Soldato
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case for 16 + hard drives
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Soldato
Sorry I took a couple of shots this morning but didnt have any batteries charged for my flash, so had to use a stupid slow shutter speed,
here is a sample of how blurry they came out. Each drawer holds about 50 CD cases (some are double albums) ive got an 8drawer unit and 3x 4 drawer units, all are pretty much crammed full, ive also got a 51cd multidisc player which is also full.
4 drawer
2x 4 drawer
8 drawer
here is a sample of how blurry they came out. Each drawer holds about 50 CD cases (some are double albums) ive got an 8drawer unit and 3x 4 drawer units, all are pretty much crammed full, ive also got a 51cd multidisc player which is also full.
4 drawer
2x 4 drawer
8 drawer
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Soldato
nice! My stuff was always a lot less organised then that
To the original poster, I wouldn't recommend placing that many drives in a single RAID5 array, not least because I don't think that 18 port SATA hardware RAID cards may be hard to track down, but because with that many drives you'd be better with RAID6.
You'd be better off buying 2 or 3 (3ware 9550 perhaps) seperate hardware RAID cards and running RAID 5, so you'd then have two or three seperate arrays.
You'd be better off buying 2 or 3 (3ware 9550 perhaps) seperate hardware RAID cards and running RAID 5, so you'd then have two or three seperate arrays.
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Backup to anything other than ide/sata is so expensive it hurts.
A 12 tape autoloader from hp will set you back 4k ish and that will backup 12x 400 or 12 x 800gb in compressed or uncomressed mode! Oh and the tapes are 50 squids a pop
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is what you need.
Get two sata trays that take 8-12 disks and can be attached to scsi of ext sata.
Build both as JBOD using n random disks but make sure you always have the higher total capacity in the nbackup target device and use robocopy to replicate any changes from one tray to another as they occur.
If you dont want to for fork for DAS boxes then get two big cases and do same but JBOD in each server and replicate from \\server1\drive letter to \\server2\drive letter using robo copy. Use the hdd mount extender kits to add drives mecano stylee.
Job. Is. Done.
The home backup market is ficking woefull, in dire need of high capactity simle backup devices that are based on more resilient formats.
A 12 tape autoloader from hp will set you back 4k ish and that will backup 12x 400 or 12 x 800gb in compressed or uncomressed mode! Oh and the tapes are 50 squids a pop
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is what you need.
Get two sata trays that take 8-12 disks and can be attached to scsi of ext sata.
Build both as JBOD using n random disks but make sure you always have the higher total capacity in the nbackup target device and use robocopy to replicate any changes from one tray to another as they occur.
If you dont want to for fork for DAS boxes then get two big cases and do same but JBOD in each server and replicate from \\server1\drive letter to \\server2\drive letter using robo copy. Use the hdd mount extender kits to add drives mecano stylee.
Job. Is. Done.
The home backup market is ficking woefull, in dire need of high capactity simle backup devices that are based on more resilient formats.
Soldato
I use the robocopy command in a batch file for my backup. Once I get my new rig finished I will have 2x500Gb drives for backup. My current batch file waits until 6pm and then waits until the pc has been idle for 20minutes(Its looking for when I have my dinner) It then scans through a list of folders and copies any changes to the backup drive and prunes any files no longer needed. Im really impressed how well it works. I keep having to check the log file to make sure its still working as the backup is so rapid and unobtrusive.
Hi Guys
Thanks for all the advice, finally got the machine built, after serval attempts. Finished article is a LianLi V2000, with one Thermaltake 3 x 5 1/4 to 4 3.5 adapters. Used three Adaptec 2610sa hardware raid 5 cards on a Asus P5WDG2-WS board and Intel core duo E6300. The power supply is a Hiper 730 watt. It is currently running 18 drives on the raid cards, plus one for the operating system, MCE 2005. All seems ok, the raid cards support array expansion which is useful, so I was able to add extra drives to each array. Used Windows to add the three arrays together, so it does give me a measure of security, should be able to lose three drives, on three seperate arrays without data loss. I really wanted to go the RAID 6 route but the cards are just too expensive right now, mind you I think all that I would have gained is a little extra storage, and two drive tolerance, all be it on the whole array.
Now I want to complete the setup with a UPS, can anyone suggest one that would be suitable. I was looking at the OcUK value ones, but they seem very inexpensive for their claimed output. Anyone any ideas?
Thanks for all the advice, finally got the machine built, after serval attempts. Finished article is a LianLi V2000, with one Thermaltake 3 x 5 1/4 to 4 3.5 adapters. Used three Adaptec 2610sa hardware raid 5 cards on a Asus P5WDG2-WS board and Intel core duo E6300. The power supply is a Hiper 730 watt. It is currently running 18 drives on the raid cards, plus one for the operating system, MCE 2005. All seems ok, the raid cards support array expansion which is useful, so I was able to add extra drives to each array. Used Windows to add the three arrays together, so it does give me a measure of security, should be able to lose three drives, on three seperate arrays without data loss. I really wanted to go the RAID 6 route but the cards are just too expensive right now, mind you I think all that I would have gained is a little extra storage, and two drive tolerance, all be it on the whole array.
Now I want to complete the setup with a UPS, can anyone suggest one that would be suitable. I was looking at the OcUK value ones, but they seem very inexpensive for their claimed output. Anyone any ideas?
Pandobear said:
Been looking into the APC Smart UPS, 1500VA for £212, that's about 1KW output, 1000VA should be sufficient for you.
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA1000I&total_watts=50
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=SUA1000I&total_watts=50