62.5 TERABYTES of External Storage on $100 Awesome Server - 555
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Two NetApp 24x storage shelves 24x 600 SAS 15K rpm and 24x 2TB 7.2K SATA Drives. A total of 48 drives and 62,5 Terabyte of Storage.
All running on the Lenovo/IBM x3650 M1 [7979] an truly awesome server. Worlds best build server according to ME,, it doesn't get any better in my book! :-)
This 10 years old, Lenovo/IBM System x3650 M1 is still Awesome!
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When you create a RAID array with different sized disks the smallest disk will "decide" how large the volume will be. You loose 1.5TB on each 2TB drive when you did a RAID 0 with all the drives. So it's better to do a RAID array with only the 500GB drives and a second array with only the 2TB disks.
That's just what I said. Read my comment again.
Hi Sten Isaksson
Thank You very much! Yes that is probably it. I have gotten so use to SHR raid. and that can do magic :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
yeah if you want to fix and match drive UNRAID is your friend, it cost money but it does allow it since its not raid.
i find unRaid controls that better with mixmatched size drives
"Well, those 24 bytes becomes quite a bit"...I see what you did there.
I might have forgotten what I did :-)
You should try this setup with ZFS and SAS HBAs in IT mode with some SSD caching
Hi @Joachim1292o032043op
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
This is a really good idea, especially if you're always editing footage, i'm going to be doing something a little newer for business use, but for home use i could see this working very well. Also, used a newer one of these, slapped in some xeon x5650's and a gtx 980ti, and boom absolute beast of a workstation pc.
Hi Z Bobplays
Thank You very much! I wanted to see them run on this x3650 M1,, I am going to be using them with a x3550 M4.
Thank you for watching! :-)
putting down a rug will help with sound a lot. That hardwood floors bounce the sound.
Hi Next Level Code
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Cool, I have been debating about how exactly I would be able to configure the disk shelfs. Haven't played with them much so wasn't sure if I would need an HBA with external SAS connectors for each shelf or if I could daisy chain them. I am guessing it depends on which units you get though. Working on my long term plans for Chia storage once I fill up the drives I have on hand.
Hi Steven Butler
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
We built one like this for a corporate customer, 100TB, Sever and 2 x rackmount boxes like those 36 x 3TB hdds. they were connected via those single cables in the back. it was a solid setup until someone was messing with the server and disconnected 1 of the daisy chain cables while the PC was on and copying data.
Hi John Qsak
Nice,, I'd also like to get my hands on some 3TB..
Thank you for watching! :-)
i'd like some of the newer 10TB ones from Seagate. Ironwolf I think is the model name. :)
watching you in 1080p HD quality on my very fast Fibre connection :) Great Video
:) We were actually able to watch a show in HD last night on Netflix-Amazon, so yes I am very happy, I also did a 3gb upload in 5 minutes :)
Hi Unkyjoe's Playhouse
Thank You very much! without fiber, I just decided to make a local copy of the internet.
Thank you for watching! :-)
What will you suggest if I wanna setup my new server (from the initial level)?
Hi Rabins XP
Set bios to factory default.
Full firmware update of all component.
Installation of ESXi 6.5
Install you servers as VM on top of that.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Thanks for being responsive... :) I've watched almost all of your videos.
Hi Rabins XP
Thank You very much! glad you liked the videos :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hi,
I now also have a Netapp ds2246 shelf with 24 SSD disks. The SSDs are also original Netapp disks. I have an LSI MegaRAID SAS 9286CV-8e as the controller. When starting the server it also recognizes the disks, but if I want to start the Bios Web Gui of the controller when booting the server, the surface hangs when Self is connected. Do you have any idea what that can be?
I have messed wit something similar,, It did not want to boot with 70 drives,, but disconnecting it booting and reconnecting,, worked.
Hey im having a hard time finding cables, i purchased a Mini SAS connector for my NetApp ds4246 but it doesn't fit? What did you use?
Hi Kenwood _
Thank You very much! There is a link in the description,,, : Cable mini SAS SFF-8088 - QSFP+
Thank you for watching! :-)
My PlayHouse do you use both power supplies on your IBM servers or do you only power them with one PSU to save on power consumption?
