Hey gang,
Just bought Ockie's Galaxy 4.5 project!! This project is going to follow my storage needs and upgrades, starting with taking Galaxy 4.5 and making it Plutonium!!!
Goals:
Fast and easy storage of course... I store every tv show I have come across, from 24 to The West Wing, I have pretty much everything, aside from any reality, (which I passionately "hate") At the time I am writing this, I have 10,331 episodes, 3.95tb, 250 shows... I have been working on gaining shows I lack via reruns in hd, so the space gets used fast!! I am starting to get a little more into movies and am seeing my collection grow... I add at minimum, 200-400GBs a month, between, tv, movies, machine images, a few clients backup and such.... Sorry guys, no porn here
History is as follows:
Plutonium 1:
Started with using my main computer as a server running a C2D and 4x 320GB HDs.. I used the Intel raid 5 built into my P5B-Deluxe.... Still running XP Pro 32bit at this point. Here is a picture from the end of October 2006...
Plutonium 1.5:
Soon after building the Plutonium 1 900GB raid array, (as is always the case!!) it filled. So in January of 2007, I bought a 5 3.5" into 3 5.25" back plane to house more drives. I ended up with 6 320GBs in raid 5 plus 2 500GBs in raid 1... This solved the problem of storage for a little while.. I used a hack that allows the full server raid functions to work in Windows XP Pro 32bit, and this seemed to work well, but more on that later.... This worked well, and served lots of data for several months, but still not having a dedicated server sucked, every time I need to reboot, would bring everyone to a halt.... I usually could run 1 month to a reboot, but still.....
Plutonium 2:
In March of 2007, Southern Minnesota was hit with a heat wave, temps in the 60s and I came home from work to find a BSOD a waiting me... Went to reboot and the raid array was gone, and to say the least, I was super scared... I went into work and grabbed a license for Server 2003 the same night; luckily after installing 2k3, the array came online with no loss. After that stress, I knew something had to change, and went on [h] that week and bought this case.... I moved all my drives into it and set it up nicely in the basement (more on that later too)
Plutonium 2.5:
I upgraded the now very small 320GB drives to 750s this past summer, with a nice 7.5TB in raid 5..
This is currently serving very well, but because of ever growing data, I need more drives, and I am pretty full.... The current price on 1tb drives has made upgrades very easy, and I picked 3 up in the last month for great prices, thanks to the guys on the Hot Deals!!!
Plutonium 3:
December 2007
Going to start with incorporating Ockie's Galaxy 4.5 into Plutonium 3..
It will start with a lot of recycled parts, but get some upgrades down the road...
Starting with:
PC Power and Cooling 750w Power Supply
Biostar Socket 939 TForce mobo
AMD Opteron 146
1GB RAM
2 Supermicro 8 port "dumb" controllers
ATI Radeon 9250 video card in PCI...
And for the drives:
(10) 750GB Seagate 7200.10
(1) 500GB Seagate 7200.10
(1) 1TB Hitachi
(2) 1TB WD Green Drives
(1) 80GB Seagate 7200.9 for OS....
I am going to continue to run Server 2003, but am thinking of maybe someday moving to Linux or Open Solaris... 2k3 is sooo stable and easy to admin, if it were as unstable as XP or Vista, I would switch in a heartbeat, but I get great uptime
Here is one of the latest pictures of Galaxy 4.5, before being striped and shipped to me
Plutonium 4:
July 2008
Norco RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case
ASUS DSBF-DE Dual LGA 771 Intel 5000P
(2) WINTEC 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM
(2) Intel Xeon E5410 Harpertown 2.33GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 771 80W Quad-Core CPU
Sony NEC Optiarc Black SATA Slim Combo
Slimline SATA>Normal SATA cable (off of Ebay)
Reused Parts from Plutonium 3
Areca 1280ML, with 2GB Cache, and BBU
(22) 750GB SATA HDs in RAID 6
80GB SATA HD (boot drive)
PC Power and Cooling PSU 750w
Plutonium 3.75
A backup server to Plutonium project, not going to run raid arrays or even run much, going to be unplugged most of the time, so I have offline backup of my data... Been a scary with no backup!!
Not sure on the case yet.
Asus P5M2 SAS Mobo
4GB ECC RAM
Pentium D 830
OCZ 600W PSU
ADAPTEC AAR-21610SA RAID Controller (remember, JBOD, simple disks)
Misc drives, prolly old drives from former projects...
More to come soon!!!
