The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Thread - READ requirements in first post

[CyberDeus-RagDoll]

nvm.

 

[Ockie]

Okay, I took a lot of cues from one of Ockie's builds, as you might notice, but have stepped it up in the RAID dept. I haven't installed an operating system yet, but I have booted successfully. The OS to be installed will be FreeBSD 7.

Pictars:

You did, but it looks great!

 

[Sparkyy]

Ockie, probably half the cases on these forums have taken one or more ideas from seeing your insane builds. I know I have and I thank you for that.

 

[cyr0n_k0r]

I am re-posting this because of the massive forum rollback of '07

Here is my contribution.

This is a Dell Powervault MD1000 Drive Array
RAID : RAID-50
Controller : Dell Perc 5/E
Drives : 15x 500GB (7x per set, drive 15 is dedicated hotspare)
Capacity : 5.45TB (After formatting)

 

[Ockie]

I am re-posting this because of the massive forum rollback of '07

Here is my contribution.

This is a Dell Powervault MD1000 Drive Array
RAID : RAID-50
Controller : Dell Perc 5/E
Drives : 15x 500GB (7x per set, drive 15 is dedicated hotspare)
Capacity : 5.45TB (After formatting)

That didn't happen to fall off the back of a truck did it? haha.

That is one beautiful array dude, quite expensive for the need (if I am assuming correctly) but one nice unit.


I think it's screaming for a rack to go in

 

[cyr0n_k0r]

That didn't happen to fall off the back of a truck did it? haha.

That is one beautiful array dude, quite expensive for the need (if I am assuming correctly) but one nice unit.


I think it's screaming for a rack to go in

It's refurbished, but its ship date is 8/1/2007 so I have a 3 year warranty straight from dell for the next 3 years. Next business day onsite rules.
But yes, still expensive (but worth it in my book)

The rapid rail kits will be purchased at the end of the year when I get my 24U dell rack and the SECOND MD1000. (Along with a second server and perc 5/e for redundancy)

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I appreciate your feedback too Ockie, I tried to somewhat clone your multi drive setup for your Galaxy series before the powervault with mixed results. I just didn't have the expandability and reliability that I wanted. And I found myself constantly tinkering with the server. With this it's a set and forget solution. The DIY route just didn't work for me.

 

[Teecee]

Main System :
750gb 7200.10
500gb 7200.10
500gb 7200.10
500gb 7200.10

Secondary System:
320gb
320gb

NAS:
5 x 500gb

 

[WesM63]

PC Power and Cooling 510w Turbo-Cool (old skool)

RAID Level 5
RAID Controller Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 8port
5x Maxtor 320gb (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10)

Total Amount of Advertised (before formatting) 1.6TB / 1.16TB Usable

Singles Drives (if any)
1x 80gb Maxtor DiamondMax (OS, BTV 4)
1x 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Storage for BTV)

Rest of System Specs:
Intel Pentium D 945 @ 4.6ghz
Asus P5VD2-X
1gb Value Select DDR2-667
Gigabyte 7300GS
Hauppauge PVR-150

 

[Dgephri]

my "little" storage beast: HTPCylon

4X1TB drives
Each drive into roughly 500Gig + remainder
8 partitions
488.28+443.23=931.51 each X 4 = 3.726 TB usable +/-

No RAID, all TB drives, all shoved into an SFF case.

PSU: Corsair 620HX
The rest of the rig is watercooled with a quadcore, and 8800Ultra along with 4Gb of RAM.

 

[sitheris]

PC Power and Cooling 510w Turbo-Cool (old skool)

RAID Level 5
RAID Controller Highpoint RocketRaid 2320 8port
5x Maxtor 320gb (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10)

Total Amount of Advertised (before formatting) 1.6TB / 1.16TB Usable

Singles Drives (if any)
1x 80gb Maxtor DiamondMax (OS, BTV 4)
1x 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Storage for BTV)

Rest of System Specs:
Intel Pentium D 945 @ 4.6ghz
Asus P5VD2-X
1gb Value Select DDR2-667
Gigabyte 7300GS
Hauppauge PVR-150

What kind of drive cage is that?


And also, for you guys with tons of HD's, how do you get enough power connectors from your PSU?

