Can I post my system here if I only have 9.3TB of usable storage?
I think it's based on physical storage not actual. I'm guessing you many have over 10 TB if you're using RAID.
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Can I post my system here if I only have 9.3TB of usable storage?
Old thread was outdated and with 100,000+ views, it's time for a new one.
This is The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread
I will maintain an updated rankings post based on the most total storage and most storage in one chassis.
Drive expanders and all external storage can count towards your total amount, but not towards the chassis ranking. Think of that as the most hard drives in one case.
See croakz's system as an example. His Lightning "system" has 28.4TB of space. However, 12TB of that is in a drive expander, outside of the main system chassis. So that counts towards his total amount, but the most he has in one chassis is 16.4 TB. Also, this is a great example of a neatly formatted post.
If you want your name on the board, the following are required.
- Pictures of your actual systems.
- Minimum of 10 TB (advertised) total storage.
- Full system specs
- Post format must follow the example post.
Once you are ready to be considered for a spot on the board, make a post and send me a PM with the link.
If it doesn't meet the requirements, I'll tell you what to fix, or I may just delete your PM - this shouldn't be complicated. If you can build a machine that qualifies, you should be able to follow simple instructions. I'm not going to be a nazi about it, I just want a clean, organized thread.
Your post should include the following information. Try to keep it in the same order.
Amount of total storage (if posting multiple systems)
Amount of storage in the following system
Case
PSU
Motherboard
CPU
RAM
GPU (if discrete)
Controller Cards (if any)
Optical Drives
Hard Drives (include full model number)
Battery Backup Units (if any)
Operating System
A short paragraph here describing what you use your storage for and how you handle backups and organizing would be nice.
Then post a few pictures somewhere that has decent hosting. If your pictures go down, you get dropped from the board.
houkouonchi has offered to provide free hosting for pictures
http://hardforum.houkouonchi.net/
hotlinking is for hardforum only
thanks houkouonchi!
Make sure you have the storage amounts in bold text and at the front of your post
FAQ
just the sum of the manufacturer stated capacity for all your drives
ignore RAID, formatting, etc
Multiple. So say you had 2 systems with 6TB each, that would qualify.
Home unless you own the business, but if not, feel free to post, it just won't count towards the rankings.
yeah just update your post and then send me a PM, don't make a new post
For right now, it's just one entry per person for this list.
Holy crap, You have just shy of 10tb useable, and yet you only have 4tb left of space...
...Or am I reading that wrong?
**edit
I also ask, because Im looking into setting up a Windows home server machine in the future...
@moose517
Can you please take screen shot of disk management? I would like to see if you get SMART readings from yours SAT2-MV8 cards.
You dont
100TB?!?! DAMN!!! I demand pics of the chassis.
I'm almost at the 10 mark, once I go over, I'll submit my server. Its at 9TB right now.
I spoke too soon. treadstone beat me to the Chenbro RM-91250 I was going to buy, by literally 2 minutes. there was a site with a pretty good openbox deal on it a few weeks back.
he tells me he's already bought 50 x 2Tb drives for it. so once he finishes his build and decides to roll in here, it'll be /thread at least for storage in a single system.
They got it for a bit over half that actually. odditory and I were watching it for weeks to see how low the price would drop.Wow, thats a kick ass case, Its perfect if you want the maximum possible amount of HDD storage in one case, but damn, the cheapest I saw was over $3000.
sure, here is the disk management pic
Very [H], indeed!treadstone beat me to the Chenbro RM-91250 [snip]
he tells me he's already bought 50 x 2Tb drives for it.
i was happy i finally had the money to add 2tb to my server at the house. Come in here and see someone talking about building a 100tb system, cant wait to see that build thread.
nice, u have temp readouts.. would u mind sharing the drivers u used for sat2-mv8? also, what MB u have?
Compact awesomeness!Antec Mini 180
I upgraded my server a month ago. I finally have some time to post and show it off:
Total Storage - 16 TB
Storage Inside of the Case - 12 TB
Specs:
Antec Mini 180
ICY DOCK MB235SPF-1B 3 bay in 2 x 5.25
Antec TruePower New TP-650
XFX GeForce 9300
E5300 - 2.6GHz
Thermalright TRUE 120 Black Rev C
GeIL Green Series (4 x 2GB) DDR2 800 GG24GB800C5DC
Intel EXPI9301CTBLK 10/100/1000Mbps
Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8
ASUS DRW-2014L1T
3x Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB
5x WD Green WD15EADS 1.5TB
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
Server's Backup External Enclosure Drives:
2x WD Green WD10EACS 1 TB
2X Hitachi Deskstar HDS721010KLA330 1 TB
Description - I use it as a fileserver, to run vitrual machines (hence the amount of RAM), and as printer server.
Stupid question, but why would you want to run virtual machines off the server?
Stupid question, but why would you want to run virtual machines off the server?
