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A job, a lot of sweat, a lot of swearing, and an unaware wife
So im guessing some kind of construction, and your wife must not pay attention at all
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A job, a lot of sweat, a lot of swearing, and an unaware wife
I have one question (sorry if I missed the obvious somewhere), been thinking hard about picking up a Supermicro SAT2 MV8 SATA Controller, do these things support port multiplication? If not I would need to find a board that has 3 PCI-X slots to be able to fill all 20 bays of the Norco 4020, unless there is an easier way?
If not I would need to find a board that has 3 PCI-X slots to be able to fill all 20 bays of the Norco 4020, unless there is an easier way?
Hey Ockie I know you have used a lot of those 5/4 in 3 hotswap cages...which one do you recommend for 3.5 SAS drives?
That looks like the bigger version of the rack that I plan on picking up during the week. Found one of the Dell 2410s locally. Looks nice with the lights off, but I think the little HP server feels all alone way up at the top.
I assume the red lights on the Norco trays are HDD activity LEDs, how'd you manage that?
I have never bought a server rack before, but there is one for sale in the FS/FT forum here. Is this a good one?
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1287529
I don't know what you mean? The light signaling is built into the backplane, no signaling wires was needed.
He's using SATA drives. Maybe it's because the 1280ML expects to be connected to a backplane (and if you haven't, that means those I2C connectors aren't being used). Otherwise, it has LED headers on the board.Are you using SAS drives?
No blinking lights with my SATA drives and an ARC-1280ML
Are you using SAS drives?
No blinking lights with my SATA drives and an ARC-1280ML
Update with pics:
The rack in progress...
The new APC 3000's... pretty nice, I like the load so far
Little blinky lights...
All 3 Galaxies, the bottom one isn't completed yet.
The two new 30amp breakers, more power captain!
Are you using SAS drives?
No blinking lights with my SATA drives and an ARC-1280ML
Dude.. you just need to look real close - the orange lights are kind of faint during activity. Even if I run an HDTune read bench which pegs them all to be solidly lit, they're still kind of faint. Kind of piss poor on Norco's part, "but on the other hand, the low price" *roll eyes*
I too thought I didn't have activity lights at first, but they ARE there. Mine are also connected to an 1280ML in one of my two Norco 4020's.
Hell even if you connect a SATA cable between the motherboard and drive bays you get activity - its just coming off the SATA cable, no signal cables required.
Dude.. you just need to look real close - the orange lights are kind of faint during activity. Even if I run an HDTune read bench which pegs them all to be solidly lit, they're still kind of faint. Kind of piss poor on Norco's part, "but on the other hand, the low price" *roll eyes*
I too thought I didn't have activity lights at first, but they ARE there. Mine are also connected to an 1280ML in one of my two Norco 4020's.
Hell even if you connect a SATA cable between the motherboard and drive bays you get activity - its just coming off the SATA cable, no signal cables required.
Actually my activity lights are just as bright as the online leds.... this is the same with all 3 systems using the norco cases.
Long shot, do you use both molex connectors on each row? (yes, this is a long shot, like the distance between earth and the sun long..)
Update: Last two servers ordered... so pics of the entire project coming soon. I hope things will go smoothly from now on (curses at power sports company for ordering all the wrong snowmobile stuff, curses at paypals security key issue, curses at directv) so much went wrong tonight, it was almost commical.
There is a discussion going on about WHS on avsforums right now, and someone mentioned that there is a 16tb limit since WHS is a 32bit operating system.
This is not good for me since I plan on putting nothing but 1tb drives into my WHS setup, which means I can will have a total of 21tb as a result.
Is this true?
There is a discussion going on about WHS on avsforums right now, and someone mentioned that there is a 16tb limit since WHS is a 32bit operating system.
This is not good for me since I plan on putting nothing but 1tb drives into my WHS setup, which means I can will have a total of 21tb as a result.
Is this true?
Doubt it, no one on [H] (that I know of) has had that problem
There is a discussion going on about WHS on avsforums right now, and someone mentioned that there is a 16tb limit since WHS is a 32bit operating system.
This is not good for me since I plan on putting nothing but 1tb drives into my WHS setup, which means I can will have a total of 21tb as a result.
Is this true?
Yea I'm not quite there myself but I know Ockie has one of those full of 1tb and I hadn't heard a thing about it from him...also he does his HW before he jumps on a new system and I think that would have thrown red flags all over the place.
That's good to know.
Just a little update on my WHS build. I ended up buying a new CPU and motherboard, since my old board could not support the installation of another Supermicro card. If all goes well then I should have everything by the end of this week to give it another try.
Edit: Ockie, what drivers did you use for the supermicro cards?
Edit2: nvm, found the drivers here
<snip>The largest galaxy with WHS is 21 terrabytes and I plan on swapping all the drives out to two terrabyte drives the moment they come out. WHS has no unreasonable drive nor space limitations.
There is a discussion going on about WHS on avsforums right now, and someone mentioned that there is a 16tb limit since WHS is a 32bit operating system.
This is not good for me since I plan on putting nothing but 1tb drives into my WHS setup, which means I can will have a total of 21tb as a result.
Is this true?
I have never bought a server rack before, but there is one for sale in the FS/FT forum here. Is this a good one?
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1287529
LOL - we're in the same boat as far as preferring the 2Tb size and wanting to skip over the whole 1.5Tb factor. I did a whole spiel about it on avsforum.
What's crazy is that the prices I'm seeing for the 1.5Tb drives is going to make them EXTREMELY cost effective - for the first time in history (or at least the last 10-15 years) a new larger size factor is going to come out that isn't disproportionately more expensive than the next size down. The Seagate 1.5Tb's are showing $189 on Ingram Micro, and elsewhere $199 (retail), which in terms of 1Tb pricing would be the equivalent of $125-$131 depending on where you source from.
So, a lot of people "buying new" for an array are going to enjoy some great pricing for the 1.5Tb factor despite its 'flagship' size status, unlike previous generations of size factors (i.e. when 1Tb came out and was more than three times the price of 500Gb).
Still I'm going to ignore 1.5Tb in any large quantities for new arrays in anticipation of the 2Tb form factor, except for buying maybe 4 to 8 to test out in array use.