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

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Shoop said:
Had this running for almost a year now. Just upgraded the processor. Used primarily for my movies to stream movies to my HTPC's or to upload movies to my tablet or phone for on the go.
Intel i5 3450
Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3
8GB ram corsair
Intel Nic
SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8
Seasonic X650
2TB Samsung F4 x 4
3TB Hitachi X 4
1TB Samsung F3 x 1
500gb western digial x 1
WHS 2011


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Any one know the NAS software that runs on a thumb drive.

The site also pre sold these cases with everything but the drives.

I canst seem to find it.
 
Update yet again..

[CPU]: AMD Athlon II X6 1055T 6-Core
[MoBo]: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
[RAM]: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 (4*2GB)
[RAIDCTLR]: LSI 9220-8i (aka IBM M1015), PROMISE Supertrak 16port EX16350
[HDDJBOD]: 2x2TB Seagate, WD 1TB, Samsung 500GB
[HDDRaid1]: 6x2TB WD Raid0 (12TB)
[HDDRaid2]: 4x2TB Seagate Raid 0 (8TB)
[HDDRaid3]: 4x1.5TB Samsung Raid 0 (6TB)
[HDDRaid4]: 4x3TB WD Raid 0 (12TB)
................................43.5TB Retail, 40.5TB~ Usable.
[GFX]: ATI Sapphire HD6870 1GB
[PSU]: Coolermaster 650w
[CASE]: Lian Li V2000 w/ Cabling by STUdog(TM)
Dell 10GbE Copper Card (10gbps) (LANs)

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jacobt844 said:
Update yet again..

[CPU]: AMD Athlon II X6 1055T 6-Core
[MoBo]: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
[RAM]: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 (4*2GB)
[RAIDCTLR]: LSI 9220-8i (aka IBM M1015), PROMISE Supertrak 16port EX16350
[HDDJBOD]: 2x2TB Seagate, WD 1TB, Samsung 500GB
[HDDRaid1]: 6x2TB WD Raid0 (12TB)
[HDDRaid2]: 4x2TB Seagate Raid 0 (8TB)
[HDDRaid3]: 4x1.5TB Samsung Raid 0 (6TB)
[HDDRaid4]: 4x3TB WD Raid 0 (12TB)
................................43.5TB Retail, 40.5TB~ Usable.
[GFX]: ATI Sapphire HD6870 1GB
[PSU]: Coolermaster 650w
[CASE]: Lian Li V2000 w/ Cabling by STUdog(TM)
Dell 10GbE Copper Card (10gbps) (LANs)
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I thought I was bad with two sets of 8TB in Raid 0 "one mirrors the other". This however, is pretty colossal. I assume you have a pretty good backup strategy?
 
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Village Idiot said:
I thought I was bad with two sets of 8TB in Raid 0 "one mirrors the other". This however, is pretty colossal. I assume you have a pretty good backup strategy?
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About 10 different friends who have the same data as I do; it's just filled with general stuff like movies, tv etc etc
 
jacobt844 said:
Update yet again..

[CPU]: AMD Athlon II X6 1055T 6-Core
[MoBo]: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3
[RAM]: Kingston HyperX 8GB 1600mhz DDR3 (4*2GB)
[RAIDCTLR]: LSI 9220-8i (aka IBM M1015), PROMISE Supertrak 16port EX16350
[HDDJBOD]: 2x2TB Seagate, WD 1TB, Samsung 500GB
[HDDRaid1]: 6x2TB WD Raid0 (12TB)
[HDDRaid2]: 4x2TB Seagate Raid 0 (8TB)
[HDDRaid3]: 4x1.5TB Samsung Raid 0 (6TB)
[HDDRaid4]: 4x3TB WD Raid 0 (12TB)
................................43.5TB Retail, 40.5TB~ Usable.
[GFX]: ATI Sapphire HD6870 1GB
[PSU]: Coolermaster 650w
[CASE]: Lian Li V2000 w/ Cabling by STUdog(TM)
Dell 10GbE Copper Card (10gbps) (LANs)
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You sir have won the worst raid server build ever on this thread
 
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fXK said:
You sir have won the worst raid server build ever on this thread
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How can you consider it "worst" when it's not setup to your standards for its purpose?
It suits me absolutely fine, I can store all my movies and media on large raids, have great speeds and get everything I need.
 
fXK: We can't fix stupid, just lean back and watch the fun when that rig inevitably blows up.
 
