What rack is that?

It's an old 24U Budd rack.
A friend of mine had it, and sold it to me for $100.
Not a bad deal.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

Looks nice, all I can suggest is you now get yourself a nice rack mount UPS (or 2), if you look around you should be able to find some used APC's from some local business's, probably only needing a replacement set of batteries. Most of the time these older UPS's are discarded, so you can usually get them for free. The space at the bottom of your rack is screaming for a used APC rack mount UPS or 2

Mitch

Even I can hear thos screams way over in NY!

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EX475, 2 GB, LE-1640
PC1: Vista-->W7 Ultimate/32, (D-Drive RAID-5 Array)
PC2: Lenovo Laptop, Win XP Home SP3
2xLinksys WRT54G v1.1 and 2xNetGear GS105 Gbit switch

Way ahead of Y'all, got a line on a couple of biggens.
And they support the smart power down function.

We are in the home stretch, I figured since my MSS did not have an APC it doesn't matter if I wait till I have those before moving over.
I got the fans quiet I just hear a WHOOSH sound now and it's very tolerable.
Temps are holding the same as before even at 40% speed, I guess you can only tranfer X amount of heat given an area of heat sink.
So Beast will be online today!

YEAH!

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

Just a quick question. Did the Norco RPC-4220 came with the backplanes for the HDD? If so what kind are they sata or sas?

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The Norco 4220 is SAS, the 4020 is SATA.

Thanks for the info.

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In case nobody told you you can plug Sata drives into sas ports but you can't plug sas drives into sata it's one way compatable.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

Yeah i already knew that. You know the norco RPC-4020 is a nice case for the price. What kind of PSU you have that can power so many HDD? Or the backplanes are divided into 5 of 4 or 4 of 5 and only need 4 or 5 power connector?

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I used two 1000W power supplies tied together so they power on at the same time.
But I keep their rails seperate to avoid overpower issues.

Each 4220 has five backplanes with four drives each, so I have one suplly carry five while the other carries the other five.
I also had the motherboard on one while all the fans are connected to the other.
This hopefully is reducing much of the voltage fluctuations caused by the fans.

When selecting a power supply for a system like this it's important to get one with single rails so the max amps will be available no matter which plug you use.
And just as CaveDiver did it's a good idea to hook up both redundant connectors even though it's a single rail this gives more amperage carrying ability at power up. imagine 20 drives sucking peak power at the same time over a (std wire size) 24awg wire... (MMMMM toasty)
But have two to the same rail is effectively like having 12awg wire.
Once complete my wire harness will use 18awg (largest that fits molex connector easily)for an effective 9awg wire size.
The 1000W power supply can provide upto 70amps at 12v more than enough to handle the job.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

The beast is doing a fine job of sucking data off the MSS.
This proves the HP Mediasmart Ex470 is capable of good speed.

This shot came off the ex470 it running a BE-2300 and only hitting 24% util on the CPU.
The Beast can and does do much better but thats not bad for the EX470.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

What sort of switch are you using in your network? I'm looking for a new rack mount managed 10/100/1000 switch.

It's currently using an unmanaged NetGear prosafe 8port switch.
I will be switching to an Extreme 400-24T here in a couple months, this will allow me to trunk some lines.
I also have a 24port netgear that allows monitoring but no management.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

All the Data and Harddrives moved from my EX470 without incident.
Configured the RedordTV MCE stuff so now one of my HTPC's records things directly to my server and all the others have access to play back those recordings.

Got the fan controllers in today, so starting the final wire harness assembly I will post pics as it comes together.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram