Recording Studio Machine Room Rack

Brostadamus · April 1

New Machine Room rack cabinet for my production, mixing, and post studio (Avery Studios)

You can @ me about Apple all you want. 20-year pro audio engineer, not an IT pro (and I'm going to keep it that way). It’s an Intel version so there ya go…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SYSRACKS SRF 42.6.8 active-cooling IT & telecom cabinet [42U]

—> Side panels will go on—as well as the rear door, which will be modified to clear rear of Storinator. This is purposeful.

Blank panel w/ studio logo (1U)
Antelope Audio 10MX rubidium atomic master clock ⚛︎ (1U)
Avid Pro Tools | SYNC HD (1U)
(2) Bricasti Design Model 7 (M7) stereo reverb processors (1U/ea.)
Dude, You’re Gettin’ a Dell 2007FP display (8U)
Aviom Digital Headphone Cue Distribution System
- D400-Dante distributor on rear-offset brackets (out to D800-Dante) (2U)
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 + External Battery Pack
- Behind Trinnov on support brackets
Cisco 8-port switch for Avid S6/MTRX on separate Mac Pro NIC
- Behind Trinnov on support brackets
Trinnov ST2 Pro -- room correction & calibration -- Linux distro of some sort (2U)
Slide-out, locking keyboard/mouse tray + access (for Storinator) (2U)
Avid Pro Tools | MTRX (2U)
Avid Pro Tools | HD I/O (2U)
Spinning rust & SSD storage:

“Lucy”

45Drives Storinator S45 Turbo network storage server — Avery Studios custom finish (4U)
- Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8-core (boost to 3.0 GHz) — 2 = 16-core
- 128 GB DDR4 ECC
- (2) ATX 850W power supplies (dual-redundant)
- Backblaze red w/ studio's "Three-7s" star logo
- (42) Seagate ST16000NM002G Exos X16 16TB Enterprise 512E/4KN 12GB/s 7200RPM 256MB 3.5” SAS HDDs (672 TB raw)
  - (7) 6-disk RAID-Z2 vdevs — Deep storage ⌬
- (3) Seagate Nytro 3.8TB 12GB/s 2.5”SAS SSDs ✇ (11.4 TB raw)
  - (1) TrueNAS boot dev
  - (2) Single-disk devs —Working/session storage ✇

= 683.4 TB raw

≈ 450 TB usable w/ HDDs @ Z2

Vent panel (1U)
“NICki”—Dell N2024 network switch on rear-offset brackets (1U)
️ Blank panel — cable management & vent (1U)

Apple Mac Pro RACK 7,1 Z0YZ001K3
- 28-core Intel Xeon W
- 1.0 TB DDR4 DIMMs from OWC
- Radeon Pro Vega II GPU w/ 32GB HBM2 memory
- 4 TB stock SSD
- 4 TB OWC Accelsior PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
- Avid Pro Tools | HDX3 -- 3 x HDX PCIe DSP cards
Universal Audio UAD-2 DSP Accelerators
- (2) PCIe OCTO Core
- Satellite QUAD Core
- Satellite Thunderbolt OCTO Core
Furman F1500-UPS (2U)
Panamax-Furman BATTEXT-1500 (2U)
Furman P-2400 IT (3U)