Extreme Storage Build Featuring Norco RPC-4224 4U Rackmount Case NCIX Tech Tips
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- Опубліковано 16 гру 2010
- Yes, the video you've all been waiting for. My extreme 24 hard drive build in the rackmount case. I'm gonna demo RAID 0 with 24 Western Digital Black drives as well as a live RAID 6 demo of the redundacy that it affords you!
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Built this computer 2 years ago with 2tb drives, still going strong, 2x raid 6 arrays and i also side mounted 2 more 2tb drives for a raid 1 OS which just saved my OS last week. Thanks Linus for the awesome review that convinced me to build this seup with the same raid card and case.
That was an awsome build of a throw together server, SOOOOOOO COOOOOLL!!!
I would store movies, music, Downloads, and i would also back up all the computers in my house.... Sweet build Linus....
Great Video! Demo of 24 RAID drives, 20T storage. Eject 4 drives during file transfer! BTW...RAID uses a data storage system involving Striping (from Stripe not Strip). Spreads file data segments around several drives. That's why Raid (0) loses the file when one drive is removed. Raid(2) has mirroring and error correction and is unscathed.
Omg this is so awesome! So much storage!
Linus your job is awesome!!
this makes me want to do some crazy ssd raid rig
Nice intro broseph, you are truly a mad man =)
Wow that is just so cool!
Good work m8!
Always wanted to see that!!!
U made me giggle :D
Really enjoyed the vid Linus......Keep it up......LOL at the first 18 seconds...
I would use this for my XBMC media file server!! Nice build and demo.
I have a dedicated tower PC for a data server here at the house... its only a raid pair of 1 TB drives... but it works... it is ready for another pair, and will be putting in a pair of 2 TB drives. I keep all my important documents and items, and then a lot of music and video.
Out of all hardware hard drives/ssds are the most interesting to me. Especially in RAID!!
I'm happy with my 4 tb zfs raid z setup. Four 1 TB purchased for 50 bucks before the flood. Consumes about 60 watts under load. I don't have to worry about the DEA knocking on my door looking for the grow lights.
You are indeed correct, E5-2050. I did this off memory some time ago.
That intro scarred me for life. Thanks
Nice lolz at the beginning xD!
Holy shit at the capacity and throughput of that beast....
Dam, that's awesome.
If I understand it correctly, Linus has split the 24 drives into two sections with 12 drives each, and configured them in RAID 6 which means that there are two drives you cannot use, but; they will be rebuilt if you lose them. So it's basically 10 drives in each array.
Time for a new giveaway!!
Also.. most epic intro ever :D
That intro was possibly the scariest thing I've seen in while.
Nice stumbling on these pearls
Movies, disk images, system backups. Might not sound like much, but I own literally hundreds of games that I would image, from retro to modern, CD, DVD, and even older disk media. I am a collector. That would take up a LOT of room. haha
Wow. This looks like it's from the 90s.
I like the RAID 6.
for one thing, install a quiet or not so noisy fans. HA! this build is indeed mad. nice one linus!
I actually build something similar to this, but in an Antec 3U case, with two 4-drive hot-swap backplanes by Chieftec.
Put in a C2Q9550 8GB ram, a D-link Quad 100FDX DFE-580TX and an Intel Dual 1000PT for networking, a HighPoint RR3520 RAID card (Intel IOP-based) with 256MB cache.
Its running Proxmox VE (Linux-based Virtualization) as base OS and its currently running about 6 Virtual servers.
Inspiring idea...
I use the megaraid software and select the drive with issues or that i'm wanting to swap out of an array and select locate drive. The activity light comes on solid and stays lit, the other drives are either not flashing due to lack of activity or are flashing due to activity. The concerned drive stays lit until I tell the software to stop locating. It works just fine.
Hey, an awesome idea. Build 24tb array, install fraps and start recording your desktop. Than, just go on vacation. Imagine that 24tb single video file...
I just picked up a Norco 4224 Server and a server rack its awsome if you want to get rid of your cable bill. True it cost a bit to start up but well worth it.
Norco 4224 24 bay server $429.00 from ncix
look at craigslest for a rack server they are out their. I got my 7 foot one for $130.00
Press play. Press pause, press 1 and 2 alternately really fast and you'll find that Linus is making the server feel good. :)
The best choice for server storage is ZFS. You can get that on OpenIndiana/Illumos/Solaris, you can get it on FreeBSD and you can build it into Linux (Linus won't change licensing to allow CDDL to work, so you have to go get the sources that someone already did for linux port, and build a kernel yourself). ZFS provides you a wide range of "raid-like" features. You can mirror, you can stripe, you can stripe with 1, 2 or 3 drive redundancy etc. You can add SSD cache drives for real speed.
24TB is crazy, but then again, i've long past that in terms of downloads. I would use it as a archive for all my media and games. In short, it would be a collection of my life on a PC.
