Josh Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Built the machine about two years ago when I switched from DVD's to Blue rays when I realized that burning blue rays were way too expensive. Started adding hard drives to my windows box. Lost a drive with a bunch of music on it so started looking for something with some protection and hence found UnRAID. Currently on my 3rd upgrade of the same system OS at time of building: 4.6 CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz Motherboard: JetWay JHZ03-GT-LF AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX RAM: Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 Case: NORCO RPC-4224 4U Rackmount Server Case Power Supply: SILVERSTONE OP800 800W Single Rail SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 x SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 SATA Expansion Card(s): 1 x SATA2 Serial ATA II PCI-Express RAID Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132) Cables: 4 x NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 SAS Cable Cables: 2 x NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable Fans: 3 x Scythe SY1225SL12H 120mm "Slipstream" Case Fan 120mm Fan Plate: 120mm fan wall bracket Parity Drive: 2TB Western Digital EADS Data Drives: 3 x 2TB Western Digital EARS 2 x 2TB Western Digital EADS 8 x 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP (CC35) 3 x 1TB Western Digital EADS 1 x 500GB Seagate 7200.11 2 x 2TB Samsung F4 (In array but no data on drives, waiting for another firmware update) Total Drive Capacity: 33.5TB (9.25TB Free) Primary Use: Movies, TV, Music, Backup, Stream to my XBMC machine Likes: Big storage, Mico Motherboard is nice for cooling and cable management, capacity for 24 drives Dislikes: Not silent even after replacing the ridiculously loud stock fans (I sit right beside my servers and workstation), power consumption is high, I leave the drives spinning up all the time. File transfers are never fast enough :-) and this summer I'm adding a small window air conditioner to my office, can get really hot up here and the thing is freakin heavy Add Ons Used: unMenu, Airvideo Future Plans: Crashplan, still need to add a UPS Start-up: 302W (Peak) 250W (Average) Idle (all drives spinning): 236W Idle (all drives spun down): 150W Spin Up Drives in UnRaid: 421W Parity Check: 275W - Parity Checks finish at 60 MB/sec - Write speeds to protected array for large 10GB files are 29-34 MB/s with TeraCopy from Win7 - Air Video Streams 1080P to iPhone4 perfectly at about 75% CPU usage on the X2 - Typically runs about 5-8 degrees over ambient room temp, 10-15 when running parity check - Not silent, I had quieter fans in but when ran parity check it was hitting 50 degrees Celcius. Now with the replacement about 35 degrees on parity check, the 7200 500 GB Seagate is about 40 degrees The 500GB Seagate is starting to report some errors in its smart report so will replace that drive with a 2 TB drive, what ever is cheaper. Will also replace the 1TB drives soon with 2 TB until i'm fully populated. Then I will re-build my Norco 4020 case to build my second server. I'm hoping that the daisy chain server thing will be ready in UnRAID 5 by then ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edit 1-21-2011 - Upgraded to 4.7-beta1 this week so I can add two more EARS drives - Both EARS drives precleared with -A option with zero errors - Replacing both Samsung drives with the EARS drives - Once replaced, will re-preclear the Samsung drives with -A option and add to the array. One will add to disk 20 to fully populate array and second will replace the 500GB Seagate drive - Will bring storage to 37TB with about 12TB of free space and still have three slots open in the case - At the rate I go current space will be good for about 4-5 months before I need to either add more drives (if Tom bumps up the number of supported drives) or start building my second server Josh Quote Link to comment
aiden Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Very nice. Mind if I ask what rack you're using? Quote Link to comment
Josh Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 built it myself, bought the rails from http://www.starcase.com/detail.aspx?ID=999 used this writeup I found for help with dimensions, inspiration, etc.... http://www.codymays.net/projects/server_rack/ I used some nice oak wood and stained it to match the rest of the furniture in my office to make my wonderful OCD girlfriend happy :-) Quote Link to comment
aiden Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 That is VERY helpful. Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment
opentoe Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I may get that supermicro add on card. The one with the ports on the back. I see you have what looks like SATA cables wrapped in black? What are those cables, and can you send a URL on them? I'll probably need something like that I guess if I'm going to get that card, right? Two SATA plug into the card and then the cable breaks out into 8 individual connections?? Is that how it works? Thanks, Michael Quote Link to comment
Josh Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 Cables: 4 x NORCO C-SFF8087-D SFF-8087 to SFF-8087 SAS Cable Cables: 2 x NORCO C-SFF8087-4S Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Cable the first one connects from supermicro card to backplane of the norco case (four channels per cable) and the second cables connect from regular sata connectors on motherboard to the norco backplane Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 That rack is awesome. I think I may build one of those. Quote Link to comment
dwoods99 Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 Nice build. I also found the custom rack interesting because I've never seen that before. Is that back-end open for air-flow, and doesn't all that make a lot of noise in your office? Quote Link to comment
Josh Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 yeah its open in the back Actually not bad since I've switched out all the fans to quieter ones. Server you can hear the fans but not bad at all and the workstation all you here is the hard drives Quote Link to comment
neilt0 Posted April 26, 2011 Share Posted April 26, 2011 Can you put a variable speed controller on the fans? That's what my Big Rig has: Church Mouse -> Wind Tunnel. Quote Link to comment
intertan Posted July 29, 2011 Share Posted July 29, 2011 built it myself, bought the rails from http://www.starcase.com/detail.aspx?ID=999 used this writeup I found for help with dimensions, inspiration, etc.... http://www.codymays.net/projects/server_rack/ I used some nice oak wood and stained it to match the rest of the furniture in my office to make my wonderful OCD girlfriend happy :-) I actually kind of like that idea. Now I just need to decide how big to make it. Quote Link to comment
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