 

[WesM63]

What kind of drive cage is that?


And also, for you guys with tons of HD's, how do you get enough power connectors from your PSU?

The drive cage is a Supermicro CSE-M35T-1B. It has 2x 4pin molex connectors on it, so you don't need 5x SATA connections.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121405&Tpk=CSE-M35t-1b

 

[zmjone2992]

my "little" storage beast: HTPCylon

4X1TB drives
Each drive into roughly 500Gig + remainder
8 partitions
488.28+443.23=931.51 each X 4 = 3.726 TB usable +/-

No RAID, all TB drives, all shoved into an SFF case.

PSU: Corsair 620HX
The rest of the rig is watercooled with a quadcore, and 8800Ultra along with 4Gb of RAM.

that is kinda cool /sarcasm

 

[Blue Fox]

Might as well add mine.
Everything is being run off a Silverstone SST-ST60F 600w PSU.
SATA drives are in RAID 5. PATA has no RAID.
RAID controller is an Areca 1130ML.
8 x 500gb Seagate 7200.10s (SATA/RAID)
3 x 320gb Seagate 7200.10s (PATA)
1 x 80gb Seagate (PATA/Boot)
Before formatting and RAID, I have 5040gb.

 

[matrix563]

how much was that raid card bluefox?

 

[Blue Fox]

how much was that raid card bluefox?

I snagged it for $300! (I love ebay) Retail on newegg is $700.

 

[Dgephri]

that is kinda cool /sarcasm

Do you mean "temperature"-wise?

yah, those TBs run a bit hot: 45-55C depending on how many are accessing at the same time. They are all Hitachi's enterprise-class TBs though.

 

[zmjone2992]

Do you mean "temperature"-wise?

yah, those TBs run a bit hot: 45-55C depending on how many are accessing at the same time. They are all Hitachi's enterprise-class TBs though.

I have one of the hitachi enterprise tb drives too mine is around 45c in the 5 drive hot swap bay I have.

But I was referring to the incredible amount of stuff you managed to cram in there. Truly impressive little box you have there. I would pull my hair out if I ever had to work in a space that cramped though. Kudos to you, that is the most impressive system I have seen in a long time.

 

[Dgephri]

well, thanks! I didn't want to presume you were being critical, and even with a "/sarcasm" tab I wasn't quite sure which part of the pics you were being sarcastic about.

It took a lot of space planning, and I actually made a Sketchup model of the entire case to be sure of all my placements. Most of it was part of the redesign in the Qmicra-V2, but some touches like the HDDs hanging off the PSU, and the Lambo Doors were my own touches.

 

[klart]

Hey there!

As my server upgrades have come to an end, I though that I might contribute...

My storage server using Fedora7:

Chieftec fulltower case
Enermax Liberty 620W
Asus M2N32 WS Pro.
AMD64 3500+
2x512MB DDR800
S3 1MB VGA (PCI)

HDDs (no RAID at all):

MB's primary IDE:

250GB WD (system)
300GB Maxtor

MB's nVidia 6ch SATA II:

300GB Maxtor
400GB Samsung
4x500GB Samsung

Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 (8x SATA300 PCI-X64/133) LP

5x500GB Samsung

Total advertised cap.: 5750GB
Real, formatted: 5272.30 GB

Pix:

 

[Unknown-One]

Here's my little 4TB file server (well, close, it's 4TB if you count like a HDD manufacturer):

- Eight 500GB hard disks
- No RAID
- OS on a small partition on one of the 500GB drives

- Coolermaster Centurion case
- Generic PC Chips Motherboard
- Two generic 4-port SATA cards
- Generic Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
- Athlon XP 1500+ (1.3GHz)
- 512MB DDR RAM

 

[codebasher]

Q6600 - P5WDG2 WS PRO

1 x 1820A
1 x Promise SX4-S150M

8 x 320GB
3 x 500GB
5 x 1TB

The 1950XTX has since been replaced by a 8800GTX

 

[GeorgeHR]

Just about finished with a small system:

Athlon 64X2 4600+; ASUS motherboard; 2GB memory

500GB WD drive for OS

8 1000GB WD drives for data (movies)
4 USB HDTV tuners; 2 PCI HDTV tuners

Custom wood case.

