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kalibar posted:I have a bunch of dumb questions. quote:Also, I want to go hardware RAID for my RAID-5 setup. I need a PCI SATA card, too. Is there a good PCI card that does RAID-5 and also has 4+ SATA slots on it? I am crossing my fingers that something like this exists. I recommend software RAID... but if you're hell-bent on hardware RAID, I've heard good things about 3ware cards. quote:Next up, what kind of power supply should I be looking at? I want it to be as small/efficient as possible for four harddrives and my CPU, because I'm going to leave this machine running 24/7. quote:Lastly, (and I feel dumb asking this), but my drives were "bulk" and conveniently shipped without SATA cables or power connectors. Can I buy a cheap 4-pack of these somewhere or what?
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I remember hearing a couple of years ago that buying hard drives in bulk could net some pretty good deals. Is that still the case? Where would one go to find that sort of thing?
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Jul 28, 2008 03:21
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Where's your power supply going to sit?
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Aug 1, 2008 07:49
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For those people with huge arrays of SATA hard drives, in the event of a hard drive failure, how do you identify which hard drive is the one that needs to be replaced? Is there a way to set up the system that makes it relatively easy to find?Evilkiksass posted:Right inside of the 24 pin slot. I will be using a 120 watt pico psu. Don't forget to factor in power consumption for that Areca card. Also make sure you stagger the spinup on those drives.
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Aug 4, 2008 01:28
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Why is two small power supplies better than one larger one?
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Aug 4, 2008 04:36
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Evilkiksass posted:Because I was planning to use 1 of these: http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/it.A/id.417/.f?sc=8&category=13 Remember that drives pull the most power at spinup, and I'm pretty sure a 3.5" hard drive will pull more than 8 watts at spinup.
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Aug 5, 2008 17:27
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roflsaurus posted:How do you stagger the spin up of drives? Does this require a BIOS that supports staggered spin ups? This is generally a function you see on RAID cards. I think the hard drive also has to support it.
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Aug 8, 2008 09:16
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I've heard that TLER can be enabled on consumer-class drives, is that true?
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Sep 20, 2008 01:54
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I think the Western Digital GP 1TB drives should be less expensive than the Seagate 1TB drives.
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Nov 30, 2008 02:12
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Stonefish posted:A lot like that, yes. Except not in PCI-X flavour. What about a pair (or more) of 4-port SATA controllers? 4 PCI-E lanes should be more than sufficient bandwidth.
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Jan 15, 2009 17:30
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quote:So, can you push 4 SATA disks worth of bandwidth through a PCI slot without bottlenecking it?
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Jan 16, 2009 18:39
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Alowishus posted:Any suggestions for good tower chassis that can take an Intel/AMD motherboard and between 8 and 10 SATA drives? Server-class stuff would be preferred, but it seems that most cases from SuperMicro or Intel top out around 6 drives before they flip to 12-drive 2U+ chassis. Here's a SuperMicro case with 8 hot-swap bays built in. EDIT: You could also put in a 3-in-2 hot-swap bay up in those 5.25" spaces if you wanted to cram even more drives in. Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 3, 2009 |
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I'm actually kind of impressed that he's getting full speed out of his gigabit network, I've heard that cheaper NICs and switches will only reach half to two-thirds that. I'm curious to know just what his configuration and setup is.
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Feb 12, 2009 17:46
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LegionX posted:I'll suggest the Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adaptor. Does that switch allow teaming?
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politicorific posted:Excellent, ended up getting an ECS motherboard with both a pci-e and pci slot (one for 802.11n wifi and the other for a future 4x or 8x sata card). I looked at the intel boards with gigabit, but my friend doesn't have any other gigabit hardware - the plan is to get an Ion htpc once they come out, but that's a ways out, but still 802.11n should be fast enough for a while. I heard that some motherboards have issues with connecting non-video cards to their PCI-E 16x slots, is that no longer the case or is that just for really finicky high-end RAID controllers?
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Apr 20, 2009 20:55
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Has anyone heard anything peculiar about the WD 1.5TB drives? I know Newegg reviews are generally terrible, but it seems like the WD 1.5TB drives have a higher ratio of poor reviews than most other hard drives.
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Jun 16, 2009 18:30
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I'm about to put together a RAID-6 array and I'd like to really beat the hell out of it for awhile - hopefully to get any premature failures or unforeseen incompatibilities out of the way. Does anyone know of a good utility program to do this?
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Hey guys, I'm looking at snagging three of these EX-H34 hotswap cages from Lian-Li. (They're going into a P80.) I managed to hunt down photos of the back of the cage's three-drive sibling and it looks like Lian-Li has the whole cage powered by one molex connector. I can't find photos of the back of the four-drive cage I want, but I imagine it could be the same. My question: can one molex connector safely power four hard drives, plus a 120mm fan?
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Sep 7, 2009 00:06
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That's why I'm going with RAID-6 plus hotspare.
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Vinlaen posted:However, I guess RAID 6 is really the best solution. I think RAID 6 plus hot spare is a bit overkill (with my data at least) especially since it would take more than six drives to become more efficient than RAID 1. I'm also (going to be) running a 10-drive array, so the odds of me hitting a second failure during rebuild are a bit higher.
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Sep 24, 2009 22:26
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Buy a fifth 1.5TB drive, move everything to it, build your 4x1.5 array, move everything over to the array, and stick the fifth drive in an external enclosure. Or sell it to one of your friends. Might not be cheapest but it seems like that would be the least-effort way.