Hi dhowser2008
That varies, often I use both,, but they really never dies.
Thank you for watching! :-)
hallo, I'm trying to install freenas but when i try to boot the installer from a USB the only thing I'm getting is a black screen with a blinking cursor. On my own computer the USB boots with no problem. how can i fix this?
Hi ThazOkay
That is probably a good question for a FreeNAS forum,, more people to ask there,,, but well you might be lucky here as well..
Thank you for watching! :-)
Question. Is the mini sas connecting to the ibm server or the netapp disk shelf?
Hi Brett H
the shorter one goes in the Server.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Recommend you try Steve Gibson"s SpinRite® for those two dodgy drives. Also, how did you calculate 62.5 from 21.8+21.8+6.5+6.5? My calculator says 56.6.
Hi Phu Kew II
Thank You very much! 24*600GB + 24*2TB = 62.5 TB
Thank you for watching! :-)
I love this guy ! Cheers!
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And his fantastic playhouse ;)
Hi Świat Linuksa
Thank You very much! I think :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Your play house is just fantastic!, I'm from Poland and seen something like this here is impossible, many users here probably want have something like you have. Clear passion, sry for my English btw.
What is the power consumptie of the whole rig??
Hi Nick Kroes
Thank You very much! if it's not in the video, I did not measure it :-/
Thank you for watching! :-)
will you made a video on i5 3rd gen cpu with 1u server chasis 4 tb Drive bay please please please
Hi Aviastix
Thank You very much! No,, I do not build servers out of PC parts,, :-) but You can do it!
Thank you for watching! :-)
That is pretty hardcore setup!
Hi Samuel Friedrich
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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In the past (before the web) I had trouble re-formatting some IDE drives. FDISK would go through the motions and I could format the drive but the data was still there on the HDD, as if I had done nothing. The solution was to go into the BIOS and configure the drive with the wrong geometry then run FDISK and Format the drive. After it was finished I changed the geometry to the correct parameters and FISK and Format the drive correctly. I didn't happen often but it was very weird.
Hi continental_drift
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Hi there! :)
I know it is not related to this video but I have some questions regarding ESXI - hope you don't mind!
I am currently in a team (hobbyists) who setup networking and servers for a lan party next weekend (150-200 people). The switches are all configured but we are currently discussing whether it makes sense to use ESXI and create individual VMs or we should just setup one system and use docker to spin up all our stuff (one samba file server, 10 parallel running CSGO server and maybe a teamspeak server for 100 people). Do you have any suggestions?
We have a sun XFire with 4 quadcore CPUs and 128GB Ram - that should be plenty!
Cheers,
Matthias
Hi Matthias Riegler
Thank You very much! As I do not know docker much,, I would use ESXi,, but that would just be me playing it safe.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Matthias Riegler I agree. I'm a professional gameserver hoster here in germany. You should use esxi.
Thanks for the feedback! :) ESXI is up and running!
Greetings from Germany!
Finally I find someone who shows you from the start. Great video thanks a lot. I'm running a Dell PowerEdge R510 with a H700 raid card and a HBA card to my DS2446. What's the largest drive size I can put into my DS? Was thinking of wd red 10tb drives but not sure the DS will recognize them. Your thoughts. Cheers jason
Hi Reloader911
Thank You very much! I do not know Dell equipment as well, but it is often the raid controller/HBA that can set a limet on disk sizes.
Thank you for watching! :-)
RAID-0 is sometimes called "Scary RAID", because when one drive fails, ALL data stored are lost.
Hi Mark Arca
Thank You very much! The Raid for the bravest of the bravest... :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I have an x3650M3. And a NetApp DS4243 w/ 24x450GB drives. I put in a NetApp X2065A-R6 HBA SAS 4-PORT Copper 3/6 GB QSFP PCIe 111-00341+B0 Card in the server. But the server keeps crashing within a few minutes - spontaneously. Keep getting an NMI message. Do you have a recommendation for an IBM branded RAID controller (w/ QSFP) that you can recommend?
Hi Raj Singh
Not,, much :-/ latest firmware, and reset bios to default. It's probably not going to do it. My x3550 M4 did also not want to boot with an Adaptec card...
