The [H]ard Forum Terabyte Club - READ first post before posting

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RAID5
Highpoint RocketRaid 2320
5x 300GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L300S0

Singles Drives (if any)
1x 120GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200JS

1500GB

1.09TB formatted
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You jokers didn't really think that I'd let you have the run of the club, did you? I picked up a 400GB Seagate unit at Fry's on Monday, now I'm in.
All on NF4 Ultra's native SATA ports
WDC WD2500KS
Maxtor 6B300S0
Seagate ST3400633AS
Samsung SP2504C
1.2 Decimal TB
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E: is indeed for video, but p??? not found. I use it to hold the video I take of a church group I work with on Sundays. I'll post pics of the rig (first system in my sig) when I get done cleaning up the cables inside on Saturday.
 
Finally, I'm here -

1.8TB before Raid
1.2TB after Raid

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This is my file server, running two seperate Raid 5's off of an Areca 1260. In my main box is another half TB or so...
 
Added an array tonight...

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The 1.36TB array is 4 x 750GB Seagates on an AMCC/3ware 9500S-4LP in RAID 10.

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I am accumulating parts for my next machine- first big buy was 12 x 750GB drives. I'm using 4 of 12 in my old machine to get me thru my storage needs until I finish with the new Dual Core Dual Xeon machine. :D

The 3ware cards allow for OCE (online capacity expansion?) - so I can build an 8 drive array on a 12 port card, transfer the data (after backing up obviously (or maybe not so obvious... :confused: )) and then add the other 4 drives to the array and have it re-build into a 12 drive array.

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So as far as drives go, I own about 9.8TB. 2.2TB is online after arrays etc...
 
DAMN Bro 12 x $400!

Plus the AMCC raid card!

KACHING!

What do you store on there?
 
JonDoms said:
DAMN Bro 12 x $400!

Plus the AMCC raid card!

KACHING!

What do you store on there?
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Actually got them for about $360 ea-

I've got one of these: Canon 20D

Three of these: Lexar 4GB 133x CF cards

One of these: EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM

And one of these (primary lens, especially when traveling): EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM

Between work and personal stuff I've been taking on average 3.36GB a week for over a year (61 weeks with my 20D). 43496 pics (204GB) at 4MB per JPG and another 8MB if I also capture the RAW file.
 
Cobolt current
2 x 200Gig 7200.8 seagate sata drives
2 x 250Gig 7200.9 seagate sata drives
2 x 80Gig seagate sata drives
1 x 300Gig 7200.9 seagate sata drive
1 x 160Gig 7200.8 seagate sata drive

1520Gig total as advertised
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Sulfur in build stage
10 x seagate 320Gig 7200.10 sata drives raid 5 plus 1 hotspare
2560 Gig eventually sitting in the box
3520 Gig worth of hdds sitting on the shelf in the cupboard waiting for car repairs to be paid off
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waiting for money to get the raid card and mobo and finish the case for sulfur :)
 
I just setup a new system for feeding my HTPC. The whole thing is running under OpenFiler 2.0b2. Specs are as follows:

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Tyan Transport PX22 Barebones
Opteron 165
2GB DDR400
3Ware 9590SE-16ML
(3) Western Digital RE2 500GB Drives in RAID5

The drives are almost full so I'm planning on ordering another 500GB to expand the array to 1.5TB available.
 
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Unfortunately, the motherboard I have (Tyan s2510) doesn't recognize the boot disk - it has a limitation of only seeing the first 12 disks in bios. The boot disk is an IDE disk.

Not in RAID5 (or 6) - yet - but I'm getting a better motherboard soon and then I'll actually set it up (and probably edit this post too...)

Disks: the 8 seagates are mine, the 3200ks is mine, the maxtors are U_M's, and the 200gb seagate is U_M's as well. We're just waiting to hear about some auctions for solutions to the disk # limit. Anyways, I'm happy to have this (finally) just upset that I can't actually make use of it, because Tyan sucks. (I can't actually use the board; my psu isn't the one powering it atm)

EDIT: Current state of system:
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@fs:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2             9.2G  2.5G  6.3G  29% /
tmpfs                 443M     0  443M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              89M   32M   53M  38% /boot
/dev/sda5             285G  2.9G  283G   1% /home
/dev/evms/general-array
                      2.1T  128G  2.0T   7% /mnt/data
tmpfs                  10M  2.6M  7.5M  26% /dev
/dev/evms/hda1        230G  214G  3.9G  99% /mnt/tmp
/dev/evms/other-array
                      559G  798M  559G   1% /mnt/more-data

Raid 5
2x Supermicro SAT-MV8 controllers, EVMS Software raid
general-array: 8x 320gb 7200.10
other-array: 3x 300gb maxtor
boot: 1x 3200ks
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SoulkeepHL said:
RAID5
3Ware 7506-12 Controller
12x 200 GB IDE
2.0TB with 11 disk array and 1 hotspare

Stripped Dynamic Disk
Promise Ultra 133 TX2 controller
3x 200 GB IDE
Used for backup

Individual Disks
1x 9 GB 10k U160 SCSI (Boot on onboard U160 controller)

2.60 TB unformatted or
2.42 TB formatted
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Specs on my aging file server. Built it to last a while, and it certainly has, still only ~50% full after 3 years. And yes, I backup a RAID5 array, parts at least (the most critical parts get backed up to an external 300gb drive as well). I suppose I'm a bit parinoid (just a bit).
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Was sorting through my webserver's images directory, and came across a few pictures from a few years ago of my setup before it was installed:
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Apparently I was still short the hotspare at that point, as I only count 11 drives.

