I remember it as an Athlon Thunderbird, but I don't think any records remain... EDIT: They do! El Reg covered it, though for a copy from a different forum (also long since dead). It was an Athlon XP1500+, and his username was "Trubador" not "Troubadour." EDIT EDIT:
alright so getting back on topic, I'm still researching hardware atm but I'm looking at doing a DIY job in a 4u chassis as the general consensus seems to be the small the U the more aggressive/noisy the cooling system for it will be. my next question is the NAS array itself, I've got a large collection of movies (HD and 4k), TV and music which I want to centralise and a mixture of assorted hdd sizes consisting of 12s and 4s with a few SSD's in the mix. the problem i can see is that mixing the 12s with the 4s is going to hurt as i'll lose so much space on the 12s, can i build say 3 stores, one for each category and then using a specific hdd type for that store? ie the 12s for movies, the 4s for tv and the SSD's for music (most used/least power drain)?
Maybe use the 12TBs for your media and the 4TBs as a separate array for other stuff, using the SSDs as a read/write cache.
Well I didn't expect this thread to be going all those years back I made it. Guess I should update... All my kit lives at work in our datacenter. I've 2X 10G uplinks to our core and announce my own IPV4/6. 40GB Top of Rack Switch. Most gear is 10Gb to this or 1G Ethernet to an Access Switch. 2 Watchguard M440's running PFSense. 3 Node Dell R630 Proxmox Cluster. 1 Dell R320 - Unraid / Plex connected to a Netapp 24 bay Disk Shelf. Various other servers belonging to friends.
Upsides of a long sick leave: being able to tinker with home IT and keep the upgrade-ish project going. Currently making cables for our new Hyper V host as it needs uhh a few Sadly Optiplexes disable onboard NIC when another is plugged in. Would have preferred leaving that for management but hey bad decisions by manufacturer ahoy!
A work in progress - more stuff to print and order, but it's taking shape... Got a patch panel and a bunch of short length leads on order, but I didn't pay attention to the shipping date - two weeks to go. Muppet. I am seriously considering adding another 3u to the frame and integrating my NAS
This is one side of ours. Main trunk in the house with 10gb backbone to the garage. The microserver is running unraid with a few docker containers. a 1u server will run in the garage in another rack and be responsible for backups and syncing between the 2.
Oo! Are we doing 3D printed stuff? Cool! Here’s mine The rack is the “Mod10” (found on Printables). It’s a really neat design, if a bit heavy on the cage nuts. Two ThinkCentres, a mini HP thing, my Hue hub, and a small 1GbE switch (which will be swapped out for a 2.5GbE switch when all machines in the rack are online). While we’re at it, I also 3D printed the chassis for my NAS. Up to 6x 3.5” and 3x 2.5”. The 2.5” bays are fully populated with 512GB SSDs, but I’m only running 3x rust spinners for bulk storage.
This is a bit of a blast from the past (and not just because your post here is 10 months old) ... but Trubador both scammed me out of £180 and when that image/post went viral it toppled the forums upon which I was an admin, so I ended up re-hosting the thread and images for years on one of my domains. I still have the HTML files somewhere on my NAS.
Operation: Hide the Powerbricks accomplished. My patch panel turned up early, yay! No sign of the swanky patch leads though. Not finished (of course) because I'm waiting for QNAP to replace/repair my QSW-M3216R-8S8T so I can have my fibre link to my NAS back. Making do with 2.5G.
looks like my nas/iscsi experiment is a failure... i dont know enough about it to knwo why it's failing the way/ways it is but look like some NAS rejiggery is in order
All of that’s 3d printed, how much did it cost in filament etc and what plans does it use? Just wondering if an a1 mini can produce what’s required for it..
KWS Rack on Makerworld. I used about 1.5 reels but I have printed extra base plates as shelves since - probably close to two reels. There is also about £20 in fixings. I doubt the A1 mini will have the build space for the base plates or the top frames (which incorporate the handles), or the side mesh panels. It might manage the rest with some creative angling and supports [edit] I didn't realise the Mini's bed was 180x180 (I thought it was 220). It wont have the space to print any of the larger parts.
That’s a shame, due for an upgrade as it happens Standard A1 is on offer and does 256 on all axis. Man math time….