Thank you for watching! :-)
Thanks! I got the card to work on an old Nehalem PC of mine - the Netapp card let me see the array as a JBOD - which enabled me to format the blksize to 512 bytes. I got the IBM to work with an M5025.
Hi, is DS14 MK4 NETAPP DS14 MK4 FC DRIVE ARRAY can work with windows server, how Fiber C works, is this network or some special interface
I never tried,, think it was to small and to old,, FC and SAS is to get more IO's,, and any SSD beats them with a lot.
@@MyPlayHouse I can buy this shelf for 30 $ with 14 bays 3.5 so its great I have some 1 tb drives so I can make 14 tb shelf for 30 $. But i don't have any idea how this interface works.
Can disk shelves also use SAS & SATA?
I believe so. There is som advance stuff you can’t do with SATA, without that SATA to SAS PCB on the back.
I found them to be silent if both controllers are installed , for some reson it rev's up if only 1 functional controller , same as if you remove a PSU , more PSU's the quiter they are
Hi Christopher Staples
Thank You very much! If you have the PSU in and do not power it,, it will be more noisy,,, if you pull out the PSU from the backplane, it will not know that it is missing a PSU.
Thank you for watching! :-)
morten, how far are you with this project?
Hi Ivar Degraaf
I am getting rid of older stuff to be going in this direction.. Had to turn it off doing peek summer,,, heat!
Thank you for watching! :-)
Have you done any videos explaining where you get your hardware? I realize it wouldn't be the same for me in America. But $100 for those drive trays?
I do sometimes share when I get some new hardware,, the stuff in this video I was given, but had to pick up in Sweden. :-)
can i buy a SAS pcie card, put it into my pc and connect it to my DELL powervault md1000?
Yes You can do that,, I did a video where I did that with a PC
@@MyPlayHouse thanks man, can you send me the link? thanks
damn that thing loud
Hi Drex2030
I had noise canceling headphones on some of the time :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
what do you use this for? I would mine a crapton of burst
Hi nicktohzyu
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.
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Very True ^^^^^ (Burst mining)
Could you recommend me an good, cheap and not to old (about 7 years) server?
Hi Sidney Lavoie
Lenovo x3650 M2 or M3 would be good servers.
Thank you for watching! :-)
1 Mega Byte = 1000 bytes
1 Mibi Byte = 1024 bytes
so the disk manufacturer is correct.
Hi George Eliozov
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Also This Would be a wonderful way to back up stuff xP
Hi BenJaminL11
Yes and quite a big back up!
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You got the storage for a $100? How much did those drives cost? Just one of those Seagate 2tb drive is $100 here.
Hi Nikhil M
Thank You very much! I got it all for free, but it's the server you can be lucky to pick up for $100,, some down to $20
Thank you for watching! :-)
I wish I can get at that price? I search everywhere in Kathmandu and Pokhara either they are of small storage and for little larger storage, the cost goes to the sky....
Jesus and heres me thinking my 4 x 4tb hp n54l running freenas was good haha great video man!
Hi DeTox Official
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Way to Not use THE Netapp Server? Witch os is on The netapp server ?
Hi Tobypictures
Thank You very much! I think it will be over kill for my use,, and powered by a Xeon 5200 series,, a bit slow... NetApp's own OS is my guess.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Hello - Old video so not sure if I will get a reply to this - But I can hope.
I have a DS4246 and am looking for a HBA to throw into a Dell Server, and cable to connect them up.
The server is running UNRAID
Can anyone advise anything?
Thank you
I reply to even old videos,,,, But not sure I can help,, I used an LSI 9208 e But that was on an IBM/Lenovo Server
@@MyPlayHouse - Thank you for taking the time to reply :)
You are very welcome! I usually reply to all new comments, does not often get back like this,, now 😀
I Predict inside the next 5 years Morten will make another video where he creates a server with 1 Petabyte + the array will be called BAD also,ps the sound of the server is like a relaxing sound of a babbling Brock water stream,sound of heaven!,sound of sizzling bacon on stove,and yes the sounds of cracking of Bubble wrap.
