The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

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This is The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread

I will maintain an updated rankings post based on the most total storage and most storage in one chassis.
Update: longblock454 will be handling all updates until further notice. If you want to be on the list or if the list needs to be updated, send him a PM.

Drive expanders and all external storage can count towards your total amount, but not towards the chassis ranking. Think of that as the most hard drives in one case.
See croakz's system as an example. His Lightning "system" has 28.4TB of space. However, 12TB of that is in a drive expander, outside of the main system chassis. So that counts towards his total amount, but the most he has in one chassis is 16.4 TB. Also, this is a great example of a neatly formatted post.




If you want your name on the board, the following are required.

• Pictures of your actual systems (not a screenshot of disk management).
• Minimum of 10 TB (advertised) total storage.
• Full system specs
• Post format must follow the example post.

Once you are ready to be considered for a spot on the board, make a post and send longblock454 a PM with the link.
Make sure you have the storage amounts in bold text and at the front of your post

Your post should include the following information. Try to keep it in the same order.

Amount of total storage (if posting multiple systems)
Amount of storage in the following system

Case
PSU
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
GPU (if discrete)
Controller Cards (if any)
Optical Drives
Hard Drives (include full model number)
Battery Backup Units (if any)
Operating System
(A short paragraph here describing what you use your storage for and how you handle backups and organizing would be nice.)

Then post a few pictures somewhere that has decent hosting. If your pictures go down, you get dropped from the board.
houkouonchi has offered to provide free hosting for pictures
http://hardforum.houkouonchi.net/




FAQ

Originally Posted by unhappy_mage

Is the "advertised" space before or after raid? Suppose I have 10 1TB drives in raid6 for 8TB of "advertised" space after raid, does this count? I think the intended meaning in the thread is "sum advertised space of drives in your system" (e.g., 10 * 1TB => 10TB), but it could mean "compensate for advertising overhead on the amount of usable space you have" (e.g., 7.6TB because drives are smaller than 1TB each => 8TB).

The sum of the manufacturer stated capacity for all your drives. Ignore RAID, formatting, etc.

Originally Posted by Dew

Just a point of clarification:
To be ranked you must obviously have over 10tb, is it in one system or in multiple?

Multiple. So say you had 2 systems with 6TB each, that would qualify.

Originally Posted by lundrog

Clarification,
at home or work?
And
Paid for by personally or by work?

Home unless you own the business, but if not, feel free to post, it just won't count towards the rankings.

Originally Posted by n1ce_hat

I think this might be obvious, but I feel like asking. When the storage of our servers inevitably increases as we get more drives, we edit our original posts in the thread and change the amount? That seems like the cleanest way to do it. Then maybe pass on the info to you to change the top 10.

Update your post and then send me a PM, don't make a new post.

Originally Posted by croakz

Also, are we only counting one system per person for the top chassis list?

Correct

Most Total Storage

1. treadstone 109TB Windows Server 2008
2. asgards 103TB Linux
3. houkouonchi 91.4TB Linux
4. Freak1 68TB Windows Server 2008
5. butcher9_9 54.458TB Windows 7
6. jschuricht 48.3TB Windows Server 2008
7. croakz 43.4TB Windows 2003 Server
8. Wibla 36.57TB Linux
9. pclausen 32TB Windows 7
10. d3vy 29.5TB
11. sonofander 26.3TB WHS
12. gjvrieze 25TB
13. Krobar 24.75TB Linux
14. EnderW 24.64TB WHS
15. geiger 23.16TB Linux
16. MAFRI 22.7TB WHS
17. Eschertias 20.7TB OpenSolaris
18. drgnfang 20.65TB WHS
19. LittleMe 20.25TB Windows Server 2003
20. n1ce_hat 19.25TB WHS

Most Storage in One Chassis

1. treadstone 100TB Windows Server 2008
2. Freak1 58TB Windows Server 2008
3. jschuricht 48.3TB Windows Server 2008
4. houkouonchi 40TB Linux
5. butcher9_9 30.728TB Vista
6. asgards 33TB Linux
7. d3vy 29.5TB
8. Wibla 24.32TB Linux
9. jschuricht 24.3TB Windows Server 2008
10. sonofander 24.3TB WHS
11. pclausen 24TB Windows 7
12. Eschertias 20.7TB OpenSolaris
13. LittleMe 20.25TB Windows Server 2003
14. Krobar 20.25TB Linux
15. n1ce_hat 19.25TB
16. drgnfang 18.25TB WHS
17. unhappy_mage 18.08TB OpenSolaris
18. croakz 16.4TB Windows Server 2003
19. Blue Fox 16.08TB Windows Server 2003
20. moose517 16TB WHS

Updated 8-15-10 by longblock454, PM me for modifications and I'll get the updated list to EnderW.