 

[d3vy]

Finally replaced my stacker case with something decent

Supermicro SC846TQ-R900B 4u chasis with redundant 900W PSU
Areca 1280ML with 2GB Cache
Currently 14 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives in Raid 6 (8,2TB formatted)

Scalable to 24 drives = 15TB Raid 6 storage

 

[TeeJayHoward]

Edit: Nevermind. Maybe I'll edit this later with more pictures of my same system.

 

[Ockie]

Finally replaced my stacker case with something decent

Supermicro SC846TQ-R900B 4u chasis with redundant 900W PSU
Areca 1280ML with 2GB Cache
Currently 14 Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drives in Raid 6 (8,2TB formatted)

Scalable to 24 drives = 15TB Raid 6 storage

woah, never saw this case. Incredible price for it, great specs.

How do you like that 1280ML with the 2gb stick, got any performance benchies?

 

[pc299]

Need to get some updated pictures but here's the info:

Dual Opteron 2212's, 4GB RAM, 16x500GB 7200.9's, 8x300GB Maxline III's, 1x18GB ST318453LW (18GB 15K RPM for OS) PC Power & Cooling 1KW-SR PSU

Processors:

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212
cpu MHz         : 2010.290
cache size      : 1024 KB
processor       : 1
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212
cpu MHz         : 2010.290
cache size      : 1024 KB
processor       : 2
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212
cpu MHz         : 2010.290
cache size      : 1024 KB
processor       : 3
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
model name      : Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2212
cpu MHz         : 2010.290
cache size      : 1024 KB

Controllers:

04:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Areca Technology Corp. ARC-1160 16-Port PCI-X to SATA RAID Controller
05:07.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 7xxx/8xxx-series PATA/SATA-RAID (8506-8)

RAID6 for the Areca, RAID5 for the 3ware

RAM:

MemTotal:      3621396 kB
MemFree:        124284 kB

all cached because of a massive data transfer in progress

Storage:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2              17G  2.1G   15G  13% /
/dev/sdb1             102M   41M   62M  41% /boot
/dev/sda1             6.4T  464G  6.0T   8% /mnt/raid
/dev/sdc1             2.0T  1.9T   67G  97% /mnt/tmp

Currently migrating the 8x300 and another offline 8x250 array to my 16x500 and rebuilding the 8x300 into a 2U for VMWare Server usage.

 

[Strahan]

Ahh, I can finally post in one of these threads hehe.

I just recently converted my home servers to rack mount, I was tired of workstation caliber "servers" sitting on a desk so I got a rack setup. One of my goals with moving to rack was to get a nice file server chassis and make a huge file array. Well, huge to me.. after seeing Ockie's builds my 16 drive system seems small

Server is an Asus M2N-LR motherboard, Opteron 2.2ghz CPU, 4GB G.SKILL RAM, 250gb OS drive. Chassis is Chenbro RM-4140. 16 hot swap SATA drive backplane. Power supply is a load balanced 400w unit. I was a little skeptical about the low power rating but the vendor said other customers use it in that chassis with 16 drives on staggered spin up and have no problem. Sooo, we'll see. Right now I have 4 Western Digital 1TB drives in RAID5, advertised volume 2.73TB. Just talked to my boss though, and he said I'll have my Christmas bonus Monday and I'm using that to get the remaining 12 drive bays filled with WD 1TBs Once I have all 16 drives I'm running RAID6.

Controller is Areca ARC-1160ML2 with optional 1GB cache expansion and battery module. SFF-8087 connectors are very nice, only need 4 cables from the controller to the backplane.

 

[bbz_Ghost]

Just talked to my boss though, and he said I'll have my Christmas bonus Monday and I'm using that to get the remaining 12 drive bays filled with WD 1TBs

I'll be the first to say:

JESUS FUCKIN' CHRIST is your place of employment hiring? hehe Congrats on the setup, and definitely keep us posted when the 16 drive beast is operational.

You're gonna need another Christmas bonus for the power bill, good lord.

 

[gjvrieze]

Ahh, I can finally post in one of these threads hehe.

