Post your fileserver's enclosure

xxan0xx said:
If I could find one, I would love to use that instead so I can get away from these Syba SATA controllers and keep the data rate higher as with Port Multipliers you get screwed pretty bad with cutting the drive storage speed down quite abit.

Only downside I see about that is the clearance between the backplane and the bottom of the case....
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So you can not find SAS backplanes? Are they hard to find? Maybe no one sells them? Maybe I should scrap the idea of SAS backplanes to the backblaze pod...
 
My humble setup:

WHS 2011 with ECC ram and AMD X2 250. Even with OCCT load it only hits 52C under load with the Antec fans set on silent, so I just run it without a fan.

Samsung F4 2TB drives. About to run to micro center and pick up a 2.5in drive to serve as the OS drive so I can add the last 2tb to the array to form a 6TB raid 6 array. Have a couple more drives incoming but they won't be here to monday.

Just got the Intel RS2BL080 card in (LSI 9260-8i) and I'm about to re-setup the array and start from scratch. Wish me luck...

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idea -- its the same company that fabricates the backplanes I'm using, I'm not sure if you'll be able to pickup one of those cases in the US though in a 1 off scenario
 
Any of you guys have detailed photos on how you are creating these SATA power cables? I'd like to try this.

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Abula- what brand of product are you using to hold your ssd in the slot?
 
mwroobel said:
frozencpu.com will make you custon power cables for a price, or you can buy short-intermediary 4 port cables like this http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=304&area=usa. I did the latter and love the cables.
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I had frozencpu make me a sata power cable for 6 drives once. I assumed they could do a better job than I would so I paid their ridiculous prices. The cable I got had a broken molex connector (one of the pins would not stay in), and the back of one of the sata power connectors had a broken cover. The messed up pin was an actual problem, it was hard to get the cable plugged into PSU, and once plugged in, I was always afraid of knocking the cable at all and having that one wire disconnect. The back of the sata connector wasn't a big deal, but it was not something that could have happened during shipping or something... whoever snapped on that cover cracked it and didn't care to grab a different cover to fix it. Anyways this was like 4 years ago but it still bugs me, lol.
 
Shoop said:
Abula- what brand of product are you using to hold your ssd in the slot?
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At first was looking for Scythe sloth rafter, but seems discontinued. So looking for something similar found the single pci from atech, thats what im using in the picture. There is another option, StarTech.com 2.5-Inch SATA Removable Hard Drive Bay for PC Expansion Slot S25SLOTR (Black), but its twice as expensive and i really liked more the drive to be more free and not in an enclosure, as it was a standard hdd not an ssd at first.
 
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This is my server's enclosure...well...This plus two Vantec 5.25-->3.5" drive caddies in the top two bays, and a Coolermaster 4-in-3 5.25"-->3.5' adapter in the bottom three bays and minus the door. Pimpin'
 
Well there is Google Translate, so let me quote the author:

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Brohoof to the author for this fine work!

-Frozen
 
Frozen.Shots said:
Well there is Google Translate, so let me quote the author:

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Brohoof to the author for this fine work!

-Frozen
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haha great one from my thread :)

well atm I only have picks with 1 raid set in so and have other HW in it but here it goes
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and a more open view during building process ;)
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Currently it houses..
Supermicro X9SAE-V
Intel Xeon E3-1265LV2 Boxed
16 GB ECC mem
1 IBM M1015 IT flashed
2 HP SAS Expanders
2x Intel 160 GB postvilles (as Zil and Slog)
1 Raidz2 set of 8 WD 3TB greens
1 RaidZ2 set of 8 Hitachi 5K4000 4 TB drives

With my old HW a Gigabyte X58-UD7 and Intel I7 920 I used to idle at 220W now I'm down to 120W with an extra raid set in it. so yes it can matter ;)
Oh yeah to those wondering it CAN house 56 drives. I just limited it to 50 as max atm but if I really really need to I could expand a little anyways the two bottom ones are just HDD enclosures and the top houses the PC.
Assembly/disassembly for moving takes about 5 minutes and keeps the hernia away :) and yes I do move it.
 
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