[H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread {2017}

[paradoxblue]

May as well get this started with the new year, we missed 16

Welcome to the new, simplified [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread

Anyone can post here regardless of system specs, but only standout systems will be shown in the "featured" systems section. For example:

• 50TB+
• 10+ Drives
• Unique setups
• Clean systems

To be considered for the featured section, you must have:

• Pictures of your actual hardware (not a screenshot of disk management)
• Full system specs
• Photos must be hosted on http://imgur.com/ unless you have your own hosting and are an established forum member

Your post should include the following information (Make sure you have the storage amounts in bold text and at the front of your post):

Amount of total storage

Case
PSU
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
Controller Cards (if any)
Hard Drives (include full model number)
Operating System
(A short paragraph here describing what you use your storage for and how you handle backups and organizing)

Old threads
https://hardforum.com/threads/h-ard-forum-storage-showoff-thread-2015.1847026/
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1146317
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1393939

 

[jschuricht]

238TB total RAW
97.3TB RAW single chassis
Starting from the top

NumberSix: 7.4TB
2x Intel 510 120GB SSD RAID1
2x Seagate 4TB STDR4000100 shucked RAID1
4x Intel DC S3500 800GB RAID 10
Supermicro X9SRi-3F
Supermicro SC113 chassis
E5-2670 V2
64GB RAM
Windows 2016 Datacenter (Hyper V host)

Narcho: 24.9TB
2x Samsung 845DC 480GB SSD RAID1
6x Seagate 4TB STDR4000100 shucked RAID6
Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H
Supermicro SC113 chassis
i7-4790
8GB RAM
Windows 10 (Blue Iris host)

Bulldog: 6.2TB
2x Intel 530 240GB SSD RAID1
6x Samsung PM853T 960GB SSD RAID10
Supermicro X9DBL-iF
Supermicro SC113 chassis
E5-2430 V2
96GB RAM
Windows 2016 Datacenter (Hyper V host)

Spacekatt: 97.3TB
2x Intel 530 120GB SSD RAID1
6x Intel 530 180GB SSD RAID10 (cachecade)
16x Hitachi 0S03839 6TB RAID6
LSI MegaRAID 9271-8iCC
Supermicro X10SLH-F
Supermicro SC846 chassis
E3-1275 V3
32GB RAM
Windows 2016 Standard (dedicated file server)

Stinger: 102.2TB
2x SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB RAID1
51x Hitachi 2TB RAID6
2x LSI MegaRAID 8888ELP
Supermicro SD846 chassis
5x DataON DNS 1200 JBOD chassis
Supermicro X8-DTE-F
L5630
48GB RAM
Windows 10 (backup server)

 

[fmatthew5876]

Here's a great example of how much you can achieve in 2017 with a simple setup.

Storage: 60TB usable / 80TB Total - 8 10TB drives in a raidz2 vdev

Case: Supermicro 743TQ-1200B-SQ
PSU: Supermicro PWS-1K25P-PQ
Motherboard: Supermico X11SAT-F
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz (Skylake)
RAM: 64GB DDR4-2133 ECC Un-Buffer LP Server Memory
Controller Cards: LSI 9201-16i SAS HBA (16 ports - 8 used for the storage array)
Storage Drives: (8 in Raidz2, connected to LSI card) Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST10000VN0004
Storage Drives Backplane: Supermicro CSE-SAS-743TQ (included with Chassis) with builtin hotswap bays
Host OS Drives: (2 in zfs Mirror, using onboard SATA ports) SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E250B/AM
Host OS Drives Backplane: Supermicro M14TQC (4x 2.5" drive hotswap bays) installed in the bottom 5.25" bay
LCD Module: CrystalFontz CFA635
Optical Drive: LG Bu20n Ultra Slim Blu-Ray / Dvd Writer
Card Reader: AFT XM-37U
Drive Bay Adapter: CHENBRO SK41202 1 x ODD bay to 1 x slim ODD bay + 1 x internal 3.5" HDD/FDD bay
Operating System: FreeBSD 11.0

I use the system mostly as a home NAS for storing media. The box is sitting on the floor next to my desktop computer in the living room. It runs very quiet with all of the stock PWM fans without needing any modifications. I could have added more drives by using an adapter module in the 3 5.25" bays if I wanted to.

For backups I have an external SUPERMICRO CSE-721TQ-250B Chassis with 4x of my older 1.5TB drives in a dual mirror. It connects via external SAS SFF8088 directly to the LSI controller for fast transfers.

 

[paradoxblue]

Here's a great example of how much you can achieve in 2017 with a simple setup.