I just recently converted my home servers to rack mount, I was tired of workstation caliber "servers" sitting on a desk so I got a rack setup. One of my goals with moving to rack was to get a nice file server chassis and make a huge file array. Well, huge to me.. after seeing Ockie's builds my 16 drive system seems small

Server is an Asus M2N-LR motherboard, Opteron 2.2ghz CPU, 4GB G.SKILL RAM, 250gb OS drive. Chassis is Chenbro RM-4140. 16 hot swap SATA drive backplane. Power supply is a load balanced 400w unit. I was a little skeptical about the low power rating but the vendor said other customers use it in that chassis with 16 drives on staggered spin up and have no problem. Sooo, we'll see. Right now I have 4 Western Digital 1TB drives in RAID5, advertised volume 2.73TB. Just talked to my boss though, and he said I'll have my Christmas bonus Monday and I'm using that to get the remaining 12 drive bays filled with WD 1TBs Once I have all 16 drives I'm running RAID6.

Controller is Areca ARC-1160ML2 with optional 1GB cache expansion and battery module. SFF-8087 connectors are very nice, only need 4 cables from the controller to the backplane.

Your hosting server is down, I would love to see your pictures though!!!

 

[Strahan]

Oops, sorry. I forgot I had linked some pics when I took my boxes offline earlier. I am migrating my web services from physical boxes to Virtual Server 2005. I'm still in the process of migration, so all my stuff is down hehe. I threw the pics on my work server.

 

[thebeephaha]

Specs are in my sig but here is the overview:

Q6600 @ 3GHz
4x1GB DDR2 800
P5N32-E SLI

Dell Perc 5i SAS Controller running:
4x80GB (WD800GD) WD Raptors in RAID0
4x320GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 in RAID5

I upgraded my raid card a bit...

 

[Private_Ops]

Ha, thats sweet. Complete overkill from the looks of it but, still cool.

 

[ring.of.steel]

Nice raid card!

 

[ring.of.steel]

Ahh, I can finally post in one of these threads hehe.

I just recently converted my home servers to rack mount, I was tired of workstation caliber "servers" sitting on a desk so I got a rack setup. One of my goals with moving to rack was to get a nice file server chassis and make a huge file array. Well, huge to me.. after seeing Ockie's builds my 16 drive system seems small

Server is an Asus M2N-LR motherboard, Opteron 2.2ghz CPU, 4GB G.SKILL RAM, 250gb OS drive. Chassis is Chenbro RM-4140. 16 hot swap SATA drive backplane. Power supply is a load balanced 400w unit. I was a little skeptical about the low power rating but the vendor said other customers use it in that chassis with 16 drives on staggered spin up and have no problem. Sooo, we'll see. Right now I have 4 Western Digital 1TB drives in RAID5, advertised volume 2.73TB. Just talked to my boss though, and he said I'll have my Christmas bonus Monday and I'm using that to get the remaining 12 drive bays filled with WD 1TBs Once I have all 16 drives I'm running RAID6.

Controller is Areca ARC-1160ML2 with optional 1GB cache expansion and battery module. SFF-8087 connectors are very nice, only need 4 cables from the controller to the backplane.

http://www.nischan.com/temp/nts_rack01.jpg
http://www.nischan.com/temp/nts_rack04.jpg
http://www.nischan.com/temp/nts_rack03.jpg

Secure.boy claims that setup is his, you claim it as yours...

 

[matrix563]

Secure.boy claims that setup is his, you claim it as yours...

that is quite strange indeed

 

[ring.of.steel]

Stupid n00b

 

[Ockie]

Regardless of who's it is, it sure does look nice

 

[ring.of.steel]

Regardless of who's it is, it sure does look nice

Sure does

 

[Jay_2]

my home file server (not yet finished) has

2 x 500Gig Samsung Spinpoints - RAID 1 (Films)
2 x 500Gig Samsung Spinpoints - RAID 1 (Programs / Pictures)
2 x 320Gig Samsung Spinpoints - RAID 1 (Music)
1 x External 250Gig Maxtor (General storage for downloads on the network)
1 x 80 Gig WD (Boot Drive)

Before I added a 3rd Icy-Dock and 2 x 500gig Samsung Spinpoints

I'll get a better picture later today.

 

[ring.of.steel]

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

Also why all the raid 1's?