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Sep 28, 2009 19:24
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This might be obvious, but it's a lesson I recently learned the hard way: If you're going to build a RAID array, make sure you have individual activity LEDs for each drive, so that if one of them is flaky (but not enough for the RAID card to pitch a bitch) you can find which drive is murdering your array's performance. Not in response to any recent posts; just wanted to share. 
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Dec 22, 2009 20:11
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necrobobsledder posted:I just wish there was a better option for 12+ drives in a box for home users besides some rackmounted monstrosity like this
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Mar 5, 2010 23:50
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soj89 posted:I didn't want to post a new thread to ask this and I figure this is the most relevant thread to ask in. For all of my computers I really like Treesize. The free version won't let you do network shares, I RDP into my server fairly frequently anyway so I just run Treesize locally, but if you wanted to pay money they have a version which will do network shares.
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Mar 9, 2010 16:28
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friendship waffle posted:I think they don't let you do TLER modification anymore. Yeah, they changed the firmware to disallow that, I think starting in October 2009.
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Apr 9, 2010 19:19
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You don't need a card to do eSATA - you can just buy a bracket that plugs into one of your motherboard's SATA ports.
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dietcokefiend posted:I guess I might find this out quickly through trial and error, but can I put an 8x RAID card in the 16x PCIe slot generally used for a video card? The board has integrated graphics but I dont know how it will play with the system. My board only has that one 16x slot and like 2 other 1x slots. I don't have integrated graphics, but I do have an 8x RAID card in a 16x slot and it works fabulously.
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Combat Pretzel posted:If you're using WD Green drives, use WDIDLE3.EXE to disable the loving Intellipark. And WDTLER.EXE to enable TLER. I bought a bunch of WD15EADS back in August/September and they all ran WDTLER fine, but I bought another couple of them in December and they didn't; supposedly October was when the change occurred. I've heard the Hitachi 2TB drives tend to play nicely in RAID environments.
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roadhead posted:Dude, 3? I bought 12 of the fuckers (10 in the RAID-Z2 and 2 spares) - used WDIDLE to increase the timeout to 24 seconds and they've been great. What's the advantage of the AV-GP over the regular GP drives?
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May 13, 2010 23:39
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Anyone else had a backplane go bad on them? Because I think I may have had a 4-in-3 from Lian Li go bad on me; my RAID-6 array kept kicking a couple of drives out and showing read errors from another drive in the same backplane. I moved those two problem drives to spare spots in another backplane and now the array seems to be happy.
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Jun 7, 2010 08:00
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PopeOnARope posted:Norco makes good products. It's pretty simple to figure out the documentation, and I'm not sure how people can find the build quality to be "poor". Perhaps they drive a sherman on a daily basis? I've heard the drive sleds can be flimsy, but honestly for that price that's not a bad tradeoff in the slightest, considering the next higher level of quality will jump the price by several hundred dollars.
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movax posted:Hmm, my writes with 8 1.5TB Seagates over CIFS only seem to peak around 70MB/s or so, and slow down from then...my CPU is also a pretty "weak" undervolted Athlon though, and the load average spikes, so maybe upgrading that could help. Have you turned on jumbo frames on your network cards? (And/or, does your network switch support them?)
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I've heard anecdotally that Hitachi consumer drives seem to do pretty well in RAID environments even without a TLER-alike option available to modify.
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Bobx66 posted:I use the 1TB Green drives in my raid, you need to disable their TLER feature which is a deep recovery mode that takes the drive offline for long enough to gently caress up your raid. In order to do that you need to boot to DOS via a boot disk and run their program on each disk to disable it. Last I heard, WD disabled the ability to change the TLER setting on their consumer drives several months ago - did they reverse that policy?
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FidgetyRat posted:Well, since with an average giabit connection, you're looking at what, 80MB/s max? I doubt you'll even saturate a 1.5g SATA drive. Eh, I've got a cheap Netgear 5-port gig switch, and I can slam 100+MB/s through it no problem. Part of that might be quality of NIC and/or CPU though; I notice my CPU load spiking pretty hard when I'm doing a transfer like that, so cheapass NICs might be the biggest killer.
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I don't think a USB-attached external hard drive would be too slow to stream an HD movie. Your computer currently not being able to keep up very well isn't a bottleneck at the hard drive, it's almost certainly a bottleneck at the CPU.
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Oct 24, 2010 00:17
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Thermopyle posted:So what are you guys using to backup your Windows client PCs to your server/NAS? I managed to win a copy of Vista Ultimate a couple of years ago so I've gotten spoiled with being able to use Windows Backup with my server. I'll probably wind up getting Windows 7 Pro when I get around to upgrading so I can keep on using that.
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Sizzlechest posted:Older WDC drives had issues serious enough for Synology to make a dedicated forum just for these drives. and I found reports that they spin down frequently (yay green technology) and can be very slow. You can override this using a utility, but not while the drive is in the Synology unit. You need to connect it to another PC. Yeah, I ran into issues with the WD 1.5TB EACS/EADS drives on my Areca RAID card. Worked great for the first few months, then the array started to become increasingly unstable with drives petulantly hanging during read or write operations. Every once in awhile I'd see a "Device Connected" event in the event log, sometimes (and sometimes not!?) prefixed by a "Device Disconnected" event. Eventually started having drives refuse to respond to the RAID controller altogether. At risk of jinxing myself, it's been working flawlessly since I replaced the array with Hitachi 7K2000 2TB drives.
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I scored a Lian-Li PC-P80 on Craigslist for half price. I love working in the case and Lian-Li sells 4-in-3 hotswap bays which have worked out pretty well for me.
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Is there any reason to defrag a volume on a RAID array?
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