Storage: 60TB usable / 80TB Total - 8 10TB drives in a raidz2 vdev

Case: Supermicro 743TQ-1200B-SQ
PSU: Supermicro PWS-1K25P-PQ
Motherboard: Supermico X11SAT-F
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 v5 @ 3.50GHz (Skylake)
RAM: 64GB DDR4-2133 ECC Un-Buffer LP Server Memory
Controller Cards: LSI 9201-16i SAS HBA (16 ports - 8 used for the storage array)
Storage Drives: (8 in Raidz2, connected to LSI card) Seagate IronWolf 10TB NAS Hard Drive 7200 RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive ST10000VN0004
Storage Drives Backplane: Supermicro CSE-SAS-743TQ (included with Chassis) with builtin hotswap bays
Host OS Drives: (2 in zfs Mirror, using onboard SATA ports) SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E250B/AM
Host OS Drives Backplane: Supermicro M14TQC (4x 2.5" drive hotswap bays) installed in the bottom 5.25" bay
LCD Module: CrystalFontz CFA635
Optical Drive: LG Bu20n Ultra Slim Blu-Ray / Dvd Writer
Card Reader: AFT XM-37U
Drive Bay Adapter: CHENBRO SK41202 1 x ODD bay to 1 x slim ODD bay + 1 x internal 3.5" HDD/FDD bay
Operating System: FreeBSD 11.0

I use the system mostly as a home NAS for storing media. The box is sitting on the floor next to my desktop computer in the living room. It runs very quiet with all of the stock PWM fans without needing any modifications. I could have added more drives by using an adapter module in the 3 5.25" bays if I wanted to.

For backups I have an external SUPERMICRO CSE-721TQ-250B Chassis with 4x of my older 1.5TB drives in a dual mirror. It connects via external SAS SFF8088 directly to the LSI controller for fast transfers.

Nice, I looked at the 10TB but they were just to pricey so I think my max build will be using 6, maybe 8 TB drives. got a case which will hold 15 easily so the goal is over 100TB usable

 

[fmatthew5876]

Nice, I looked at the 10TB but they were just to pricey so I think my max build will be using 6, maybe 8 TB drives. got a case which will hold 15 easily so the goal is over 100TB usable

I started looking around August of 2016. I was able to get 7 of them at $399.99 from Newegg using email promo codes over time. I paid the regular $429.99 for the last one in December as I wanted to get to work setting up the new box.

10TB's are more expensive, but you can get more with less. Using a more smaller drives requires more hardware investment in the chassis, SAS HBA, SAS expanders, etc.. Also possibly less performance using larger raidz2 vdevs. I'm trying to be more realistic about my actual storage needs. I'm pretty confident that if/when I run out of space on this array there will be larger drives available to upgrade to.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

2x 128TB (Total / Usable)


Fully mirrored 128TB setups at separate sites
These were first built back in ~2006 and have been through countless hardware / HDD upgrades
Specs listed for (primary / secondary) systems



CoolerMaster Stacker 830 / STC-101
SeaSonic S12G-750
ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2
AMD FX 8320
2x 4GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1600 CL8
SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8
OCZ Agility III 240GB
16x Hitachi Ultrastar He8 8TB
Windows7x64 Ultimate SP1



Pics are somewhat out of date, but close enough :

 

[Snigle]

2x 128TB (Total / Usable)


Fully mirrored 128TB setups at separate sites

What are you using to mirror this much data? What type of network do you have to move that much data across sites?

 

[jlbenedict]

sweet f'ing jesus... are there that many Linux ISO's on the internet

and here I am trying to figure out how I am going to budget replacing my puny little four 2tb WD Green drives lol

 

[Ready-To-Learn]

These are some awesome setups guys! I've been thinking of getting a 10TB drive, but couldn't imagine needing much more than that...

Stupid question, what purpose do you need that much space for?!?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Linux ISOs. And porn.
I'm thinking I'd need 1PB to have adequate storage for 4K VR porn.

 

[Master_shake_]

Amount of total storage: 72TB

Chassis 1

48TB

Case Norco 4224
PSU Supermicro PWS-665-PQ
Motherboard Supermicro X9SCM-FO
CPU Core i3 2120
RAM 4 GB ECC
Controller Cards LSI 9260-4i
HP 3gbps SAS Expnader
Hard Drives 24 Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB
Operating System Windows 7
OS Drive Adata SP600 128 GB SSD
Voltaire HCA 10Gbps Infiniband Card

Chassis 2

24TB

Case Norco 4020
PSU OCZ ZT 750
Motherboard some Acer board for power to the expander
Controller Cards Intel 6gbps RES2SV240
Hard Drives 12 Seagate ST2000DM001 2TB

Chassis Linked by SFF-8088 Cable.

 

[ashman]

Supermicro chassis 36 bay chassis 107TB

SSG-6047R-E1R36N
Intel S5500HCV server motherboard
2X Xeon E5620 2.4GHz
48GB ECC RAM
Dual redundant 1400w power supplies
Dell H310 running Dell IT firmware
30 hard drives of varying sizes
27 for data, 2 for parity and one as a cache drive
9x WD30EFRX 3TB, 2x ST3000DM001 3TB, 5x ST4000DM000 4TB, 2x WD30EZRZ 3TB, 2x ST4000DM005 4TB, 2x DT01ACA300 3TB, 1x WD50EFRX 5TB, 1x ST5000DM000 5TB, 3x ST8000AS0002 8TB, 2x ST8000AS0002 8TB, 1x WD20EZRX 2TB
UnRAID 6.3.2
Dual 8TB parity drives

 

[CombatChrisNC]

Top to bottom:

2x Nexus 5000 switches

2x Cisco Fabric Interconnects

2x Cisco UCS Chassis (with 9 blades, each with 2x E5-2697 18-core chips and 576GB DDR4 19200)

2x Rubrik backup devices, 48TB RAW space (one for production, one for DR, to be moved later)

2x Pure FlashArray m20. 20TB RAW, 12TB usable. (Only 1 shown, the other is at DR)

So total purchased, 136TB RAW space, and bound together with multiple 10Gb links.