Hard Drive Spindown

A quick video of my file server shutting down. If you listen carefully, you can hear several of the drives spin down at different times, some much later than others. I just thought it sounded neat.

There are 16 drives in all. 2 are Western Digital, the rest are various models of Seagate. This is a 3.2 Terabyte server with two dual core Xeon CPU's, running NASLite 2.11. Drives are controlled by two 3ware 7506-8 RAID cards. This is older technology, built with used and leftover parts.

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Entertainment

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• file
• server
• NAS
• NASLite
• NASLite-2
• Xeon
• dual
• CPU
• rackmount
• 16
• hard
• drive
• drives

[KlagesNewMedia]

I really enjoy all your videos, keep it up. This system only uses IDE drives (if I understood your other videos correctly), did this case come with a backplane for IDE or did you have to build the backplane yourself?

[Maxxarcade]

@KlagesNewMedia It came stock with IDE. It used to be an Avid Unity video server I think.

[BMOCroc]

Xeons means ECC RAM. good stuff

[Maxxarcade]

@BMOCroc Yep 2GB Registered PC2100.

[scott93257]

That does sound pretty cool.

[Maxxarcade]

@gonace If I were to upgrade all 16 drives to 1TB or more, the cost would be over 1K. Same if I were to update to a SATA or SAS based hot swap case of this size, and get all new hardware.

[gonace]

@Maxxarcade $1K? What kind of drives do you use? SAS? SCSI? SATA? SATA Drives at 2Tb is almost free....

[techkid100]

sounds like bullets passing near my ears.

[Maxxarcade]

@Armornone I got the case and motherboard on Ebay for next to nothing. I'd love to update it with newer drives, but that would cost over $1K. Once this system dies, I'll be installing something much more modern.

[Armornone]

@Maxxarcade There is a lot of space, electricity, and noise to use for just 3.2TB redundant space. Why don't you update the RAID card and get some 1.5/2TB drives in this bad boy?

How do you have such a monster of a raid case laying around your house? The case alone looks very expensive.