The beast get's a rebuild - 80TB of storage

[STUdog]

SPECS

 

 

Asus Z9PE-D8

2x Xeon E5-2667 – 24 threads total

64GB DDR3

Intel 60GB SSD (OS)

Fujitsu 64GB SSD (Adobe Apps)

HD 7970oc custom painted Bitspower block

HD 7750 (For extra screens)

LSI 9260-8i - Raid Card

LSI 9260-8i - Raid Card

Asus Xonar D2X

Intel Dual 10GB Copper Network adapter

Coolermaster Cosmos 2

Norco 4224

80TB of HDD space spread across Cosmos and Norco (connected via ext mini SAS)

Corsair HX1000 (in Norco)

Corsiar AX1200 (in Cosmos)

Chenbro 36 Port sas expander (in Norco)

Cyborg Strike 7 Keyboard

Cyborg MMO 7 Mouse

Some LCDs, 3x Dell 27s, 2x Samsung 21s

 

What I did

 

- Made my own plexi side panel from scratch. I think it turned out really good.

- Mounted a 1080 rad to the right side panel. This is also on a electronic actuator so it can swing out. You really need to watch this video here to see how it works: http://youtu.be/ZQzDUEPoDMA?t=11m21s

- Did all the random paint jobs my case.

- Added and cut all internal white plexi myself.

- Added a custom SSD mount plate with blue led behind.

- All custom watercooling

- Painted the 2 CPU blocks to patch theme

- Added some lighting effects that work well with the clear side panel, watch this video to see, looks really cool at night. All the edges of the side panel light up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K0CeYEdb2R8

 

 

Desk Layout

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plexi lighting Video

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K0CeYEdb2R8

 

Another random video

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eeGe8xT-S3A

 

Before upgrade but still the same 1080 rad with electronic actuator

 

http://youtu.be/ZQzDUEPoDMA

 

 

 

 

PICS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WorldDominator]

*jaw drops*

 

Beautiful!

[Youbetternot]

Looks amazing those monitors

[CoolBeans]

What are those fans on the right in the last picture?

[STUdog]

What are those fans on the right in the last picture?

 

That's my external 1080 rad mount on a electronic actuator that I can move in and out, check out this video 

 

http://youtu.be/ZQzDUEPoDMA?t=11m21s

 

 

I ran out of room in the case, LOL

[Assassin]

HOLY FUCKING SETUP!

[pcexplosion]

NIce build,clean.

[Bupalooga]

Holy Chucks! Im crawling through ur youtube vids now!

[Analog]

OMG!!! This is the most insane rig I've seen so far!!!

[BaconMan]

At this stage, a caselabs case actually makes sense! Thats a sick build!

[Chatzev]

I'm in love! *faints*

[AxelPeeters]

*no words for this bloody awesome setup* btw ? what do u do with 80TB of storage ? just for bragging ?

[alpenwasser]

You should stop by the storage show-off topic. Since you're running it

all off of one M/B you'd qualify for the new No. 1 spot methinks.

Also, the storage fetishist inside me just had a seizure from looking

at your vids.

EDIT:

Love the actuator btw., I've been looking for an excuse to use one for

years, but haven't had a project for one yet.

[STUdog]

You should stop by the storage show-off topic. Since you're running it

all off of one M/B you'd qualify for the new No. 1 spot methinks.

Also, the storage fetishist inside me just had a seizure from looking

at your vids.

EDIT:

Love the actuator btw., I've been looking for an excuse to use one for

years, but haven't had a project for one yet.

Oh don't get me started on storage, I have many mates with over 150TB, one of them has it all in one Lian Li PC-D8000

 

We also prefer having all connected via one motherboard, external sas and sas expanders is way better than iSCSI or SMB shares

[chirag.rh]

Too Awesome!!! I have a Cosmos 2 case as well, good to know you can do so much with it! Beautiful!  :wub:

[alpenwasser]

Oh don't get me started on storage, I have many mates with over 150TB, one of them has it all in one Lian Li PC-D8000

 

We also prefer having all connected via one motherboard, external sas and sas expanders is way better than iSCSI or SMB shares

Well, it appears you are a member of a storage cult!

I'll definitely have to wait a while until I can join one as well, as a college

student it's a tad too expensive now that I've spent most of my money on my

personal rig (ah well, one has to prioritize, can't have everything).

I still have a Lian Li PC-343B laying around here (disassembled though), but I doubt

I'd pack it full of hardware, it's just too flimsy (rather thin alu, sadly). I've

been thinking about getting another Caselabs and getting a new server going when I

get some money together (just add HDDs as money allows, not everything at once), but

that's definitely not in my immediate future, rather mid to long term.

Few things have probably given me as much trouble in my computer lifetime as SMB

has (well, Samba, to be precise, mixed O/S home network). Nowadays I just mount my

different machines' storage together via SSHFS. Linux to Linux mounting works

beautifully, and even mounting my Linux machine on my dad's Windows setup works,

if not completely bug-free, then at least a lot better than SMB ever has. It's

certainly not as fast as your setup, but for backing up my dad's business files,

my own files and streaming media from machine to machine it's easily enough.

[STUdog]

Well, it appears you are a member of a storage cult!

I'll definitely have to wait a while until I can join one as well, as a college

student it's a tad too expensive now that I've spent most of my money on my

personal rig (ah well, one has to prioritize, can't have everything).

I still have a Lian Li PC-343B laying around here (disassembled though), but I doubt

I'd pack it full of hardware, it's just too flimsy (rather thin alu, sadly). I've

been thinking about getting another Caselabs and getting a new server going when I

get some money together (just add HDDs as money allows, not everything at once), but

that's definitely not in my immediate future, rather mid to long term.

Few things have probably given me as much trouble in my computer lifetime as SMB

has (well, Samba, to be precise, mixed O/S home network). Nowadays I just mount my

different machines' storage together via SSHFS. Linux to Linux mounting works

beautifully, and even mounting my Linux machine on my dad's Windows setup works,

if not completely bug-free, then at least a lot better than SMB ever has. It's

certainly not as fast as your setup, but for backing up my dad's business files,

my own files and streaming media from machine to machine it's easily enough.

I'm all about speed tho, If I can't get something blazzing fast then I'm not happy

 

I upload at local LANs at about 1TB every 30min, I run a 200-300 person LAN event and there is nearly 1 Petabyte of data in the hub. All my network gear is 10 Gigabit copper and fiber.

[Woodypc]

OMG absolutely amazing.

[Axis]

impressive

 

 

and "delicious" :wub:

[alpenwasser]

I'm all about speed tho, If I can't get something blazzing fast then I'm not happy

 

I upload at local LANs at about 1TB every 30min, I run a 200-300 person LAN event and there is nearly 1 Petabyte of data in the hub. All my network gear is 10 Gigabit copper and fiber.

Yeah I'd want speed in that situation, too. Lots of it.

For my personal needs I just can't justify the cost at the moment, but

there's always the future.

[legopc]

schmexy 

[Shahriar Mahmood]

Putting the Rads, Storage and the monitors aside; things that can be had with just money !

I love builds that has something priceless, something that can't be bought rather has to be earned...

 

That attention to detail and the sheer creativity gone into this build, is down right impressive  :wub:  5 Stars ! 

[DenVu]

Sick!

[Eyal]

Holy Mother of God!

80 TB of storage!? What do you need so much for?!

[WoodenMarker]

Awesome.