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As much as I hate quoting with pics, this FAIL get the prize.
APC 1U UPS (way too small for the setup) that runs hot normally and hotter when on battery sitting on carpet floor with 50-70 KG's stacked on top.
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Well I would hope that a rackmount UPS is designed for front to back air flow.
Then again I've seen some that don't even have any fans at all. Kinda bad design.
Personally I'd put that stuff in a rack in a separate room though but that's just me. But that gets a pass, because seeing a box full of hard drives is just damn sexy.
Then again I've seen some that don't even have any fans at all. Kinda bad design.
Personally I'd put that stuff in a rack in a separate room though but that's just me. But that gets a pass, because seeing a box full of hard drives is just damn sexy.
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Look under the desk in the back. There's a standalone 1500vA UPS which is powering the two 4Us. The two 2Us are running off the 1U UPS. And even if it wasn't, the 1U is a 1000vA (or 1500, I can't recall) UPS. More than enough to run those two boxes at full tilt (not that they ever are) for the 2-5 minutes it would take them to shut down. Combined, they draw something like 400W from the wall.
The airflow issue is the reason that they're sitting so far out in front of the desk instead of being flush with it. Temps aren't bad, but it is a bit of a space heater. Warmest room in the house, year round. (And yeah, I'd love to have another room to put them in... But this IS my "other room". My house only has two bedrooms!)
I am gonna cry by looking you pic. poor supermicro server .
get decent UPS with remote monitoring. used one is not expensive on 3bay and make sure remote/daugher adapter is included.
I pick 2 APC and 2 remote adapters. 1500VA each.
well batteries are extra, each UPS need 4 bats.
other thing, get half size rack for your poor server.
.get decent UPS with remote monitoring
. used one is not expensive on 3bay and make sure remote/daugher adapter is included.I pick 2 APC and 2 remote adapters. 1500VA each.
well batteries are extra, each UPS need 4 bats
.other thing, get half size rack for your poor server
.TorrentStation
* Game Tiger Mage Mi-3
* Seasonic G-500 (SSR-550RM)
* ASRock Z97 Extreme6
* Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 (BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0) x 4
* Intel® Core™ i5-4690
* Thermalright True Spirit 120M BW
* Thermalright X-Silent 140 x 3
* Syba SI-PEX40064 x 2
* APC Back-UPS ES 700
* HDD Seagate 3TB (ST3000DM001) x 5
* HDD WD Green 3TB (WD30EZRX) x 5
* HDD Toshiba 2TB (DT01ACA200)
* SSD Samsung 840 EVO 500GB (MZ-7TE500LW)
* SSD M.2 Samsung XP-941 128GB with Windows 7 64bit
* Pioneer BDR-206M (outside the case)
= CLICKable =
Handmade adapter for HDDs like Procase 5T3-3T5.
100 Mbps
24/7
160 W
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* HDD Seagate 5TB (STBV5000200 = ST5000DM000)
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* Game Tiger Mage Mi-3
* Seasonic G-500 (SSR-550RM)
* ASRock Z97 Extreme6
* Crucial Ballistix Tactical DDR3 (BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0) x 4
* Intel® Core™ i5-4690
* Thermalright True Spirit 120M BW
* Thermalright X-Silent 140 x 3
* Syba SI-PEX40064 x 2
* APC Back-UPS ES 700
* HDD Seagate 3TB (ST3000DM001) x 5
* HDD WD Green 3TB (WD30EZRX) x 5
* HDD Toshiba 2TB (DT01ACA200)
* SSD Samsung 840 EVO 500GB (MZ-7TE500LW)
* SSD M.2 Samsung XP-941 128GB with Windows 7 64bit
* Pioneer BDR-206M (outside the case)
= CLICKable =
Handmade adapter for HDDs like Procase 5T3-3T5.
100 Mbps
Total: 5x3 TB + 5x3 TB + 2 TB + 500 GB = 32,5 TB in One Chassis
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UPD №1.
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* HDD Seagate 5TB (STBV5000200 = ST5000DM000)
>> Total: 5x3 TB + 5x3 TB + 2 TB + 500 GB + 5 TB= 37,5 TB in One Chassis
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Nice fire hazard you have there.
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I don't get it. What part is a fire hazard?
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The desktop versions of those APC UPS;es get very hot when they are under battery discharge.
The 1U rackmount revisions get even hotter (less space for the battery to air out)
That 1U UPS is sandwiched between many pounds of servers and a rug.
I'm guessing that is what he is thinking.
