New Storage array in the mail!

longblock454

longblock454

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Got this and (5) ES series 750GB Seagates on the way!

3TB in RAID 5 and I'll stab in more as I need the space. Current setup is 1.25TB RAID5 Linux ext3. I'm thinking this new setup will likely be an LVMed XFS volume. I don't want to mess with expanding the partition!

Raid card will be the ever trusty HighPoint RocketRAID 2220! I now have two of these and they can be daisy chained together for the required 16 ports.

Picts once everything arrives.
 
If you are planning on using OCE with the 2220, I would recommend running XFS directly on the block device. No need to mess with partitions, no 2TB limit for non-GPT, and once the new drive is added, expansion of the filesystem takes 10 secs. That's what I do on my two arrays.
 
I'll have to consider this. In the past I've experimented by not using partitions but always considered it risky, not sure why!
 
thats awesome - i need to get something like that myself, beucase im always in the market for storage products
 
AMD_Gamer said:
thats awsome but how exactly do those hot swap setups work?
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When/If a drive fails you simply eject it and install a new one! No loss, no downtime, no cables to mess with! A bit expensive, but i'm very anal with my data!!!
 
longblock454 said:
I'll have to consider this. In the past I've experimented by not using partitions but always considered it risky, not sure why!
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It is risky because the OS does not know there is data there unless you tell it there is data there. It will not automount. This leaves you open to accidents if you are careless with your partitioning and formatting.
 
Dew said:
It is risky because the OS does not know there is data there unless you tell it there is data there. It will not automount. This leaves you open to accidents if you are careless with your partitioning and formatting.
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That is not an issue!
 
The chassis arrived in the mail yesterday, a few picts. This thing is very heavy, thick metal, excellent construction. The power supplies are Ablecom Model #SP762-TS, 750 watt with PFC. All of the case fans just pop out with integrated wiring for easy changing if ever necessary. The supplied rails are heavy ball bearing type.

The drive bays are solid, slide easy and have integrated LEDs.

This thing was very well packaged by SuperMicro, box in a box with about 3" of stiff foam all around. Came with the usual MB stuff and 4 SATA cables.

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Awesome as expected. What kind of connectors are on the backplane? They look like normal sata connectors, is that all? Is power wiring for the drives integrated or separate?
 
unhappy_mage said:
Awesome as expected. What kind of connectors are on the backplane? They look like normal sata connectors, is that all? Is power wiring for the drives integrated or separate?
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Yes, this model is normal separate SATA connectors, although its also available in SAS. No multilane or expanders available, yet!

The backplane came wired as shown below. I pulled the fans for a better pict.

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secure.boy said:
you mean single p4?
or dual/quad socket cpu's?
memory?
OS?
FC cards?

can you remove one drive bay
and let us to see that
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Nope, just a simple single P4 board. This machine is simply for disk storage, light web server, mysql for Amarok.

3.2Ghz P4
1Gig RAM

Currently running Fedora 7, will install Fedora 8 with the new stuff. Main shares are NFS. No fiber channel yet, although I'll likely plumb that once I need a second chassis.
 
Drives and the second RocketRaid 2220 have arrived. I'll post the usual Bonnie++ and unhappy's dd results this weekend.

Drives came from Newegg, they were in clear plastic cases with about two layers of the large bubble wrap. Still not as good as ZZF, but probably adequate...
 
longblock454 said:
Drives and the second RocketRaid 2220 have arrived. I'll post the usual Bonnie++ and unhappy's dd results this weekend.

Drives came from Newegg, they were in clear plastic cases with about two layers of the large bubble wrap. Still not as good as ZZF, but probably adequate...
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let see that
 
4.25TB!

Code: 
[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/scsi/hptmv6/2 
RocketRAID 222x controller driver v1.06 (Dec  6 2006 15:14:12)

Controller 1: RocketRAID 222x SATA Controller
------------------------------------------------
1/1 ST3250820AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
1/2 ST3250820AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
1/3 ST3250823AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
1/4 ST3250823AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
1/5 ST3250823AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
1/6 ST3250823AS         , 249980MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
Controller 2: RocketRAID 222x SATA Controller
------------------------------------------------
2/1 ST380815AS          , 79926MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
2/2 ST3750640NS         , 750075MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
2/3 ST3750640NS         , 750075MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
2/4 ST3750640NS         , 750075MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
2/5 ST3750640NS         , 750075MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]
2/6 ST3750640NS         , 750075MB, Normal [RA][WC][NCQ]

Logical devices
------------------------------------------------
[DISK 2_0] backup1 (RAID5), 1249902MB, Normal
    1/6 ST3250823AS         
    1/5 ST3250823AS         
    1/4 ST3250823AS         
    1/3 ST3250823AS         
    1/1 ST3250820AS         
    1/2 ST3250820AS         
main2 (RAID5), 3000303MB, Forground initializing 4.80%
    2/2 ST3750640NS         
    2/3 ST3750640NS         
    2/4 ST3750640NS         
    2/5 ST3750640NS         
    2/6 ST3750640NS         
[root@localhost ~]#
 
rack1.jpg


From top to bottom:

Netgear GS724T gigE non-blocking switch
Westell 327W DSL bridge, Old netgear gigE switch
PIII Smoothwall firewall
Supermicro 933 Chassis
Cybex KVM

Two of the chassis power supplies are connected to an APC 3000, the third to a separate APC 1250 ups. I don't know if one of the PSs would run the entire system! Not likely to test it either....
 
longblock454 said:
http://www.streamlinemechatronics.com/picts/rack1.jpg

From top to bottom:

Netgear GS724T gigE non-blocking switch
Westell 327W DSL bridge, Old netgear gigE switch
PIII Smoothwall firewall
Supermicro 933 Chassis
Cybex KVM

Two of the chassis power supplies are connected to an APC 3000, the third to a separate APC 1250 ups. I don't know if one of the PSs would run the entire system! Not likely to test it either....
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looks good
how much do you think it ways in total (the new storage array)
 
longblock454 said:
From top to bottom:

Netgear GS724T gigE non-blocking switch
Westell 327W DSL bridge, Old netgear gigE switch
PIII Smoothwall firewall
Supermicro 933 Chassis
Cybex KVM

Two of the chassis power supplies are connected to an APC 3000, the third to a separate APC 1250 ups. I don't know if one of the PSs would run the entire system! Not likely to test it either....
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nice :D
 
Took about 5 hours to initialize. Benchmarks, formatted XFS, all defaults:

Code: 
[root@localhost ~]# mkfs.xfs /dev/sdc
meta-data=/dev/sdc               isize=256    agcount=32, agsize=22890496 blks
         =                       sectsz=512   attr=0
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=732495872, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=32768, version=1
         =                       sectsz=512   sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0
realtime =none                   extsz=4096   blocks=0, rtextents=0
[root@localhost ~]#

Code: 
[root@localhost main2]# date; dd if=/dev/zero of=test.file bs=1k count=1M; sync; date
Sat Jan 19 18:43:03 EST 2008
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.74938 seconds, 139 MB/s
Sat Jan 19 18:43:12 EST 2008
[root@localhost main2]#
Code: 
Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
localhost.loc 2016M 43809  91 123726  27 59127  11 49422  96 163827  14 499.8   1
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  3300  56 +++++ +++  5216  53  3507  60 +++++ +++  1024  14

The old thread for comparison:
 
:drool:

I wish I had the spare cash to do this right now :(

Cars and computers... cant have both at 23... despite how hard I try! lol
 
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