cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Hi, Ive finally acquired the massive case I was trying to find. Here is the big lad.... Now to find an icydock/startech dock or two to go in it.
XiJ Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 (edited) I remember the full size tower case I had. It had wheels too! Now I want the smallest most power efficient system possible (that can transcode to h264 in an instant!) When I used to work for the LA we in about 2000 we found a bunch of full height hard drives (5.25"). We put them all in a huge tower and powered up. I'm sure the lights dimmed around Rotherham. The whole room vibrated too. Edited October 25, 2015 by XiJ
cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 I remember the full size tower case I had - I'm wheel too. Now I want the smallest most power efficient system possible (that can transcode to h264 in an instant!) When I used to work for the LA we in about 2000 we found a bunch of full height hard drives (5.25"). We put them all in a huge tower and powered up. I'm sure the lights dimmed around Rotherham. The whole room vibrated too. Nice. this is an ATX case and is going to be made into a storage / backup server. Old case but brilliantly built, very solid. Loads of room. It is literally going to be a backup server. Just need to pickup some sort of backplane such as Icydock. When Ive integrated it into my server room ill take some more photos of him up & running.
XiJ Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 Nice. this is an ATX case and is going to be made into a storage / backup server. Old case but brilliantly built, very solid. Loads of room. It is literally going to be a backup server. Just need to pickup some sort of backplane such as Icydock. When Ive integrated it into my server room ill take some more photos of him up & running. Cool. You going to RAID? Or something else planned ?
cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 Hopefully, will need a new raid card maybe 4 or 8 port. Got loads of disks... 1TB etc. I was planning on getting an Icydock and mirroring 4 1TB disks. But leave room for expansion.
cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 The case used to have 2 icydocks in on an 4 port raid card, Ive acquired case as everything has been moved to a new system but the icy's have also been added to the new system hence the spaces in the front. Ive got a startech dock but it seems to of stopped reading disks... need to go on ebay and look for a RAID card
rich_tech Posted October 25, 2015 Posted October 25, 2015 I still have my Chieftec Full Tower case at my grandfather's, can't bear to get rid of it yet (was first PC I built from scratch)
cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 I still have my Chieftec Full Tower case at my grandfather's, can't bear to get rid of it yet (was first PC I built from scratch) Know what you mean, No idea who made this one but its huge, and solid - i struggle to lift it when its empty let alone full of disks and a motherboard. Very attached to it, will have it for a long time i reckon.
cpjitservices Posted October 25, 2015 Author Posted October 25, 2015 When he's settled in I'll post some more photos.
cpjitservices Posted October 26, 2015 Author Posted October 26, 2015 Well, got him loaded up at the weekend. Removed Floppy drive and put in a white card reader instead - mainly for front USB. No Hard drives in as yet apart from the SSD with the OS.
XiJ Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 You removed the floppy? Won't you need that? [emoji2] What OS are you running?
cpjitservices Posted October 26, 2015 Author Posted October 26, 2015 LOL NO! dont need no floppy. Windows Server 2012.
XiJ Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 Didn't know if you'd run some sort of Linux if it was pure storage. I keep thinking about trying the synology free / open source / whatever it is OS.
cpjitservices Posted October 26, 2015 Author Posted October 26, 2015 Thought about it but need to replicate my Hyper-V estate so big lad will be running 2012 with Hyper-V. Hence want to fill it full of disks to replicate my VM's. My other server is a FileServer but has ended up doing just about everything - Hyper-V - FTP, etc. Want to remove some of the roles and leave it just as a Fileserver. I've got my SATA Startech Backplane installed... Have initiated a Remote Desktop and noticed the 1TB disk I put in is offline. Backplane off in't bin lol.
3s-gtech Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 2012 or 2012 R2? Hyper-V improved with R2 https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn282278.aspx
Arthur Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 Here is the big lad.... For his size he doesn't have many 5.25" drive bays. I would have chosen a case like the Antec Twelve Hundred v3.0 since it has room for four drive cages which hold 5 drives each. With 8TB HDDs that would give you a server with 160TB of raw disk space. http://vgy.me/4Er8cD.jpg
cpjitservices Posted October 26, 2015 Author Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) I like the docks that you have @Arthur. Where did u get those form ? got any spare - my startech one has failed or is failing... I may not have as many drive bays but I have Dual PSU Edited October 26, 2015 by cpjitservices
Arthur Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) I like the docks that you have. Where did u get those form? Not my case unfortunately, but those drive cages are Norco SS-500 v2s. Newegg sell them (and ship to the UK) Edited October 26, 2015 by Arthur 1
cpjitservices Posted October 26, 2015 Author Posted October 26, 2015 (edited) Nice. Cheers. Might take a look... Although with the shipping charge it makes them roughly the same price as an Icy. I have a cheap n cheerful Startech one. Have had it a while and its starting to die so need to sort summit quick! Edited October 26, 2015 by cpjitservices
Chris_ Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 Looks like OverClockers UK are selling one the same as that Norco one, pre-order only though https://www.overclockers.co.uk/ocuk-professional-5-x-3.5-sata-hot-swap-into-3-x-5.25-drive-bays-oc-h500-sa-010-op.html 1
caffrey Posted October 26, 2015 Posted October 26, 2015 xcase.co.uk do a good selection of hot swap stuff / drive cages 1
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