Hi bRfc9QgjclrMlc
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Sir What is the Procedure to Popper Shutdown the Netapp Ds-4243
Hi Future Zone Computer Academy
Thank You very much! I have them connected to a Server. What I do is to shut down the server first, and then turn off the DS4243's,, not sure that is the perfect way.
Thank you for watching! :-)
RTFM
Can you Check the Idle power consumption for me? I want to buy one to change it with my Synology 1817+
Hi Alexander
a 1817+ is probably like 45-65W ,,, this setup is most likely 10x
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What is morten up to? Awesome stuff as usual!
Hi Physical Computing
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Can you make a video on connecting WebDAV storage to Hypervisors? :D
Hi Stefan Fluit
Sorry I do not think it is in my little niche.
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Can you not change the fans to Noctua Cooling Fans they run slower and make less noise.
That's not possible
Hi DAVID GREGORY KERR
And they will therefore also provide a lot less cooling,, nahh.
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Wow, I've been in Netapp shop for 20 years. It sucks. You showed they use commodity hardware and basically sell their crappy software. Good to know. Excellent video. As for IBM servers I find them weird to manage. Haven't use to many though.
Hi dupa jasio
Thank You very much! But I have actually never tried Netapp's management software,, so can't speak on that :-/
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The power bill at the end of this month will make your eyes water!
Hi vizionthing
Thank You very much! They ware just on for 3 days.
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I will be feeling your pain when I get my office finished. The server rack is in there since the ceiling in the basement is too low. When I get to renovate the front of the house and extend the basement, the new part will have enough height to put the rack down there but until then its going to be painful to listen to.
Scott Downey I have two servers next to my PC and when I was buying them I had to check sound levels. They only really become a problem if their on a performance fan mode or under heavy load.
Hi Scott Downey
Thank You very much! Thes was noisy as H**'
Thank you for watching! :-)
can you switch one of the disks in the netapp shelf to a 4tb+ sas drive and see if it still is visible to the server controller, the netapp documentation specifies 3tb as the maximum size but i doubt that there is any real limit there, as the only limits i know of are around 2tb.
Hi gigogigtub
I would love to,, but I do not have any 3/4TB not in use right now.
Thank you for watching! :-)
NetApp ships 8TB SATA drives for this shelf, and by swapping the 3G SAS controller in the back for a 6G one, they will support a 10TB SATA ("NL-SAS") drive now.
Hi Morten
New watcher (also from Denmark :) )
I'm curious about why you have chosen the IBM brand and why you don't really have any Dell or HP equipment as I see them much more frequently around the homelab community. I myself only own Dell and didn't even know that IBM made servers that could compete until recently.
Best regards
Hi Rasmus Mikkelstrup
Welcome aboard! :-) I make new videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. (14.00 CET , 8 am EST) and there might be an extra off subject video or LiveStream doing the weekend.
I read and reply to as many NEW comments as I can, I do not often get to reply, reply´s (UA-cam messed that up) Keep them short,, please. And if you do not hate something, remember to Like :-)
I do have a couple of Dell´s and older HPE,, But after a lightning storm, I lost two Dell's and my 4 IBM just needed a reboot,, Dell has not been on my wish list since.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Man why are servers so beautiful 😁😂
It's all in the eye of the beholder :-)
Another great video, I am expired I will try to build this. Any idea where to buy all the hardware.
Hi Gold Brick
Thank You very much! I have put links in the description,, but also check Ebay.
Thank you for watching! :-)
My very question about all of this awesome setup for only ~$100 is how do you do to find such a cheap server that have all of this storage?
The storages was never included,, but the server controlling it was,,, and that server has room for 6 drives it self, and will do very large SATA drives,, so it can do almost 100TB by it self (if anyone is rich enough to get 6*16TB)
Are you going to make a video on you moving all that server gear to your data centre great video again like normal
Hi thomas shelton
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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nice.. where can I get one of these?
