With all of that extra storage behind your Lenovo X3550, you have managed to take away one of the only drawbacks of this server against its cousin, the X3650, which in my opinion is drive capacity. Unfortunately, in my market, where 3.5" hard drives can be had for very little money, storage enclosures like this are sold at premium prices in my part of the U.S. for some reason, which is why I prefer the 16+ drive capacity of the X3560 M3 and above in the 2.5" storage array option. However, I would love to fill out my data storage system with cheaper 3.5" drives for massive amounts of backup potential. Thank you for another excellent video, Morten!
Amazing. I just bought two more of the DS4243. Now I have 4 of them. If you'd like, I will send you some pictures, as soon, as my data center is finished. You should try them with FreeNas and the NetApp PM8003. Fun fact: IBM build the same Disk Shelfs under the name IBM EXN3000. Edit: If you don't use all 4 Power Supplys, the fans will spinn on full speed. Just let the other 2 in. Then its only on 50%.
Sure. I might do a data center overview in the next weeks. It isn't finished yet. But i recently bought some HP G2 Racks these will fit nice. I will reply on the comment, when the data center is finished.
Do you know the Dell 2950? A single one is louder than 4 DS4243 and an Dl380 G6. These things are super quiet. Sure, if you have 96 15K SAS drives, they go a little bit nuts because of the heat. But in general, this things are really quiet and super fast. I love this things.
Hi Patrick Lünow Thank You very much! I did not know about the IBM version of exactly the same... I do believe it is meant for just two PSU's.. I pop them out so the DS4243 can't see them. if it cant see then it is not missing them and want blow full speed. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Daniel Tekmyster Thank You very much! I think it will be difficult to make a redundant setup,, think I just have one controller. Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse check that all 24 drives are seen in your array with only one out of four controllers. I believe that two are needed for each of the 12 drives, same as the power supplies.
nice video. But, speaking as someone who has back problems, and hoping to help others avoid them, you need to get some sort of hand cart and or other equipment to move heavy stuff around your house. There are a lot of different options for this out there now.
Hi thtadthtshldntbe Thank You very much! I have had trouble with my bag since I was 16,, I am very careful. I have never messed it up by lifting Heavy things,, I always get in trouble with smaller stupid stuff :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)
Power in nothern europe is not that expensive, and if you read his FAQ on hes youtube account, you can see that he only runs some servers 24/7 =) docs.google.com/document/d/10tNReA70PsMT4dnyyg6-DdCyFEVcAI9WMizq1SNBibY/edit#bookmark=id.tcezlzy66obm
That is going to make the ultimate XPEndology or Synology or server and with all that capacity I don't think you are going to run out of disk space any time soon.
Hi Anna Sinclair Proffitt I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten, I'm not sure you'd be interested in custom gaming PC's with custom water cooling, but if you are (they basically all with NVMe drives because who wants too wait for stuff to load) then I'd be happy to build one for you, free labour too, but I'm not rich so I can't give away a free PC like that haha, shipping would also be fun, as shipping a filled loop is dangerous so I have to pack the whole thing with expanding foam bags when ever I send one off long distances.
Hi Joshua Nicoll Thank You very much! But I do not really game,, well I play the UA-cam game,,, but it is not that hardware intensiv. I do enjoy to have stuff send to me,, I enjoy that a lot. If you have anything you would like to send,, smaller stuff my adress is in my F.A.Q. and under the About tab. and do not use to much shipping. Thank you for watching! :-)
What HBA did you use to connect them to the server? Im looking at buying a NetApp SAN and Im having a hard time figuring out the HBA. Thank you for all your great content. You've made my home DataCenter grow and my wallet shrink :D Edit: Also whats the power usage on one of those? :)
Hi Tyler Lindberg Thank You very much! I think my HBA is this one Adaptec RAID 5085,, but mine is SUN branded so not totally sure yet :-) 440w i think I saw,, I will try and measure it. for a new video. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Christoph Esch It has not been used since I did a video on it,,long a go,, it will be joined by the x3550 M4 shortly,, and we will also soon have a look at an x3550 M1 Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Ryan White There is no batteries in it,, I will wait until it has those,, and it has been there for three years,,at least :-/ Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi, i've bought the same server and it arrived today :) I've turn it on now and i have a question for you, what is the use of the network ports on the back? I've tryed to connect them to my switch but it does not give them an ip...
