completed. Over this will come a second layer since this one alone does not provide very good protection against mechanical damage during drilling work. Second Tape Layer The second layer serves as the main protection from mechanical damage. Radiator - Corner Bolts First I drilled the corner holes for bolting the radiator to the panel. Mesh Pattern Here it is: The masochist inside me has spoken :lol: Instead of going the usual route of just dremelling (or jig-sawing) out the opening for the radiator, I've decided to go a different path and "simply" make the relevant part of the new panel into mesh by drilling lots and lots and lots and lots of wholes. :crazy: I made a pattern which I printed onto sheets of paper and then taped onto the panel. This served as a reference for drilling the wholes. For those interested: Pattern Link (pdf) For different spacings you can easily scale the pdf up or down. Anyway, on to the work: Overlay Since the radiator is longer than a sheet of A4, I needed to compose the pattern from several sheets of paper (well, two). Red Zone The red zone denotes where I should not drill :lol: Drilling - Start I soon realized that I would have to overlay the entire paper with a protective sheet of adhesive tape. It just tore up too easily. Should have used adhesive paper. Nooo! :cussing: Right before the finishing line of phase 1, the drill bit broke! Aaargh! Phase 1 Complete After about four hours of drilling (ouch, my wrist ): Phase 1 Complete - Naked And without the tape. Clearly I have made some mistakes, but it's not screwed up too badly. Since nobody will ever get to see this anyway once the rig is in service, it doesn't matter that much if it's not perfect (although my pride would certainly have liked that :lol: ). I have not yet counted the wholes. The bigger and smaller wholes are from where I had to improvise due to the best suited drill bit breaking. What's Next Making the entire mesh to the correct hole size and fixing mistakes where possible. Deburring those holes. Painting them black. Making the mounting rails for fixing the new panel to the actual case structure. That's it for today, I have to go hold my wrist into some warm chamomile solution :lol: You drilled the shiz out of that lol Edited May 13, 2014 by alpenwasser spoiler tag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 13, 2014 You drilled the shiz out of that lol Little request: please shorten the long quotes to keep the forums readable! Many thanks! PRODIGY -- SMALL TORRENT -- K'NEX SERVER -- NOCTUA PSU Community Standards -- Moderators Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted May 13, 2014 Author You drilled the shiz out of that lol Hehe, pretty much, yeah. 1173 holes it was IIRC. Little request: please shorten the long quotes to keep the forums readable! Many thanks! BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 1, 2014 That is.... Orgasmic, for lack of a better word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 1, 2014 Author That is.... Orgasmic, for lack of a better word Thanks a lot, much appreciated! I am indeed rather happy with it. BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 24, 2014 That's awesome, is the 8 hard drives on one cable not an issue? I am about to do the same thing for an R4 Server build with a CX500M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 24, 2014 Author That's awesome, is the 8 hard drives on one cable not an issue? I am about to do the same thing for an R4 Server build with a CX500M Thanks for the kind words, they are much appreciated. No, the drives on a single cable are not an issue. I have another build with 12 drives on a single cable, works without trouble as well. If you have a modular power supply, it will usually connect to the cables via a Mini-Fit Jr. connector, which can take up to 9 A per connector (Molex site) Assuming you draw power from teh 12 V and 5 V lines, that will give you 108 W on the 12 V line and an additional 45 W on the 5 V line (assuming you onle service each line from a single pin, which is probably the most common scenario for HDD power lines). So going by that you have 153 W available on a single SATA power cable (almost no drives utilize the 3.3 V line). If you don't have a modular PSU, but the power cable is soldered into the PSU, how much it can carry will naturally depend on the solder joints. If you get a decent PSU I'd say it's not something to worry about, you'd probably even be able to go higher than that. The next question will obviously be how much power an HDD consumes. At spin-up this can go quite high. In this test, it could be about 30 W, and although it's a bit dated, since HDD technology hasn't really changed that much since then, I doubt the numbers for more modern drives are much different (the lower end was about 17 W is seems). Another in-depth test of HDD power consumption can be found here. It is also a bit dated, but should still be somewhat useful. Anyway, as said I haven't encountered any issues with running 12 drives on one cable, and surely not with eight. During normal system use, a modern HDD usually consumes less than 10 W, some go as low as ~5 W. And with staggered spin-up, the peak power draw during system start can be massively reduced. I would definitely recommend getting a good quality PSU (that doesn't necessarily mean huge power capabilities, but good quality). BUILD LOGS: HELIOS - Latest Update: 2015-SEP-06 ::: ZEUS - BOTW 2013-JUN-28 ::: APOLLO - Complete: 2014-MAY-10OTHER STUFF: Cable Lacing Tutorial ::: What Is ZFS? ::: mincss Primer ::: LSI RAID Card Flashing TutorialFORUM INFO: Community Standards ::: The Moderating Team ::: 10TB+ Storage Showoff Topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 24, 2014 Awesome, thanks for the explanation! I was planning on doing 4 and 4, but Ill just go with all 8 now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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