Having the chassis of the APC rackmount unit in direct contact with combustible materials (carpet/flooring). Major no-no. If it burns your insurance company is almost guaranteed to refuse to cover.
The stack of stuff on top if it isn't really a problem, regardless of "weight". There is no expectation of ventilation from the top or bottom of rack-mount equipment. They are expect to almost touch with no airflow between them.
The stack of stuff on top if it isn't really a problem, regardless of "weight". There is no expectation of ventilation from the top or bottom of rack-mount equipment. They are expect to almost touch with no airflow between them.
I was referring to the whole lot. Not only the UPS on the carpet but the servers above it. They may have no expectation of ventilation, but they'll still get hot, and that's a wood table. Wood burns quite easily. Add in household fluff, perhaps pet hair, to act as kindling, and you have a disaster waiting to happen.
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Is there anything in the APC instructions that say to leave a U of space between the UPS? If not then technically he's not doing anything wrong. I would install fans in the UPS if there arn't any though. They just put a new one at work in one of the racks that's not on inverter power and they get high temp alarms all the time even if it's not hot in the room.
Not surprising that you'd take this position given the fire hazard you've posted pictures of in your basement...
No. Nothing in the APC instructions say to leave any space. But it does clearly say not to leave in contact with combustibles due to battery runaway risk. They expect that rackmount chassis will be mounted in a rack (doh!) and that the other things it touches above/below will be metal (double doh!)
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You don't necessarily need to leave space. Metal cases conduct heat. A rug does not.
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I would be more worried about battery acid from bulged/broken batteries than anything. The batteries in that apc will be under far more pressure with the weight of those servers, add the extra heat and you have the perfect combination for broken batteries.
At least in a rack you wouldn't have the additional smashing effect.
Battery acid on the feet at 3 am sounds great. The dog/cat/kid injesting it sounds even better.
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I prefer rackmount and easily changeable drives for stuff like this but I have to say this is a pretty awesome DIY design.
17TB storage (see sig). All internal. The 2 x SSDs are mounted via double sided tape behind the mobo tray. The other 5 x mechanical HDDs are mounted in the front drive rack behind 2 x 120 mm fans. Case handles it well, but with no side windows (as well as sound dampening insulation on the side, top, and bottom panels, I totally give up on cable management. You will be disgusted
Edit to include Pic when I get home (on vacation till early Dec)
Edit to include Pic when I get home (on vacation till early Dec)
What do you mean?Zarathustra[H];1041253897 said:
=> http://i.imgur.com/axIq5TR.png
There is no need to change HDDs.
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Current inventory:
49x2TB Seagate SAS
19x3TB Seagate SATA
3x320GB Western Digital SATA
2x160GB Western Digital SATA
2x256GB Samsung 840 Pro SATA SSD
1x128GB Samsung 840 Pro SATA SSD
1x300GB Western Digital VelociRaptor SATA
Failed inventory:
7x HP 300GB 10K SAS 2.5" (In various states of failure)
3x3TB Seagate SATA (In various states of failure)
12x2TB Seagate SAS (In various states of failure)
2x40GB Maxtor IDE (Untested in years)
I've also thrown away another two or three 3TB Seagate SATA drives over the years. Dunno why I didn't just keep 'em for the pile. I'd love to pick up another 24-bay chassis and make use of the 3TB drives, but finances don't allow for it at the moment. Maybe in the future.
Both chassis are identical, snapshot'd and rsync'd nightly:
Code:[root@nas ~]# zpool status pool pool: pool state: ONLINE status: The pool is formatted using a legacy on-disk format. The pool can still be used, but some features are unavailable. action: Upgrade the pool using 'zpool upgrade'. Once this is done, the pool will no longer be accessible on software that does not support feature flags. scan: scrub repaired 0 in 5h7m with 0 errors on Sat Sep 27 15:07:01 2014 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM pool ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f36cff ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034eb58bb ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f44577 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034e85e4b ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f422b7 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034e85c3f ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50040cf0c4f ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c500409ae567 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c500409946ff ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c5003c95a907 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034fbe17b ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3dfc7 ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-1 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3cc5f ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3e81f ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034ea0857 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034ff6167 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3decf ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f421c7 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3daeb ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034ff1b8b ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f42db7 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034f3d3ab ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c50034e011d3 ONLINE 0 0 0 scsi-35000c5003c95abdf ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors [root@nas ~]# df -h|grep -v tmpfs|grep -v oot Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on pool 36T 14T 22T 39% /pool
too bad you're not local.
got a 31u rack for sale
Right, so, back on topic I think. My setup as of late. Currently about half has been moved to a datacenter 15 minutes away to act as offsite backups.