Wibla said:
fXK: We can't fix stupid, just lean back and watch the fun when that rig inevitably blows up.
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Well, he did say that his friends have copies of the data, though personally speaking I'd hate to spend the time doing a restore when the setup fails. :p I guess if you consider your personal time (and the time of your friends) to be free it's an acceptable solution.

Considering that it's all JBOD/RAID 0, I'm not sure calling it a raid setup is applicable actually. There's no redundancy in there at all ;)
 
nOrVow said:
How are the acoustics on those drive bay converters? Are they loud and whiny? Good setup, btw.
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The fans that came with the SuperMicro drive bays were loud. I replaced all the fans with Noctua NF-B9's.
 
jacobt844 said:
How can you consider it "worst" when it's not setup to your standards for its purpose?
It suits me absolutely fine, I can store all my movies and media on large raids, have great speeds and get everything I need.
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I agree. You can build whatever you want that fits your needs. Great build.
 
jacobt844 said:
How can you consider it "worst" when it's not setup to your standards for its purpose?
It suits me absolutely fine, I can store all my movies and media on large raids, have great speeds and get everything I need.
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I think the problem is that "great" speed is not needed for a media server.

To get the "great" speed on your 12TB RAID you risk losing 12TB of data due to a single hard drive failure rather than just 2TB.

In addition you need to spin 6 drives to view a movie when spinning 1 would do.
 
Geez, imagine if one of those 2TB failed (6x2TB setup). At least 1 or 2 mirroring raid's for redundancy would've provided a better overall (&) backup solution if one of the stripped raid's failed.
 
My home network is running for some time now

Isp connection
Cable 120/10 down & up
VSDL 40/3 down & up

Switch
Dell 5324 24 port gigabit
Tp-link 24 port gigabit

http://server04.us.steambay.eu/foto/2012-06-13%2013.21.50.jpg

Nas01
Case Norco RPC-2208
PSU Zippy/emacs P2h-6550p
Motherboard Asus P5G41T-M LE
CPU Intel® Core™2 Quad 9550
RAM 4 GB DDR3 Kingston Valueram
Controller Cards Areca 1222
Hard Drives 8x WD20EADS 2TB Raid5 2x ST9320325AS 320GB
Battery Backup Units APC Smart-UPS 750VA
Operating System Openmediavault 0.3

Nas02
Case DS211j
PSU 100V
CPU 1.2GHz
RAM DDR2 128MB
Hard Drives 2x 2TB Samsung HD204UI raid 0
Operating System DSM 4.0

http://server04.us.steambay.eu/foto/2012-06-13%2013.17.32.jpg

Nas03
Case Chenbro ES34069
PSU 120 watt
Motherboard Itx Mobo
CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
RAM 4 gb ram Kingston
Hard Drives 5x 2TB Samsung HD204UI raid5
Battery Backup Units APC Smart-UPS 750VA
Operating System Openmediavault 0.3

Xen01
Case Norco RPC-2208
PSU Recom 850 Watt
Motherboard Asus P5G41T-M LE
CPU Intel® Core™2 Quad 9550
RAM 8 GB DDR3 Kingston Valueram
Hard Drives WD 2720gb
Battery Backup Units APC Smart-UPS 750VA
Operating System Xenserver 6.0

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Neb said:
Well, he did say that his friends have copies of the data, though personally speaking I'd hate to spend the time doing a restore when the setup fails. :p I guess if you consider your personal time (and the time of your friends) to be free it's an acceptable solution.

Considering that it's all JBOD/RAID 0, I'm not sure calling it a raid setup is applicable actually. There's no redundancy in there at all ;)
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Well majority of my raids do over 400-500mb/s - and friends raids are even faster. Using a 10gbit card which I also run and so do they, can get 15TB copied in under a night

Works well for Lan parties too, all the users can get what they want in an acceptable amount of time
 
^^^ Great minds think a like. :D


I've just started adding the drive cases. There's going to be a couple of twists to mine. But other than that ... your setup is exactly what I'm going for.
 
Update to a previous post. New case, more storage SSD and RAM.

Total Advertised: 20TB
Total Available: 16TB

Case: Supermicro SC743TQ-865-SQ and CSE-M35T-1
Motherboard: Asus P7H55-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-660
RAM: 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333
NIC: Intel Gigabit
SAS HBA: IBM ServRAID M1015
SAS Expander: Intel RES2SV240
Storage:
5 x 2TB WD20EARS
3 x 2TB Hitachi 5K3000
2 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI
HDD Boot: 128 GB Crucial M4
8GB Sandisk Extreme CF 60MB/s
Battery Backup: APC Back-UPS Pro 650
OS: Gentoo Linux, MD Raid 6 -> dm-crypt -> LVM -> ext4, waiting for Btrfs to stabilize

Album for more photos

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BobbyTables said:
Update to a previous post. New case, more storage SSD and RAM.

