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http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Western-Digital-Green-vs-Red-Hard-Drives-602/
These guys do a nice write up on the red vs green. Conclusion: They are the same physical drive with different firmware. Should still use red in raid configs.
Nice setup. I'm planning on building a very similar box for my next freenas file server.
I had never considered using the motherboards SAS to control some of the drivers. I was planning on using an LSI 9211-8i + RES2SV240 expander and use all ports on the RES2SV240 to connect to the 24...
I had FIOS for the three years I lived in NJ and loved it. I could push 80/40 Mbps all day long with practically no latency, no jitters, no QOS, no congestion, no blocked ports. :)
Now I have TWC and can push 20/1 Mbps on a good day. Latency is higher, packet loss is common, speeds fluctuate...
Very nice setup! So clean. I see you have a dual port NIC. Could you setup some kind of link aggregation and get 2Gbps on LAN? 10gb equipment still ain't cheap.
I was checking out /r/serverporn and came across a funny sorry about our buddy houkouonchi.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/05/fios-customer-discovers-the-limits-of-unlimited-data-77-tb-in-month/
I too would like to move to a VM setup like ESXi but I'm afraid something would go wrong in the migration process and my cheap little raid card would not support it.
One problem you might face is that you will need to format all the identical drives that go into the raid.
If you are...
Very nice.
Do you share this colo with anyone? That's alot of rackspace your taking up there.
What are you using all that stuff for? VPS / Web hosting?
It also looks like you are moving from RAID5+HS to RAID6. Did those rebuild times scare you?
Here is my home server. It started out as just an HTPC with 6 drives. As time went on I needed more space so I got the Rosewill RSV-S8. I'm now on my second RSV-S8. Once I run out of space with my current setup I'll build a proper rack mounted server with a real raid controller.
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