[H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread

Just started the [expensive] process of ordering WD 4Tb Pro drives for my Media Server.
I cant wait to get this all setup!

Media server will consist of:
8x4Tb WD Red Pros - RAID6 (24Tb usable)
1x6TB WD Red Pro - Active Torrents
128Gb SSD - boot
30TB Total


7/1/2015 - got my first 2 drives:
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8/13/2015 update, Im at the halfway point now. Got 4 out of 8 drives. Hoping to have this wrapped up by October.
 
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Total Storage
67.0TB


Server Name
Titan

Hardware
CASE: Lian Li 343B
PSU: Corsair TX850
MB: Gigabyte 990FXA
CPU: AMD FX - 8120 @ Stock
HS: Noctua NH-D14
RAM: 32GB DDR3 1600 GSkill Ram
RAID CARD 1: Adaptec 52445 28 Port Raid Card
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
Enclosures: Startech 2 5.25 for 3 HDD (7)
HD's:
13x 2TB Western Digital (Red) WD20EFRS
9x 2TB Western Digital Greens (Various Models)
1x 3TB Western Digital WD30EZRS
3x 6TB Western Digital WD60EFRX


Software and Configuration:
My server is running Windows 8.1, I have one Raid 6 Array with 22 drives (22 X 2TB =44TB). This array holds all my movies/tv shows and data. I have (2TB + 3TB= 5TB) drive that I use for backup for my software that is synced to nightly with Syncback Pro on top of my cloud storage which is mentioned in the backup section. Second Array is 3 x 6TB (18TB) for Backup Purposes).

Backup:
My Server is connected to Crashplan which stores my data off site.







 
hound said:
It's a cute little puppy of storage!
Those drives are really slim, impressive.
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Thanks! Yeah, the M9T's are standard 9.5mm height drives. If I ever run out of space, the way this is built should easily allow a 4TB M10P swap out to double the capacity.
 
Total: 63 TB
Single System: 48 TB

First is my old build from 2011...
Code: 
Case: LIAN LI PC-Q08B
Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPA-H
CPU: Intel Atom D510
RAM: 4GB Kingston DDR2 800
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500 Watt
OS Drive: Patriot Xporter Mini 8GB Flash Drive
OS: FreeNAS 0.7.2
Storage: 5 HITACHI Deskstar 3TB HDD's (0S03230)
Total Storage: 15TB (RAIDZ1)
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I just finished building this last month...
Code: 
Case: Antec Nine Hundred + 2 Rosewill Hot-swap Drive Cages
Mobo: Supermicro X10SL7-F
CPU: Intel Xeon 1220 V3
RAM: 32GB Crucial DDR3-1600 ECC Memory
PSU: Corsair CX Series 750 Watt
OS Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD
OS: FreeNAS 9.3
Storage: 8 Western Digital Red 6TB HDD's (WD60EFRX)
Total Storage: 48TB (RAIDZ2)
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silmarilwest said:
Total: 63 TB
Single System: 48 TB


I just finished building this last month...
Code: 
Case: Antec Nine Hundred + 2 Rosewill Hot-swap Drive Cages
Mobo: Supermicro X10SL7-F
CPU: Intel Xeon 1220 V3
RAM: 32GB Crucial DDR3-1600 ECC Memory
PSU: Corsair CX Series 750 Watt
OS Drive: Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD
OS: FreeNAS 9.3
Storage: 8 Western Digital Red 6TB HDD's (WD60EFRX)
Total Storage: 48TB (RAIDZ2)
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that is an incredible amount of storage in one small space.

very nice.

those hot-swap bays care cool.
 
kandrey89 said:
I'm surprised people are not showing off more Storinator pods here...
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the most user unfriendly chassis there is.

a drive died. you have to pull it out of your rack remove 12 screws then replace drive and put back in your rack.

way easier than removing one caddy and 4 screws. lol.
 
Those are actually pretty sweet and much better. HP has a huge line up of modular servers like this as well, where you pull out from the rack and drop down the server/hdd and push the rackmount back in, having to only tighten down the clasps.
 
Browsing HP site, is like going to an empty car dealership, a ton of magazines and fine print, but no relevant chassis with specs. Anyway HP is not for home use.

Storinator is for home use, and you don't need to spend an extra $1-2K just to be able to hot-plug and use a screwless design if, maybe, your drive fails.
What's the point of getting an uber chassis? Are you helpless that you can't undo a few screws once a year??? Please...
I'd be getting WD 6TB RE+ and avoid all the WD Green/Purple/Red/Black disk dying issues...

