Norco RPC-4224 24 Bay 4U Storage File Server Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2010
- www.ncix.com/products/?sku=55462
A very unique product. It's a 4U case for only $400 that accepts up to 24 SATA or SAS drives with a hot swappable backplane. For only $2000 you can have yourself a NAS enclosure & VERY nice RAID card that only needs some cheap hardware to run a basic OS on! - Наука та технологія
2010 Gangster Linus
OMG LINUS IS WEARING SHOES :O
This is what I like about your videos, Linus, apart from the regular stuff, you even try and explain the lesser known but important facts. In this case 4U, which I am pretty sure not many people know.
Thank you !
Awesome, thank you. Finally someone doing a rack-mount and even adding a raid card :-)
You are correct. Norco never put counter-rotating fans in this case. You can actually see that the other set of "blades" Linus is talking is actually part of the fan casing when the cameraman points the camera through the back fans. The focused fans are much louder than the fans that come on the midplate though. Sidenote: If you purchase this case, pick up the 120mm fan midplate from Norco as well and install quieter 120mm fans instead!
crazy seeing this channel so many years ago
Holy that RAID card looks BEAST.
8 years ago you were reviewing server in street. That's a great story!
This is literally the best thing today.
Gotta love the harmony between Linus and the Cameraman hehe
Still good after all these years 😎
You've come a long way Linus hahahaha Good video though, thanks!
thanks for the nice review.
You will need a good raid card that supports 24 ports. Aside from the one he mentioned, you could use two 3ware 9550-12 which go for about 50 bucks a piece on ebay. Together you would support all 24 ports. As for the motherboard, something like a SUPERMICRO MBD-X7DWA-N would be great.
Linus! You’re a baby! So young
Hey Linus, the 4U refers to the the number of U's it takes up. A single U is 1.75 inches i height, So a 4U would be 7" in height. And if you look at the specs of it, it matches up. Also all rack equipment is 19" wide, that number doesnt change, just Us
can you make a video and just say about over and over again!!! :) awesome case, thanks for the review
Glad I found this, there is a similar case now from Athena Power and I had no idea if it had a SAS expander on the back plane. It's backplane looks identical to this, so the answer is no. So you would need 3 8 port SAS HBA cards to run these damned cases. There goes all your savings from going cheap. This is the reason why supermicro cases are so expensive. They have backplane expanders allowing you to use only one port on one HBA card. Add on top of that, getting top quality redundant PSU's and the best drive cages and the reason for the price difference is clear. This is maybe the rout to go if you already have a glut of server hardware just looking for a case. If you are starting from scratch, supermicro is actually the better deal.
However a single hp expander card can solve the perceived problem of no expander on the backplane.
Most good supermicro server boards have 2or3 SAS SFF-8077 connectors built in (x11dpi-n for example). That will drive 3 of the six backplanes (12 of the drive trays).
Then, as you get more storage drives behind the 12, get a single expander card OR two lsi-9300-8i (if wanting better bandwidth such as if you are using SATA SSDs)
that SAS RAID card models you used or recommend me for this norco RPC-4224 4U?
and I want to know the model of the motherboard as well as the other components, power supply, hard drives, etc ..
Thanks in advance
Norco makes a 3x 120mm wall for that case so you could get quieter fans with higher cfm ;)
4 is 4 x 1 genius Linus!
LMFAOOOO this is so ratchet. But look how far the channel has come since. Amazing.
thumbs up for knowing about norco bikes! i own a norco DH bike ^^
Was waiting for wheels for a case
That bench has seen more PC parts than I will in my entire life.
@TehCodehzor yeah it's beacause it,s beautiful because he's already do some unbox inside the ncix store
....10 years already man i remember watching this when it came out my insides hurt someone save me from the old
The case is awesome, but I would not go for an expensive hardware RAID card. I would rather use simpler cards with mini-SAS connectors and a pair of expanders. For about half the money you could connect 16 drives. Install FreeNAS. Use ZFS. Et voila, you saved a lot of money and you dealt with the write hole problem on traditional RAID setups ;-)
You could also use an LSI 8 port raid card and a 24 port expander for around 150 for both.
When you unbox all theses products do you get to keep them? So your house is like computer heaven?
Thought Linus and the case was going in the pond 1:50 !
Norco bikes are the best!
So if you installed 24 3.5in drives into this case, what kind of a power supply would you need, including all of the other hardware, assuming that its all high end?
Apparently he's never unboxed a bladecenter ht
I'm from the future. Highpoint rocket 750 HBA cards that support up to 40 drives can be had used for $100.00 US
Linus should unbox the cameraman! :-)
i miss you cameraman
Will be great if you type in descripcion a complete mini server with this case, what part did you recomend, what motherboard, how many ram, what procesosr, did you recomend the coolit vantage, corsair h50 o maybe h70 water cooling and of course raid controller pci express. and thaks you videos are good....
for me the fans should be the exact opposite they are. cus i think the 4 fans intake will suck hot air from the hdd and not push cool air to cool them. they air flow should be in the opposite action. or there is another choice. put fans in the side of the hard drives. one sides suck air from outside through the hdd and the other side push it out! anyway nice product and good review. can't wait for the build!!!! ;)
In a NAS environment, trust me, you don't want to do software RAID, you would be looking at a speed about 1.1GB taking 50 seconds. When your filling up 24 2TB drives, that is extremely slow. Just showed this to a customer yesterday who was wanting speed from a software raid.
i learn something!! haha, great vid ;]
@JustinR19 its been done before. its somewhere on youtube
Hey it looks like you are over by 4620 Viking Way, Richmond, BC??