24.64TB

12 TB

Antec Solo
Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B with Scythe KAMA FLEX Fan SA0925FDB12L
Antec EarthWatts 380W
Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400
Scythe Zipang
Corsair 2 x 1GB DDR2 800MHz TWIN2X2048-6400 G
Syba PCI 4 x SATA controller card SD-SATA-4P
6 x Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB WD10EACS
4 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB ST31500341AS
APC Smart UPS SUA1500
Windows Home Server

I use this machine to backup my main computer and the HTPC.
I put the Seagate drives in the bottom where they will get more airflow and I put the Western Digital drives at the top, 5 in the Supermicro cage and one below it in the 5.25 bay.
I put a quieter fan in the Supermicro cage and then I used an old Fanmate controller for it and the exhaust fan.




























12.64 TB

Antec Solo
Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B with Scythe KAMA FLEX Fan SA0925FDB12L
Antec EarthWatts 430W
Gigabyte GA-E7AUM-DS2H
Intel Core 2 Duo E7200
Zalman CNPS8700
Thermalright HR-05 IFX with Scythe KAMA FLEX Fan SA0825FDB12L
Corsair 2 x 2GB DDR2 800MHz TWIN2X4096-6400C5 G
HighPoint-RocketRAID 2320
Western Digital Caviar Blue 640GB WD6400AAKS
8 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB ST31500341AS
Samsung SH-S183 DVD±RW
APC Smart UPS SUA1500
Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

This is my HTPC/file server. It will be connected to the TV and surround sound for watching stuff I download. It will also share file serving duty with the WHS.
It was a very similar build as you can see by the spec list. I am using RAID5 on this machine though and went with a faster processor and stronger GPU to handle media playback. One thing I did to help drive temperatures in the Supermicro cage is put the Western Digital drive in the third position (middle) since it runs significantly cooler than the Seagate drives, I thought this simple change might keep all the drives a degree or two cooler. Also you can see I went with a huge cooler for the northbridge as I'd seen some reports the Nvidia 9400 can get a little toasty and I usually like to go for overkill on heatsinks.

My contribution to get things going:



I submit Galaxy 6.0 for my total storage (50tb advertised):

5 Systems:

Biostar TF720 AM2+ Motherboard w/ Onboard Video
AMD Athlon X2 4050e 45w Processor
2 x A-Data 2GB DDRII 800 Memory Kit
2 x Supermicro SAT2 MV8 SATA Controllers PCI-X 8 Port
Norco 2040 20 Bay Hot Swap Rackmount Case w/ 1 Internal HDD Bay
PC&P/Corsair 750W Power Supply
1TB Seagate SATA Drive for Operating System
20 x Seagate SATA 1TB Drive for Storage (Varies per machine, some have 400's, some have 500's, etc)
Microsoft Windows Home Server Operating System


Full build information can be found here: http://www.networkisdown.com/showthr...?t=276&page=10





And I submit Galaxy 6.0a as an individual system (21tb advertised):

Biostar TF720 AM2+ Motherboard w/ Onboard Video
AMD Athlon X2 4050e 45w Processor
2 x A-Data 2GB DDRII 800 Memory Kit
2 x Supermicro SAT2 MV8 SATA Controllers PCI-X 8 Port
Norco 2040 20 Bay Hot Swap Rackmount Case w/ 1 Internal HDD Bay
PC&P 750W Power Supply
1TB Seagate SATA Drive for Operating System
20 x Seagate SATA 1TB Drive for Storage
Microsoft Windows Home Server Operating System







Full galaxies build logs:

http://www.networkisdown.com/showthread.php?t=276

Get things going? Geezus, Ockie, you need to create a 50TB+ thread and close it with the first post... good lord. You just basically embarrassed anyone and pretty much everyone else into abject shame - who the hell wants to follow that up now? hehehe

And nice work, of course. And fantastic wiring job on the last one there, extremely clean and well tied off...

Previous version

Since then, I've updated swapped some drives.

Abel

Total space: 13.72TB
Effective space after format and with RAID: 12.42TB

AMD AM2 X2 3600+ Windsor
Biostar BIOSTAR TForce TF570SLI
OCZ 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400
ATi x600
WD 160 AAJS
WD 8x500AAKS
SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8
WD 11x1TB GP
Seagate 8x320GB
HighPoint RocketRAID 2320 PCI Express x4 SATA II RAID Card
Corsair TX650
SilverStone OP650 Olympia 650W
Lian Li PC-201b
Server 2003 SP1

Updated 08/09/10:

Total multiple system storage 91.4TB
Total single/internal system storage 40TB

Rack pics:
Rack from the side (Without the side panel on yet:

Rack from the Front (machines in order: zeroshell, kaizoku, chikan, osol, dekabutsu)

Cables going from the rack to the cloest in the master bedroom which in turn goes to my desk that has my monitor, speakers, mouse, etc..). The 'dekabutsu' machine is also my normal use rig:

Cables that go to different drops throughout the house (through the attic) that go into the patch panel at the top of the rack:

Back of the rack (with some view of the cablemanagement):

Pic of the top half of the rack (including patch panel):

A little bit lower where you can see the monitor/UPS/switch:

A bit lower where you can see the cables to the switch nad digiCM (I havent ran cables for the digiCM yet):

Shot of behind the rack with power usage of all machines turned on and semi-idle (1006W):

Another shot of the front of the rack (with flash):



Main storage box (bottom machine in the rack 'dekabutsu').