Right now I'm running 8x 4TB disks in RAIDZ1, WD 4TB Se:
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stor 21.8T
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except for a single disk throwing 1-2 reallocated sectors per year, all is good. Been running for 1.5 years.
 
kandrey89 said:
Browsing HP site, is like going to an empty car dealership, a ton of magazines and fine print, but no relevant chassis with specs. Anyway HP is not for home use.

Storinator is for home use, and you don't need to spend an extra $1-2K just to be able to hot-plug and use a screwless design if, maybe, your drive fails.
What's the point of getting an uber chassis? Are you helpless that you can't undo a few screws once a year??? Please...
I'd be getting WD 6TB RE+ and avoid all the WD Green/Purple/Red/Black disk dying issues...

Right now I'm running 8x 4TB disks in RAIDZ1, WD 4TB Se:

except for a single disk throwing 1-2 reallocated sectors per year, all is good. Been running for 1.5 years.
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I used to have the same thoughts as you on it. I was dead set on a storinator it had all my needs covered but once you start getting into the cost it was more money then it was worth. I think when I ran it it was something like 1574$ for the enclosure with a few components. For that much money I can buy 3 24bay supermicro sc846 on ebay with included motherboard and raid card, dual psu with the ease of use and still have 500$ left to spend on drives.
 
halfelite said:
I used to have the same thoughts as you on it. I was dead set on a storinator it had all my needs covered but once you start getting into the cost it was more money then it was worth. I think when I ran it it was something like 1574$ for the enclosure with a few components. For that much money I can buy 3 24bay supermicro sc846 on ebay with included motherboard and raid card, dual psu with the ease of use and still have 500$ left to spend on drives.
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And the overhead you pay because you're running 2 extra motherboards, CPUs, memory, boot disk and RAID cards is roughly 150W per system in mostly idle state, so thats an overhead of 300W, which equals to $33.4 per month in utilities, so you're $500 worth of savings would last you 1 year and 3 months before you start paying $33 per month over the top of what you would spend with a storinator.

The reason I was trying to go with a storinator was because of HDD density vs system component and energy usage overhead.
 
Maybe he meant he was selling the motherboards, and cascading to the other chassis as JBOD?
 
kandrey89 said:
And the overhead you pay because you're running 2 extra motherboards, CPUs, memory, boot disk and RAID cards is roughly 150W per system in mostly idle state, so thats an overhead of 300W, which equals to $33.4 per month in utilities, so you're $500 worth of savings would last you 1 year and 3 months before you start paying $33 per month over the top of what you would spend with a storinator.

The reason I was trying to go with a storinator was because of HDD density vs system component and energy usage overhead.
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I don't know about 150W for the mobo and controller... use some L series xeons and you should be ok... my R610 with dual L5639s 24gb ram and 4x 10k drives barely draws 130W
 
kandrey89 said:
And the overhead you pay because you're running 2 extra motherboards, CPUs, memory, boot disk and RAID cards is roughly 150W per system in mostly idle state, so thats an overhead of 300W, which equals to $33.4 per month in utilities, so you're $500 worth of savings would last you 1 year and 3 months before you start paying $33 per month over the top of what you would spend with a storinator.

The reason I was trying to go with a storinator was because of HDD density vs system component and energy usage overhead.
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As was stated gut them and run JBOD using the case and backplane. Also I run solar for 90% of my electric use so no extra overhead on electrical
 
not much on storage space.

My new build closed rack server V2 with dual purpose for table top/tv stand.
This new build closed rack server is for replacement and plan to do facelift on my first build V1

front view( missing fake handles)
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real front view server rack door ( missing 3x 1U blank plates)
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Case 1U short depth Supermicro
PSU Pico
Motherboard mini-itx
CPU j-1800
RAM 8G
Controller Cards (if any) None
Hard Drives (include full model number) SSD 64G
Operating System esxi 5.5
this system is basically my IPCOP and some debian VMs to do simple tasks

Case 2U Supermicro
PSU 500W Platinum
Motherboard transplated Lenovo TS-140
CPU E3
RAM 32G
Controller Cards (if any) flashed with IR LSI 9240
Hard Drives (include full model number) RAID 1 SSD 100G(overprov) and RAID1 WD blaks 750G ( data store)
Operating System Proxmox 3.4 ( replace old system)
this system is handling heavy VMs, Zoneminder with 6X cameras, brokers, and development

Case 3U Supermicro
PSU 500W Platinum
Motherboard transplanted lenovo TS140
CPU I3
RAM 16G
Controller Cards (if any) dell H200 flashed with dell 6G HBA firmware (IT)
Hard Drives (include full model number) 1X SSD 64G for OS, and 8X 3T seagates
Operating System centos 7.X with ZoL RaidZ2
this system is running data storage 24X7

Case 3U short depth Supermicro
PSU 500W Platinum
Motherboard Supermicro X8...
CPU I3-5xx
RAM 32G
Controller Cards (if any) flashed LSI 9240
Hard Drives (include full model number) 1XSSD 80G for OS, 12X2T for data/backup storage
Operating System Centos 7.X woth ZoL RaidZ3
this system is a backup that mostly turn on once in two weeks.
 
cantalup said:
not much on storage space.

