The [H]ard Forum Terabyte Club - READ first post before posting

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12 x WD400Gb = 4.8Tb

I've used about 3Tb

Nothing is raid, I use them for my video editing. 20Hours of Raw BetaCam footage (about 50Gb an hour) and 120Hours of DV Footage (13.5Gb an hour). So, yeah, i kinda liek harddrives, until i got this system, just about 2 days ago, i had all this stored over about 3 machines. I'm using a Thermaltake Armor with a 12 x sata card and i bought 6 5.25' - 3.5" converters. I got about 4 extra plugs for another 4 hardrives aswell.

Anyway, if you ask questions about this rig, i may not reply seeing i will probably forget about it.
 
CoolerMaster case

IDE controllor
1 x 120GB Seagate Boot
2 x 120GB WD Raid 0

Promise SX-4M Raid 5 Controllor
4 x 320GB WD sata Raid 5

Highpoint 1820 RocketRaid Controllor
4 x 250GB WD sata Raid 5
4 x 200GB WD sata Raid 5

Total 2,670 GB storage from 3,440GB of disks

420W TT true power for cooling
550W Antec true power for the rest

Swiftec Storm water kit
X2-4400+
A8N SLI - Deluxe
7800GTX OC (switeck HL waterblock)
3GB Ram

Makes for one very crowded case. :D :D :D :D
 
chea 2.01tb total inside of a CM stacker, 1x30gb segate / 1x20gb wd / 1x300gb maxtor / 7x250gb wd

Hard Disks: <o/Total/Free: 2.01/0.84TB º Total/Free space on: C: 111.78/97.3GB º D: 232.88/32.15GB º E: 232.88/39.23GB º F: 232.88/57.29GB º G: 232.88/88.21GB º H: 232.88/47.46GB º I: 279.47/172.86GB º J: 232.88/80GB º K: 232.88/220.03GB º L: 37.26/28.28GB\o>
 
Galaxy 2.0

- Coolermaster CM Stacker Silver
- Dual AMD MP 1800+ CPU’s with large silent heatsinks
- 1.5GB’s of Crucial memory (2 x512 and 2x256) PC2100 ECC REG
- Tyan S2462 Server motherboard (this board features dual NIC’s, and a full suite of 64bit PCIX slots, the only option it does not have is a SCSI controller)
- 40GB WD IDE 7200RPM 8MB System Drive (mounted on the inside of the case)
- 3 x 64Bit Supermicro DAC-MV8 8 Port SATA Controllers (non bootable & non raid controllers)
- 64Bit SMC 10/100/1000 Gigabit server NIC
- 4 x 5 Drive SATA Hot swap Supermicro Bay units – Black
- 2 x Ultra X-Connect 500w Power supplies
- 11 x 250GB SATA 7200RPM Hard drives (4 Maxtor, 7 Hitachi [3 are 16MB Cache, rest are 8MB])
- 4 x 500GB SATA2 7200RPM Hard drives (4 Hitachi 16MB Cache SATA2)
- 1 x 400GB SATA 7200RPM Hard drive (Western digital 8MB Cache)
 
1.2TB Raid 5 on Promise SX4000 controller. Formatting right now :)
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RAID0
Intel 875P, ICH5-R
2x WD Raptor 36.7GB

Single Drives -- These are all in one Spanned Volume
3x Seagate IDE 160GB
4x Maxtor SATA 300GB

1753.4GB
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Pic of the case can be found here.

Specs: P4 3.0GHz on a Abit IC7-G with 2GB of Corsair TwinX DDR (4x512) and a R9800 XT 256MB
 
Yeah! Finally member of the 1TB club.

(1) 120GB PATA WD 8MB Cache
(2) 250GB SATA WD 8MB Cache
(1) 400GB SATA WD 16MB Cache

Total: 1020GB - 1.02TB!
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From my Linux server.

Code: 
login as: carlos
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:
Linux stricom 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Welcome to the Stricom Linux server. All actions | commands | history is monitored by the linux administrator.

