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Sweet, I see you have a Q6600 how is it? Im gonna get a C2D and 4gb ram and run vms then upgrade to a Q6600 and 8gb ram later.
Your switch needs to support the function.
I have an 8 port Netgear, so that explains that, I am planning on grabbing a Managed Dell switch, when Dell has them on sale again
But at least it is configed and still moving data, with auto failover, so I will not to reconfigure the server when I switch out the switch!!
In addition to making sure that it's managed, you also need to make sure that it supports LACP, 802.3ad, teaming, bonding, whatever they happen to call link aggregation.
I checked the Dell specs after typing the prior message, I edited it with this:
"The Dell switch I am after supports IEEE802.3ad, so I am good to go"
My 1280ML just showed up. I am en route to the server room with camera in hand, should have more to post in the afternoon
Good news/bad news,
Good news: The card with the 2GB of ram works great
Bad news: The card does not fit in Plutonium 3, very good, the connectiors on the right side are into one of the backplanes, and I cannot get cable to one port on the back plane... The good news is that I still have all the of the 24 ports needed for the Areca, and 5 ports left for the onboard SAS controller.....
I think in the future, this case is going to become backup, and I going to move to those rack mount Norco ML 12 drive cases......
So the 90 degree cables won't let it fit? Because you can always buy these cables seperatley.
On the side with the 4 ports, I used 2 normal and 2 90 degree, the one hits the Athena back plane really hard and blocks one sata port, with the right 90 degree sata cable, I may be able to make it work, but it is not needed right now...
The good thing, I learned, is the that the SAS cables of my on board Asus mobo, look to be the same as the Areca cables, so I need to try one to find out, it would be great to be 100% ML cables!!
It's called minisas Multilane has a diffrent type of connector, but you can get minisas to multilane. To be 100% multilane, your backplanes also would need the high density ports.
The header on your board is a minisas header so it will work with the areca cables.
I have an 8 port Netgear, so that explains that, I am planning on grabbing a Managed Dell switch, when Dell has them on sale again
But at least it is configed and still moving data, with auto failover, so I will not to reconfigure the server when I switch out the switch!!
The Dell switch I am after supports IEEE802.3ad, so I am good to go
awesome and awesome case. are those supermicro bays? 2 sata ports each?
Yakyb from AVSforum said:definately subscribing to this veryt nice build thread
this is what im slowly edging towards (at a slow and steady rate)
how much did the server set you back (all included case HDDS contrllers MOBO CPU etc etc)
cant wait for the 1 TB drives to drop below £100
Good question, had not yet totaled it, well here goes:
Case and Back Planes (Used) from Ockie on [h]ardforum---------$825
Asus P5M2 SAS Motherboard (New) from Newegg------------------$350
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (New) from ZZF---------------------------------$250
8GB of Kingston 2GB ECC Modules (New) from Newegg-----------$200
PC Power & Cooling 750w power supply (New) from PCP&C------$210
Areca 1280ML 24 Port RAID Card (New) from Newegg-------------$1092
2GB ECC Kingston RAM for the 1280ML (New) from Kingston-----$62
Areca 6120 Battery Backup Module (New) from Ebay-----------------$86
(2) Seagate 80GB 7200.9s (for the OS) (New)------------------------2x$40
(24) Seagate 7200.10s, 11s, and ESs--------------------------------24x$200
Belkin 1500VA UPS--------------------------------------------------------------$150
Grand Total-------------------------------------------------------------------------$8105
I think that I am fairly close for the most part, some parts I have had for a long time, hence the higher then now pricing....
I think with misc stuff, that I am at roughly $10k.. not bad for 18TB!!!
Here is a benchmark of my raid 6 array with 13 once the OCE finished this morning, this is HDTach in 32MB mode:
[MG]http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s129/gjvrieze/raid6with13normalmode32MB.jpg[/IMG]
For that price you could have gotten a desk.
That looks pretty good for RAID-6.
What kind of issues did you have with the 1280ML and the fit of the 3051B SATA bays? I'm not quite sure I understood what you wrote above.
This is the exact same setup I'm thinking about, but worried that the ML will block the ports due to its length, so more photos and/or explanation would be appreciated =)
Okay, thanks... guess I'll do some preemptive SATA cable shopping =)
One more question, noise level of the backplanes - since you have a server room I doubt you care, but... are they _LOUD_?
With the back planes fan speed set on low, my server was very quiet, and even on high, it is not bad at all. The loudest thing in my server room at the moment is that 3Com switch, which totally drowns out any other noises....
Prolly could have bought a car too!!!
Silly nub doesn't understand the 10k desk reference..