The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - Post your 10TB+ systems

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[OC]Pik4chu;1038493892 said:
By using a PSU capable of running your machine and not skimping out. Never had any trouble hotswapping in my machines... Or you have a really cheap backplane, or both.
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Mine actually does this also, it doesnt matter if there are 2 drives or 10. When you add the new drive you can hear all the heads park on every other drive in the system, im not running raid so its not an issue but it is something I've noticed.
 
[OC]Pik4chu;1038493892 said:
By using a PSU capable of running your machine and not skimping out. Never had any trouble hotswapping in my machines... Or you have a really cheap backplane, or both.
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PCP&C 750W for the following (no backplane):

2x sossaman (essentially laptop CPUs)
6x 512MB ram
12 fans
PCI sound card
M1015 RAID
9 HDDs
DVD
 
35.2tb

Fractal Define XL
Silverstone Strider 1500w
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (placeholder while MSI Big Bang Xpower is RMA'ed)
i7 920 @ 4.4ghz
12gb DDR3 1600mhz CL8
Gigabyte GTX 480
Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
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(1)Crucial M4 128gb
(1) OCZ Vertex 2 60gb
(5) Western Digital 1tb Black FALS
(5) Samsung F4 2tb
(2) Seagate Barracuda Green 2tb
(1) Western Digital 2tb Black FAEX
(1) Hitachi 3tb 7K3000
(3) Seagate 3tb Barracuda
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Windows 7 Ultimate

Unfortunately this is the culmination of eliminating my server for the time being while I'm cramped for space and even more cramped for cool air in a confined space. Currently the only backup is of my SSD and "Storage" drive, via Acronis, that contains data I can't afford to lose, everything else has a batch file that runs on startup/shutdown to create a list of data on every drive so that I know what to replace in the event of catastrophic failure.

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I've the XCase long chasis, very happy with the product and the treatment from the web
 
Thx for the info on the EU Norco distributor, will look into that some more while I plan my NAS 2.0
 
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15.5TB

Cooler Master 590
XFX 750W Black Edition
MSI H57M-ED65
Intel i3 530
G-Skil 2x2GB ECO
SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
(2) 2TB WD20EARX
(4) 2TB WD20EARS
(5) 1.5TB ST31500341AS
APC RS 1500
unRAID Server Pro 5.0-beta12a

This guy is designed for my digital media archiving and general storage/download location. I run SABnzbd, sickbeard and mysql for xbmc library on top of unraid.

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antec 1200
i7 2600
mobo, asrock extreme4 gen 3 z68
16gb of corsair vengance ddr3 1600mhz
intel pcie gigabit nic
corsair force series 3 60bg ssd for os (server 2008 r2 enterprise)
pc power and cooling silence 760
highpoint 2720 sgl pcie x8 mini sas card.
cooler master hyper 212 cooler

and now for hard drives added some new, some are old
3x seagte 2tb 5900 rpm
1x 2tb hitachi 7200rpm
2x seagate 1.5tb 7200rpm
3x wd green 1tb 5400rpm
1x seagate 1tb 7200rpm
1x 150gb raptor x 10k rpm (for vm's)
1x 160 gb hitachi 7200rpm 2.5 in (for vm's) had laying around
1x seagate 80gb 7200 rpm (for nightly image backups of server 2008

Using drive bender I have 13.6tb of formatted storage

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.: SERVER :.
Hosting all main data for myself to use & others to copy.

26.075TB

[CPU]: AMD Athlon II X6 1055T 6-Core
[MoBo]: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
[RAM]: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 (4*2GB)
[OS]: Seagate 2TB Partitioned (60gb/1.75TB)
[RAIDCTLR]: LSI 9220-8i, Supertrak PROMISE 16350 16-Port, LSI 4-Port
[HDD1]: *8 2TB (Sorted Downloads) (16TB)
[HDD2]: *3 Samsung 1.5TBs (4.5TB)
[HDD3]: *4 3TB (12TB)
[GFX]: ATI Sapphire HD6870 1GB
[PSU]: Coolermaster 650w
[CASE]: Thermaltake Armor Full-Size
*5 Lian Li 3-in-2 Bay Modules
Dell 10GbE Copper Card (10gbps) (LANs)

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.: MiNiSERVER :.
Hosting Backups for others as well as storage for data movements.

10.747TB

[CPU]: Intel Pentium 4 3Ghz
[MoBo]: Some Acer thing
[RAM]: 4GB DDR2
[OS]: Seagate 40GB 2.5" (Ex-PS3 Drive)
[RAIDCTLR]: Supertrak PROMISE 16350 16-Port
[HDD1]: *4 1.5TB (6TB)
[HDD2]: *2 2TB (4TB)
[HDD3]: *1 1TB
[HDD4]: *1 500GB
[PSU]: Powerman 460w
[CASE]: Thermaltake ITX Case

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My Rig: 45TB Useable (2 X RAID 6 Arrays- cuz RAID is not backup!)
(2) Lian Li A77F: Main Server and Backup
(8) SuperMicro 5 into 3 Cages
(1) Areca 1880ix-12 (1GB Cache)
(2) Intel SAS Expanders
CPU: Intel i7-2600K
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: Galaxy GTX460
(27) Samsung F4 HD204UI 2TB drives
(2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives
(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives (Spares)

