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[Jay_2]

Windows 2003 server

They are all RAID 1 becuase I am too lazy to rebuild when I bought new disks.. lol

 

[ring.of.steel]

Windows 2003 server

They are all RAID 1 becuase I am too lazy to rebuild when I bought new disks.. lol

yeah i used to do that but then i started buying them in threes. Are you using win2k3 software raid? Nooo

 

[AMD_RULES]

Nice and clean setup there, can i ask what os your running?

Also why all the raid 1's?

it's a cheap fail-safe raid solution

 

[ring.of.steel]

it's a cheap fail-safe raid solution

once you have 4 drives raid 1 starts to cost a lot.

 

[Russian666]

My Home file server

Gallifrey 4.2

Case : Antec 900
PSU: Antec Basiq 500W
CPU: Athlon 64 3500+ AM2
Motherboard: Asus M2A-VM
Ram : Kingston [KVR] 2gig DDR2 667
Sata Controller 1 : Silicon Image Sil3114 4 port Sata Card

Hard Drives:
Seagate 200GB [SATA]
Hitachi 250GB[SATA]
Seagate 300GB [IDE]
Western Digital 300GB[SATA]
Seagate 320GB [SATA]
Western Digital 500GB[SATA]
Western Digital 500GB[SATA]
Western Digital 500GB[SATA]


Total Drive space 2870 GB

Theres no raid going on, the data isnt extremely important, but the server does the trick
Can hold up to nine drives after i added the 3rd drive cage from my other Antec 900 and the whole thing stays at a cool and near silent in my closet @ 20 degrees.

 

[zmjone2992]

My rig

Powered by a Corsair HX620 in a Antec P180b

OS: Hitachi Deskstar 1tb
JBOD Array (I have folder mirrors set up)

3xHitachi 1tb
2xWD SE16 500gb

Total advertised space: 4tb
Actual storage: 3672gb

will post pics tomorrow when I open up my case

 

[madafakapc#]

Well i am back for an updated info on my pcs....

Now at the moment this is a little messy because i am waiting for a good time for upgrades....($$$) so i really have a little confusion in here but i explain you what i have got in here:

7 pcs: 1 laptop + 6 desktops (5 running and 1 on the boxes....i mean waiting to run....its really outside its case....i mean dont know what to do with him....)

6 pentium + 1 amd

1 amd xp 3200+ 64 bits + 2 p4 775 HT+1 dualcore E2140+1 dual core laptop+2 p4 skt 478 celeron and p4

so my file server is getting bigger but i have made some changes...

My MEDIA FILESERVER has: (No raid in here!)

4580 gb advertised but somewhere near 4 terabytes of real space

1 x 120 gb WD (OS Windows XP)
3 x 320 gb WD (media files)
7 x 500 gb (4 Samsung+2 Hitachi+1 WD) (media files)

Media files: tv, sat media, music, photos

I have 3 PCI from Conceptronic to help me on SATA disks: 3 x 2 IDE + 3 x 2 SATA

I have 2 DVD RW (NEC + AOpen) and a PSU 550 W from LC Power
Motherboard: MSI 915 Combo 2 - Pentium 4 775 HT 3.2 Ghz
Gigabit LAN: Switch from SMC 8 ports 10/100/1000
Cat 5 and Cat 6 network cable

I have also:

Media Center P4 2.4 Ghz 80 Gb
Gaming Rig Pentium Dual Core E2140: 120 gb Backup Disk and a 600 Gb Games (there is one raid on some 380 gb - 2 disks)(maybe 100 games at this moment)
Net Server: P4 3.0 ghz 200 gb
SoftServer: AMD Athlon 64+ 3200 120 gb
Laptop: Pentium Dual Core 120 gb
7th PC: Celeron No hardrives till now

All PCs have got Windows XP (dont like Vista, lots of problems....) and run with a 2 GB RAM

I have Skystar 2 on 3 pcs for sat receiving and lots of media to capture to fill the disks!!!!!

This is a really mess setup for now...but i will give this another look when i have some time...

 

[Boltaction]

My new 1.89TB RAID5 solution. Entire setup costed me less than $600:

5x Seagate IDE 500GB drives plus one 500GB cold spare. Set to email me if there is a critical failure or overheat. All housed in my apartment closet. PC is:

1.25Ghz Athlon XP 2800+ underclocked and undervolted
512MB RAM
Broadcom PCI-X gigabit NIC
Adaptec 29360 SCSI card
XP Home

Running torrents, main file repository. Girlfriend loves how quiet I was able to get it by moving the system to the closet, and I love the always-on peace of mind. Yay for cheap disk arrays

 

[ring.of.steel]

Pictures 'dont alow hotlinking'

 

[Boltaction]

Pictures 'dont alow hotlinking'

Fixed

 

[ring.of.steel]

Looks great! whats the model number of that array?