Just bought Ockie's Galaxy 4.5 project!! This project is going to follow my storage needs and upgrades, starting with taking Galaxy 4.5 and making it Plutonium!!!
Goals:
Fast and easy storage of course... I store every tv show I have come across, from 24 to The West Wing, I have pretty much everything, aside from any reality, (which I passionately "hate") At the time I am writing this, I have 10,331 episodes, 3.95tb, 250 shows... I have been working on gaining shows I lack via reruns in hd, so the space gets used fast!! I am starting to get a little more into movies and am seeing my collection grow... I add at minimum, 200-400GBs a month, between, tv, movies, machine images, a few clients backup and such.... Sorry guys, no porn here
History is as follows:
Plutonium 1:
Started with using my main computer as a server running a C2D and 4x 320GB HDs.. I used the Intel raid 5 built into my P5B-Deluxe.... Still running XP Pro 32bit at this point. Here is a picture from the end of October 2006...
Plutonium 1.5:
Soon after building the Plutonium 1 900GB raid array, (as is always the case!!) it filled. So in January of 2007, I bought a 5 3.5" into 3 5.25" back plane to house more drives. I ended up with 6 320GBs in raid 5 plus 2 500GBs in raid 1... This solved the problem of storage for a little while.. I used a hack that allows the full server raid functions to work in Windows XP Pro 32bit, and this seemed to work well, but more on that later.... This worked well, and served lots of data for several months, but still not having a dedicated server sucked, every time I need to reboot, would bring everyone to a halt.... I usually could run 1 month to a reboot, but still.....
Plutonium 2:
In March of 2007, Southern Minnesota was hit with a heat wave, temps in the 60s and I came home from work to find a BSOD a waiting me... Went to reboot and the raid array was gone, and to say the least, I was super scared... I went into work and grabbed a license for Server 2003 the same night; luckily after installing 2k3, the array came online with no loss. After that stress, I knew something had to change, and went on [h] that week and bought this case.... I moved all my drives into it and set it up nicely in the basement (more on that later too)
Plutonium 2.5:
I upgraded the now very small 320GB drives to 750s this past summer, with a nice 7.5TB in raid 5..
This is currently serving very well, but because of ever growing data, I need more drives, and I am pretty full.... The current price on 1tb drives has made upgrades very easy, and I picked 3 up in the last month for great prices, thanks to the guys on the Hot Deals!!!
Plutonium 3:
December 2007
Going to start with incorporating Ockie's Galaxy 4.5 into Plutonium 3..
It will start with a lot of recycled parts, but get some upgrades down the road...
Starting with:
PC Power and Cooling 750w Power Supply
Biostar Socket 939 TForce mobo
AMD Opteron 146
1GB RAM
2 Supermicro 8 port "dumb" controllers
ATI Radeon 9250 video card in PCI...
And for the drives:
(10) 750GB Seagate 7200.10
(1) 500GB Seagate 7200.10
(1) 1TB Hitachi
(2) 1TB WD Green Drives
(1) 80GB Seagate 7200.9 for OS....
I am going to continue to run Server 2003, but am thinking of maybe someday moving to Linux or Open Solaris... 2k3 is sooo stable and easy to admin, if it were as unstable as XP or Vista, I would switch in a heartbeat, but I get great uptime
Here is one of the latest pictures of Galaxy 4.5, before being striped and shipped to me
Plutonium 4:
July 2008
Norco RPC-4020 4U Rackmount Server Case
ASUS DSBF-DE Dual LGA 771 Intel 5000P
(2) WINTEC 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 FB-DIMM
(2) Intel Xeon E5410 Harpertown 2.33GHz 12MB L2 Cache LGA 771 80W Quad-Core CPU
Sony NEC Optiarc Black SATA Slim Combo
Slimline SATA>Normal SATA cable (off of Ebay)
Reused Parts from Plutonium 3
Areca 1280ML, with 2GB Cache, and BBU
(22) 750GB SATA HDs in RAID 6
80GB SATA HD (boot drive)
PC Power and Cooling PSU 750w
Plutonium 3.75
A backup server to Plutonium project, not going to run raid arrays or even run much, going to be unplugged most of the time, so I have offline backup of my data... Been a scary with no backup!!
Not sure on the case yet.
Asus P5M2 SAS Mobo
4GB ECC RAM
Pentium D 830
OCZ 600W PSU
ADAPTEC AAR-21610SA RAID Controller (remember, JBOD, simple disks)
Misc drives, prolly old drives from former projects...
More to come soon!!!