Server Upgrades

[Colonel Mitch]

As some of you know I have a server at home thats been having problems with its RAID 5 array (hard drives setup so that no data is lost if a drive fails). Basically these problems were caused by a drive failing and windows being shit at managing raid5.

So I got a dedicated raid 6 controller from ebay for a STEAL (RRP of the controller is ~£700 and the backup battery is over £100(link here (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220800559091&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT)) and 3 more drives to add to the array ( a total of 14TB, 10TB usable in raid 6.

Anyway the array is building now and here are some piccies :)

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123439.jpg

This is the bare card with nothing attatched
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123458.jpg

Here it is next to my old 4870x2 for comparison (a dual GPU graphics card)
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123513.jpg

This is the back view
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123535.jpg

It was supplied with the battery backup module too :)
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123601.jpg

Here is is with a SAS to 4 x SATA 300MB/s cable.
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-123623.jpg

New case big enough to fit all the drives, and cheaper than buying 5.25" to 3.5" converters.
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-125920.jpg

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-130156.jpg

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-130203.jpg

Here it is with the front off so you can see the drive bays, and I can access them easily.
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-130926.jpg

And here it is full of drives.
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-132856.jpg

And the final build :)
http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-142459.jpg

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-142505.jpg

http://i513.photobucket.com/albums/t333/piers1989/2011-07-08-142515.jpg

[Chalex4]

Wow. What do you use your server for? Also, how much space is that in total that you can use?

Looks epic!

[Colonel Mitch]

Its used mostly for file storage (HD movies and TV shows), currently have around 4TB used, had 1.5 used before I started this uni year xD



10TB usable in raid 6.


For raid 6 you deduct 2 drives worth of storage, and need a minimum of 4 drives.

[Kiliv]

i bet when you get lol interwebs in september you could host games for us too ;)