 

[Boltaction]

Promise UltraTrak RM8000 with 128MB cache.

 

[AMD_RULES]

awesome raid array.

 

[d3vy]

Little update

Added 6 more disks, total capacity 12,2TB formatted. Currently 20 disks connected to an Areca 1280ML with 2GB cache. Array is configured as raid 6. Upgraded LAN to 2Gbit.
Also added fan controllers to slow down those noisy 5000 RPM fans (not shown on pictures)

 

[AMD_RULES]

awesome !!!

 

[madafakapc#]

so i am back and now to tell that i bought a new Gigabyte P35c-DS3R board for my main server...with 8 sata slots...and need to say that i guess this was a good choice for now: just 110 Euros!

Now i plan to install all again on these board and get my disks on it...for now..

But when i look for those TB you got i need to say mine are really a shame...just a few terabytes....heheheehh

I plan to upgrade this for a 5 TB range but when i have the $$$$........i am waiting for 1 TB to get cheap...i mean...less than 250 euros....for now....its near 300 euros...

D3vY: So....what do you have on your disks ?! What do u mean for 2 gbit lan ?!!

 

[Boltaction]

Looks great! whats the model number of that array?

Don't get excited: Average transfer rates are 15-20MB/s! This was verified by Promise tech support. It's old, but stable and expandable. For my needs it's excellent but I wish I had a NAS

 

[rurd2di]

RAID Level: None


Singles Drives (if any)

C: 80GB IDE ( OS)
J: 320GB Sata
R:300GB Sata
S:300GB Sata
E:160GB Sata
G:160GB Sata
T: 500GB Sata


Before Formatting: 1820 GB
After Formatting: 1685 GB

Cheers

 

[BuBBa]

My Windows Home Server just got a little upgrade the other day...



I've been a long time user of hardware raid, from desktop products (promise and highpoints) to enterprise products (3ware), but after my last array rebuild, I was tired as all hell of dealing with the technical side of things... I just wanted a bunch of storage, and I just wanted it to work... That's when I heard about WHS' storage pooling, which instantly gave me a semi, because I could just slap some more drives in the pool, and select what I wanted to be "mirrored", though PC backups were also a huge part of the reason I wanted it too. I first started out with WHS back when it was in beta, and at the time I'd just reused an old desktop:

Opteron 170, Asus A8R32-MVP, 2 gigs of ram, etc etc.

I had 1 free sata port on the mobo left, and no space left on my storage pool, so I started looking for cheep options for lotsa sata ports, which is when I stumbled across this PCI-E 1x Addonics ADSA3GPX1 controller, and more importantly, these Addonics AD5SAPM port multipliers, all said and done I think it was ~$190 for 10 ports, which isn't bad if you ask me. Problem solved, and who cares about raid.

Caught a cheep sale on 5 more WD 750's, and pulled a Seagate 750 from my main system, and we're all done. End result:

1x 250gig WD for OS
8x 750gig WD for storage pool
1x 750gig Seagate for storage pool

6.37TB of formatted space, and I still have 5 more ports available, which should put me at or over 10TB when I fill em up depending on the drives I use.

 

[DBZ33]

Just wanted to show my media server. I use it to store all my DVD's, TV shows, and Videos that every room in my house share with MS media center. It has about 6.4tb of space now with Raid 5. Enjoy.

Coolermaster Stacker Case
Silverstone DA750 750w PS
Asus P5WDG2-WS PRO
2GB Crucial DDR800
Intel Q6600 Quad
Evga 8500GT 256mb
Thermalright Ultra 120 Heatsink
3X Supermicro Sata 5 drive cages
2X PCI-X RaidCore 8 port sata Raid cards
5X 1tb WD green drives -- DVD storage
5X Maxtor 300gb drives -- DVD storage
500gb Seagate drive -- Recorded TV shows
320gb Seagate drive -- Download Drive
2X 320gb Seagate drives Raid 0 -- OS drive (Dont worrk I have a backup)

 

[matrix563]

where did you get those supermicro drive cages?

 

[DBZ33]

where did you get those supermicro drive cages?

Newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121405

They are loud stock but you can put in any 92mm fan. Made a huge diffrence.

 

[luddha]

PSU: AOpen 350w
Rest of the system is in my signature.

