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I'll slowly replace the last of the 4 old drives that have bad sectors with Samsung DT01ACA300's and I should be fine.
Anyone know if Norco went outta business? They won't answer my emails and the DS-24E is discontinued on newegg.
Anyone know if Norco went outta business? They won't answer my emails and the DS-24E is discontinued on newegg.
Well I wanted to get a few more DS-24e's off newegg and they are discontinued. I wonder why? They were nice enclosures. I wonder if they will be replacing them.
Well I wanted to get a few more DS-24e's off newegg and they are discontinued. I wonder why? They were nice enclosures. I wonder if they will be replacing them.
Hi all, I need some help. Long time lurker, first time poster.
I am building a media server/HTPC combo. The server will be transcoding and storing 1080p and eventually 4k. Here is what I have decided on so far;
Windows 7 Ultimate x64 operating WMC with Mediabrowser and Plex.
Plex will feed the Roku and IPads, WMC will feed the 360, HDMI to the Denon 4311ci.
Mobo and processor I have a few options, I'll choose soon.
My main issue now is I want to run this tower (chenbro 10769) concurrently with a 24 drive enclosure (Norco 4224) but only want to run one motherboard/processor.
I've never used any commercial enclosures and have always used towers to build my pc's. FLEXRAID will give me the ability to grow my storage "on the run" so to speak. I want to use all SATA 6.0 drives since SAS drives are stupidly expensive.
My initial build will consist of a vertex4 128gb for the OS and a vertex4 256gb for applications. The 10 HDD hotswap bays in the tower will have 3tb 7200rpm drives fully populated and I'll have 10 drives populated in the 4u chassis to start. That's 60TB of total space, but I will be using FLEXRAID and will be backing everything up as well. My assumption is that my total usable space will run in the 20-24TB range after all is said and done, with the ability to add 14 more HDD's as the need arises. I'll be backing up the 2 other desktops, 2 laptops, iPads etc to this box also.
So, my question is - being utterly unfamiliar with the hardware involved in expansion cards or what this Norco 4224 case uses, what cards/cables etc do I need to buy that will be compatible with FLEXRAID? I need to support all 24 HDDs out of the back of the tower to the 4224 enclosure, plus whatever slots are needed for full SATA 6.0 in the tower that isn't on the motherboard natively.
Edit - a Norco DS-24D is also an option. I'm looking for the best long-term expandabilty and throughput I can drive.
Thanks for the help.
Well I wanted to get a few more DS-24e's off newegg and they are discontinued. I wonder why? They were nice enclosures. I wonder if they will be replacing them.
Anyone have issues with the drive indicator lights on the 4224? I I have about 8 pairs that don't light up when drives are connected. Even though the LEDs don't light up, the drives still work.
Has anyone attempted to repair them? I'm well outside of my return period and don't want to buy several backplanes at $60 a pop just for indicator lights.
You could put one of the 36 port Chenbro ones in. Would require purchasing 1-3 more internal cables and coming up with a way to mount it. Shouldn't be too hard.
are the backplane issues on the Norco 4220/4224 sorted out? I'd like to order one soon, what should I check for?
Any Norco backplane (Green) from 2011 and before are not great, the later 2011 Yellow ones that are used still now are much better
Anyone have issues with the drive indicator lights on the 4224? I I have about 8 pairs that don't light up when drives are connected. Even though the LEDs don't light up, the drives still work.
Has anyone attempted to repair them? I'm well outside of my return period and don't want to buy several backplanes at $60 a pop just for indicator lights.