Total Storage 40 TB
Usable Storage: 36TB (raid6)

NORCO RPC-4020 Case (4U)
Supermicro MBD-X8DTH-iF-O
Dual Intel Xeon E5530 CPU (2.4 Ghz)
48GB DDR3 PC-1333 ECC Memory
MSI Geforce gtx 470
ARC-1280ML raid controller
20x2TB Hitachi SATA (raid6)
OS: Sabayon linux x64

Oldest pics:

http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newraid/dsc_5338.jpg
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newraid/dsc_5339.jpg
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newraid/dsc_5340.jpg
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newraid/dsc_5330.jpg
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newraid/dsc_5332.jpg

Old Pics:

















I use this box for my main storage of multimedia. It is primarily comprised of unlicensed anime/asian drama and some other stuff I would rather not say on this forum. I also use this as my gaming rig.

Backup box (labeled 'osol' in rack 2nd from bottom)

Total Storage 20 TB
Usable Storage: 18TB (raidz2)

NORCO RPC-4020 Case(4U)
Supermicro C2SEA-O Motherboard
Core 2 duo E6700 (2.66 Ghz)
4GB DDR3 Memory
AOC-USAS2-L8E SAS2 JBOD controller
20x1TB seagate (raidz2) 18TB useable
Running Open Solaris snv134


Second backup box (labeled 'chikan' in rack 3nd from bottom)

Total Storage 6 TB
5.25TB (usable raid5)

Supermicro SC825TQ-560LPB case (560watt/2U)
ASUS server board (forget the model)
Core 2 quad Q6600 2.4 Ghz
8GB DDR2-800 Memory
8x750 GB Seagate HD
ARC-1220 raid controller

Misc usage server (labeled 'kaizoku' in rack 2nd from top):

Total Storage 3 TB

Supermicro CSE-811T-260B Case (260watt/1U)
Another ASUS server board I dont know the model of
8GB DDR2-800 Memory
Core 2 duo E6600 2.4 Ghz
2x.1.5TB Seagate disks (no raid)

Router box/zeroshell (labeled 'zeroshell' top machine in rack):

Total Storage 3 TB

Supermicro CSE-811T-260B Case (260watt/1U)
Supermicro X7SPA-H Atom D510 board/CPU combo
3GB DDR2 SODIMM
2x.1.5TB Seagate disks (no raid)

This does bonding via VPN of my two 35/35 FIOS connections at home. Here is a picture of the FIOS connections outside the house:

One looks quite aged doesn't it? =P

Covers Open:


New ONT on the left and old one on the right (close ups):



The two BBU's:


Speedtest:


Colo Box (colo'd at work)
Total Storage 13 TB
Usable Storage: 10TB (raid6+raid10+raid0).


I upgraded this system to a new case and mobo so my ARC-1280ML no longer has to be jerry rigged as you can see from the old pics. New specs:

2U supermicro (SC825TQ-R720UB)
This has dual 720 watt 90%+ effeciency PSUs
Intel Xeon E5530 2.4 Ghz
24GB DDR3-1333 Memory
8x1500 GB seagate 7200.11 drives (raid6/raid10)
4x256 GB OCZ Core 2 SSD's (raid0)
ARC-1231ML
Supermicro/Intel Quad Gig UIO NIC (AOC-UG-I4)
Onboard graphics

Total Internet connectivity:
1400 megabits.

New Pics:















Oldpics:

Front:
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newservdc/front.jpg

Back:
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/newservdc/back.jpg

Some pics when I upgraded it to 8x1.5 TB drives:

http://box.houkouonchi.jp/server_hd_...e/DSC_0761.jpg
http://box.houkouonchi.jp/server_hd_...e/DSC_0763.jpg


I use this server to host several game-servers, seed torrents, and run the free image hosting I setup for hardforums. It has 400 megabits of internet connectivity via 4 NICs. I also use this as a backup of my important files that are on my home system.

In the future the 4x2.5 inch drives bays will become SSDs (probably in 1-2 months) to help bring down the I/O load on the server from seeding torrents.


Mythbox.

