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Main Server: Supermicro 846TQ with 2x 3.2Ghz Xeon, 8Gb Ram, 74Gb Raptor, 20x 1Tb Hitachi & 4x500GB WD drives on a 3ware 9650-24M8, QLogic 4010C iSCSI HBA. (22Tb Advertised, 18.625Tb Useable) SAN: Infortrend iSCSI-SATA Raid-6 System with 16x 1Tb Hitachi Drives (16Tb Advertised, 13Tb Usable)...

I looked at them as well, from what I found out they have not been released yet. I did email Chenbro but heard nothing, also spoke to the UK importer and they equally didn't have a lead time or any additional information (except for the user manual). There seems to be a lot of issues with...

Here are a couple of screen shots, nearly finished moving the data around. It runs my video on demand system at home.... Music: Sonos System - 1xZP100, 4x ZP80's, 2 wireless controllers + 18" Touchscreen in the hall. Video: 2x Popcornhour HD streamers running my custom GUI. All very wife...

I think I finally there, I wasn't happy that I had 4 empty drive bays so I ordered another 4 Hitachi drvies and they were delivered today. Just re-creating the Raid-6 but this time with 20 1TB disks - formatted it comes out as 16.37Tb. I estimate it will take about 15hrs this time to init...

All cabled and booted (The Win 2k3 was already to go on the Raptor) Switched on and all 16 drives spun up in order, started to create the Raid-6 and I estimate it will take 14 hrs..... Just thinking if I should add another few 1Tb to boost the raid size.

I had everything needed to finish the build delivered yesterday (3ware card, cables, disks etc). Will post come pictures once cabled....

To be fair, I actually migrated 2 of my old servers on to the 13Tb's and this took up 6 Tb's before I even started. Fyi, before this current setup I had:- Chenbro 16 Bay PATA Case with 2 x 3ware 7508 & 16x 300Gb Maxtor (Total 2x 2Tb usable) - 3Ghz P4, 2Gb Ram Chenbro 8 Bay PATA Case with...

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1032506953&postcount=143 Pictures are here, will add the new supermicro 846TQ once complete.

Thanks for the feedback, I've just ordered 8x Hitachi 1Tb disks to get me started on some indepth testing with zfs. But still think I may go with the Hardware raid and Windows 2003 as it will mean 1 less server. fyi, the reason for looking at the iSCSI option; I need to have the disks...

Coolermaster CM Stacker Supermicro Motherboard, 2x 3.2Ghz Xeon's + 5Gb Ram 4x 3 Sata Hot Swap Bays 3Ware 9500-12 with 12x 500Gb Western Digital RE Disks (3.18Tb Raid-5 &1.81Tb Raid-0 usable) Infortrend A16E-G2130-4 iSCSI to SATA Sub-System: 16 hot-swappable drive trays with 16 1Tb...

Guess like most people here I've run out of disk space again. When I brought the Infortrend I thought that would be it for a few years, but hey it lasted less than a year before it was full. It is all used for fairly static data so don't need massive throughput, just reasonable protection with...