Nice! I'm thinking of doing similar videos as you are (we're geographical neighbors, lol) and i'm wondering if you had any advice on how to "get started". I have some material but no past experiences with cutting/fixing audio etc etc. Nice storagebox! I´ve done some parts on my homelab and it´s 10GbE-upgrade for vSAN.
Hi charlie gustafsson Thank You very much! advice,,, Running and growing a UA-cam Channel takes more time, than a full time job. I have a normal job to, and this means that I work from 8.00 to 23.00 every single day,, I usually take off about one evening a week so that is from 8.00-to 16.00 -ish. Today is sunday,, it's 8.09 and I have been trying to catch up with comments, from the last day,, ½ an hour so fare and probably ½ an hour to go. There is WAY more work in YT then what you see in the videos,, and watch the channel "video Creators" Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse fair point! I've got a full-time job as well,and I do not intend on making any money or making it a fulltime thing but rather just for fun. Are you open for collaborations? As mentioned, were up the same alley with tech/virt/homeland.
Hi artur ivanov I think there marketing department has failed,, as I had to google what it was. And after 5min,, I have only seen wanger films, with boss words. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi patrick bentley Thank You very much! The DS4243 shout be good for 3TB,, it must be the SAS/SATA expander that has this limit. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi PS4 Custom Gamer I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there. Thank you for watching! :-)
I'm curious, how much wattage do you pull from your server room setup, if you know? I've just started watching you, but I'm guessing you do more with those than just for your own personal use, sharing data with others I'm assuming.
Hi SuperBigDog2U I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there. Thank you for watching! :-)
Hey Morten, quick question, where did you get your x3650 M1 rails ? I can't find any under 150€, and i will not pay more for the rails than for the server itself ;)
Huh, strange... i already searched with the partnuber on ebay and didn't found them, and on amazon i found only one offer from the USA... anyway, tyvm :)
it looks like you are german? so i looked on ebay.de, and there is alot of them, The seller: " technologyworldwide" is the cheapest of the ones that you can get on the .de site =)
Yeah, i just tried ordering them, but at the checkout it said that there's a problem with my location... seems like they don't ship to germany. Same problem that i had with the amazon offers.
Nice! Wouldnt using all PSUs cause less stress on each? There cant be that much more power consumed except the draw from the PSUs fans and other small things in them. Would be cool if you could measure total consumption with 2 vs 4 for one disk shelve.
Hi Philip Saunders It is some cool stuff,, I just saw this : www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-EXN3000-Disk-Array-Shelf-w-24x-600GB-15K-SED-Hard-Drives-FRU-46X9784-4-PSU-/401370363979?epid=1983556887&hash=item5d7389b84b:g:0osAAOSwOyJX3Hq4 It's the same bloody thing in IBM,,and $9.5K Holly... Thank you for watching! :-)
Hey Morten, would you be interrested in a Dell 2950 III with Perc 6i and 6e, quadcore xeon 53xx and 4gb of ram? I also have a Md1000 with 14 400GB 10k Cheetah Drives including the SAS cable? I may also have more stuff inc.
Hi Rawman Thank You very much! That is mighty nice of you, I already have a couple of 2950's,, not in use,, so I would also think the MD1000 would be most fun. But I think I will let this one pass :-) But thank you very much for offering it to me. Thank you for watching! :-)
The server is getting so powerful, That at this rate, They'll begin build their own servers.
