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You can add and remove drives anytime you like. In fact you can take drives off-line (e.g. use USB attached drives) if you like.

Full ISO rips. I like to keep them the way they are...

@midnkight: Granted it would suck if I lost the movies on the server, but that would only happen if more than two drives would fail at the same time and anything after that would only mean that I loose what is on the bad drives not the remaining drives since I can still access all of those...

@cycleback: Not sure what exactly you are looking for, but here is how I setup my server: Out of the 50 x 2TB drives, I use 48 for storage and 2 for parity data. I created the following folder structure on the OS drive (80GB SSD) with sub-folders for each individual drive...

Yes it does. Depending on the video driver, you may be able to reduce the power consumption a bit by using a screen saver, but the video card will always consume power. I would either suggest you buy a really cheap video card (but do your homework/research to find a low power version) or buy a...

@jaypeezee: I believe the issue you noticed is due to the board booting it's IPMI firmware. The first time you power up the motherboard, it may boot, pause (without displaying anything) then power down. You would then have to power it up again and wait until it finished booting the IPMI...

@hotzen: Here is some data on my second server: Server 2 ( 33.08TB): - WHS 2011 + FlexRAID 2.0 - SuperMicro X9SCM-F - Intel Xeon E3-1240 3.30GHz - Kingston 8GB 1333MHZ DDR3 ECC w/ Thermal Sensor - Norco RPC-4224 - 3 x Arctic Cooling ARCTIC F Pro PWM 120mm - 2 x Arctic Cooling ARCTIC F Pro PWM...

@Re0: I assume this server will be used at someones home? If so, you should consider the noise the fans will create as well as power consumption. The SM case is nice, however it has fans that are VERY noisy. You can replace them but that adds additional cost. Also, the redundant power supplies...

@Abula: I experienced the same issue with my X9SCM-F motherboards. So I contacted SM and they were kind enough to give me a custom BIOS for testing. I have been talking to them about this issue for quite some time and the reason you experienced the ramping on your fans is due to the fact that...

As an update to this thread, I can report that current windows SAS2 driver (4.0.0.2010) for the AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 (with firmware 4.0.0.1800) does NOT support putting each individual drive to sleep (via the advanced power options in windows power management). The predecessor (AOC-SASLP-MV8) does...

I can't answer your question in regards to Ubuntu, however under the windows driver, each connected drive appears as an individual drive. I would assume that the Ubuntu driver would do the same.

The 1200W power supply may be marginally more efficient than the 900W at the load you will be putting on the power supply, especially if you don't populate all the drives. You don't need the dual expander backplane if you don't intend on spending the money to get SAS drives for the server. SAS...

@grimster: It dosen't matter if you use the SM chassis with the build in expander on the backplane and have a single SFF-8087 cable between the HBA and the backplane or if you use the SM chassis without the expander on the backplane and use a HP (or equivalent) expander in a PCIe slot connected...

@JinNjuicE: Try this: From the picture that dashpuppy posted above, you can see the 'Power cable to floppy drive' and it's colors. Since this is a well known connector, you know what voltage levels are on what pins of the FDD connector. Use a continuity tester (e.g. multimeter in continuity...

@ChemicalSmile: You only need to wire out the Signal1 connector if you intend on using SATA drives. The Signal2 connector is for SAS drives and is used for redundant connections. What do you mean with 'true SAS performance'? If by mini-SAS you mean a SFF-8087 connector, then you will need a...

@blackhawk777: I had looked at the Backblaze pods before I decided to go with the Chenbro RM-91250 chassis. The issue I found with the Backblaze pod design was in regards to the fact that they used SATA port multipliers. I guess I should post an update to this thread since I made some hardware...

Yep, that's a PCMCIA memory card. Any 'older' laptop (I'm thinking 486 and Pentium days) should have a PCMCIA slot and be able to access the card. If you don't have one of those laptops around anymore, you might be able to get an external PCMCIA card reader that connects to your computer via USB...

@Rectal Prolapse: The OPROM option for the 4 PCIe slots will only show up if you plug cards into each PCIe slot that has an on-board BIOS that needs to run during the initial boot up process (e.g. if you only put two cards with BIOS ROMs into the 4 slots, then only those two will show up in the...

