Rob_Dingen Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Hi This is my first build and runs about a week. At the moment I use 6 3TB disks OS: unRAID 5.0beta9 Pro CPU: ATOM 510 Mobo: Supermicro X7SPA-HF RAM: 4 GB Kingston 1x2GB, DDR2, SODIMM, PC5300, CL5 Case: Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum Drive Cage(s): 3x Norco SS500 with Cooler Master Casefan Ultra Silent (80mm) runs about 12 deg above ambient temp Power Supply: Corsair Builder CX430 V2 SATA Expansion Card: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 (have to buy when expand) Parity Drive: 3 TB Hitachi 5K3000 Data Drives: 3 TB Hitachi 5k3000 (5) Total Drive Capacity: 14 Drives Power Server standby 2W Server boot max 125W Server disk spin down 32W Rob Link to comment
Rajahal Posted July 15, 2011 Share Posted July 15, 2011 Looking clean! I love that case with those drive bays. Sure wish that case was more easily available in the US... Link to comment
Rembro Posted July 16, 2011 Share Posted July 16, 2011 Nice Build Rob, you did study the forum very well and took the best out with the parts available over here. Just love those Supermicro Atom Boards !! Calling yourself a Newbie and starting like this !! :-) Keep on going with those 3TB (or more) disks in the future and it will give you 14 -1 parity = 13 x 3 = 39TB minimal in your setup. And that in a normal midi-tower : WOW I will stick to the 2TB models for now , just personally think the price difference is too big at the moment. (Also because i don't fully need it at the moment) Do you also have pictures of the inside? just curious !! Link to comment
Johnm Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 !!!!! crap. that's a nice build. low power, yet 14 drive capable. Very nice case. I would totally use that same build with 3x SM cages (modded for silence). what bios are you running on the SM board? I noticed the "Intel storage manager option ROM" on my boards are pretty old (original version). I was wondering how it would work with 3TB drives. there is a newer bios out. unfortunatly, I could not get it to flash from a USB drive. I figure i would have to make a floppy image and use the virtual floppy in the IPMI. Link to comment
Rob_Dingen Posted July 18, 2011 Author Share Posted July 18, 2011 Hi Johnm Don't now which BIOS Rom it runs but it runs so I don't want to change anything. I mod the Norco's with other fan's and it's silent now. But I have only 3HDD in each case,maybe with 5 per case it's not enough airflow. Rob Link to comment
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