Hi Creepycreeper103
Thank You very much! Little virtual offspring.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Awesome video man. Learning a lot
Hi Gold Brick
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
With all of that extra storage behind your Lenovo X3550, you have managed to take away one of the only drawbacks of this server against its cousin, the X3650, which in my opinion is drive capacity. Unfortunately, in my market, where 3.5" hard drives can be had for very little money, storage enclosures like this are sold at premium prices in my part of the U.S. for some reason, which is why I prefer the 16+ drive capacity of the X3560 M3 and above in the 2.5" storage array option. However, I would love to fill out my data storage system with cheaper 3.5" drives for massive amounts of backup potential. Thank you for another excellent video, Morten!
Hi Tyler Barton
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Awesome video Morten,I really enjoy your data center videos:).
Hi anders gjerløw
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
You are strong as a Bear Morten :)
Hi Daniel Olsson
Thank You very much!
Thank you for watching! :-)
Can't wait until the x3550 video thing comes out
Hi PhantomUniform0
Thank You very much! It will come.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Amazing. I just bought two more of the DS4243. Now I have 4 of them.
If you'd like, I will send you some pictures, as soon, as my data center is finished.
You should try them with FreeNas and the NetApp PM8003.
Fun fact: IBM build the same Disk Shelfs under the name IBM EXN3000.
Edit: If you don't use all 4 Power Supplys, the fans will spinn on full speed. Just let the other 2 in. Then its only on 50%.
Sure. I might do a data center overview in the next weeks.
It isn't finished yet. But i recently bought some HP G2 Racks these will fit nice.
I will reply on the comment, when the data center is finished.
Nice =)
Could you possibly tell me how loud they are?
Do you know the Dell 2950? A single one is louder than 4 DS4243 and an Dl380 G6.
These things are super quiet.
Sure, if you have 96 15K SAS drives, they go a little bit nuts because of the heat. But in general, this things are really quiet and super fast. I love this things.
Hi Patrick Lünow
Thank You very much! I did not know about the IBM version of exactly the same...
I do believe it is meant for just two PSU's.. I pop them out so the DS4243 can't see them. if it cant see then it is not missing them and want blow full speed.
Thank you for watching! :-)
I can't wait to see what you do with the server that you will install above the disk shelves
Hi J C
Thank You very much! but you have to wait a little bit,, because I haven't figured it out myself yet :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I would say that 2 psu is the minimum as one psu is connected to half the disks and it really wouldn't like if you have only half the diskshelf on.
Yes,,, it is kind of wasteful, with 4,, I wish it could all run on one.
Morten likes a long screw :P
Hi thingyee1118
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Another great video! Thank you.
Hi mejinks1978
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
LOVE it... Though i think you need both cards. That is two conjoined 2u 12 bay chaos each with dual psu and 2x cards. Look at dell md2200, same models
in a prev video he formatted them all w/o the 2nd controller in so its fine, will just be a tad slower
Sakura Kinomoto i saw that, i still find it hard to believe. But that's a custom netapp only shelf by Dell so who knows
Hi Daniel Tekmyster
Thank You very much! I think it will be difficult to make a redundant setup,, think I just have one controller.
Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse check that all 24 drives are seen in your array with only one out of four controllers. I believe that two are needed for each of the 12 drives, same as the power supplies.
nice video. But, speaking as someone who has back problems, and hoping to help others avoid them, you need to get some sort of hand cart and or other equipment to move heavy stuff around your house. There are a lot of different options for this out there now.
Hi thtadthtshldntbe
Thank You very much! I have had trouble with my bag since I was 16,,
I am very careful. I have never messed it up by lifting Heavy things,, I always get in trouble with smaller stupid stuff :-/
Thank you for watching! :-)
Wow, lots of storage, your power bill must be crazy high
Power in nothern europe is not that expensive, and if you read his FAQ on hes youtube account, you can see that he only runs some servers 24/7 =) docs.google.com/document/d/10tNReA70PsMT4dnyyg6-DdCyFEVcAI9WMizq1SNBibY/edit#bookmark=id.tcezlzy66obm
Hi sogndal94
Thank You very much! But unfortunately power is bloody expensive here.