Total Storage: 6.4 TB

Raid: 3.5 TB useable 4 TB total:
Nonraid: 900GB
External 1.5TB

Cooler master CM stacker Case
Core 2 duo E6850 3 Ghz
4GB DDR2-800 Memory
Nvidia Geforce 8600GT
Promise EX8350 Raid Controller
8x500 GB 7200.10 seagate drives (raid5)
3x300 GB PATA maxtor (LVM)
2x750 GB eSATA seagate external drives.



This is the box which i used for all my TV. It has 2 genpix DVB-S tuners for HD sat, 1 nexus DVB-S for non HD sat and 2 pchdtv cards for OTA HD. It can record 5 things at once and get non-respomcressed sat streams from dish network.

Advertised Space: 20.25TB
Effective Space: 16.98TB

NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case
Intel S3210SHLC LGA 775 Intel 3210 Server Motherboard
Intel E6550
4GB Kingston DDR2-800 ECC memory
Antec Quattro 850 PSU
Intel Dual-Port 10GbE Server Network Card
Areca ARC-1261ML PCI-E x8 16-port SATA II RAID Card w/ 2GB
20x Seagate 1TB ES.2
1x Maxtor 250GB (boot drive)
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2

Build there is here

Originally Posted by EnderW

Once you are ready to be considered for a spot on the board, make a post and send me a PM with the link.
If it doesn't meet the requirements, I'll tell you what to fix, or I may just delete your PM - this shouldn't be complicated. If you can build a machine that qualifies, you should be able to follow simple instructions. I'm not going to be a nazi about it, I just want a clean, organized thread.

Your post should include the following information. Try to keep it in the same order.

Amount of total storage (if posting multiple systems)
Amount of storage in the following system

Just a point of clarification:
To be ranked you must obviously have over 10tb, is it in one system or in multiple?

For example, my "Terabyte" fileserver currently has 8xWD10EACS and a 320GB system drive. It obviously is almost 2TB short of 10TB and therefore does not qualify for ranking as a single server. That said, my "Terabyte 2" fileserver will have in excess of 16TB once my HDDs arrive(9xWD20EADS on order). It would qualify for the single server rank. Does Terabyte contribute to my total storage rank(It is below 10TB)?

Either way, it doesn't impact me personally, as terabyte is getting a 2TB drive and it will be larger than 10TB. However, I thought others could benefit from this clarification.

A little over 16 TB:

Lian Li V2100B Plus II
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610w
Intel DP965LT with a E2180
Gskill 2 x 1GB 667mhz
16 x Seagate 7200.11 1TB (RAID 5)
1 x Seagate 80gb (boot)
Areca 1280ML
Matrox G550 PCIe x1
APC HT1500 with additional battery
Windows Server 2003 Standard x86

I'll soon be migrating to a new motherboard/case and adding 8 x 2TB drives.

Clarification,
at home or work?
And
Paid for by personally or by work?

Home (some exceptions like colocation are acceptable since you still own it) and personal use.

Originally Posted by Dew

Just a point of clarification:
To be ranked you must obviously have over 10tb, is it in one system or in multiple?

For example, my "Terabyte" fileserver currently has 8xWD10EACS and a 320GB system drive. It obviously is almost 2TB short of 10TB and therefore does not qualify for ranking as a single server. That said, my "Terabyte 2" fileserver will have in excess of 16TB once my HDDs arrive(9xWD20EADS on order). It would qualify for the single server rank. Does Terabyte contribute to my total storage rank(It is below 10TB)?

Either way, it doesn't impact me personally, as terabyte is getting a 2TB drive and it will be larger than 10TB. However, I thought others could benefit from this clarification.

Multiple

delete

File/Sage TV Server:

14.08TB

Norco 4020 Case
ASUS DSBF-DE
Dual Intel Xeon Quads e5410s.
4GBs FB-DIMM
80GB Boot
(14) 1TB Seagate drives in RAID 6
Areca 1280ML RAID controller

Backup Server:

11TB

ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD 4200x2
2GB RAM
120GB Boot
(2) 1TBs
(6) 1.5TBs
(No RAID)

Ockie, really nice system.

But, you might want to move it away from the water heater. Any bad water leaks and you would not be happy.





Greg

Originally Posted by thebeephaha

Oh and OP, can I get the least efficient server award? I mean 26 drives for 10TB

replace them all with 2TB drives and you'll be in first place!

Originally Posted by Greg Rosler

Ockie, really nice system.

But, you might want to move it away from the water heater. Any bad water leaks and you would not be happy.





Greg

Yeah I knew people would mention the water heater. I wouldn't be happy regardless as its a brand new water heater

Also, I'm not too concerned really, I do plan on building out the basement which will give the rack a proper and permanent place.

wow!!!! those rigs can really store some enormous amounts of pr0... ergg... i mean "important data"

question.... what do you guys do if one of those drives were to die?? I am sure you are using some kind of raid but if you have say 10TB of total space to use, wtf do you do when one drive goes kaput?