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i just came in my pants are those 1tb drives each?
Ockie, congrats on the nice looking pile of HDs!!
Are you planning to run this machine 24/7 or only boot it up once in a while??
Once in a while.
I decided not to use the 2.5" drive and the slot bracket adapter for it, I like the clean wiring on this system way too much. I'm just going to use one of the 400gb drives as a system/storage drive.
Ockie what do you do with 25Tb ? I looked in the other thread but have not found anything
Are these drives going to be in a RAID array or just JBOD??
Ockie what do you do with 25Tb ? I looked in the other thread but have not found anything
He has the world's largest gay, bi, and transgender porn collection. jk.
He has the world's largest gay, bi, and transgender porn collection. jk.
[LYL]Homer;1032763874 said:I always thought he had the world's largest collection of hardware pr0n. You know - pics of hard drives in RAID 69, RAID 0+1, hot-swap enclosures, rack mounted hardware, etc.
No 48bit LBA?...guess that's why it was so cheap.
Finding a decent controller for 20 drives isn't going to be cheap...I would sell you my 1130ML, but it wouldn't be enough.
I'm not going to worry about it for now, I'll just let this one do its job until I'm ready for the next upgrade. All this system is anyways is just to hold static data, so I suppose it aint that bad.
Subscribed, how much did the 400's cost? you should of looked around for some cheap 750's or 1TB's or maybe even 640's.
He bought 20 x400GB for a total of $700 off the forums. So roughly $35 per each 400GB drive. Excellent deal.
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- The raid controller will not allow me to create larger than 2tb partitions, so I had to toss out the idea of raid and created multiple smaller volumes and extended those volumes in the drive manager.
- Performance to the array leaves me with much to be desired
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Yeah the high end controllers makes everything else feel like childs play. As for that norco case, looks like you are sold on it also. I am planning on buying one in the future when I stumble over a bunch of hard drives for cheap again. I just wish Norco will come out with backplane options as they have done so before.
I actually was/am going to buy Ockie's card, I just want it for the ports, nothing else, is it at least fast enough to do backup to 1 drive at a time in JBOD mode....???I just ran through your thread from the beginning and saw the Adaptec you were considering and thought "uh oh - no he didn't.." I wouldn't wish that thing on my enemy. I bought one back in January to test thinking it was too good to be true for the price on ebay. It was too good to be true. Insanely, ridiculously slow performance with any of the raid functionality. I created a Raid0 array (to avoid having to wait out a raid5 array init just for testing) with 16 drives and I was getting the throughput of a SINGLE drive (like 60mbps). Something's clearly wrong with that card (not defective - I mean a crap chip and shameful engineering) and after doing some reading online I noticed same issues experienced by others. Perhaps it'll serve your backup purpose, but I have mine sitting in a drawer since I don't even want to sell it on ebay and have someone ding my feedback with "it's so slow something's wrong with it I want a refund - wah wah".
No offense meant just my observations - I'm surely spoiled by my Areca 1280ML and 2 x Adaptec 52245 (the 5-series Adaptec's are the first Adaptec raid cards in their history that haven't SUCKED). I almost bought a 1680ix-24 recently when I thought my 1280ML died, but as I've read the 1280ML's are just touchy with the Supermicro X7DWN+ getting past BIOS/post firmware init.
That is one thing, I do not get why you guys like those Supermicro mobos so much, I just bought an Asus board with almost the same specs for $305, less the fact that all the connectors line so well in that Supermicro case.. I hate consumer Asus mobos, but their server lineup works very well..... just curious, not looking to start a brand fight!!!