Server Chasis for homemade Nas

[dhicks]

like this http://www.techtradepartners.net/storage/Compaq%20Proliant%20ML370%201.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1294103580846

 

Goodness. I see what you mean now. That looks as though it would take a 5-disk array in the three 5.25" slots in the front and 6 disks in the built-in array, with maybe a card reader instead of a floppy drive just to make it looks a bit less old :-)

[glennda]

Bringing this alive again as i've given up on Drobo's being amazingly cool.

 

Currently looking at getting this

 

 

HP ProLiant N36L (microserver)

2GB Dual Rank x8 PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333MHz) Unbuffered (for above server)

Western Digital REII-GP 2TB 3.5 SATA Internal Hard Drive x 20

RAID CARD - Intel RAID Controller SASUC8I HBA (for server/board below)

INTEL Quad Core Xeon E5520 2.26GHz LGA1366

Super Micro SuperChassis 847E1-R1400LPB (huge for future expansion)

Super Micro X8DTH-IF

Supermicro 8GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory Module

 

Then going to put 16 x 2tb disks in Case (leaving plenty of space for expansion ) then 4 x 2tb disk in the Microserver hidden in a spare block (although i tried to convince the caretaker to let me hide it in his house onsite!)

The HBA card supports up to 122 disks so i think should be ok with that one! Then Linux Software raid.

 

Going to replicate the monthly backups to Microserver.

[Butuz]

To be honest I'd go a different route. I think an 8 - 16 slot Qnap box of some sort plugged into any old workstation/server via NAS or SAS would be much more efficient and reliable as you can simply just leave the Qnap box to sort out all the raid storage stuff (as it's designed to do) and use the workstation/server to set up whatever backup software you chose.

 

Also you can buy another Qnap box in another building and easily set them up to automatically replicate. Basically its a much less complicated much easier to set up way of doing it IMHO.

 

Butuz

[glennda]

To be honest I'd go a different route. I think an 8 - 16 slot Qnap box of some sort plugged into any old workstation/server via NAS or SAS would be much more efficient and reliable as you can simply just leave the Qnap box to sort out all the raid storage stuff (as it's designed to do) and use the workstation/server to set up whatever backup software you chose.

 

Also you can buy another Qnap box in another building and easily set them up to automatically replicate. Basically its a much less complicated much easier to set up way of doing it IMHO.

 

Butuz

 

I did look into the qnap's but getting 2 with enough drives + the server to run the software

etc was alot more expensive from the quotes i had then the system quoted above - it works under 4k for the Main machine and £600 for the microserver to replicate to!

[zag]

To build a nice nas I would buy

 

- atom cpu

- small ssd for the OS

 

Keep it low power and you should be fine

 

I personally have the Qnap devices and they are awesome, I replaced my media server with one and won't ever go back.

[glennda]

To build a nice nas I would buy

 

- atom cpu

- small ssd for the OS

 

Keep it low power and you should be fine

 

I personally have the Qnap devices and they are awesome, I replaced my media server with one and won't ever go back.

 

I've moved on to getting a server with built in storage now rather then building Nas - although going to use a HP microserver to replicate data to which has the tiny AMD processor

[glennda]

This is what we have just placed an order on! all for a fairly decent price of 4 and a a bit thousand. Going to use the supermicro as a server running ubuntu and backup pc using 16 of the 2tb hdd's. then 4 2tb disks in the HP for replicating data too in a remote location.

 

HEWLETT PACKARD HP ProLiant N36L 1.30GHz 2-core 1P

2GB Dual Rank x8 PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333MHz) Unbuffered

Western Digital REII-GP 2TB 3.5 SATA Internal Hard Drive x 20

RAID CARD - Intel RAID Controller SASUC8I

INTEL Quad Core Xeon E5520 2.26GHz LGA1366 5.86GT

Super Micro SuperChassis 847E1-R1400LPB

Super Micro X8DTH-IF

Supermicro 8GB DDR3 SDRAM Memory Module

 

The super micro can also be used as a virtual host should the need arise.

[andyrite]

I have the 24 Bay version of that case. It's a beast. 22 x 2tb Disks in it.

[glennda]

I have the 24 Bay version of that case. It's a beast. 22 x 2tb Disks in it.

 

yeah i looked at that but thought the 36 bay case would be better as it allows for alot more future expansion - plus also i thought about using the same machine to run our IP CCTV aswell in a VM

[Cue]

Intrigued: so Linux enumerates drives as sda, sdb, etc. What happens when you get to drive number 27?

 

--

David Hicks

 

To answer an old question, RHEL and SUSE double up the letters, to sdx, sdy, sdz, sdaa, sdab, etc. It's probably the same on some other distros too, but I don't have the hardware to try it for 27 different drives on Ubuntu here.

[andyrite]

yeah i looked at that but thought the 36 bay case would be better as it allows for alot more future expansion - plus also i thought about using the same machine to run our IP CCTV aswell in a VM

 

I bought it about a year ago. They didn't have the 36bay version then. It's the loudest thing in our server room!

[glennda]

I bought it about a year ago. They didn't have the 36bay version then. It's the loudest thing in our server room!

 

oh good -its going in the backup room which is right next to an annoying HOD office