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Recent content by bartnl

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    WD Reds with an Areca

    Also check if the failed drives are on a specific Norco backplane. Most times drives have failed on me it turned out they were connected to a Norco backplane that had gone faulty. I've had 3 out of 8 Norco backples failing in a period of 2 years. I suspect the power design of the Norco...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    Seagate consumer drives ST3000DM001 and ST4000DM000 and drives themselves until now performing reliable.
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    Apparently the PSU had shutdown. Not aware of the root cause I switched it back on and then smelled something burning and the actually saw small fire on the Norco backplane. Result, supplier had never heard of problems with Norco backplanes but started selling his own brand of cases claiming...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    with max 4 users there is no need for real server os. Only non-server parts in my setup that have caused problems are the Norco backplanes, one of them actually caught fire :eek:
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    It's running windows 7 and yes 95% media storge. System is also used to remux blu-rays in MKV as I use XBMC and prefer this over blu-ray iso's. Setup is not storage efficient as I allocated each array to a specific usage. For example I have an empty 6x 4TB array where I can copy a degraded...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

    As a long time lurker posting my setup which is inspired by reading [H]ard|Forum. Started some years ago with a relatively small system. Got the first 4U case two years ago and gradually added harddrives and cases :) Startech serverrack with three 4U cases. Top to bottom Norco RPC-4224...
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