Amount of total storage: 90032 GB (90 TB)
Amount of storage in the following system: 72032 GB (72 TB)
Amount of storage in the following in external boxes: 16000 GB (16 TB)
Server:
Lian Li PC-343B
Chieftec 1020W, SLI, 80 Plus, CM, 140mm, silent
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
W3570 Xeon 3.20Ghz
Scythe Mugen 2 CPU cooler
3x Scryth 120mm 2x Noctua 120mm 4x80mm Noctua 2x92mm Noctua
6 GB Kingston DDr3 1333 Mhz
Geforce 8600GT
Adaptec 52445
Highpoint RocketRAID 3560
2x Intel X25-E (SSDSA2SH032G1) 32gb RAID1 (System)
28x Western Digital Caviar RE4-GP 2TB(wd2002fyps) RAID 60 on Adaptec controller (Data) (4 in external box)
4x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 5 on Intel ICH10R controller (HyperV) (External box)
8x Western Digital Caviar RE4-GP 2TB(wd2002fyps) RAID 0 on RocketRAID 3560 (Backup)
12x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 6 on RocketRAID 3560 (Backup 2) (4 in external box)
APC Smart-UPS 2200
Windows 2008R2
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/nas.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/server manager.jpg
File server is used for storing media files/backups and running HyperV download server and mymovies server.
Amount of storage in the following system: 2000 GB
HTPC:
Chieftec Hi-Fi Series HM-02 /w IMON remote receiver
Chieftec 550W, SLI, 80 Plus, CM, 140mm, silent
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
Core i7 Extreme Edition I7-975 8 MB 3.33Ghz
Noctua NH-C12P SE14 cpu cooler
4x Noctua NF-R8 80mm fan
6 GB Kingston DDr3 1333 Mhz
EN9600GT Passiv
2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 0 on Intel ICH10R controller
Plextor PX-B940SA, Blu-ray Writer
Logitec Harmony 1100
Logitec dinovo mini
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/HTPC.jpg
Used for watching and recording TV, watching DVD and Blu-ray on my BenQ W20000Projector.
Amount of total storage: 90032 GB (90 TB)
Amount of storage in the following system: 72032 GB (72 TB)
Amount of storage in the following in external boxes: 16000 GB (16 TB)
Server:
Lian Li PC-343B
Chieftec 1020W, SLI, 80 Plus, CM, 140mm, silent
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
W3570 Xeon 3.20Ghz
Scythe Mugen 2 CPU cooler
3x Scryth 120mm 2x Noctua 120mm 4x80mm Noctua 2x92mm Noctua
6 GB Kingston DDr3 1333 Mhz
Geforce 8600GT
Adaptec 52445
Highpoint RocketRAID 3560
2x Intel X25-E (SSDSA2SH032G1) 32gb RAID1 (System)
28x Western Digital Caviar RE4-GP 2TB(wd2002fyps) RAID 60 on Adaptec controller (Data) (4 in external box)
4x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 5 on Intel ICH10R controller (HyperV) (External box)
8x Western Digital Caviar RE4-GP 2TB(wd2002fyps) RAID 0 on RocketRAID 3560 (Backup)
12x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 6 on RocketRAID 3560 (Backup 2) (4 in external box)
APC Smart-UPS 2200
Windows 2008R2
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/nas.JPG
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/server manager.jpg
File server is used for storing media files/backups and running HyperV download server and mymovies server.
Amount of storage in the following system: 2000 GB
HTPC:
Chieftec Hi-Fi Series HM-02 /w IMON remote receiver
Chieftec 550W, SLI, 80 Plus, CM, 140mm, silent
Asus P6T6 WS Revolution
Core i7 Extreme Edition I7-975 8 MB 3.33Ghz
Noctua NH-C12P SE14 cpu cooler
4x Noctua NF-R8 80mm fan
6 GB Kingston DDr3 1333 Mhz
EN9600GT Passiv
2x Seagate Barracuda ES.2, 1 TB (st31000340ns) RAID 0 on Intel ICH10R controller
Plextor PX-B940SA, Blu-ray Writer
Logitec Harmony 1100
Logitec dinovo mini
Windows 7 Ultimate
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4118803/HTPC.jpg
Used for watching and recording TV, watching DVD and Blu-ray on my BenQ W20000Projector.
Someone needs to get a few Norco cases and jump on the SAS expander bandwagon.
Can you post the hardware configuration?
Thanks.
Case: NZXT FULLTOWER WHISPER EATX BLACK
MB: ASUS P5G41-M G41 775 ATX
CPU: INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q9400 2.66GHZ 6MB 1333MHZ S-775
RAM: 2x CORSAIR 2GB DDR2 XMS2 PC6400 800MHZ
CPU cooler: Xigmatek Red Scorpion S1283
PSU: Antec 430W
controller: 3WARE 9650SE-8LPML and 2 other cards atm that are not gonna stay for long.
10x 120mm fans, 2x 80mm
HDD: atm 8x WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR GREEN 2TB, 5x WESTERN DIGITAL CAVIAR GREEN 1TB. I have 10 2TB + some other 1TB drives. at the side waiting for the new controller card.
All running WHS PP3
all in all when all parts arrive is should have around 37 TB in this system (perhaps with another MB and case).
My UPS actualy only shows 1 bar of usage, so i dont think i its all that bad. And alle the drives are turned off after 30 min.I hope it's not a problem for you to share power consumtion on that thing?
It started in a HyperV VM but now i have in directly on the R2.How do you have the MyMovies server setup? Is it straight in R2 or is it in a Hyper-V VM?