Last login: Sat Nov 19 22:58:27 2005 from Gatekeeper.peostri.dod.mil
carlos@stricom:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             1303G   111G   192G  11% /
tmpfs                 443M     0  443M   0% /dev/shm
18:21:26 up 28 days,  3:44,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 
Seagate 250gb 7200.8 x2 SATA in Raid 0
WD 250gb SATA
WD 160gb SATA
Maxtor 300gb SATA 16mb cache
1210gb according to mfg specs.
1125gb formatted space


w00t
In a Thermaltake Armor case
 
ECS mobo with 2.6ghz p4 celery (fry's)
512mb 33 ddr (infineon) (old build)
1 x 80gb WD 800JB 8mb cache as boot drive.
5 x 200gb seagate ide on seperate IDE controllers in win2k3 raid5. Formatted is about 760gb.
1 x 320gb wd sata. Going to get 2 more and raid 5 them.

In total about 1.15tb of formatted space.

All in an old Inwin fulltower with an antec neopower 2 460watt.

Runs pretty loud but it's gonna get more fans, a blowhole or two and be put in the closet next to it's station. :)
 
Cpu: Athlon64 3200+
Mobo: Asus A8N Sli Premium
Ram: 1 gig pc2700

RAID Level: 6
RAID Controller: Areca ARC1230
12x Western Digital RE 250GB drives

2.5 TB raid 6 array

Single Drives:
2x Western Digital RE 250GB drives



Total Amount of Advertised (before formatting) Space:
3 TB

Total Amount after formatting Space:
2.73 TB
 
74GB Western Digital Raptor
200GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA
200GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 PATA
250GB Maxtor MaxLineIII SATA
300GB Maxtor MaxLineIII SATA

Total: 1024GB

Im going to swap the diamondmax to a 300GB MaxLineIII, or possibly o seagate .9 drive, in a couple of weeks. The 200GB seagate will eventually also be replaced. :cool:
 
Yea i now im gonna catch crap about my cable routing but there was not a whole hell of a lot i could do. the cables were very stiff and i had very little space to work with. if i had custom length cables it might not have been a problem.





























All in all its a great file server for only $2500. 3TB of space, very impressive read and write speeds, five year warranty raid edition drives, best of all it is dead silent. i cant hear it at all. plus another bonus all drives are externally accessible via hotswap enclosures.
 
My old server was 5.19tb... I'm busy creating a bigger one.... starting all over with more space than ever before.... wait for pics :) :cool:
 
I have 6 Seagate 400GB Sata drives (7200.8) in Raid 5 for 2.0TB
It is on an Areca ARC-1130 controller. This is a 12 port raid card so I have 6 free ports for future growth.
The OS is on a pair of mirrored 250GB WD KS sata-2 drives connected to the mobo (Tyan K8WE).
This is in a CM Stacker case.
 
Raid 0
nVidia nForce 4 Raid Controller
4x Maxtor ML III 300GB

1x WD Raptor 74GB
1x Maxtor DM6 120GB

Edit: oops Raid 0 not1
 
Update to my previous post:
Twelve WD4000YRs on 3Ware 9550SX in RAID 5 w/ a hot spare
Dual 2.8GHz Xeon on ASUS NCL-DS w/ 1G Crucial ECC DDR2

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This is all I got..

Just that pic coz I think it'll be an eyesore for the TB hardcores to see the images of 5 250g USB drives...:D:D and I just noticed now that I get a bit more space from maxtor than wds and long live the Floppy!!!
 
Media Server: each drive is a seperate share (no raid), just in case it needs to be removed or fails. It is much easier to re-rip a few DVDs vs all of them! (over 200 so far and the wife buys a few every week).

1x 160GB Samsung PATA
2x 250GB WD PATA
2x 400GB WD SATA
2x 250GB WD SATA

1960GB unformatted
~1800GB formatted
 
Heres my file server / security pc (yes I am a security junky)
System Specs:
CoolerMaster CM Stacker 830 (Huge case nice look)
AMD Opteron 165 Dual Core
ThermalRight SI-120 HSF
Tyan Tomcat K8E-SLI (S2866)
2 GB Mushkin XP3200 RAM
Onboard Video and Audio
8 x 120mm SilenX fans (Rated 11db each at 45.5 CFM!!)
2 x RocketRaid 1640 RAID cards (4 SATA ports each)

Storage:
8 x 300GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA drives
(2 sets of RAID 5, 4 Drives each)
2 x 300GB Seagate 7200.8 SATA drives
(1 set of RAID 0)

Total Space before formatting and RAID setup: 3TB
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Pics if wanted!!
 