No RAID
4 port SATA Controller for about $54 (350 swedish kronor)
2 disks on the controller card and 2 disks connected to the motherboard

Disks:

SATA:
Samsung 320GB
Seagate 320GB
Seagate 160GB
WDC 250GB

IDE:
Seagate 120GB

Advertised space: 1170GB

The lowest disk is replaced with the Seagate 160GB disk.

 

[gjvrieze]

Here is some hardware p*rn from my project: Plutonium 3!!!

Here is (10) 750GB 7200.10s~~

 

[naro]

I'm finally able to post in this thread. Haha

Here's my setup:

Rig config:
Intel Core2Duo E6300
Asus P5B-VM DO
Kingston DDR2-667 1gb x 4
Western Digital WD360GD x 2 (Raid 0)
Verudium Vortex-HE 520W
Thermaltake Matrix

DAS config:
Kingston DataSilo DAS case
Icute hotswap cages x 4
Western Digital WD5000AAKS x 4

Both of them are connected via multilane cable

The DAS hdds:

Multilane cable connection at DAS

Here's how it is connected to my PC:

And the mess at the 6 SATA ports.

 

[rokar]

Power Supply
500watt Enermax Liberty

Hard Drives
5x 500gig WD RE2 (adding 2 more as soon as i get my drive cage)
1x 40gig WD System drive (gonna be doing 2x 36gig raptors in raid 0)

Raid
None

Total Space
2.5TB soon to be 3.5TB
I know cables is crappy atm but didn't want to do a good job til i get other drive cage,

 

[gjvrieze]

Welcome To Plutonium 3!!

Power Supply
750watt PC Power & Cooling

Hard Drives
24x 750GB Seagate
2x 80gig Seagate system drive
1x 1TB Hitachi

Raid
RAID 6 the big data array
RAID 0 or 1 for Windows, have not decided yet!

Total Space
19TB Advertised
About 15TB usable

You can check out my worklog, here on [h]!!!

 

[aggiestudd07]

Welcome To Plutonium 3!!

what kind of case is that? i have been looking for them and cant find them at all?

 

[jojo1224]

what kind of case is that? i have been looking for them and cant find them at all?

It says the case model in his sig which it is a Lian Li PC-343 and he bought it from Ockie off of here. It was Ockies galaxy 4.5 case.

 

[aggiestudd07]

It says the case model in his sig which it is a Lian Li PC-343 and he bought it from Ockie off of here. It was Ockies galaxy 4.5 case.

i must have overlooked that when i read his sig, thanks

 

[LittleMe]

Really crappy pictures from my iPhone, so sorry. I need to find my camera. Anyway, just thought I'd share these, 4 1TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2's



And I thought you guys might enjoy this. 125,000GB of advertisted space. (500x 2.5" 250GB drives.)

 

[axan]

damn 500 x250? got any better pics of that ?

 

[ring.of.steel]

:O how the

 

[AMD_RULES]

Really crappy pictures from my iPhone, so sorry. I need to find my camera. Anyway, just thought I'd share these, 4 1TB Seagate Barracuda ES.2's



And I thought you guys might enjoy this. 125,000GB of advertisted space. (500x 2.5" 250GB drives.)

o man, lmao

How much did that cost?

 

[LittleMe]

o man, lmao

How much did that cost?

LOL, I really wish it was mine, or even ours at work but it's an HP demo unit. They were demoing SQL 2008 on a Quad-socket Quad-Core Xeon box with 128GB of RAM. All 16 cores and RAM was 100%.

 

[jojo1224]

LOL, I really wish it was mine, or even ours at work but it's an HP demo unit. They were demoing SQL 2008 on a Quad-socket Quad-Core Xeon box with 128GB of RAM. All 16 cores and RAM was 100%.

Holy $H!T !!! 16 CORES !!! 128GB RAM !!! If its a demo, does it cost to demo it? If not ill get a demo unit.

 

[LittleMe]

It was at trade show. If they sent it to us at work it would never find it's way back and my electric bill at home would go way up.

 

[Phimp]

I absolutely freaking love that DAS case.
I can't find it anywhere, where'd you buy it from?

 

[naro]

I absolutely freaking love that DAS case.
I can't find it anywhere, where'd you buy it from?

Thank you.. Its a Kingston DataSilo which I bought from a friend. Not too sure where he bought it from. I think he bought it from a liquidator of some sort.

But it came like this when he sold it to me:

And here's my project log on it:
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?p=4774483

 

[Phimp]

Wow! Amazing work!
I love the paint job too.
Where'd you get the Multi-lane Kit from? Price?