The time has commeth.
Please refer to the previous galaxy projects found here
Galaxy 5.0: (reached 25tb)
Galaxy 4.5: (reached 16tb)
Galaxy 4.0: (reached 12tb)
Galaxy 3.0: (reached 9tb)
Galaxy 2.5: (Reached 5.19tb)
Galaxy 2.0: (reached 3.5tb)
Galaxy 1.0: (System on far left) (Reached 2tb)
What determines the name of the project?
Good question. If a system experiences drastic physical changes, such as case, motherboard, or entire configuration, then it's a new x.0 level. If the system recieves minor changes/upgrades or just a drive configuration update, then it's a x.5 level update. Smaller upgrades are not counted for. If it's a backup system, it will be designated with a .25 (ex, 4.75 is a backup server)
The goals of galaxy 4.75:
- To increase overall storage capacity (duh)
- To keep backups of Galaxy 5.0
- To increase functionality
- To make it silent
- To make it CHEAP
This build will be very similar to Galaxy 2.0 in that it will feature a tower case using CalPC drive adapters for cost and effectiveness. The overall design of this system will be for the purpose of cost and backup space.
I realized that I do not have any archive backups of any of the pervious galaxy systems, this makes me nervous, I would at least like to store some of the important files on two locations. This Galaxy 4.75 will not give me a mirror storage solution, but it will backup most of my critical files and protect me from array failures. I am also in an interesting situation as I need to recreate Galaxy 5.0's array, so I do need this extra dump space.
This is the build parts:
Supermicro H8SSL-I Single Socket Motherboard
Supermicro IPMI Remote lights out management
AMD Opteron 146 Processor with silent fan heatsink configuration
Adaptec 16 Port Raid 5 SATA AAR-21610SA Controller PCI-X
4 x Wintec 512MB ECC REG DDR Memory (total of 2GB Ram)
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server X64
Antec Twelve Hundred Case
PC&P 750w Silencer Power Supply
CalPC 5 in 3 Hard Drive High Density Drive Cooling Units
1 x 1TB SATA Hard Drive (System) May perhaps look at small SSD for kicks
20 x Western Digital 400GB SATA Hard Drives
Expected price goal (buying everything), under $1,000 USD. Lofty goal with the system drive, but this is what I'll aim for.
Completed total Storage: 9tb
This is a picture of the case. I like the functionality, I like the blackness of the case and the fact that I got it for so cheap... not to mention I can mount 20 drives without having to relocate the power button! Yay! Price will be the biggest objective here.
Special thanks goes to trugbilddrachen for this picture.
Please refer to the previous galaxy projects found here
Galaxy 5.0: (reached 25tb)
Galaxy 4.5: (reached 16tb)
Galaxy 4.0: (reached 12tb)
Galaxy 3.0: (reached 9tb)
Galaxy 2.5: (Reached 5.19tb)
Galaxy 2.0: (reached 3.5tb)
Galaxy 1.0: (System on far left) (Reached 2tb)
What determines the name of the project?
Good question. If a system experiences drastic physical changes, such as case, motherboard, or entire configuration, then it's a new x.0 level. If the system recieves minor changes/upgrades or just a drive configuration update, then it's a x.5 level update. Smaller upgrades are not counted for. If it's a backup system, it will be designated with a .25 (ex, 4.75 is a backup server)
The goals of galaxy 4.75:
- To increase overall storage capacity (duh)
- To keep backups of Galaxy 5.0
- To increase functionality
- To make it silent
- To make it CHEAP
This build will be very similar to Galaxy 2.0 in that it will feature a tower case using CalPC drive adapters for cost and effectiveness. The overall design of this system will be for the purpose of cost and backup space.
I realized that I do not have any archive backups of any of the pervious galaxy systems, this makes me nervous, I would at least like to store some of the important files on two locations. This Galaxy 4.75 will not give me a mirror storage solution, but it will backup most of my critical files and protect me from array failures. I am also in an interesting situation as I need to recreate Galaxy 5.0's array, so I do need this extra dump space.
This is the build parts:
Supermicro H8SSL-I Single Socket Motherboard
Supermicro IPMI Remote lights out management
AMD Opteron 146 Processor with silent fan heatsink configuration
Adaptec 16 Port Raid 5 SATA AAR-21610SA Controller PCI-X
4 x Wintec 512MB ECC REG DDR Memory (total of 2GB Ram)
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server X64
Antec Twelve Hundred Case
PC&P 750w Silencer Power Supply
CalPC 5 in 3 Hard Drive High Density Drive Cooling Units
1 x 1TB SATA Hard Drive (System) May perhaps look at small SSD for kicks
20 x Western Digital 400GB SATA Hard Drives
Expected price goal (buying everything), under $1,000 USD. Lofty goal with the system drive, but this is what I'll aim for.
Completed total Storage: 9tb
This is a picture of the case. I like the functionality, I like the blackness of the case and the fact that I got it for so cheap... not to mention I can mount 20 drives without having to relocate the power button! Yay! Price will be the biggest objective here.
Special thanks goes to trugbilddrachen for this picture.