8 Bay ITX Server

Update, your switches must support 802.1AX/802.3ad for teaming. Info from wiki. Sadly my Linksys ones do not.
 
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Nice to be able to afford 8x £90 drives. Why those drives btw? I always think 5900rpm drives are better for a nas, less heat.
 
Hmm I had to many wd raptors die for me to stick with WD. From the 36gb to the 150gb versions I must have eaten 8 or so of them. I'm now crucial ssd's and Seagate hard drives.

Just as an after thought, I remember when I bought my 5x Seagate 2TB LP drives, for £44 each a few years back :-)
 
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pyropetepete said:
Gutted, raid card does not work with 3TB drives

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=24372831#post24372831
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Let us know what RAID card you end up choosing, it is payday today so I have ordered one of the 8bay U-NAS cases to start a similar project though Im undecided over whether to go for a MS solution or FreeNAS at the moment.
My problem is that I have 5 existing drives between 2TB and 4TB in size that I intend to repurpose for this so Im going to have to use some sort of drive pooling or JBOD solution

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Im sure I saw some post on Anandtech looking at the new WD drive for NAS and if I remember rightly it seems that the red series aren't meant to be used for NAS units over 6 bays?

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One of the most interesting launches from Western Digital last year was the WD Red line of hard drives from the client storage division. It was intended for low to mid-range NAS units (and WD wanted to make sure that it wasn't used for units with more than 5 bays). Today, the Datacenter Storage Business Unit is launching the WD Se line intended for high end NAS units and, more importantly, datacenters looking for scalable storage (i.e, reliable storage which doesn't cost an arm and a leg for scenarios where capacity, rather than performance, is of primary importance).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6986/...s-wd-se-for-datacenters-and-highend-nas-units
 
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edgedemon said:
Let us know what RAID card you end up choosing, it is payday today so I have ordered one of the 8bay U-NAS cases to start a similar project though Im undecided over whether to go for a MS solution or FreeNAS at the moment.
My problem is that I have 5 existing drives between 2TB and 4TB in size that I intend to repurpose for this so Im going to have to use some sort of drive pooling or JBOD solution

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Im sure I saw some post on Anandtech looking at the new WD drive for NAS and if I remember rightly it seems that the red series aren't meant to be used for NAS units over 6 bays?

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One of the most interesting launches from Western Digital last year was the WD Red line of hard drives from the client storage division. It was intended for low to mid-range NAS units (and WD wanted to make sure that it wasn't used for units with more than 5 bays). Today, the Datacenter Storage Business Unit is launching the WD Se line intended for high end NAS units and, more importantly, datacenters looking for scalable storage (i.e, reliable storage which doesn't cost an arm and a leg for scenarios where capacity, rather than performance, is of primary importance).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6986/...s-wd-se-for-datacenters-and-highend-nas-units
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Will have a proper read of this once home but thank you

Card have sorted just

Just bought this after reviews said it works with 4TB. Was £147 delivered for saturday morning. Highpoint RocketRAID RR2720SGL
 
It's a very pretty case containing a commendable density of hard drives. That's also quite a nasty single point of failure if the power supply or motherboard goes bad. I think I'd have got a second four bay box instead. 20gbytes of data is a lot to lose all in one go and a real pain to backup.

Actually, how are you going to back this up?
 
JonJ678 said:
It's a very pretty case containing a commendable density of hard drives. That's also quite a nasty single point of failure if the power supply or motherboard goes bad. I think I'd have got a second four bay box instead. 20gbytes of data is a lot to lose all in one go and a real pain to backup.

Actually, how are you going to back this up?
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He will be using RAID 5 for redundancy.
 
On the backup question. Raid 5 can not be considered as "backup" however for the amount of data involved it may have to do. Personally I keep my ultra important life ends without these files on various cloud area's. The only real way to backup a 20TB array would be with another 20Tb array or a very nice tape solution!
 
Looks like this could be an interesting read unfortunately I rage quit thread at the top of page 2. That font. :mad:
 
Hi pyropetepete,

Quick question, does the RAID controller come with the case? I got mine delivered on Monday but no controller. i have emailed them but had no response. I just wanted to confirm if yours came with the controller.

On the upside, there were no import charges for me either.

Thanks
 
Get yourself an IBM M5014 or M5015 Raid controller from eBay (which is just a re-branded LSI 9260-8i), they can be had for a good price with a cache battery (BBU)

I am using one with 4 x 3TB WD Red's and getting amazing speeds in a Raid-5, see below pic -

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I am not pyropetepete but I can answer the question

@ ReaperZN

No the raid controller. A good raid card is a couple of hundred quid. There are cheaper ones but checking some auction sites can find a good card cheap.

@ coolamasta

Nice speeds there. I like the sound the of the WD Reds but my gut still says go with 5900rpm for less heat and noise.
 
Nice pics, couldn't read the thread due to the font.

Contemplated forcing Firefox/Stylish to override the font settings for the forum but decided I couldn't be bothered.

:D
 
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@ coolamasta

Nice speeds there. I like the sound the of the WD Reds but my gut still says go with 5900rpm for less heat and noise.
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There isn't a lot in heat/noise/power consumption difference in it, so little you prob wouldn't notice, Red's are the best solution for any Raid set up IMO, mainly because they are designed for Raid and have longer warranty :)
 
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