Shonk Posted November 23, 2015 Share Posted November 23, 2015 Thought i would do a post with the current progress of my Gen 8 Future Plans for expansion LSI SAS9207-4i4e PCIe 3.0 8x (Marvell 9230 is at its Max of 7 devices) Another 4 Bay Esata Enclosure Microserver Gen8Xeon E3-1265L v216 GB RamIntel PCH PortsPort 1 240GB SSD 2.5"Port 2 6TB WD 3.5"Port 3 6TB WD 3.5"Port 4 5TB Toshiba 3.5"Port 5 5TB Toshiba 3.5"Marvell 9230 (PCIE 2.0 x2)Internal 1 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"Internal 2 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"Internal 3 2TB Samsung M9T 2.5"External 4 3TB Toshiba 3.5" (Esata 6 Gbps FIS PM)External 5 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6 Gbps FIS PM)External 6 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6 Gbps FIS PM)External 7 3TB Seagate 3.5" (Esata 6 Gbps FIS PM) (Dying being swapped out for Toshiba 5TB)10 Port USB 3.0 Hub (USB Attached SCSI)Port 1 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)Port 2 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)Port 3 2TB Seagate Expansion Portable (Samsung M9T)Port 4 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Samsung HM320JI (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)Port 5 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Seagate Momentus Thin (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)Port 6 320gb Seagate Backup+ Portable Toshiba MK3265GSX (Spare drive fitted in the Casing after i shucked the 3 Internal M9T's)Internal HeadersSamsung G2 Portable Deshelled 320GB (Samsung HM321HX) (Internal USB Header)Samsung UHS-1 Micro SD 64GB (Onboard Micro SD Reader)19 Drives9 Internal6 Gbps Esata Port Multiplier capable of 430 Megabytes a second actual traffic (Shared between the 4 3.5" Esata Drives)5 Gbps USB Controller capable of 270 Megabytes a second actual traffic (Shared between the 6 USB Attached SCSI Drives)All other drives on dedicated ports Spindown enabled on all drives 60mins Head Parking disabled on all drives on boot (WD's Perm Disabled) http://s5.postimg.org/txjqwlcie/image.jpg http://s5.postimg.org/qcnvdd7yv/image.jpg http://s5.postimg.org/a47n3vz4n/image.jpg http://s5.postimg.org/r8kcsthna/image.jpg http://s5.postimg.org/z6eruguxj/image.jpg http://s5.postimg.org/gkgltz7o7/image.jpg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChronoSphere Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 You could almost store all the world's porn on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted November 24, 2015 Author Share Posted November 24, 2015 Naa zero porn on it thats what the internet is for Its grown by a touch today removed a failing Seagate 3TB to rma and replaced it with a 5TB WD Blue 49.58TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpRoX Posted November 25, 2015 Share Posted November 25, 2015 Impressive! But what on earth do you need all that space for? And what's the power consumption on the system? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 (edited) I dont watch live tv Everything is stored on the server For use around the house 200 or so Film DVD's (Lossless MakeMKV) (Owned DVD's) 200 or so Film blu-rays (Lossless MakeMKV) (Owned Blu-ray's) 200 or so Film hd-dvd's (Lossless MakeMKV) (Owned hd-dvd's) 1000 or so TV Episodes not available in HD (Lossless MakeMKV) (Owned DVD's) 20000 or so TV Episodes in 1080p Lossless Blu-Ray or Web-dl (No hdtv) Ontop of that general other stuff you store on your server Family Photo's Apps Music (8000 Songs ripped from my CD's Lossless FLAC) Source Code VM's etc.. Power use shoudnt be that bad As i have it all setup properly drives are spun down after 45mins idle time head parking is disabled on all drives for reliability It should use less on average than a badly setup Gen8 with HP Raid and only 4 drives (so zero spindown) Edited November 25, 2015 by Shonk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 (edited) Just picked up this little puppy for £28 on ebay will flash it to IT mode and edit the inf file for spindown thats further expansion sorted HP LSI 9217-4i4e 8-port SAS 6Gb/s RAID Card PCIe 3.0 8x http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/workstations/product-detail.html?oid=5379985 Edited November 25, 2015 by Shonk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeMoB Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Good grief, that is a lot of drives shoehorned in there! Do you have any sort of drive redundancy set up? Congrats on that SAS controller steal too, that's a really good price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 (edited) Redundancy is patchy atm selected stuff that i havnt got a physical original disc of and ofc backups of personal stuff I have a batch file to wake these up on demand to backup to Buffalo 1.6ghz Arm 4 Bay LS-QVL 7TB Buffalo 1.6ghz Arm 1 Bay LS-VL 2TB Buffalo 1.2ghz Arm 1 Bay LS-XHL 2TB I also have these spare that i could fit some 1TB drives that i have hanging around but havnt bothered Buffalo 600mhz Arm 1 Bay CHLv2 No Drive ATM Buffalo 600mhz Arm 1 Bay CHLv2 No Drive ATM Buffalo 533mhz Arm 1 Bay DHGL No Drive ATM Buffalo 400mhz Arm 1 Bah DHGL No Drive ATM Edited November 26, 2015 by Shonk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackoUK Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 So many eggs in one basket ... ... but what a basket! Could you elaborate on your inf editing to control spindown and head parking please. Why? How precisely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shonk Posted November 29, 2015 Author Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) Onboard Ports in ahci mode spindown works out of the box Onboard Ports with hp raid orom you cant enable spindown Marvell 9230 Spindown Works fine LSI Controllers you have to edit the inf file guide below http://blog.monstermuffin.org/enable-disk-spindown-on-lsi-9211ibm-m1015/ Head Parking i use smartctl compiled for windows via a batch file run on every boot WD use wdidle3 to perm disable parking Seagate you have to manually send a command on every boot Samsung 2.5" you have to manually send a command on every boot Toshiba 2.5" you have to manually send a command on every boot Toshiba 3.5" doesnt need setting Hitachi 2.5" you have to manually send a command on every boot Seagate 2.5" or 3.5" Command needed smartctl -d sat -s apm,off /dev/sd* Samsung 2.5"/Toshiba 2.5"/Hitachi 2.5" Command needed smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sd* Why? Spindown = Minimize Power Use Parking = Reliability here's my batch file as an example with remarks some drives dont need setting so arnt in the batch file.. rem ensure all usb drives are mounted timeout 3 rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdg rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdh rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdi rem Seagate ST3000DM001 smartctl -d sat -s apm,off /dev/sdk rem Seagate ST3000DM001 smartctl -d sat -s apm,off /dev/sdl rem Seagate Momentus Thin smartctl -d sat -s apm,off /dev/sdm rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdn rem Toshiba MK3265GSX H smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdo rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdp rem Samsung HM320JI smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdq rem Samsung M9T smartctl -d sat -s apm,254 /dev/sdr rem Samsung HM321HX smartctl -d sat -s apm,252 /dev/sds rem Set USB Sleep Timers 30mins rem Seagate Momentus Thin rem smartctl -d sat -s standby,241 /dev/sdm rem TOSHIBA MK3265GSX rem smartctl -d sat -s standby,241 /dev/sdo rem Samsung HM320JI rem smartctl -d sat -s standby,241 /dev/sdq rem Samsung HM321HX USB 2.0 Drive rem smartctl -d sat -s standby,241 /dev/sds Edited November 29, 2015 by Shonk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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