On another note, i would probably use it together with a dedicated internet connection for my uploads to various private torrent trackers.
this was more funny than a build episode
I thought about building a NAS into a HAF 922 or Antec Nine Hundred, but I could not figure out the a SOP to label and connect the individual hard drives to the RAID card to be able to identify and replace the specific HDD that failed.
So I thought about adding backplanes but I could not find the info about whether which backplanes are able to indicate fail drives.
So now it's down to QNAP TS-809 Pro vs. Drobo Pro FS???
right now i'm storing all my files across 3 external hard drives on an old pc as kind of a server stand in. A decent case and some hard drives would improve that set up by leaps and bounds.
That was scary!
I would build a storage server, primarily to store my videos, and they can get quite huge. and i am currently thinking of building one, using desktop hardware and a server level raid card.
I'd use all SSD's in RAID 0 and would store movies, games, music, software, files, etc.
I'd store Heavy D's entire music catalog.
Hard drives, hard drives everywhere!
Hui 10 Years later i watch this Vid.
I said that a few years ago now I got around 2.5 TB of storage on just a few drives and half of it is full. And am not counting my two ps3 and the new rig that am setting up soon.
much better video than the last one. SSD for sure, uhh..24TB is a lot of space..lol. Most likely store every game in my house on it and host servers for all the games. I would probably back up my other computers on it as well. I can see it being quite a bit of fun actually.
I want to hear the sound of that raid array spinning up, no fans, just the sounds of the disks spinning up :)
That shit must be running hot with that many drives
I would store all the Linus tech Tips / NCIX tech tips ever made (original full quality of course)
freaking madness
I seeeeeeeeeeeeee...
We love you, linus.
they also have cases which don't use backplanes, just sata. But I have the RPC-4220 with an lsi 9260-4i and lsi sas switch and I can find my failed drives just fine. I understand what your saying with SGPIO, however I think with a good hardware raid card it's not really a problem.
My own storage is simply a few HDs mirrored. One of which stays unplugged in case of a power surge or PC theft. Unplugged and in a different physical location that is. Backups occur once a week.
24TB? I wouldn't know what to do with that much space. Though, I would make a lot of CD, DVD, and BluRay images.
Movies, Iso files, Games, My whole cd collection would go on that.
ITS LIKE MAGIC! :D
24.. There are 3tb drives.. THATS 72 TB!!!!!
Absolutely MAD :D
@Amuffin456 Hell yea it is. I have a lot of cds with stuff on them.
Movies and music for my home theater.
I have a 6tb HDD and i'm running out of space quickly ripping my blurays at the highest quality. So soon I will be buying a case and beginning to fill them with HDD
@OrganicStuff1 its a tv i would say its probs a 32inch and its not a vacum its the fan cooling the hdds in the case
1TB Velociraptors... best drives ever!!!
do you need all the drives to be the same capacity and brand? looking at consolidating all the drives in the house into a case like this, would it work with 6x2tb, 6x1.5tb + numerous 1tbs and other sized drives at raid 60?
Pr0n, what else, but, I am worried about hdd failing. I would split it into two raid volumes, not sure the number, but the safer of all and have one raid volume as a back up of the first one.
@Kri38
it makes hard drives work together.
I built a Beowulf Cluster set up. that combines a dedicated firewall computer, router computer, Network server, DAS, NAS, and SAN. Why all that you ask, to have full redundancy and accessibility for the files, music, videos, and other large file size goody's.
I would store LOTS of 4k quality videos!
What OS are you using, I have basically the same setup but am trying to get freenas to work with the raid card. Do you suggest windows server for this instead?
Looking to build similar with 3TB HDD's but will start with the case and a 16 port sas card and only 8x 3tb drives in raid 6
Any way to find out which Areca raid card this is. I am looking to build something like this. but don't know which is a good and compatible card. this looks good. thanks for the video.
I would store the world!
Well since I have a gigabit switch a storage server makes sense. But not a 24 disk one. I would probably build it with a Fractal Design Array chassi and a passive cooled intel atom on a mini-itx motherboard. The Array has kind of a neat design and has room for 6 3.5" drives. I'd set them up to run raid 5 and use some kind of linux distribution as the operating system. Good times would be had while I stored ridiculous amounts of movies and tv-series on it. 100/100 Fiber makes for fast downloading
@shadowtallon2
You could, as long as you're not looking for redundancy, unless you merged the contents of the different sizes of drives, and set up a mirror or a JBOD array. The issue would be that if you were to set up a JBOD array, it erases the drives to set it up. If you got new drives to set up the array, moved the content over to the array, then re-used the old drives it could be done. There're LOTS of slots there! :)
That was so cool. Still kinda slow tho. Now show us 24 SSD and what it's transfer speed. I like instant stuff like fiber drives. getting it done in a blank of an eye.