HP 9000 D280, 3channel U80
39 x 47gb drives in 10 externnal enclosures
1.7TB after formating
Turned on once a month to make people jelous
draws 32amps of 110 when running :eek:

Desktop/House media server
4x 300gb seagate, raid 5 using promise sx4000
2x 400gb seagate, single drives
1x 300gb maxtor, single drive
2x 36gb 10k maxtor (scsi u320 boot), raid 1 via onboard adaptec
1x 15k 9gb IBM (swap)

837 + 744 + 279 = 1860GB (fomatted)
230GB curently available
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I would like to know how many belong to the 10TB club :)
 
Code: 
bexus ~ # df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              66G   14G   52G  22% /
udev                  501M  2.6M  498M   1% /dev
/dev/sda4              84G  156M   84G   1% /home
/dev/sdb3             149G   18G  131G  12% /home/backup
/dev/evms/download    187G   39G  149G  21% /home/bexamous/download
/dev/evms/bexus       699G  599G  100G  86% /home/bexus
shm                   501M     0  501M   0% /dev/shm
bexus ~ #

CPU: Opty 170
Mobo: Asus A8N-SLI Premium (8 onboard sata ports)
OS: Gentoo

2x Samsung 160GB P80
1x Seagate 200GB forgot (using sata->pata thing it's a temp drive till new ones come)
4x Samsung 250GB P120

4x250GB drives in a software raid5 array.

Total space = ~1270GB before formatting
 
2x36gb raptors raid 0
5x200gb maxtor raid 5
5x300gb maxtor raid 5

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Finally got my new box up and running:

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CM Stacker
Pentium D 820
Supermicro PDSGE
Broadcom BC4852
8 x 200GB Western Digital
Tagan 480W PSU

All running RAID 5

At some later stage I will add a second controller to span the array over 16 HDDs.
 
Promise sx6000 with 5 wd2500jb's (storage) + 60gb 60gxp (system) - still waiting for it to die just like the 3 75gxp's before it (been 3 years now tho)

I'm hoping it'll all still be arround after tonight (drive blew up in the middle of another drive rebuilding - YIKES!) One way or another, I'll never be able to live with less than a TB again now :)

See This thread for details
 
I like to think of it as "the incoherent set of drives that were on sale at the time so on a whim I rationalized a reason to buy them, though in retrospect it probably wasn't the brightest move..." Well, except for the Raptors - that purchase was a rational choice :)

No RAID, at this point

Off the motherboard (ASUS P4P800 SE):
2 x 74GB Raptors (one OS/apps, one for game installs)
1 x 400 GB Seagate PATA (ST3400632A)

Off of a cheap/freebie Maxtor PCI Controller card:
1 x 200 GB Maxtor SATA (6L200M0 - the card came with this drive)
1 x 400 GB WD SATA (WD4000KD)
1 x 300 GB Maxtor PATA (6B300R0)

Total advertised space: 1,448 GB
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Intel SE7210TP1-E Mobo

Celery D 2.8

3ware 7506-8

8 x 300gb RAID-5

Maxtor MaxLine II's

~2.1TB before formatting
 
Raid 5
LSI MegaRAID SATA 150-6
6x300GB Seagate SATA drives, Raid 5'ed 1.5TB, formatted I get about 1.3TB

http://www.devii.org/images/fs3.jpg - wire job
http://www.devii.org/images/fs6.jpg - showing the front coolers(2x5.25 to 3x3.5 drive cage + fan), have 2 drives in each, 80mm fan blowing inward on them.

First uber clean wire job, and it happens to be on a file server >.>

rig sits in a closet doing its job of keeping a safe archive of media for HTPC, XBOX 360, and network streaming.
 
mashie said:
Finally got my new box up and running:

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CM Stacker
Pentium D 820
Supermicro PDSGE
Broadcom BC4852
8 x 200GB Western Digital
Tagan 480W PSU

All running RAID 5

At some later stage I will add a second controller to span the array over 16 HDDs.
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Mashie, you copy cat :)

Inside pics!
 
