Recent content by treadstone

You can add and remove drives anytime you like. In fact you can take drives off-line (e.g. use USB attached drives) if you like.

Full ISO rips. I like to keep them the way they are...

@midnkight: Granted it would suck if I lost the movies on the server, but that would only happen if more than two drives would fail at the same time and anything after that would only mean that I loose what is on the bad drives not the remaining drives since I can still access all of those...

@cycleback: Not sure what exactly you are looking for, but here is how I setup my server: Out of the 50 x 2TB drives, I use 48 for storage and 2 for parity data. I created the following folder structure on the OS drive (80GB SSD) with sub-folders for each individual drive...

Yes it does. Depending on the video driver, you may be able to reduce the power consumption a bit by using a screen saver, but the video card will always consume power. I would either suggest you buy a really cheap video card (but do your homework/research to find a low power version) or buy a...

@jaypeezee: I believe the issue you noticed is due to the board booting it's IPMI firmware. The first time you power up the motherboard, it may boot, pause (without displaying anything) then power down. You would then have to power it up again and wait until it finished booting the IPMI...

@hotzen: Here is some data on my second server: Server 2 ( 33.08TB): - WHS 2011 + FlexRAID 2.0 - SuperMicro X9SCM-F - Intel Xeon E3-1240 3.30GHz - Kingston 8GB 1333MHZ DDR3 ECC w/ Thermal Sensor - Norco RPC-4224 - 3 x Arctic Cooling ARCTIC F Pro PWM 120mm - 2 x Arctic Cooling ARCTIC F Pro PWM...

@Re0: I assume this server will be used at someones home? If so, you should consider the noise the fans will create as well as power consumption. The SM case is nice, however it has fans that are VERY noisy. You can replace them but that adds additional cost. Also, the redundant power supplies...

@Abula: I experienced the same issue with my X9SCM-F motherboards. So I contacted SM and they were kind enough to give me a custom BIOS for testing. I have been talking to them about this issue for quite some time and the reason you experienced the ramping on your fans is due to the fact that...

As an update to this thread, I can report that current windows SAS2 driver (4.0.0.2010) for the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 (with firmware 4.0.0.1800) does NOT support putting each individual drive to sleep (via the advanced power options in windows power management). The predecessor (AOC-SASLP-MV8) does...

I can't answer your question in regards to Ubuntu, however under the windows driver, each connected drive appears as an individual drive. I would assume that the Ubuntu driver would do the same.

The 1200W power supply may be marginally more efficient than the 900W at the load you will be putting on the power supply, especially if you don't populate all the drives. You don't need the dual expander backplane if you don't intend on spending the money to get SAS drives for the server. SAS...

@grimster: It dosen't matter if you use the SM chassis with the build in expander on the backplane and have a single SFF-8087 cable between the HBA and the backplane or if you use the SM chassis without the expander on the backplane and use a HP (or equivalent) expander in a PCIe slot connected...

@JinNjuicE: Try this: From the picture that dashpuppy posted above, you can see the 'Power cable to floppy drive' and it's colors. Since this is a well known connector, you know what voltage levels are on what pins of the FDD connector. Use a continuity tester (e.g. multimeter in continuity...

@ChemicalSmile: You only need to wire out the Signal1 connector if you intend on using SATA drives. The Signal2 connector is for SAS drives and is used for redundant connections. What do you mean with 'true SAS performance'? If by mini-SAS you mean a SFF-8087 connector, then you will need a...