5.7tb home server rebuild

[gt3beast]

whaaaaaaaaaa??????

[Gamer08ful]

I have that motherboard



[textcrwds]

"I don't understand the words that are coming out of your mouth!" - Chris Tucker

[dazaa31]

what is that rack/case/holder thing ur hdd's kept in?

[60037]

What a total frigging nightmare!! Why not just build two tower servers, 4TB in each one and have done with it ???

[deluxedookie]

raid-5 slow cuz it made for storage only

raid-0 just for speed and combines your drives as 1, made for performance

[Meowmiks]

What raid card was that? Also, why not RAID 0+1?

[BigtimeJimmy21]

Vortecks, I'm loving the mobo mate. What is it? Thanks...

[vortecks2000]

@BigtimeJimmy21 The big one is a Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2. The little one is a VIA EX15000G.

It's all changed since the video was done and it's now in an Antec 1200 with a Rampage Formula mobo - it's a server and games rig in one..... videos to follow when I've got time ;-)

[XxPoints2shopsxX]

Looks like a main stream desktop with the lights.

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[tomtoe]

im more of a Mac man but i love your videos!

[SahLehron]

That looks great! ... I hope to build a server one of these days :D

[GarrettBMXes]

I feel your frustration. Running one of those cards with any raid array onboard causes a lot of conflict. Looks great.

[Nerro2010]

why would you need so many different harddrives? why not just drop 4x 2TB drives in?

[vortecks2000]

2tb drives weren't available when I built it.

[TylertheGeek28]

wow thats alot of files!, very cool setup, i know what its like to have os and hdd problems it sucks, good vid

[vortecks2000]

It took me a few hours to figure out how to sort it :-(

[DannyBoi56]

Wow RAID 0 on a server. Well, okay.

[vortecks2000]

There is a RAID 1 built in for all the important stuff.

I know RAID 0 isn't fault tolerant, but I needed the speed.

[XxMEVANSxX]

One of the most confusing!

Nice video btw!

You should putt all that stuff in a giant pc case!

[vortecks2000]

It is in a case now and it doesn't look half as impressive any more :-(

[jamesbarakat]

You made me crease mate, loving the setup.

[vortecks2000]

It's all changed again since then but I really don't have the time to edit all the swearing out of the video :D

[jeabo0adhd]

Wow, that case is packed!

Gigabit seems like it would be slow.

[vortecks2000]

I made a compromise on speed and power. This thing transfers over gigabit network at 110mb/sec so it's rather fast :D

[Bercik87]

Hey, you mentioned raid5 was too slow. What speed you were talking about and how did it changed after moving to RAID0

Did 0 and 5 had this same disk in array?

[jackel1490]

On raid 5 is like raid 0 but the data striping is at byte level make it slower to access then raid 0

[Bercik87]

How is that possible (same speed). One disk is used for parity. So it duplicates the data. There must be some difference

[vortecks2000]

RAID 5 was getting 20-25mb/sec

RAID 0 is now hitting 280mb with the 4 x WD Black drives.

The only problem with RAID 0 is there's no fault tollerance, so I've got a couple of 1tb drives in RAID 1 for important stuff.

[salat]

20-25MB/s with RAID-5? I had better throughput on a 10 year old server.. What config did you have?

For what do you need 280MB/s anyway?

My simple 2 disks RAID-1 Server puts >80 MB/s through the local network on crappy Realtek network cards - but I even don't believe your 110mb/s :)

[cricketol]

have a usb drive as a boot drive and then use the hds ad your filers

[m1dget]

lol what? That made no sense.

[mognovox]

wait how do you connect that to your pc? like with a LAN connection or something?

[vortecks2000]

It all goes through a router and I control it with VNC (No need to plug a monitor, keyboard or mouse into it) from my laptop which is also connected to the router.

[mognovox]

oh thats pretty nifty

[Hekynn]

Damn man 5.7tb hard drive space is insane! :)

[meta558]

Loookks verry nice !!!

[WestCoastMods]

Nice set up. have you seen the Drobo Pro. 8 bays up to 32TB. I personally have the std.Drobo w/6TB and love it. The Drobo Pro is more designed as a server.

Cheers

LazyMan@WestCoastMods

[sora778]

why do you need tb? porn, torrenting games?

[skaterguy288]

y do u need 5.7tb....i have trouble filling 80gbs

[DannyBoi56]

Porn.

[VergildsvsDantess]

felt for you when your raid card didn't work on the gigabyte, don't ever try a perc5i raid card on a x58 gigabyte board either, just won't work.

[vortecks2000]

I tried it with 3 different boards and it still wouldn't boot with onboard RAID enabled - it's ok with the SATA's set to IDE.

These crappy cards also have the 2tb limitations because of 48bit addressing so it had to go :-(

Ah well, Mk3 is finished now :D

[sampep]

What are you talking about 2tb limitations? 48bits addressing lol...

I got a perc 5i with 8x 1tb , working at 500 MB read 450MB wright in 1 partition on win2k8.

Perc 5i are great raid card... you just need to block pin 5-6 with electric tape and it's going to boot.

Raid 0 is sutch a bad idea mate... i just hope you will never loose a drive cuz your done.

[tobleroneuk]

The flashing lights are what makes it for me :P

[RickArter]

WOW hell of a server you got there very nice!

Keep the vids coming great stuff 5/5

[kewie727]

hey mate what do you use your server on?

[vortecks2000]

Eh?

Don't know what you mean?

[kewie727]

like what is your home server used for? does it just sit there doing nothing lol? nice vid anyway rated 5*

[vortecks2000]

I buy a blu-ray disk, rip it and store it on the 4tb array so I can watch it in any room. I've got the originals so it doesn't really matter if it dies.

The RAID 1 (mirror) is used for all my home videos/photos and anything I don't want to lose.

The 4x320gb RAID 0 is used for a web/FTP server and is on all the time.

[CRAKIZGOOD]

why raid 0 its a home server !!!!!

[vortecks2000]

When I'm transferring gb's of data over my network, the bottleneck is always the HDD's on my server. The RAID 5 i used to have was only running at 5mb/s.... this is maxing out at 95mb/s which is faster than the standard sustained transfer speed of a HDD. Basically, if you've got a gigabit network..... use it!

I'll be doing another video to explain better ;-)

[CRAKIZGOOD]

u do know that if one dies ur F***ed

[vortecks2000]

I know I will with the RAID 0 but in the video, it shows that I've got a couple of RAID 1 drives which has all my valuable stuff on......

[CRAKIZGOOD]

opps

i keep forgetting u have cash

im waiting for that single 2tb drive from WD

what do u think about it ?

[vortecks2000]

I've heard that they're pretty good. The 2tb green version only draws about 5w

[CRAKIZGOOD]

but what about the life

many platters lower life

[vortecks2000]

3yr warranty - the same as all WD drives.

[matty958]

far out that wold have taken ages and it would be so confusing