I finally completed my 20 drive beast. I had 1 5-3 cage already and finally added the other three along with a motherboard and CPU upgrade. Word of caution for those looking at getting the Antec 1200 case, the metal tabs are a PAIN to get flush. It took me about 3-4 hours total. Now on to the good stuff.

 

OS at time of building: 4.7 Pro

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 265 Regor 3.3GHZ

Motherboard: JetWay JHZ03-GT-V2-LF

RAM: Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 ECC Unbuffered Server Memory

Case: Antec TwelveHundred V1 (had from a previous build)

Drive Cage(s): 4 x SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B

Power Supply: SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold ((SS-650KM Active PFC F3)) 650W

SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 x SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8

Cables: 4 x 3ware CBL-SFF8087OCF-05M

Fans: 4x Noctua NF-B9-1600 92mm Case Fan (these were used to swap out the fans on the drive cages. Since the server is in my room I needed something quiet-ish.

 

Parity Drive:  WD 2TB EARS

Data Drives:  WD 1.5TB EARS, Seagate 1 TB, Hitachi 2TB, Hitachi 2TB All green drives.

Cache Drive:  N/A

Total Drive Capacity: 6.5TB

 

Primary Use: Media Server to Plex and Boxee, Backup via Crashplan

Likes: TONS O STORAGE, sense of accomplishment building something

Dislikes: I think it weighs more than a semi truck, and thats only with 5 drives  

Add Ons Used: UnMenu

Future Plans: Air Video Server, Cache Drive, All 2TB drives

 

 

 

This shot shows how the screws lined up and how the medal tabs look bent and cut off.

 

 

Thanks to Raj for the prototype thread and everyone else posting your setups and asking the questions I would have asked as well  

 

Nice Job and thanks for the Pictures. A lot of builds lately and people seem to be forgetting to show them bad boys off.

 

I've got 5 Drives in my Cooler Master 590 and its starting to get heavy. I can't imagine how that thing is going to weigh fully loaded. You better build a rolling platform for it. LOL

Nice,

 

I was really up in the air between this case, one other 12 bay, and the norco 4224.

 

This would have been a more expensive build, But it has the advantage a tower. plus the wife factor... another tower would go unnoticed, the rack sort of sticks out.

 

In the end i went with  the 4224 due to cost factors.

 

I do not envy your tab mashing fun. My plan was to drill the rivets, take it apart and use some 2x4's and clamps to try and cleanly bend them all at once. if that failed... a hammer with board on each side to protect it. then new pop rivets.

Did you have the ECC memory on hand already?  Expensive route and I don't think the Jetway utilizes ECC -- would love a verified confirmation on this though.  Their website doesn't show it utilizes ECC.  If it indeed doesn't utilize it, I would likely RMA it for non-ECC unless you planned to go to a mobo that utilizes it.. as ECC is slower than non-ECC (even if just slightly) but at a higher cost.

 

Shoot, if it does turn out to utilize ECC, then I know what upgrade my beast is getting next...

 

Did you have the ECC memory on hand already?  Expensive route and I don't think the Jetway utilizes ECC -- would love a verified confirmation on this though.  Their website doesn't show it utilizes ECC.  If it indeed doesn't utilize it, I would likely RMA it for non-ECC unless you planned to go to a mobo that utilizes it.. as ECC is slower than non-ECC (even if just slightly) but at a higher cost.

 

Shoot, if it does turn out to utilize ECC, then I know what upgrade my beast is getting next...

 

 

I bought it off NewEgg and wasn't paying attention, stupid tax I guess. The Jetway board doesn't support ECC.