Guest Jomp Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 I've been waiting for the Norco 4224 case to drop for a few months now. Its release seems eminent, so I decided to spec one out and buy the following hardware for my build. This will also serve as an anchor for Norco 4224 talk, since there have been discussions about it all over various threads, it would be nice to have them all in one central place. Hold on, you may say, UnRaid only supports 20 drives! This is currently true, but based on this comment: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg44997#msg44997 I'm assuming that we'll get 24 drives at some point, especially since there is now a cheap case that supports 24 drives. What we know about the 4224: It's should have a 120mm fan board, since they are switching over to these Q2. Prototype pictures: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18372498#post18372498 ------------ This is my UNTESTED build (I'll update the progress when the 4224 is available and I've built it): Motherboard: GA-EP45-UD3P CPU: E5300 Wolfdale 2.6GHz LGA 775 Dual-Core RAM: 2GB of DDR-2 in current system PCIE Card: 2x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Cables: 2 reverse breakout to SFF-8087 and 4 SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 cables Power: Enermax in current system SeaSonic X750 This gets 24 drives via: 8x SATA on Motherboard 8x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8x Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 ---- 24 Drives! Link to comment
gbdesai Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 I'm kinda waiting for the same thing. I'll have to investigate your choice of motherboard, and I already have 4GB of ram and an E7300 CPU, but otherwise it looks great... Now we have to wait for the Norco... Link to comment
Guest Jomp Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 I'm kinda waiting for the same thing. I'll have to investigate your choice of motherboard, and I already have 4GB of ram and an E7300 CPU, but otherwise it looks great... Now we have to wait for the Norco... Yeah, I went back and forth on about 4 motherboards. I thought about using 3 AOC-SASLP-MV8's, tried to make the X7SBE work since IPMI is pretty awesome, and a few other iterations, but ultimately chose the GA-EP45-UD3P since it is the most cost effective for me and is known compatible and reliable. Link to comment
Kaygee Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Has anyone tried a SAS MV8 in this motherboard yet? Let alone two? I remember someone having issues with the x16 slots being told VGA only... Link to comment
Guest Jomp Posted April 3, 2010 Share Posted April 3, 2010 Has anyone tried a SAS MV8 in this motherboard yet? Let alone two? I remember someone having issues with the x16 slots being told VGA only... I know that one of them will work http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3739.0 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3739.msg48650#msg48650 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4091.msg46885#msg46885 http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1034541814&postcount=12 The problem you're referring to was people sticking PCIE x1 cards in the 16x slots, which does not work, and gigabyte support not knowing anything about non-video PCIE cards in PCIE slots. I've updated the first post to reflect that this is an untested combo with dual AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards. Link to comment
Rajahal Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Just keep an eye out for HPA issues on that motherboard... Link to comment
starcat Posted April 12, 2010 Share Posted April 12, 2010 Here more detailed information about the 4224: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1498268 and here some engineering sample pics: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1035373724&postcount=4 Link to comment
Jomp Posted June 2, 2010 Share Posted June 2, 2010 I'm still sitting on my hardware. Everything seems to point to another month or two for it to be released. Link to comment
starcat Posted June 3, 2010 Share Posted June 3, 2010 Any news on that? Any pics? Will it have a 120mm fanboard? Link to comment
praeses Posted June 25, 2010 Share Posted June 25, 2010 http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=RPC-4224 So yeah, it looks like it has what most people are looking for: Drive Bay 24 x hot-swappable SATA (I or II) / SAS drive bays Cooling Fan 3 x 120mm middle fans wall, 2 x 80mm rear fans I am just trying to find some place that sells it. Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted June 26, 2010 Share Posted June 26, 2010 Time to update unRAID to support 24 drives! Knew this day was coming! Link to comment
bcbgboy13 Posted June 28, 2010 Share Posted June 28, 2010 $395 @ ipcdirect.net (preorder only - will ship in August) http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=252 Link to comment
Jomp Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Update: All the hardware listed in the top post is stable and working great. You can put two AOC-SASLP-MV8's in the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. Not a bad way to get 24 ports. HPA is disabled by default, so even if the BIOS gets reset for some reason, no HPA will be added to the disks. Just waiting on August for the RPC-4224 to ship and for Tom to hopefully add 3 more data device slots. Link to comment
tmp31416 Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Update: All the hardware listed in the top post is stable and working great. You can put two AOC-SASLP-MV8's in the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. Not a bad way to get 24 ports. HPA is disabled by default, so even if the BIOS gets reset for some reason, no HPA will be added to the disks. Just waiting on August for the RPC-4224 to ship and for Tom to hopefully add 3 more data device slots. does this mean you have procured a 4224 and put it to use? if so, pictures, please!!! cheers. Link to comment
Jomp Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 does this mean you have procured a 4224 and put it to use? if so, pictures, please!!! Just waiting on August for the RPC-4224 to ship I will put pictures up when it comes in though! Link to comment
starcat Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Nice. Were you able to test S3 and WOL with the GA-EP45-UD3P and also are you able to control fan speed by software from within unRAID? Thanks much. Link to comment
starcat Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 Just waiting on August for the RPC-4224 to ship and for Tom to hopefully add 3 more data device slots. I thought that this was done according to this post by Tom? http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4887.msg44997#msg44997 Link to comment
Joe L. Posted July 11, 2010 Share Posted July 11, 2010 True, but I don't think he released that version to the world. 4.5.6 has this in its source code file: /* The maximum number of disks per array that we support. */ #define MD_SB_DISKS 21 And this in the 4.5.6 release notes: - Increase supported array width from 20 to 21 drives. (20 data drives + parity = 21. + 1 cache drive = 22 drives total) Link to comment
Jomp Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 Nice. Were you able to test S3 and WOL with the GA-EP45-UD3P and also are you able to control fan speed by software from within unRAID? Thanks much. Nice indeed. I was pretty pleased when it booted up with two SASLP's installed and HPA being disabled by default. Unfortunately I don't use either fan control or S3, so I haven't tested them. Link to comment
Jomp Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 True, but I don't think he released that version to the world. 4.5.6 has this in its source code file: /* The maximum number of disks per array that we support. */ #define MD_SB_DISKS 21 And this in the 4.5.6 release notes: - Increase supported array width from 20 to 21 drives. (20 data drives + parity = 21. + 1 cache drive = 22 drives total) If he upsizes again, I really hope it'll include 23 data drives + 1 parity as an option. As one who doesn't use a cache drive, an additional data drive in that slot would be great. Link to comment
terrastrife Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 23 would be pushing it imo. i would prefer unraids disk driver to support a second array. had a disk die, then the parity die during the rebuild. sigh. and now my unraid is refusing to play nicely after being rebuilt. Link to comment
terrastrife Posted July 12, 2010 Share Posted July 12, 2010 not that disk brand/model is really a factor but if you really must know, Hitachi 7K2000 ~7 months old and Seagate Barrab 7200.11 1.5TB ~ 12 months old. The only disk on hand that was used as replacement is Seagate Barra LP 2TB. Link to comment
cj0r Posted July 13, 2010 Share Posted July 13, 2010 Ugh I don't like that terra... I have 5 of those Hitachi's spinning in my server. Link to comment
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