Thank you for watching! :-)
That is going to make the ultimate XPEndology or Synology or server and with all that capacity I don't think you are going to run out of disk space any time soon.
Hi DAVID GREGORY KERR
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Can you please make a video on how to do cabling between NetApp controllers and disk shelves
NetApp has pretty good dokunomationation on that.
Those disk shelves look totally at home in your data center. Wouldn't like your electricity bill though ;)
Hi John Carr
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
NIce video
Hi komarraju sasidhar
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Normal people vs server people part 1
Normal people: *measures stuff in cm and meters*
Server people: *measures a room's height in rack units*
Have you ever come across a thing that uses 1½U irritating as hell :-) I have...
@@MyPlayHouse no... omg that would be a really bad thing. WHY????
@@MyPlayHouse the standard units are there why you completely unuse them????
His electric bill must be huge.
I cheat a little bit and turn off stuff I do not need when not filming :-)
just wondering what your power bill each mounthy
Hi Anna Sinclair Proffitt
I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there.
Thank you for watching! :-)
you should see how much burst coin you can mine with all your hard drive space!!
Hi KavaFox Weezles
Thank You very much! I get that suggestion a lot.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morten, I'm not sure you'd be interested in custom gaming PC's with custom water cooling, but if you are (they basically all with NVMe drives because who wants too wait for stuff to load) then I'd be happy to build one for you, free labour too, but I'm not rich so I can't give away a free PC like that haha, shipping would also be fun, as shipping a filled loop is dangerous so I have to pack the whole thing with expanding foam bags when ever I send one off long distances.
Hi Joshua Nicoll
Thank You very much! But I do not really game,, well I play the UA-cam game,,, but it is not that hardware intensiv.
I do enjoy to have stuff send to me,, I enjoy that a lot. If you have anything you would like to send,, smaller stuff my adress is in my F.A.Q. and under the About tab. and do not use to much shipping.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Is there an exhaust fan at the back of the data center?
Hi ANTHONY CABALLERO
Yes there is,, it blows the hot air into the house.
Thank you for watching! :-)
What HBA did you use to connect them to the server? Im looking at buying a NetApp SAN and Im having a hard time figuring out the HBA. Thank you for all your great content. You've made my home DataCenter grow and my wallet shrink :D
Edit: Also whats the power usage on one of those? :)
Hi Tyler Lindberg
Thank You very much! I think my HBA is this one Adaptec RAID 5085,, but mine is SUN branded so not totally sure yet :-) 440w i think I saw,, I will try and measure it. for a new video.
Thank you for watching! :-)
No more space in the racks, you need a new rack. The power would cost a ton here.
Hi Scott Downey
I did not turn it on yet! :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi Morton what is the use of the one u server above the newly installed disk shells?
Hi Christoph Esch
It has not been used since I did a video on it,,long a go,, it will be joined by the x3550 M4 shortly,, and we will also soon have a look at an x3550 M1
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hey I notice that you now finally have a UPS in your first rack. Will you be making a video on it?
Hi Ryan White
There is no batteries in it,, I will wait until it has those,, and it has been there for three years,,at least :-/
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi, i've bought the same server and it arrived today :)
I've turn it on now and i have a question for you, what is the use of the network ports on the back? I've tryed to connect them to my switch but it does not give them an ip...
It’s probably just a serial connection, that uses a rj45 port. Don’t connect it to a switch.
Nice! I'm thinking of doing similar videos as you are (we're geographical neighbors, lol) and i'm wondering if you had any advice on how to "get started". I have some material but no past experiences with cutting/fixing audio etc etc.
Nice storagebox! I´ve done some parts on my homelab and it´s 10GbE-upgrade for vSAN.
Hi charlie gustafsson
Thank You very much! advice,,, Running and growing a UA-cam Channel takes more time, than a full time job. I have a normal job to, and this means that I work from 8.00 to 23.00 every single day,, I usually take off about one evening a week so that is from 8.00-to 16.00 -ish. Today is sunday,, it's 8.09 and I have been trying to catch up with comments, from the last day,, ½ an hour so fare and probably ½ an hour to go.