Hi Ralf F
Ebay is the best place! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
You have always interesting videos, very informative
I'm assuming that disk storage box is only at idle thrust - I'd hate to hear it at takeoff power. That things loud! no wonder you put cushions on it! :)
Hi dash8brj
Thank You very much! I had it on for three days in the living room,,nightmare!! :-)
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Ok now let's make a backup ! 😇
That will take a while :-)
SCSI formatting is done in background (no data is transferred to or from HDD)
you could have format all of thoe drives at once
I am testing HDDs on daily basis
I am overwriting them (with badblock from e2fsprogs) using 4 patterns (0xaa 0x55 0xff 0x00) and then doing full long smart test
sometimes I am getting 520 or even 528 block sizes on HDDs and then I need to format those HDDs
I am doing everything in parallel (8 HDDs at once)
Hi WizardNumberNext
That does sound way more efficient than what I did! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse is you would need my advice in usage of Linux or Linux utilities, then you are welcome to get in touch. I would be more then happy to share my experience.
By the way, I am doing those things sort of mix of both professional and hobby, as this is what I like to do and I am eBay seller of enterprise grade computer parts.
I have seen most of pieces of hardware you have used in my own hands, while testing and playing with it.
How did u get that for $100
Hi Lee Barnes
The Server is widely available,, down to $20 I have heard. The storage is often a lot more. I got it for picking it up. But that is just to much luck.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Wait, where? From the manufacturer, or resale? If from the manufacturer, where? If resale, where?
Edit: I say that, because all of the quotes I see online are in the thousands.
Most likely ebay and he had to pick it up. if its include shipping to his house then its going to be more than $100
My PlayHouse are you saying you got all those drives for a 100 dollars? Im confused.
I believe the server on top is only $100 without drives.
Cool vid. Makes me think of buying a Diskshelve myself to get rid of those stupid WD Blue Notebookdrives in my HP Server.
And the Raidcontroller isnt doing "weird stuff" ... When you create a Raid with mixed Drives you'll get the size of the smalles Drives for all Drives ... in your example 48*600gb.
But i dont think a big Array with SAS and SATA Drives mixed would be a great Idea anyways. But 1 Array for each Shelve should be good to go.
Well this one can still use the largest drives available,, so still a descent buy :-)
5 years later, u can have that capacity in 5 drives in a single compact near silent NAS with a couple of optane 128gb nvmes for cache.
You can get 22TB drives now,, so 3 drives :-) how time flies.
I know many people have already said about FreeBSD + ZFS = FreeNAS.
As a professional FreeBSD and FreeNAS user, I strongly suggest trying out FreeNAS with a FreeBSD, Bhyve, FreeNAS virtualised SAN.
If you would like any advice, let me know.
Hi MaX Falstein
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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How do you got that many HDDs for just 100 bucks?
Hi TiagoTiago
Only the server is under $100 wel now i's often way under. hope you liked the video :-)
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Electricity bill?
Hi Thorben Nielsen
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.
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Very cool video. Awesome find for $100. Any thoughts on monthly operational costs as you have it configured?
Hi Glen England
Thank You very much! It´s not cheap.
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great
Hi Vivek Prajapati
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The program is displaying it wrong.
The program says TB but it's actually showing TIB
And Linux is displaying TB as TB. That's why it is displaying 24 TB
In other words, there's nothing wrong with the drives, its just differing standards of how capacity is measured
Hi @MovingThePicture
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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E L E C T R I C I T Y B I L L
Hi gruenkragen a.z.
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! :-)
My PlayHouse sry for wasting ur time, i didnt want it as question.
It wouldn't be that bad. My server has 16 disks in it, and is usually doing video encoding. Costs me less than $40 a month in power. I guess if you want this ancient tech with tiny drives, requiring multiple cabinets... I went with a Skylake W Xeon. I bought 8x 6TB drives, and still have in my other 6x 3TB and 2x 2TB drives, which the latter will be gone eventually. Yeah, expensive because it's newer. But saving money for something I want is a lot better than being surprised with an insane electric bill every month. I had an i7-970 before. The power use was higher and I got less encoding done. The new CPU is almost 3x as fast.
well at least he saves money on heating oil in the winter.
you can't strip across two different disk sizes. thats why your getting weird issues. it will take the smallest drive and let you strip that size. You can use all the drives but you only get the smallest drives. Better to use the 500GB drives in one lun and the 2TB disk in another lun. You likely already know this. Just waiting for you to drop a snarky comment. :)
Hi Robert Fleming
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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Uhhh Atea - er det fordi du også er på deres bestikkelse liste :)
HI Dennis Koch
My channel is English, and to make sure as many as possible, can enjoy the comments they are also English.