Total Advertised: 20TB
Total Available: 16TB

Case: Supermicro SC743TQ-865-SQ and CSE-M35T-1
Motherboard: Asus P7H55-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-660
RAM: 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333
NIC: Intel Gigabit
SAS HBA: IBM ServRAID M1015
SAS Expander: Intel RES2SV240
Storage:
5 x 2TB WD20EARS
3 x 2TB Hitachi 5K3000
2 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI
HDD Boot: 128 GB Crucial M4
8GB Sandisk Extreme CF 60MB/s
Battery Backup: APC Back-UPS Pro 650
OS: Gentoo Linux, MD Raid 6 -> dm-crypt -> LVM -> ext4, waiting for Btrfs to stabilize
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how long does the UPS hold up with that config? :)
 
kac77 said:
^^^ Great minds think a like. :D


I've just started adding the drive cases. There's going to be a couple of twists to mine. But other than that ... your setup is exactly what I'm going for.
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Why not go for the norco cases? more cheaper
 
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gmutale said:
I wanted his experience :rolleyes:
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It's pulling around 139 watts right now (according to a Kill A Watt meter) so looking at the runtime graph on APCs website that would give me theoretically about 30 minutes of runtime during a power outage. I don't have an offical APC battery so that may make a difference. I've never done any long power outage tests and haven't had much success monitoring the power status with the serial interface port.

But overall i've very happy with this UPS I got it pretty much free at a neighbors garage sale minus the cost of a battery and paint job. Where I live the power is very stable, but I've seen (rather heard, the transformer is very audible when it kicks in) it perform as it should when the main power does go down.
 
BobbyTables said:
It's pulling around 139 watts right now (according to a Kill A Watt meter) so looking at the runtime graph on APCs website that would give me theoretically about 30 minutes of runtime during a power outage. I don't have an offical APC battery so that may make a difference. I've never done any long power outage tests and haven't had much success monitoring the power status with the serial interface port.

But overall i've very happy with this UPS I got it pretty much free at a neighbors garage sale minus the cost of a battery and paint job. Where I live the power is very stable, but I've seen (rather heard, the transformer is very audible when it kicks in) it perform as it should when the main power does go down.
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that's usually easy to fix, the next time your lab is down, open it up and tighten the tx bracket that bolts it to the bottom chassis, the hum will go away, also tighten the case cover too :)

We had one of these at work that drove me nuts when it kicked in, so i took it apart and put lock tight on the bolts that hold the tx to the bracket, then put rubber spacers on the back chassis cover so it didn't vibrate and drive us nuts..
 
I am looking at building my own case. Anyone able to suggest hotswap bays that do not include a fan that would work? Most of the ones I have found with fans seem to have lots of fan failures at least over at Tigerdirect.com. Thanks in advance!
 
Hey I've got a file server only 8tb though :( but ran out of sata ports, does anyone know a good port multiplier?
 
apekatt said:
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I'm looking for these kind of performance with the same quantity of hard drive... I hope with 7200trs, it will be faster :)

  1. Have you "WDidle" these green drive before formatting ?
  2. No SSD for ZIL or L2ARC ?
  3. Do you have 1 gigabit or 10 GbE network ?

Cheers.

St3F
 
BobbyTables said:
Update to a previous post. New case, more storage SSD and RAM.

Total Advertised: 20TB
Total Available: 16TB

Case: Supermicro SC743TQ-865-SQ and CSE-M35T-1
Motherboard: Asus P7H55-M Pro
CPU: Intel Core i5-660
RAM: 4 x 2GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333
NIC: Intel Gigabit
SAS HBA: IBM ServRAID M1015
SAS Expander: Intel RES2SV240
Storage:
5 x 2TB WD20EARS
3 x 2TB Hitachi 5K3000
2 x 2TB Samsung HD204UI
HDD Boot: 128 GB Crucial M4
8GB Sandisk Extreme CF 60MB/s
Battery Backup: APC Back-UPS Pro 650
OS: Gentoo Linux, MD Raid 6 -> dm-crypt -> LVM -> ext4, waiting for Btrfs to stabilize

Album for more photos

http://i.imgur.com/iSeIe.jpg

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Y U NO use ECC?! :confused:

By the way, is your name from [url]http://xkcd.com/327/[/url] ? :D
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