Primary server consists of the following:
Supermicro 846E1
Supermicro X9SCM-F with Pentium G630T and 8gb ECC RAM
Intel 320 40gb SSD
Areca 1882i
24 x 2TB Hitachi disks
Secondary server consists of the following:
Supermicro 847E1
Supermicro X8DT3-F with Xeon L5630 and 8gb ECC RAM
Imation 32gb SSD
Areca 1880i
26 x 2TB Hitachi disks
10 x 1TB Hitachi disks
File servers #3 and #4 only have a couple disks each, so won't bother mentioning them. Third (and fourth, not pictured) 4U chassis aren't in use at the moment, but should be soon seeing as I'm completely out of space. Have only ~3TB total free.
Primary server consists of the following:
Supermicro 846E1
Supermicro X9SCM-F with Pentium G630T and 8gb ECC RAM
Intel 320 40gb SSD
Areca 1882i
24 x 2TB Hitachi disks
Secondary server consists of the following:
Supermicro 847E1
Supermicro X8DT3-F with Xeon L5630 and 8gb ECC RAM
Imation 32gb SSD
Areca 1880i
26 x 2TB Hitachi disks
10 x 1TB Hitachi disks
File servers #3 and #4 only have a couple disks each, so won't bother mentioning them. Third (and fourth, not pictured) 4U chassis aren't in use at the moment, but should be soon seeing as I'm completely out of space. Have only ~3TB total free.
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Wow that is an epic setup!
What does the back of that look like, cable fail or cable porn?
What does the back of that look like, cable fail or cable porn?
Lost-Benji
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I rebuild the APC UPS's regularly (they are strong and easy to source parts for) and I even have one of the 1U UPS's myself. They are only 1KVA (big claim) but realy only handle about 300W before being rather nasty on the output. I have pushed them to 500W but only with brand new batteries, once aged a little, the UPS is not suited for heavy systems. I also know these get very warm in operation hence the fail, same for your comment "Temps aren't bad", you cant tell when it is sandwiched like that!
Lift the hole lot off floor (if even only an inch) and get the weight of the servers off the UPS. it was never designed to have a weight on top (active components just under lid and fan is plastic and easy to crush/seize).
The UPS's come with a single rail kit and if you have seen one, you would know that they don't need space but also are not to have any weight on them.
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English dude!
So all that for a JBOD box with a screen-shot of drives too full....
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Raw: 86T
Usable: 59.073T
Supermicro SC846E16 & 2 x SE3016 SAS expanders
2 x SuperMicro 900 Watt
Supermicro X8DTE-F
2 x Xeon 5570 @ 2.93GHz
4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws 4Gb sticks
Adaptec 5805 HW Raid card
8 x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2T (HD204UI)
10 x Seagate Barracuda 3T (ST3000DM001)
10 x WD Red 4T (WD40EFRX)
Tripp Lite SMART1500LCDT 1500VA 900W UPS
Windows Server 2012
This system runs my Plex server and my downloads (usenet).
The hdd's are set up in 3 main storage arrays each in a Raid6 array:
Array #1: 8 x 2T Samsung (HD204UI)
Array #2: 8 x 3T Seagate (ST3000DM001)
Array #3: 10 x 4T WD Red (WD40EFRX)
I also have a Raid1 setup using 2 x 3T Segate hdd's to download to.
Inside the Supermicro case
Array #1 is stored in the supermicro case (SC846E16)
Array #2&3 are in the middle case (SE3016)
Raid1 for downloads is in the bottom case (SE3016)
This is all in my computer room in a 26U rack:
Usable: 59.073T
Supermicro SC846E16 & 2 x SE3016 SAS expanders
2 x SuperMicro 900 Watt
Supermicro X8DTE-F
2 x Xeon 5570 @ 2.93GHz
4 x G.SKILL Ripjaws 4Gb sticks
Adaptec 5805 HW Raid card
8 x Samsung Spinpoint F4EG 2T (HD204UI)
10 x Seagate Barracuda 3T (ST3000DM001)
10 x WD Red 4T (WD40EFRX)
Tripp Lite SMART1500LCDT 1500VA 900W UPS
Windows Server 2012
This system runs my Plex server and my downloads (usenet).
The hdd's are set up in 3 main storage arrays each in a Raid6 array:
Array #1: 8 x 2T Samsung (HD204UI)
Array #2: 8 x 3T Seagate (ST3000DM001)
Array #3: 10 x 4T WD Red (WD40EFRX)
I also have a Raid1 setup using 2 x 3T Segate hdd's to download to.