So please keep to English.
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How can you afford any these toys if you live in Denmark?
Hi Robert T
Well Denmark is a wealthy country,, and the wealth is better divided.
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Perfect storage for my pr0n
Hi Alexandre Lavoie
Thank You very much! good to know that you have a copy :-)
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Try having a LTO tape drive in your bedroom for 2 months running 24/7
Hi Jonathan
I do not think I need to try that :-)
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Does it really make sense in 2019 to use drives that are less than 1 TB in size? I mean modern 6+ TB drives have platters with much higher data density so you get faster data transfers and the power consumption is lower.
Just taking the 600 GB... datasheet says they use all 8 surfaces of 4 platters for 600GB of data, goes between 120..198 MB/s and consume up to 16 watts of power - a modern datacenter/nas drive can get close to 300 MB/s and consume about half as much power. In addition to this, why not use something like RAID6?
I can see it and understand if it's just to have fun with them but where's the threshold "paying too much in electricity and noise and data safety vs fun" ?
Hi mariushmedias
Thank You very much! NO this is not the way to go any more,, You would still use smaller super fast SAS drives to get faster IO,, but now we have SSD,, and that is way faster for that,, so this box would be great to fill up with 10TB's.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Ohhh! BAD was "Bad Idea" - I thought it was an abbreviation for "Big Ass Disk" :-)
Hi David Game
Thank You very much! I did not think of it that way. :-)
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You'll loose storage when you select all of the drives and you have mixed disk sizes - it'll take the lowest size and use that for them all.
Hi Ian Bevington
Thank You very much!
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Try to hook up all the raid controllers not just one of the 2 :)
Hi # Mr. Christmas
What do you mean by that?
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A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. A kibibyte (binary kilobyte) is 1024 bytes.
Hi Cees Timmerman
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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That is a decent server for $100. If I can find it for cheap enough I might buy it , but that external HDD array is probably a little to much for me to afford.
Hi Jt tech
An empty disk shelves is not that expensive.. and you can be really lucky,, there is not much of a market for them.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Running 200tb myself:)
This is an older video,, I am also past 62,5TB by now :-)
@@MyPlayHouse just came across your channel today I would appreciate if you could do if you haven't already explain about serial ports and serial to usb as I'm new to this hobby and trying to take in as much information as possible
Guys it's cheap because it's ancient and the electric usage.
Hi Austin Michael
That is usually how it goes! glad you liked the video :-)
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And here´s that sector change video - ua-cam.com/video/BbtPPH3W7nU/v-deo.html
Hi Richard Schalander
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
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i think you are the only reason why power in Denmark is so expensive!
Hi DerNähstudent
I do really not use that much! glad you liked the video :-)
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It might be a lot of noise but putting something that can burn on something that can get hot and is running 24/7 is not recommended. I once saw a friends PC hard drive catch fire in front of us. I suggest finding another location and extending the network.
Hi Lee Gibson
Thank You very much! I have done that,, but the data center has been to noisy for filming lately.
Thank you for watching! :-)
Good to hear, I'm sure fire engines and hose pipes could have been more of a problem to filming.
;)
Burst Coin ?
There are so many... coins
Sometimes, I really wonder how much power his entire playhouse would draw when everything ran 24/7...
I would not have enough power for that,,, and I have 36Kw
@@MyPlayHouse Oof.
r.i.p breakers and everything.
All you have to do is install a really nice graphics card in the pci slot and then deactivate the onboard graphics chip in bios. Install Ubuntu and then you have a really nice desktop workstation for Blender animation software. - just keep server in a separate room and run cables through the wall to eliminate noise. I personally dont use raid controllers because if they mess up it is very hard to recover data from drives. i just use the onboard sata ports. I am wondering if its possible to use high quality SAS drives using SATA ports and cables ???
Hi country boy
Thank You very much! It is a bit power hungry workstation :-) but you are right - glad you liked the video :-)
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I'm so jelous. Love your videos, although I am an HP fan
Hi Dan S
Thank You very much! Did you see the videos on my new HP storages box then?