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Earl H said:
My Rig: 45TB Useable (2 X RAID 6 Arrays- cuz RAID is not backup!)
(2) Lian Li A77F: Main Server and Backup
(8) SuperMicro 5 into 3 Cages
(1) Areca 1880ix-12 (1GB Cache)
(2) Intel SAS Expanders
CPU: Intel i7-2600K
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: Galaxy GTX460
(27) Samsung F4 HD204UI 2TB drives
(2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives
(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives (Spares)

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What is your OS ? Very great conf. What type of data do you stock (topsite ? :)
 
Earl H said:
My Rig: 45TB Useable (2 X RAID 6 Arrays- cuz RAID is not backup!)
(2) Lian Li A77F: Main Server and Backup
(8) SuperMicro 5 into 3 Cages
(1) Areca 1880ix-12 (1GB Cache)
(2) Intel SAS Expanders
CPU: Intel i7-2600K
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: Galaxy GTX460
(27) Samsung F4 HD204UI 2TB drives
(2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives
(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives (Spares)
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internals please :eek:
also curious to see the cable connections between both towers
 
Origin_Unknown said:
internals please :eek:
also curious to see the cable connections between both towers
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Will try to get pics of internals tomorrow. I just buttoned everything up rebuilt/combined my backup arrays after swapping everything over from Coolermaster 590 and 2 8-bay eSata enclosures(need to spend some more time prettying things up) and was happy to get it all together...so wasn't thinking about getting pics of the insides.

Re: connection between towers...its a single SFF-8088 cable.
 
Mortis360 said:
Here's my NAS, its built in a Fractal Design Array R2 with Fractal's 300W SFX power supply.

This is a setup with FreeNAS 8.0.3 right now, six 2TB drives, three of then WD Green and three Seagate Barracuda, within the summer I'll change the WD drives, for Seagates.
This is running RAID-Z2, so there's 7,8TB usable space, out of total 12TB, two drives are spare. FreeNAS is installed at a 4GB USB-pen, that's inside the case.

Components:
  • MB: Zotac H67ITX-C-E
  • CPU: Intel Core i3 2100T
  • RAM: Kingston ValueRAM DDR3-PC10600 8GB
  • HDD 1-3: Seagate Barracuda 2TB (ST2000DM001)
  • HDD 3-6: Western Digital Caviar Green (2TB WD20EARS)
  • Ethernet: Intel Pro/1000CT (EXPI9301CT)
  • OS: FreeNAS 8.0.3 (X64)
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Hi Mortis360....

Really love your build! I was thinking about building something very similar.

I've been searching all over the web trying to find a good ITX board that I'm sure will run FreeNAS 8.0.3. Was installation straight forward, or did you have any problems that required searching for drivers or making custom changes.

Thanks in advance
 
Earl H said:
My Rig: 45TB Useable (2 X RAID 6 Arrays- cuz RAID is not backup!)
(2) Lian Li A77F: Main Server and Backup
(8) SuperMicro 5 into 3 Cages
(1) Areca 1880ix-12 (1GB Cache)
(2) Intel SAS Expanders
CPU: Intel i7-2600K
Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 WS Revolution
GPU: Galaxy GTX460
(27) Samsung F4 HD204UI 2TB drives
(2) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives
(4) Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 2TB Drives (Spares)

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Very Nice!!!!!
 
Thanks ALpHaMoNk, wasn't really sure what i bought...

hopefully i get the one with the cables, it was a supplier sku at NCIX so i hope o get teh one with the cables.
 
Scharnhorst said:
Hello

please find underneath my new server based on PC Q25

CASE : Lian Li PC-Q25
PSU : BeQuiet 350W 80+ Gold
MB : Asus P8H67-I
CPU : Core I3-2100
RAM : Gskill 8GB DDR3 1600
STORAGE : 12.064 TB
- SSD OCZ 64 GB
- 2*2TB WD EARS
- 1*2TB WD EARX
- 2*2TB Samsung F3 ECO 2
- 1*2TB Seagate Green
PCIE : Sata/Esata 3 Card
OS : Server 2008 R2


- Video& music streaming
- UPNP
- FTPES
- …

Connected to gigabit lan and optical fiber 100/100MB
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Hello,

Small modification on my server. I bought a 5K4000 4TB in Tokyo (Tsukomo)







Some benchs



 
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Starting my build. Im waiting for the 10th drive to arrive! I have a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 as the main OS i think or if free nas then as a catch. 18TB shown, tartget is 20tb

 
Pjalchemist said:
Starting my build. Im waiting for the 10th drive to arrive! I have a 240GB OCZ Vertex 3 as the main OS i think or if free nas then as a catch. 18TB shown, tartget is 20tb
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Looks good Pjalchemist. What kinda case are you gonna put that 20TB in??
 
got my intel sas expander yesterday and it came with the cables...:D

not bad for 237 bucks pm'ed ofcourse
 
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