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The supermicro is loud, I have replaced the fans in two of my 933t's with 4 wire fans run from the mobo but it is still loud in my opinion.
Although I have a dedicated space for them so it is not too bad for me.
Charles.
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Nice, I like it, sweet setup. I am also a huge Dell fan.
Here is a link to mine I posted earlier.
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2031.msg120321#msg120321
Charles.
Really not a fan of the R710 (bottom of the Rack) or the 1950s or the 2950 but they are cheep and will do until i get the IBM blade center fixed up.
I've got two of those Supermicro SC936E26-R1200B sitting under the bed in my guest bedroom collecting dust. Great cases. Just wanted to move everything to a single case for management.
Really, you don't like the 710's I have a few with dual HEX cores and 288gig of ram. They are troopers. take everything I throw at them and just keep running.
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I like your Supermicro case. Usually a little loud, but tough like tank.
Do you have any pictures of your 32u rack? This is like porn for me.
This is the bottom half, the top has is all WAN gear.
Nice, I like it, sweet setup. I am also a huge Dell fan.
Here is a link to mine I posted earlier.
http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2031.msg120321#msg120321
Charles.
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New 24 Drive unRaid
Case:
SC846E2-R900B
MB:
X9SCA-F
Control Cards:
3 x AOC-SASLP-MV8
I like your Supermicro case. Usually a little loud, but tough like tank.
Do you have any pictures of your 32u rack? This is like porn for me.
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I like the small sleek footprint, is it quiet?
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The trap I fell into on controlling the environment in the zone for where the servers are, is that I forgot that in the winter the house is heated by forced air. If your servers are in their own zone with nothing else okay, but beware an error of omsiion like the one I made. I ended up installing a small two part AC system, for just the room (actually a very large closet) that all my servers are located in and just keeping it at 72 degrees F.
No I already thought of that, our house system is split and supports heat in other zones while cooling where the computers are. Also as it is Florida and the lower portion we have not run the heat in over five years.
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I only have one word to comment on this set up, Awesome! Man you can never have too much data. I take it you don not run these guys 24/7?
Thank you, a lot of time and effort has gone into them, and the whole set-up.
Only one runs 24/7, the other three are powered as needed for data access or backup schedules.
Do you need another Supermicro 933? I have one complete... just in case you wanted to add a 5th!
Did you replace all the stock fans? If not that must be one loud rack!
With 112TB I think I am done for now, and I have no room in my rack. But I will PM you just in case I can not pass up the offer.
I have a storage problem.
I replaced the stock fans with 4wire fans, and have them as slow as possible but thermally controlled.
The rack with the rac-sense environmental monitoring can tell the house to turn on the ac for the room, and set
it to cool the specific zone the rack is in if needed on those hot Florida summer days.
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I only have one word to comment on this set up, Awesome! Man you can never have too much data. I take it you don not run these guys 24/7?
Thank you, a lot of time and effort has gone into them, and the whole set-up.
Only one runs 24/7, the other three are powered as needed for data access or backup schedules.
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Here is my little unRaid set-up. I have been running unRaid for a little over a year, and love it. I have three SuperMicro 933t cases, with a 4th on the way.
Ok, I think I am finally done. I believe I am done with my storage tower after finally adding the 4th 933t case. I am out of room.
Now I will need 3tb drive support if I want to grow any further.
Maybe I need to keep less data? Naaaaa.
Updated unRaid Rack with 4th unRaid Servers.
Rack with Keyboard out. The just in case console access. Even though the consoles can be accessed via the web from the Avocent console server.
Storage Rack Specs:
APC NetShelter Rack
APC SU3000 Smart UPS
Two APC AP9211 remote Reboot switches
Managed GIG Switch
AVOCENT DSR2030 Local and Remote KVM
GEIST RSMINI environmental monitoring
4x SuperMicro 933t servers with 28TB each RAW.
Rack Solutions 2U sliding Monitor Shelf.
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I just setup my unRAID box this weekend. I plan on using it for MKV rips of my hundreds of HD DVD titles. I already use a 56TB WHS for my hundreds of BD titles in the ISO format. I would do the same with my HD DVD titles if the media players could play HD DVD ISOs.
Do you have any pics of that 56tb server you could post in pimp my rig?
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Any dedicated cooling for the rack or do you just cool the room? Where goes the exhausted hot air from the back of the rack? Are there more racks in that room or is this half height rack the only one?
Additional vents, and returns were added for the room, the house has zoned air so this room can be cooled differently from the rest of the house.
That is the only rack in that room, but one of two racks in the house. The other rack, which is a full 44u rack is in a media / wiring closet. It too has it's own separate cooling zone. The pictured rack is all of the storage. Media has htpc, home automation, switchers, players ect.
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Steven, btw, how do you cool that rack? Do you have a HVAC running to the back? And where is it located, is the room special purpose for equipment?
My rack is in a special purpose room, which has added cooling.
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Very Nice Steve!!!
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My unRAID Servers are used for:
- Digital Hoarding
- Photos
- Home videos
- Movies
SD
HD
- Music
- Document Storage.
- Backups & Backups of Backups.
- General File Storage & Archives
SD and HD movies are streamed to various players throughout the House.
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this has to be the beastliest rig out there....much respect!
Not sure about that, but it has been in the works for years. Wish I could recover what was spent
on other raid cards and software prior to finding unRAID about two years ago.
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Spectacular! Question though, I have been thinking about unRAID with larger arrays such as yours, and to be honest I wouldn't be perfectly happy with a redundancy of just 1 disk. Wouldn't something with multiple drive redundancy like raid6 be more appropriate in your scenario?
I used to run raid 6 with traditional $1800.00 raid controllers. This limited my flexibility with upgrading drives. I would have to upgrade entire arrays after copying all of my data off somewhere ( part of the reason I have multiple arrays ). I have never lost more than one drive at a time, yes it did give a little more peace of mind during a rebuild after a drive failure running raid 6. But then again with unRaid if I did experience a multi drive failure my risk is still mitigated, as only the data on the failed drives is lost.
In my application (digital hoarder, I am trying to get help) I just want large amounts of protected space. I am not concerned with iops or being able to write to the array at over 300MB/s. I do have different classes of data, with a small subset of data I really care about. Some of this is actually copied across all three arrays, as well as on an off site server. An example of such data is family pictures and some (in my opinion, or my wife's) really important documents.
With my experience, I have a very important rule I live by for data.
If you have data you care about it needs to be in more than one place, a single disk, raid array, or physical location does not qualify.
Charles.
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Yeah i hear that but I'm glad I'm not paying that power bill
The price of being a digital pack rat, but it is really not that bad.
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Here is my little unRaid set-up. I have been running unRaid for a little over a year, and love it. I have three SuperMicro 933t cases, with a 4th on the way.
Pimp Your Rig
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Nice work.