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@@MyPlayHouse sure did, awesome
Make a Raid 10 please :D
Hi Haruhi Takako
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That thing desperately needs some sound dampening foam. Sounds like you're running your own factory.
Hi LunarD3A7H
Yes it's loud as hell.
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Thank you for sharing. :3
Ufollowed and unsbbed, because raid controller supports 16 drives in opne volume!! Outrage! ;)
Hi mechadrake
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ZFS RaidZ with no hardware RAID sounds like a plan for this host to me...
Hi Robert Putt
It's cheaper,, just like using the build in Graphics card is,, who needs that hardware accelerated performances.
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@@MyPlayHouse Thank you for your reply, sure I understand where you are coming from and it depends on use case and budget, however ZFS has some advantages over traditional RAID for example using SSD and RAM you can have larger L1 and L2 caches than are traditionally provided by a RAID controller, and RAID is not as intelligent as ZFS as it has no hash map of the drive, so if one mirror becomes corrupted the RAID controller may serve corrupted blocks where as ZFS can detect these anomalies and fix the faulty side of the mirror. Also I have seen some very performant ZFS deployments out there but it really depends on budget, expertise of the deployment engineers etc... Furthermore ZFS allows you to use mixed size disks in one array, and allows you to upgrade disk sizes as you renew failed disks through it's resilvering technique, so this machine could have had one big array rather than 4 little ones.
RAID0 is a good idea for testing. bad idea for production or valuable work :)
Hi psycl0ptic
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You said you low-level formatted the drives; in fact you cannot low-level format modern hard disk drives, their firmware just wouldn't allow it.
Also how exactly did the '$100' come up in the title? $1000 seems more reasonable I think. If it was given away to you for free that's another story.
Other than that quite interesting, it would be nice to see how it performs with ZFS.
The storage server was just $100
1 Kilobyte (KB) = 1000 Bytes
1 Kibibyte (KiB) = 1024 Bytes
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1 Terrabyte (TB) = 1000 Gigabyte (GB)
1 Tebibyte (TiB) = 1024 Gibibyte (GiB)
Hi Jannik Berges
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You should look into Gigabytes vs Gigibytes, the official standard for a Gigabyte is 1000 bytes, however a Gigibyte is 1024 bytes, this needs to become common knowledge and informing a UA-cam audience with ill-informed knowledge doesn't help the situation
Hi peter geary
Thank You very much! but does not look widely used.
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My PlayHouse That is true, the industries lack of educating its people and the wider public doesn't help, the standard was originally set in 1998, by 2007 all current standards organisations for the technology industry had adopted it, the problem is that operating systems read in 8 byte format so consumers end up confused and frustrated due to feeling misguided by product details, it's a mix of educating and using the correct terminology when advertising products, pronunciation is crucial to ensuring reduced confusion, as both words sound incredibly similar, thanks for replying and thanks for the videos you do, I've only recently discovered your channel and I am so far enjoying watching your content, currently wanting to get into a career in IT, got a few ideas but nothing concrete yet, thanks again
that adds up to 56.6 tb lol do you not own a calculator?
Hi DJKingSizeChris
Thank You very much! I do not need one, when you can tell me the result.
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Okay, I read IBM server and then someone going"It's the best server" and I lost all interest :D
Hi Marco2G
Well now they are Lenovo servers,, they are according to me the best High end Enterprise server,, for Home Server 24/7 server,, not as much. But IBM/Lenovo servers are the most Operation stable server on the market. For fun and games,, go with whatever,, mission critical,, look for an Lenovo server. I have managed about 150 of these x3650 M1,, never had none die,, HD Yes, a Ram blok Yes. but never a totally dead server. They are being traced in 100% working order after 10-11 years of running 24/7.
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Bitcoin can be soo noisy sometimes.
Hi Mauladous Basantes
Thank You very much! OR as you say "Money Talks" in this case just makes noise.
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True a horde of mining rigs make this seem nothing,sound wise.
Are you danish? Your accent sounds like it.
Hi TheOMGPoPCorn
One Dane can hear another Dane speaking english 3 walls away.. the rest of the world do not mind.
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