Waiting for that build
where can you buy rails for this ?
new egg
i know what it is cus i saw the description before the video started to play! :P LOL
@xuemike That depends on the output data speed you need. With software raid you are using your cpu to do the math and never will achieve such performance. Using port multiplier you are limited by the maximum transfer rate of a single sata cable conected to 4 o 5 sata drives. Obviously there is a bottleneck. Software raid is cheap and very usefull if you need huge storage space with a standard speed. For example storing videos or music in you home NAS. But if you need 900 mb/s read speeds dont.
I thought the fans on the back are focused flow deltas not duals.
Simple card boxes are awesome, I want to pay for the product inside, not for a fluffy sleeve like the Seasonic power supply unit and others.
@Esymad Yes.
This video gave me serious alantutorial vibes. Did linus just open a file server on a bench in a park?
What does redundant powersupply mean?
buy this case, a high end gaming motherboard that raid adapter buy 2-3 high end video cards, run CFX or SLI purchase 24 2TB hdd's run that in RAID0 or RAID10...can't say i'd reccomend it, the OS and MB BIOS's would have to be capable of supporting a 48TB array, what whould you do with that much storage? download every game you can find, play everything at high graphics
Is it possible to get SSD cards in that case?
Damn, Linus was hard on the camera man
24 SSD in raid 0! Go GO GO!!!
what size PSU do you need for this beast?
WHEN WILL THE BUILD BE DONE? OMGOM GOMGOMGOMGO I WANNA SEE OMGOMGOMG
Cool
What is your obsession with file storage Linus? I mean really, I get by just fine with 10000+ songs and 100+ movies with a little over 1TB of storage! How much stuff could you possibly have to save?!?!
lol I came to this video exactly looking to see if it was possible to remove the backplane because this one only runs at 6gbps and my disks run at 12 gpbs. so nice you did it Linux even though you didn't know why to do it haha
what that dimm on raid card?
how? Lots of space for drives?
@DoctorJerkberg Yeah oh course. But TheNiceguy specifically mentioned RAID 0 so that's what I was replying to.
What kind of server was Skynet???
I thought the back fans are just Delta focused flows not duals.
linus 4u means 4 units it takes up in a server rack
48U? Where did you find a full rack case?
Did you mean 48 bay?
You should totally hook up 24 SSDs and see how fast games and programs would load. :P
8:21 Look to Linus glasses and you'll see cameraman!!!
you said its mid hundreds...listed at 410 from the link?
make it silent....... put in 4 delta fans ;)
5:57 what language was that Linus?
$392.33 for that RPC-4224 at the ncix website
Perfect for a SR-2 MOBO
2:32 there is nothing little about that server haha nice vid tho!
can you put a motherboard in there a use it as a super computer?
lol 24 drive raid awesome raid controller Linus..
@commodore256 It's 300 Mbit/s and 600 Mbit/s.
@Naz2k9 been done before. There are vids for it here on youtube.
I'd like to see a 48 bay case with two 200mm fans.
This case - 24 Sandforce SSD in Raid 0, that 2 cpu board from evga, 2 of intels fastest CPU's.. if theres one beyond the 980X, full awesome RAM and like.. 3 way GTX 580's. :P
Can some1 explain for me what Raid 0,6,5 or whatever means? And how to you get things like that? Ty!
24drives in RAID 0 hell yea!
@UltimateArco Why? Sounds like fun
what is RAID?. And what dose it do?
RAID 60!
linus is fighting with the boxes.
The struggle is real.
please build a system with this, make a huge server
what's Linus's pc specs?
@NoRogeR Earth, but with a temp. comparable to the sun.
So 2 psu - drives are ok, but the fans have 1 molex, so cooling dies and your running drives melt :D ;)
You can use chain molex cable for them
and you should run anyway temp checking monitoring (nagios, incinga or local scripts) that shutting down a server when the temp is critical.
2019 anyone?
2020 bro.
@@printfab If only he knew what was coming
@@printfab 2021 dude
@@tcntad87 sorry bro, can’t do that every year :/
battery run out? yeah right :P
you just needed 20 minutes to pop the back plate back in :P!
great review :D
24 drives. I don't need that many, but it would be nice to know that I could. :)
i could see my self buying one of these just to get an excuse to install a server rack in my room, however i would stick 24 SSDs in it and replace the fans with noctua 80mm fans
I just realized he uses the same pants for 9 years straight
wow
Why outside ?
double boxed omg. what does it mean ?