There is WAY more work in YT then what you see in the videos,, and watch the channel "video Creators"
Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse fair point! I've got a full-time job as well,and I do not intend on making any money or making it a fulltime thing but rather just for fun. Are you open for collaborations? As mentioned, were up the same alley with tech/virt/homeland.
Hi Morten another great video )
What do you think about the Bullion servers?
Hi artur ivanov
I think there marketing department has failed,, as I had to google what it was. And after 5min,, I have only seen wanger films, with boss words.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Are the sas backplanes replable with newer versions something capable of larger capacity like 4-8 tb drives or would that just require a newer server
Hi patrick bentley
Thank You very much! The DS4243 shout be good for 3TB,, it must be the SAS/SATA expander that has this limit.
Thank you for watching! :-)
let me have access to that storage at some point :)
You are just going to feel it up 😬
Hi Morten, would you mind helping whats the maximum amount of storage per drive that one of these will support?
I am afraid 😳 that I do not know.
@@MyPlayHouse Thank you for a response all the same
what on earth does he use these loud expensive servers for?
Hi PS4 Custom Gamer
I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there.
Thank you for watching! :-)
I'm curious, how much wattage do you pull from your server room setup, if you know? I've just started watching you, but I'm guessing you do more with those than just for your own personal use, sharing data with others I'm assuming.
Hi SuperBigDog2U
I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hey Morten, quick question, where did you get your x3650 M1 rails ? I can't find any under 150€, and i will not pay more for the rails than for the server itself ;)
Hey, look for the partnumber 40K6591 IBM RAIL KIT on ebay =) 25 USD + shipping is what you should be around what would cost. =)
Hi sogndal94
Thank You very much! amzn.to/2vpWRR9
Thank you for watching! :-)
Huh, strange... i already searched with the partnuber on ebay and didn't found them, and on amazon i found only one offer from the USA... anyway, tyvm :)
it looks like you are german? so i looked on ebay.de, and there is alot of them, The seller: " technologyworldwide" is the cheapest of the ones that you can get on the .de site =)
Yeah, i just tried ordering them, but at the checkout it said that there's a problem with my location... seems like they don't ship to germany.
Same problem that i had with the amazon offers.
Nice! Wouldnt using all PSUs cause less stress on each? There cant be that much more power consumed except the draw from the PSUs fans and other small things in them. Would be cool if you could measure total consumption with 2 vs 4 for one disk shelve.
Hi Retromaniac
Thank You very much! I'll keep that in mind.
Thank you for watching! :-)
jealous :-)
Hi Philip Saunders
It is some cool stuff,, I just saw this : www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-EXN3000-Disk-Array-Shelf-w-24x-600GB-15K-SED-Hard-Drives-FRU-46X9784-4-PSU-/401370363979?epid=1983556887&hash=item5d7389b84b:g:0osAAOSwOyJX3Hq4
It's the same bloody thing in IBM,,and $9.5K Holly...
Thank you for watching! :-)
lol Dear Paterons I've seen something I like and want lol.
Hey Morten, would you be interrested in a Dell 2950 III with Perc 6i and 6e, quadcore xeon 53xx and 4gb of ram? I also have a Md1000 with 14 400GB 10k Cheetah Drives including the SAS cable? I may also have more stuff inc.
Hey M8, whats ur email adress? I'm interested in the MD1000.
Hi Rawman
Thank You very much! That is mighty nice of you, I already have a couple of 2950's,, not in use,, so I would also think the MD1000 would be most fun. But I think I will let this one pass :-) But thank you very much for offering it to me.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Rawman if you have any hard drives for sale cheap I would love to buy them. I only have some old dell 160gb hard drives for my lab :(
I live in Germany. I will not ship it outside of Country, sry :/
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You are SOOOO Awesome :-) and I am a bit late..
@@MyPlayHouse better late than never :) ICMP ping RTT 1.577e+11ms