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Alright, well after spending hours reading worklogs from the storage greats like the Ockie and gjvrieve I've decided to embark on my own journey.
Goals:
To make a rackmount server for my home that will provide an easy to use virtual environment and massive amounts of storage for all my movies and backups. The idea is to create server that will be easily upgradeable in the future, and will allow for JIT(just in time) storage. In addition I want to keep cost under $1000.
The reason for this build is because I backup and render to x264.mkv every movie that I purchase because it allows me to keep the disc in good condition and store it away, also it allows me to easily pipe media around my house to my other pcs and to my home theatre. Well with the invention of blu-ray Ive gone from buying DVD's to BD's. The storage needs for my server increased overnight and im adding around 300gb a month right now(Each movie is anywhere btwn 6-10gb after its rendered).
The Story of the Phoenix
The Parts List:
NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case
SUPERMICRO MBD-PDSME+-O LGA 775 Intel 3010 ATX Server Motherboard
Supermicro IPMI Remote lights out management (maybe depends on budget)
Intel Core2Quad Q660
3.0gb DDR2 667Mhz
PC Power & Cooling PSU - model to be determined
Adaptec AAR-2810SA/21610 PCI-X SATA RAID card 16-port
A bunch of HDD's to be determined(anyone got around 15-20 sata HDD's?)
Slim DVD slot load preferably sata
VMware ESXi
This is the case I will getting....I love hot-swap drives
Goals:
To make a rackmount server for my home that will provide an easy to use virtual environment and massive amounts of storage for all my movies and backups. The idea is to create server that will be easily upgradeable in the future, and will allow for JIT(just in time) storage. In addition I want to keep cost under $1000.
The reason for this build is because I backup and render to x264.mkv every movie that I purchase because it allows me to keep the disc in good condition and store it away, also it allows me to easily pipe media around my house to my other pcs and to my home theatre. Well with the invention of blu-ray Ive gone from buying DVD's to BD's. The storage needs for my server increased overnight and im adding around 300gb a month right now(Each movie is anywhere btwn 6-10gb after its rendered).
The Story of the Phoenix
Like many of the richest traditions of our literary heritage, the origins of the story of the phoenix are lost in antiquity. As it has come to us through the ages, the phoenix lore is a kind of composite of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman mythology. It is a part of that vast store of ancient metaphysics which made an attempt to explain understandably those abstract and intangible forces and ideals of life which have become the foundation stones of our civilization.
The phoenix is said to have been a large and magnificent bird, much like an eagle, with georgeous red and golden plumage. The Greek word "phoenix" means "bright colored." It is first known to have been sacred to the Egyptian sun god, Ra, and was especially worshiped at Heliopolis in Egypt. Apparently, then, from the very first the phoenix was associated with the sun.
According to tradition, however, the phoenix lived not in Egypt, but in Arabia, which was indeed a land of the sun. The bird was always a male and was reputed to live for 500 years. Never more than one phoenix was alive at a time. During its long life the phoenix strove ever sunward, but, as its span of life was nearing an end, it built a large of twigs of spice trees and myrrh. The the phoenix set the nest on fire and was consumed by the flames. Out of the ashes came forth another phoenix, as beautiful and strong as the old, to live another five hundred years. As soon as the young phoenix reached maturity, he took up the remaining ashes of his father, covered them with spices, and flew to Heliopolis in Egypt, where he deposited them with reverence on the altar of the sun.
The phoenix, born of fire out of the ashes, became the symbol of resurrection and eternal life. To the Hellenic Greeks the phoenix represented everlasting life, and by Hellenistic times it came to signify glory and might of maesty as well. Romans were ardent in their veneration of the phoenix, and they saw in it a promise of life after death, which had meant so much to the ancient Egyptians. In the second century after the death of Christ, early Christian theologians, keenly aware of the powerful attraction of the idea of the phoenix, attempted to transmute the symbol of the phoenix to the symbol of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Parts List:
NORCO RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case
SUPERMICRO MBD-PDSME+-O LGA 775 Intel 3010 ATX Server Motherboard
Supermicro IPMI Remote lights out management (maybe depends on budget)
Intel Core2Quad Q660
3.0gb DDR2 667Mhz
PC Power & Cooling PSU - model to be determined
Adaptec AAR-2810SA/21610 PCI-X SATA RAID card 16-port
A bunch of HDD's to be determined(anyone got around 15-20 sata HDD's?)
Slim DVD slot load preferably sata
VMware ESXi
Windows Home Server
Untangle 5
Untangle 5
This is the case I will getting....I love hot-swap drives
