athlon 1300 kt7a RAID motherboard 512 mb sdram, 2x250gb for storage 1x 10gb for xubuntu (hoary heron) with LAMP package used mainly for torrenting and as a media server for xbmc all stuffed into a hugeass case with castors that'll take 12x3.5 hdd (once I put the other hdd cage in) and got 6x 5.25 bays to play with to (makes note need more storage) total cost excluding hdd's £13.50, most of it came from the tip or was spare parts god the camera on my phone is crap
Nice, someone using a YY cube (right?) properly. Can't see where all the drives are being plugged into but I'll trust it works. That must weigh a ton.
From the looks of it, there's not a hardware RAID card in sight. That makes me sad The YY cube only takes 20 hdds when kitted out with 5/25" adapters, its actually quite a bit smaller than it looks. All of the kit in my sig was *incredibly* cramped inside it, used to take hours to rebuild.
Sorry to go kinda off topic but if you have a dedicated file server that does nothing else is there really a disadvantage to software/fake raid? Moriquendi
Just that there's no data security unless its all RAID0+1, in which case 12 of those drives have gone to waste, which would be a shame.
My Windows Home Server: [specs] Intel E2140 1GB PC5400 DDR2 Asus P5B Nvidia Geforce 7100GS Intel Pro 1000 PT Silicon Image UltraATA133 Promise SATA300 TX4 Promise Ultra133 TX4 14 drives, combined more then 4TB HDD space Cooler Master Centurion 532 w. Corsair HX620 Windows Home Server OEM [role] fileserver webserver ftpserver teamspeakserver ventrilloserver backup torrent (utorrent w. webgui)
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=157629 Intel Dual-Core 1.6 3gb DDR2-667 250gb SATA drive with built in ups running gentoo linux downloading torrents with mldonkey (sancho gui) ssh, http server, fah, file storage/backup. looking to upgrade to mirrored 1.5tb drives having 6 drives in the main pc is gettings to be anoying.
Processors 1 Model Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz CPU Speed 2.4 GHz Cache Size 128 KB System Bogomips 4798.06 RAID 5 (3x 500Gig) xfs /dev/md0 931.39 GB USB Backup (1x 300gig) vfat /dev/sdd1 298.02 GB Canonical Hostname gateway Listening IP 192.168.1.1 Kernel Version 2.6.18.20071128 (SMP) Distro Name Debian 4.0 Uptime 30 days 7 hours 41 minutes Current Users 0 Load Averages 0.00 0.02 0.00 Custom build Kernel With IPP2P, Traffic Control, Layer 7 filtering used for QoS (http interface), firewall, samba server, UPnP, SSH server (i prefer SSH to VPN), torrent downloader (http interface) and usenet downloader (http interface). At some point ill add a second RAID card and more HDD's but im waiting for the 1.5Tbs to drop in price/for me to get back to work to earn some pennies EDIT:: i also have battery backup linked to the switch, cable modem and server. Glider reminded me. Mine is also a LAMP as well as bind, no proxy yet as i have no need for the moment
What surprises me to so many of these file servers is how horrid the power wiring looks - just get a bunch of those right-angle SATA power connectors, and then smack them at the correct distance onto power cables. Or do what I did - I took a 2 SATA adapter, then attached another four connectors - my ATCS840 now has perfect HDD power wiring, off one molex. Which is where a modular supply can come right in - just custom design the lengths you need. Shame I don't know how to make SATA cables.
Athlon 2500 Barton 1.5 gb 3200 Soyo kt400 dragon Currently down with a failed main drive Now that I built my new system old reliable is taking over duty Dual opteron 244 2 gb 3700 file ftp mail http etc. Soon to be running dedicated tf2 l4d and bf As soon as I stop playing games and get to work
OOOh, I totally forgot about this... I had a bit of an update Code: glider@neptune ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 67 model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 1000.000 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good nopl pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy bogomips : 1999.92 TLB size : 1024 4K pages clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc Times 2 because it's a dual core... and Code: glider@neptune ~ $ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3836 332 3504 0 117 98 -/+ buffers/cache: 116 3720 Swap: 7812 0 7812 On a Code: glider@neptune ~ $ uname -a Linux neptune 2.6.27-gentoo-r7 #5 SMP Mon Jan 12 19:10:57 CET 2009 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux And also a change of roles... Besides Samba and proftpd it also runs squid (proxy), bind (DNS server), Apache2 (webserver) and MySQL 5 (Database), Dyndns updater,... And a hell lot of other random things.
Not cheating, and I have built the systems that I have worked on and the stuff I'm working on now (which I'm DEFINITELY not allowed to take photos of)
My file server is tops. Well. It was free. Dual 1.26 P3's, 1.5gb RAM, 3x 36gb (HP) 10k SCSI drives, one 9gb (Seagate) 10k. Adaptec 19160 running those, onboard SCSI switched off. One pilfered (And driver/model numberless, only Penguin/BSD have the ability to run it) gb NIC. Running FreeBSD. When it's on. Don't suppose anyone has a TC3100 drive caddy spare do they? I want to mirror the 9gb, boot, but I've only got four caddies and a blanker which, even with modding, wouldn't hold a drive
Finally threw out my old server (Still have the case, tough. I don't have the heart to throw it out.). Now running a 3,2GHz P4 with 1GB ram and win server2003. It houses 2x1TB Barracudas. One for data, and one for backup. I decided against running raid, ad it was more hassle than it's worth. Running them separate will also save me the trouble if my controller should die.
I'm interested in JBOD, but I have a question: If one of your drives in the array fails, will the data still be okay on the other drives?
