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Ok... So who needs a 30TB server??

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New server (Kinda) new thread..... Here is the "old" server..
http://www.overclock.net/servers/939973-who-needs-20tb-server.html#post12367967

The Changes are as follows.. From Northwood 2.8 to Prescott 90nm 3.4Ghz HT (HUGE difference in performance, it now rips two DVD's simultaneously in 10 mins as opposed to 30mins.

Ultra aluminus to Antec 1200.. It just outgrew it..

added a PCIE 1x sata controller

Added a tuniq CPU cooler... Keeps the hot ass prescott cool and it is getting harder to find a 478 CPU cooler.

Added bunch more HDD's and some 4 in 3 HDD bays.

edit: Oh yeah I put a bunch if mini heatsinks on anything that looked like it got hot... The temperature of them was making me nervous without them.

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Ok I think im done adding drives for ahwhiel..
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edit- Update = 28TB
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Originally Posted by Viridian;13059815
That's the most amazing use of an A1200. You should post details on how you got 25 3.5" HDD's into that thing!
As it stands right now it will only fit 16 HDD's but if I need more space I can add 4 more drives by adding another SATA controller and getting the 5 in 3 supermicro hot swap bays.. but that would add a lot to the cost of the server because they are like $90 each..
 
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Originally Posted by AyeYo;13059842
lol wow... can ANY air get between those drives?

What do you do with 25TB? Pron storage?
Look at the drive temperatures.... They are lower than my ambient room temperature..

and no, mostly DVD and BD rips.. that accounts for 90% of the 4.5TB I am currently using, the other 4.5TB is data duplication courtesy of Drive Extender.
 
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Originally Posted by fg2chase
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Look at the drive temperatures.... They are lower than my ambient room temperature..

and no, mostly DVD and BD rips.. that accounts for 90% of the 4.5TB I am currently using, the other 4.5TB is data duplication courtesy of Drive Extender.

cant be done, nothing can be lower than ambient unless you use some type of phase cooling, the sensors are off slightly
 
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Just put it on my bathroom scale...

It weighs 78lbs/35Kg..

wow...

I still need to add two more hard drives. Might push it over 80

Did anyone notice my ghetto placement of the fan controller? I used Velcro to affix it to the floor of the case.. LOL there was just nowhere else to put it.

Does anyone have any thoughts of replacing the main drive with an SSD? IM not sure this would aid in performance at all but since WHS can't backup it's primary system drive one would tend to think that particular setup would be it's ahchilles heel.
 
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Originally Posted by MadCatMk2;13063332
All that for a bunch of movies? Or is there some other use in it?
Yes, all my PC backups.. I also need to be able to access my files from anywhere in the world. I used this server while I was in Afghanistan so I could VPN into home and get my files which most of the time was movies. And I like never having to carry removable media around, I haven't used a thumb drive or CD-R in ages.

My wife is in California right now, she is logs into it periodically and gets important documents and streams music from it..

It is actually pretty Amazing.
 
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Originally Posted by fg2chase;13063261
Does anyone have any thoughts of replacing the main drive with an SSD? IM not sure this would aid in performance at all but since WHS can't backup it's primary system drive one would tend to think that particular setup would be it's ahchilles heel.
Personally I'm not convinced that SSDs are any more reliable than mechanical drives - the tech in mechanical drives is proven, but SSDs change continuously.

I'd put your WHS OS drive onto a RAID1 mirror on your onboard controller and leave it at that. Nice and cheap, low power and pretty unlikely to fail.
 
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Originally Posted by the_beast;13063431
Personally I'm not convinced that SSDs are any more reliable than mechanical drives - the tech in mechanical drives is proven, but SSDs change continuously.

I'd put your WHS OS drive onto a RAID1 mirror on your onboard controller and leave it at that. Nice and cheap, low power and pretty unlikely to fail.
yeah I had thought of that.. Here were my thoughts on doing this..

create the RAID 1 and use norton ghost to move the image from the single drive to the array...

Otherwise I don't think there is a way to do this without starting over.

My temporary solution right now is to use ghost to create weekly images of the system drive.
 
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Originally Posted by fg2chase;13063459
yeah I had thought of that.. Here were my thoughts on doing this..

create the RAID 1 and use norton ghost to move the image from the single drive to the array...

Otherwise I don't think there is a way to do this without starting over.

My temporary solution right now is to use ghost to create weekly images of the system drive.
That system should work. I'd make sure you disable DE before you do the image though - otherwise if WHS moves a file midway through the imaging you'll have issues.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the weekly images though - if anything changes on your server at all since your last image you will be in a whole world of trouble if you restore an old image. Better to reinstall WHS and reimport the drives to rebuild the system rather than use an old image.
 
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Originally Posted by 2thAche;13063445
Wow that's awesome. Makes my 4x1.5TB look weak!

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This is a nice Home server, much more practical than my setup I just do not know when to stop..

You also appear to have superior hardware, Core 2 Duo? The CPU in mine is from 2003 or 2004...
 
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Originally Posted by age_ruler1;13063666
Aww lol, I was proud of my 4xHDD RAID
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I wonder what is the Brust speed & average read of your Setup. Its gotta be EPIC
lower than yours - his drives are not in RAID...
 
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Originally Posted by the_beast;13063712
lower than yours - his drives are not in RAID...
Yeah, that is questionable though.. Drive extender basically emulates RAID 0 and it is possible for files to stripe among more than one drive.

I have load tested it though and I was able to stream 1080P content to 5 other computers in the house, even while my brother was connected from his house in New Mexico.

How do I test the I/O?

ninja edit- ok I downloaded HDtune and the best read I got was 105.6 MB/s

There was no way to test the drive pool as whole which kinda sucks but oh well but theoretically if it was functioning as a true RAID 0 the speeds would be in the 1200-1500 MB/s?
 
#25 ·
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Originally Posted by fg2chase;13064340
Yeah, that is questionable though.. Drive extender basically emulates RAID 0 and it is possible for files to stripe among more than one drive.

I have load tested it though and I was able to stream 1080P content to 5 other computers in the house, even while my brother was connected from his house in New Mexico.

How do I test the I/O?

ninja edit- ok I downloaded HDtune and the best read I got was 105.6 MB/s

There was no way to test the drive pool as whole which kinda sucks but oh well but theoretically if it was functioning as a true RAID 0 the speeds would be in the 1200-1500 MB/s?
The files don't stripe across drives, each file sits on 1 drive only (plus a second copy on another drive if mirroring is on). That's why you can pull a drive and mount it on another Windows box and access the files.
 
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