Update: Updated to include new specs on new machine-- same drives though, so essentially same storage system.

Raid Level: N/A
RAID Controller: N/A
Raided Drives: N/A

Single Drives:
1xWestern Digital Caviar RE WD4000YR 400GB
5xWestern Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB

Total Unformatted Space: 2TB
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It's a media storage server running with an A64 3000+ (as seen in my sig). It hosts my house's collection of movies and television. Right now free space is less than 10%. No pr0n. ;) Glad to be a part of the club!
 
Another machine just joined the TB club :) MiniGalaxy. Weighing in at 1496.4 Gigs :)
 
My file server:

RAID5
Highpoint 2220
8x Seagate 7200.8 200gb SATA drives

RAID1
Intel 478 socket - Server Mobo onboard controller
2 x Samsung 160GB SATA drives

So thats ~1.4TB + 160gb for the file server.

I got 10 other drives - spread between 4 other system for a total storage at home of ~3.2TB.
 
Vette5885 said:
300GB Maxtor Diamondmax10 6L300S0
320GB Western Digital WD3200JD
400GB Seagate Barracuda ST3400832A
40GB Maxtor 6L040J2
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1060GB before format, no RAID

The 40GB drive is for testing OS's, like Vista

Computer in Signature
 
Areca 1220 with IStar hotswap cages
5x (8x in 2 days) Western Digital 3200SD 320gb Raid Editions

Currently running RAID5 across 5 drives with 1280gb available. Going to upgrade to raid6 when the other drives get here and expand to ~ 1.9tb usable space. Now if I can just figure out how to make reiserfs mount faster :D

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 893G 513G 380G 58% /

**EDIT**

The drives are in:
Channel Usage Capacity Model
Ch01 Raid Set # 00 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch02 Raid Set # 00 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch03 Raid Set # 00 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch04 Raid Set # 00 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch05 Raid Set # 00 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch06 Free 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch07 Free 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0
Ch08 Free 320.1GB WDC WD3200SD-01KNB0

:D
 
My personal fileserver :

6x 200GB (4x Maxtor, 1x Seagate, 1x Western Digital)
5x 250GB (5x Maxtor)
2x 300GB (2x Maxtor)
2x 320GB (1x Western Digital, 1x Seagate)
1x 400GB (Samsung)
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= 4.09TB
 
puffy ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 893G 514G 379G 58% /
udev 1005M 268K 1004M 1% /dev
shm 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 894G 528K 894G 1% /files2

Hdd#1 Temperature 37 ºC
Hdd#2 Temperature 36 ºC
Hdd#3 Temperature 36 ºC
Hdd#4 Temperature 36 ºC
Hdd#5 Temperature 37 ºC
Hdd#6 Temperature 35 ºC
Hdd#7 Temperature 38 ºC
Hdd#8 Temperature 35 ºC

Doing the upgrade from raid5->raid6 was easy as pie, I wish all things were as easy :D

***EDIT FOR FULL STATS, IF YOU WANT PICS PM ME OR COMPLAIN***

Full stats:

Card: Areca 1220

Drives: 8x Western Digital 320GB Raid Editions

Hot swap cages: 2x IStar 4 in 3

OS: Gentoo Linux AMD64

Total raw space: 2560GB

Total actual space: ~1.8TB

Filesystems: Split partitions, ReiserFS 1/2, XFS 1/2.
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RAID Level: 5
RAID Controller: Highpoint RocketRaid 2220 PCI-x SATA II

Quantity and Name of drives in the RAID array
5 x WD25000SD 250GB Western Digital RE SATA drives

Single (OS) Drive
WD 60GB (Sorry, don't know the model)

Processor
3Ghz Pentium 4 800 FSB with HT

RAM
512 DDR333 Single Channel

Total Amount of Advertised (before formatting) Space
1250GB

Total Usable space after partitioning/formmating
999GB Reported

Filesystem
ext2
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Pics to follow later tonight.
 
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