My new build closed rack server V2 with dual purpose for table top/tv stand.
This new build closed rack server is for replacement and plan to do facelift on my first build V1
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How do you handle heat in this closed environment? Those hard drives have to get nuclear hot enclosed in that foam.
 
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35.4 TB Online

Fractal Design Node 304
Silverstone Strider Gold 550W + short cable kit
ASRock E3C226D2I
Intel Xeon E3-1265L V3
Corsair H90i AIO
2x 8GB Crucial DDR3-1600 ECC
Plextor M6e 256GB PCI-E SSD (OS and programs)
6x 6 TB WD Reds (for storage pool)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials
Stablebit Drivepool + Scanner to combine the 6x Reds into a single drive pool with selective folder duplication.

This is used to provide full client PC backups for 5 PCs, network storage for user files that need to sync across desktop and notebook PCs, bulk file storage and media streaming (temporarily Mezzmo for DLNA but am migrating over to Plex Media Server). It replaced a HP MediaSmart EX485 with 12TB storage running WHSv1.




 
Man long time lurking, good to see that a lot of people caught onto the storage bug.
 
EnderW said:
Welcome back Ockie, I hope you'll show us what you've been up to :)
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I had a lot of other hobby distractions that made storage whoring look cheap :D Been lurking here some time now but figured I'd drop in and say hi.

I consolidated most of my stuff, focusing on density performance rather than large multi box setups. Sad to think that the storage tech out there right now can all replace our original storage systems in less than one cubic foot.
 
Can I ask why you need so much storage?

I have about 4TB and I could do with another 4 maybe...

Maybe another 10TB if I wanted to store blu rays etc.

But 100's of TB... Why do you need this?
 
because he can?

its how he heats his home?

He has a newborn and video tapes everything he/she does and needs a place to store all that 4k footage?
 
zaniix said:
because he can?

its how he heats his home?

He has a newborn and video tapes everything he/she does and needs a place to store all that 4k footage?
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you might joke about that last part, but when I have kids, that is what my use case will be. I will want to tape all their doings, kids are hilarious.
 
WestSidaz said:
Pr0n.. Lots of it.. :D
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You joke, but.... that's actually how I started to get into file servers. In my teens, with a bunch of meticulously sorted out porn content. At first was that first RAID5 array, followed by ZFS file servers and all that jazz.

Through drive failures, raid failures, and me being a dumb-bunny, my porn collection has endured!

SLAs and "work productivity" aside... nothing says "I NEED SERVER UPTIME" like a teenage kid and his porn.
 
gigatexal said:
you might joke about that last part, but when I have kids, that is what my use case will be. I will want to tape all their doings, kids are hilarious.
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Its no joke, the largest portion of my 4TB of data are videos of my kids
 
Nicholars said:
Can I ask why you need so much storage?
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I can only speak for myself, but...
400+ DVDs
100+ BluRays

If I want my media digitized... And I do... I need a lot of storage. My wife and I spend a lot of time in front of the TV. I actually just finished spending my monthly computer budget on a couple of new shelves for physical media storage. Our DVDs were literally piled up all over the place when we overran our existing shelves. I had a stack of them fall on me, and that was it.

...I still need to finish ripping all those. Such a PITA.
 
Silverstone DS380B loaded!

8 Bay Hot Swap w/side panel pulled off after a day or so to test temps. etc.

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8x WD 2TB RE4 Enterprise Drives
4x Intel S3500 (120x2 & 160x2)
Intel 8 Core ATOM C2750 w/32GB ECC
M1015 HBA

Right now it's 100% empty, running FreeNAS RaidZ2 or 3 I forget... this is going to be backup for the other systems.

Working on hacking up the opposite side of the case that currently has fans to add some ultra-thin fans to attempt to reduce the heat.

Image is from after 24+ hours idle heat soak.
 
Needs moar fans lol

That heat camera is awesome where'd you get it?
 
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