And here's what it looks like now:
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I would like to enter Galaxy 2.0 also, she has been rebuilt and is ready to fly. I still need to replace her power bracket and I'll be good to go :)

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RAID 5 - Two Highpoint 2320 PCI-x cards
15x 320GB SATA WD/Seagate Drives
1x 400GB Seagate Drive
1x WD 300GB PATA Drive (boot)
17 drives total, slightly over 4TB after formatting and hotspares/parity drives
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First raid is 81% full, second raid volume is empty. Runs linux 2.6.15, all files stored on encrypted partitions using Truecrypt, connected to main box via either 802.11g (WPA2) or gigabit, depending on if I want to run the cord through my living room to my router at the time or not.


root@FireServer:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/ 224G 8.0G 204G 4% /
varrun 1006M 160K 1006M 1% /var/run
varlock 1006M 4.0K 1006M 1% /var/lock
udev 1006M 80K 1006M 1% /dev
devshm 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1006M 22M 985M 3% /lib/modules/2.6.15-26-amd64-k8/volatile
/dev/hda5 228M 24M 193M 11% /boot
/storage1 1.8T 1.5T 342G 81% /storage1
/storage2 1.8T 1.1M 1.8T 1% /storage2
root@FireServer:~#


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Looks like a nice setup, Firebug. It's like what I built times 2. :) What kind of case did you put it in? How's truecrypt working out for you? That's definitely something I wish I'd experimented with before I started filling it up.
 
What ist the performance like for TrueCrypt? Do you have any read/write benchies of native RAID performance vs TrueCrypt performance? Might be cool to try out and post back here for everyone at [H].

Either way I'm curious as to what your read/write speeds are using TrueCrypt.

Ryan
 
Ockie said:
I could have sworn I posted my pics, anyways, here they are:


Galaxy 3.0:









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Ok someone has got to pass me links for a cheap price on that case (as well as the vertical hdd cages, which i cant seem to find).

What psu did you use in that thing?

And i hope you dont mind me ripping off your style ;)
 
First, they're not raided, read the thread. Second, I was talking about the power supply. For 20 disks, you don't need a thousand watts. Drives only take maybe 20 watts total, even at seek. 1A@12V, 1A@5V. And the rest of the system's not taking 600 watts either. Maybe with high-end SLI, that machine would merit the 1KW, but not as it is. I can't blame him for using more than necessary, but it isn't needed in the absolute sense.

 
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First, they're not raided, read the thread. Second, I was talking about the power supply. For 20 disks, you don't need a thousand watts. Drives only take maybe 20 watts total, even at seek. 1A@12V, 1A@5V. And the rest of the system's not taking 600 watts either. Maybe with high-end SLI, that machine would merit the 1KW, but not as it is. I can't blame him for using more than necessary, but it isn't needed in the absolute sense.

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If they were raided it would be constantly seeking. I would assume a system with that many drives would have more then low end hardware in other parts of the system also.
 
dBTelos said:
If they were raided it would be constantly seeking. I would assume a system with that many drives would have more then low end hardware in other parts of the system also.
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Uh? constantly seeking?
 
1x 250Gb IDE maxtor
1x 250Gb SATA Samsung
2x 250Gb SATA WD
total advertised: 1000GB
actual: too lazy to look

first post on forum
 
unhappy_mage said:
First, they're not raided, read the thread. Second, I was talking about the power supply. For 20 disks, you don't need a thousand watts. Drives only take maybe 20 watts total, even at seek. 1A@12V, 1A@5V. And the rest of the system's not taking 600 watts either. Maybe with high-end SLI, that machine would merit the 1KW, but not as it is. I can't blame him for using more than necessary, but it isn't needed in the absolute sense.

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umm a 680w can't power it, simple fact.

850 is just cutting it, but due to the price diffrence and the extra boost and headroom, it only made sense to go with the 1kw. It's by far not overkill.
 
I have been migrating my main system from a desktop role to more of a home media center for recording video from PBS for the kids, and workign with home video (we are moving up to HD video this winter) and for my part time work as a photographer. I got this case in the sale forum and started moving into it. It is going to be a 3 stage operation, and I am currently at stage two, waiting for parts to finish. Hopefully somthing next week.

Stage one. Just throw the damned stuff in there. Ugly

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And the process of cleaning up the initial installation somewhat.

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And the finished for the moment results:

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I am running 2tb at the moment, but that will be going up to 2.8tb next week. Certainly not equal to alot of serious hardware here, but a nice toy for the house none the less.
 
Finally joined the club a short while ago!

Storage volume:
RAID 5
Areca ARC-1120 controller
8x WD 320GB RE SATA drives in hotswap bays

2.03TB after formatting... not sure what it was before formatting.... 2.1TB or something.

Plus 80GB system drive

Other specs:

Chenbro SR107
Tyan K8SE
Dual Opteron 246
2GB RAM
 
jen4950 said:
AHHHHH!!! No such thing as overkill here!! :D
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If you factored overkill, that would be every system in the Terrabyte Club thread ;)
 
Guess I'm finally in:

Code: 
[root@localhost ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       35G  2.6G   30G   8% /
/dev/hda1              99M   16M   79M  17% /boot
tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             1.2T  505G  595G  46% /main
[root@localhost ~]#
 
My humble system

RR1820A RAID 5
8 x WD320GB Sata: 1 x 2TB Partition => TV Shows / Movies

S150 SX 4 RAID 5
4 x WD250GB Sata: 1 x 750GB Partition => Dev / Documentaries / Personal stuff

ICH8 RAID 0
2 x WD200GB Sata: 1 x 400GB Partition => Games

Boot
1 x WD 250GB Sata: 30GB => Boot 210GB => Random junk etc

Roughly 4.2 TB in a slightly crowded CM stacker. It's old, It's ugly, it gets bounced around from LAN to LAN all over the country side. But its works and works very very well.

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