Inside the Supermicro case
Array #1 is stored in the supermicro case (SC846E16)
Array #2&3 are in the middle case (SE3016)
Raid1 for downloads is in the bottom case (SE3016)
This is all in my computer room in a 26U rack:
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What are you using to dampen the sound in the rack and how well does it work? And how do you deal with the heat dissipation then?
What are you using to dampen the sound in the rack and how well does it work? And how do you deal with the heat dissipation then?
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I got the rack off CL, not sure of the model.
It is a sound proofing foam that outlines the interior of the rack. It works very well though I do still want to get quieter fans for the supermicro case I just added.
There are 3 high flow fans in the top rear of the rack as seen in the picture of the servers. They pull air from the side vents at the bottom of the rack and through the gaps around the front door. All my hdd's stay under 32C So I am very happy with the cooling.
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Here is a video I just took so you can hear the noise difference https://vid.me/eWol
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^^^
That is telecom rack, not server rack
Pretty old telecom rack with sound breaker to reduce noise from noisy equipment.
You can replace with dc fans with controller.
I have 19u telecom rack that picked from near trash dumpster 10 years ago.
Solid and heavy as metal dumpster.
That is telecom rack, not server rack
Pretty old telecom rack with sound breaker to reduce noise from noisy equipment.
You can replace with dc fans with controller.
I have 19u telecom rack that picked from near trash dumpster 10 years ago.
Solid and heavy as metal dumpster.
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I always thought that telco racks were not very deep. So what makes a telco rack different from a server rack?
I will be replacing the rear fans eventually, they are not very loud.
Either way I love this rack!
I always thought that telco racks were not very deep. So what makes a telco rack different from a server rack?
I will be replacing the rear fans eventually, they are not very loud.
Either way I love this rack!
Most telco racks used to be 23", not 19" like modern rackmount equipment. 99% of new equipment telco's use now is 19". "Telco Racks" typically have a lower weight capacity. Most telco equipment is fairly lightweight in comparison to servers, with the exception of chassis routers that are also used in regular network's. Example, the Juniper chassis that I use is heavy as all heck and 4 post but the alcatel-lucent equipment is typically lighter, and mounted in 2-post configuration.
WAT?
It's not a telco rack. It's also not that old. Square hole racks are usually fairly recent and also not widely used by telco companies (in fact, ATT techs will look at you crooked if you ask them to install on a square hole rack, they also don't even carry the captive nuts either).
Old telco racks usually aren't that deep and are 23" wide instead of the 19" rail spacing.
I would say, not old, but just telco rack.
I have telco rack with square hold rack and has captive nuts.
it is very deep.
It was silly at me when misplaced all parts in apt closet. all square rail and captive nuts were none to be found. got it in 2005( this was may assumption on old).
can be mounted front and back.
thanks for the info,
It was my bad, that I did not save neatly and realized some parts were gone during moving in to my house from apt at that time. The rack was missing side panels when I got it.
I know, it was telco rack, when saw telco cables (ports) in it, and trashed out the guts since not needed.
you will love your rack,
replacing the fan with good power consumption by assuming running 24/7
most DC fans are easy to control and very efficient too.
if you know microcontroller or something..
Arduino is the easy to learn, you can create DC fan controller with PWM monitoring and add ethernet capability to control.
let say...max fan speed when temperatur raising to XX Celcius... and do notification. including funky your imagination
for me, telco rack is like a box/drawer with front air intake hidden, server rack is "open" box ( grilled/mashed door on the back and front)
once again, that my understanding.
You made your own definition right there.
Many modern server racks have enclosed front ends, either for privacy, security, dust control, or sound isolation. Great lakes rack for example still produces their racks with the option of a front Plexiglas window and even offer solid front doors for a NEMA 12 rating.
Your definition of a telco rack is not the standard definition of a telco rack. This is a server rack. Telco racks are generally 23" wide instead of the 19" width.
You also assume since you see telecommunication equipment in a rack that it's a telco rack. We use APC AR3100 rack cabinets for all of our telecommunication equipment and carrier equipment. Why? Because the 19" rack size is a better approach at space management and stays align with the cabinet design.
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Ockie, I remember your build
welcome back Ockie, I hope you will post in the new 2015 thread
I've been lurking the past few years. Moved several times in the process. Picked up a pile of new hobbies that makes hard drives look cheap
In any case, I'll be back. I'm actually sitting on the sidelines until those 10TB's come out to make it a nice even number.
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