Home SAN fibre system

GodAtum said:
How did you get the screws out? Is there a knack to it or just brute force?
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chisel and hammer, make a little indentation with the chisel and then angle the chisel so that when you hit it with the hammer it will unscrew

use a center punch for countersunk screws
 
Bought a power drill and bit set today from B&Q. Drilled a hole into the screw and tried to reverse the screw out but did not work. I will try drilling the hole deeper to get more grip into the screw.
 
GodAtum said:
Bought a power drill and bit set today from B&Q. Drilled a hole into the screw and tried to reverse the screw out but did not work. I will try drilling the hole deeper to get more grip into the screw.
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if you keep drilling making the hole bigger and bigger you will reverse it out or you will have removed enough of the screw to push out with a screw driver, just made you don't get carried away and drill the threads of your case. center punch and hammer would have been easy
 
Got the screw out :D

I've had doubts about going for an AMD system as they are not looked fabourably upon compared to an i5. However I'm not looking to run games or overclockers. But I have seen some comparisons of hdd speed and the i5 still trumps the Amd 6100.

Amy advice? The i5 3750k is almost twice as much as the fx 6100.
 
Be interested to see how this build goes and how well it works.....will follow with interest...

GJUK
 
OK have ordered a motherboard bundle and other components so it'll take a few days to build and ship. My final parts list:

  • Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2
  • Noctua NH-U12P-SE2
  • Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3
  • 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair XMS3
  • Corsair Professional Series HX1050
  • 240GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD
  • WD 2TB Red WD20EFRX x 4
  • Samsung SSUNG/SH-222BB/BEBE
  • be quiet! Shadow Wings 80mm Mid Speed x2
  • be quiet! Shadow Wings 120mm PLM BL024 x2

Already have:
  • X-Case RM 400/10
  • Mellanox MHEA28-XT x 2
  • Dell PERC 6i + battery
  • Zarlink ZLynx 30M CX4-CX4
  • SAS - 4 x SATA (SFF-8484 to 4 x 7 Pin S-ATA)
 
Niiiiice, I will be watching with much interest as I have thought about fibre connected storage myself but would prob only go for a 4GB/s connection as thats plenty of bandwidth for what I would ever need but much respect for going with the 10GB/s fibre :cool:
 
Looking good bud but wondering why you don't go for a single Internal/Trusted subnet and a separate DMZ?

Personally I would ditch the BT home hub, get a decent Draytek router, have 2 V-switches in VMware, one for Internal and one for DMZ and then build the VM's attaching them the the relevant networks :)

Also using a 10.0.0.0/8 class A subnet is mega OTT for a small home network!

Watching with interest though as I would like to see everything set up and working well :)
 
Lol those 10.0.0.0 IPs just came up automatically fro my Asus router! The vswitch IPs where also assigned automatically in Workstation when I was playing about. I did get the Asus N66 but I could not get it to work without the BT Home Hub, does the Draytek have something extra like a modem?
 
Another issue arises: the PERC 6 is causing the server to not boot properly and turn off. I've read I need to cover the 5 and 6 PCIe pins is that correct?
 
How did you cover the pins? ive borrowed some nail polish but it looks conductive as it has a metallic shine to it. Is that both sides as well?
 
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