I'm building a 24 disk server this summer, but with a supermicro chassi, oging ro run 8x2TB + 2x8x3TB all in RAID 6
And I'm storing stuff + RAW 1080p fotage
1. Something cheap with at least 4 TB to start and highly expandable.
2. Anime, films, tv shows, music, definitely make it a DVR.
I'd keep backups of every PC in the house, all audio/video would sit there too
I always thought that Norco is a company that makes mountain bicycles.. :3
I am torn between Supermicro and Norco. Yes, Norco are less expensive, but they don't come with anything. Supermicro makes some insane backplanes. Their cases are also tailored for their boards. I don't know what kind of server hardware I would even put in a Norco case. They seem to be more tailored for cheapness and consumer hardware. Only how quickly I run out of storage versus the amount of money I can save will tell which one I get.
hello linus, i have a question. i want this case for home server that will share files, backup all the computers and will play hd movies in the hometheater. Can i use 12 drives (wd re4, wd red which one?) in raid 0 configuration for main (for speed writes reads) and for backup the other 12 for back up in raid (which raid if its possible?) configuration? Which raid card (lsi, intel) is preferable? i have asus P9X79 WS motherboard that i used for workstation and will not change it for now.thank u!
I would store movies, since I have like 3 hard drives full of movies, making up for about 800 gb or so, which forces me to delete older movies all the time 'cause I download mostly in HD. Storing After Effects, Premiere Pro, Illustrator and Photoshop files also takes up quite a load of space... and of course all of those pictures and videos that I take. Maybe just not 24tb, probably somewhere in between 5 and 10, making it expandable.
What raid card did u use
@mynameisuhhh How do you figure? A hard disk slows down as the head nears the insides of the platters. An SSD is consistent across its entire area because there are no moving parts.
More or less as I thought, not being up on raid configurations. How I thought it was configured is as 24 drives split in two.Raid 60, then as on windows drive ‘D’ or is it as TWO drive 'D' and 'E' for example ? enabling a 4 drive failure ??.
Stop at 2.56...hahah you caught me :P
Yes please. 48 SSDs with 1TB each - would be much faster and much more quiet - but the cost... :)
I can download the whole world!!
Here is what i would do and that is my plan but money is a problem :D...
1. Gaming pc in my room would store files on that server
2. Living room tv would be hooked up to it hdmi cable so i can watch movies directly from it
3. We have a working space at bottom of our house (like an office) would be great to share files there too
4. would buy 3-4 omni directional antenas hook those up and make file sharing for my friends 6-7 of them so we could share files and it would be a host for quake :D
i would use a sas expander in the case, and would store movies! oh wait, already did that!
If i built a server... it would probably be a bit over the top... I'm likely to use a norco chassis, 24 1TB SSDs, a 40GB SSD for boot drive, an OCz Revo drive for games (my server would have a double life!!) 2 GTX 560Ti GPUs in SLI (not only for games but compute heavy work), 64GB DDR3 2400 RAM, an intel CoreI7 4770K @4.7GHz on a crosshair formula motherboard, a 1050W PSU... and a high end 24 port RAID card with 1GB RAM as opposed to 512 because I'm just that crazy about insane performance!!!
forgot to mention you have an OCZ revodrive there!
I would store 1080p videos of linus tech tips :)
I've got 4.3TB of storage in my desktop computer, 2x1TB in RAID0, 1x2TB, and 1x500GB
The RAID0 for performance tasks, such as gaming and windows, and the 2TB drive for all my movie backups, downloads, and other large files that doesn't need fast loading.
I'd personally swap the +20TB server in a datacenter, and either make a living out of it (web/file hosting) or I'd sponsor some of the mass ammount of storage, to people I know who'd be needing it.
Finally!
awesome movie's in fullHD and about 100.000 songs
with that much memory i'd run my own storage server rental and make some money of that beast
I would make a 24GB just like you did it there. Save tons of music, fotos, documents,movies, backups amongst seveal other things and use the rest to host servers XD
I dare you to try and go for a Pentabyte System!!! Be the first to do it! You would need so many drives to make up 1000TB of space!!
Epic
I built last year an home srver without raid for movies now it has 9 drives 7*1.5tb and 2*2tb drive, when I need I put a new drive. I used TT M9 with backplanes up to 15 drives, the cpu is P4-3GHZ with 1 GB ram Im using freenas
Linus we have had many issues with WD 2TB Caviar Black drives in a hardware RAID 5/6 environment. Which drive do you recommend for Hardware RAID?
oh yes... i want to build one. just for my movie files... :D
I would love to build an edit system in there and use it to edit my next movie, shot on Red, at uncompressed 4k! (or 5k!)
I wonder what they are using for The Hobbit, Spider Man, Alien Prequel, etc for editing systems?