I wonder how much this will delay mass production of 4TB drives and what the pricing for those will look like when they finally are readily available like the 3TB drives were just before this flooding caused all of this craziness...

@computerpro3: Is that little statue protecting your data? :D

@c0ncept: as siliconnerd already pointed out, the pin that's missing is a ground connection and there are two more (total of 3 out of the 7 pins are ground connections). That's not your problem. Your problem is that the plastic part that physically supports the actual connections is missing...

Yes, the boxed E3-1240 comes complete with heat sink and cooling fan.

@VERTIGGO: Does it always happen to the same drive or different drives?

@cherub_i: I use two X9SCM-F (similar to the X9SCL-F you are looking at) in my servers. I can't answer your linux based questions since I don't use linux, however I can tell you that Windows installation (including WHS2011 and Server 2008R2) does not include a driver for the Intel 82579LM...

@noddy: I think the blue version was manufactured around 2008 and the dark green card you referenced was manufactured in 2009.

@OP: have you checked that your BIOS is configured properly to recognize/identify the drive? Most recent and descent BIOS implementations will actually identify the drive or parameters in the BIOS, so if you can't see those during the BIOS setup, you either have a cabling issue or a defective...

@kandah: Before you go and start to disassemble your USB HDD (which may be pointless if you have an external USB drive that does NOT use an actual SATA drive inside, you forgot to mention what model it is!), have you tried connecting the USB HDD to a different computer? You mentioned in your...

Well, according to your calculations, you have a delta of 43W (before fan mod and after fan mod). That would NOT translate into 63W on the AC side of the power supply unless you have an incredibly inefficient power supply! Anyway, just saying, if you actually measured the current at full speed...

@houkouonchi: Your calculation is a little off... The fans are not drawing 1.2A @ 5V! They most likely never even did that at 12V either. That rating is really the maximum the fan could draw but in reality it never really does... Best way to check would be to use a DMM and measure the current...

@nowwhatnapster: I bought a set of RL-26 back in April and they are the ball-bearing type. Talk to Norco direct and see if they changed the supplier. Norco has a BAD habit of changing the actual item without changing the part number or at least stating a revision code on the item label on the...

@teh invincatron: I think you have that backwards, Norco and Chenbro are cases not appliances!?! There are LOTs of builds like the one you are looking for on this forum... just do some searching and lots of reading!

If possible, you should try and enable Jumbo Frame support. This of course is dependent on your NIC as well as switch. If one of them doesn't support this feature, it will not work (e.g. the NIC in your server, the switch and the NIC of your playback device all need to support and have this...

I have 3 AOC-SASLP-MV8 HBAs in one of my servers running WHS2011. The odd thing was that as soon as I added more than 2 drives to the second card (all ports on the first controller and about 6 ports on the third controller are in use), the system would crash with a BSOD... I reinstalled the OS a...

Do you need the PXE boot option? If not, have you tried to disable it in the BIOS?

@Cancerkazoo: The SuperMicro motherboards I use (X9SCM-F) have IPMI 2.0 and a web based IPMI implementation so I can even control the servers from my iphone (either via the safari web browser or via an IPMI App I have on my iphone). IPMI lets you control the server and even upload software...

ECC memory is worth the extra few pennies. Granted the ECC memory might be a little more expensive, but not by much (you have to consider that there is in fact an additional memory chip on the module that stores the extra CRC data!). A x8 PCI-E card should work without any issues in a x16 slot...

@Origin_Unknown: The 'simple' HBA needs to be able to support more devices than it has physical ports or in other words, it needs to be able to support expanders, otherwise you will not be able to talk to any drives at all!

@DarthRay: There are SFF-8087 cables with sideband (36 circuits) and cables without (28 circuits). Here is an overview of different cables for the different applications: http://www.molex.com/pdm_docs/sd/795762112_sd.pdf

@Computurd: Of course you need the sideband for SES2 to work properly. The sideband signals carry the SGPIO to the backplane controller that in turn controls the Error LEDs, etc. Without the sideband signals,you would have to wire the backplane separately via I2C (if the backplane and the HBA...

When I bought the 52 x 2TB drives, they came in 3 of those shipping boxes. They are great and I kept them all. They come in really handy for when I want to pull any drives from my servers. You could go to your local computer distributor and ask them if they happen to have 'leftover' HDD...