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[Scroll_Lock88]

This picture sums up the goal of the project.....


By scroll_lock88 at 2011-08-31

[Stubs]

I like where this is going

[wondergod]

Are you using raid? You know most consumer WD drives have trouble with raid since they have TLER disabled. I don't think it makes a difference in non-windows environments but I could be wrong. Although I do know in raid 5 sometimes the WD Greens give problems since they auto park their heads to conserve power, when it should be the raid 5 controller handling that. It causes extra slow response times and corrupt arrays.

If you are building a NAS of some kind, FreeNAS is great. I've been running it with ZFS for a while now.


EDIT: I could be totally wrong about the WD Greens I haven't built a NAS in a while. Just figure something you might want to check into.

[Ahkmed]

Is this a project to finally hold all of my gay porn?

[Scroll_Lock88]

Not using RAID with this build, JBOD. I have my own special way of doing backups of the important stuff.

[wondergod]

Nice, JBOD that bitch then! :)

[Scroll_Lock88]

Running Server 08 R2 on it as I need it to do some other things that freenas isnt able to do for my particular applications I'm going to run. Will be posting pictures of the final build once I get drives copied over and cables tidied up.

[Scroll_Lock88]

Promised picture, so here you go :P


By scroll_lock88 at 2011-09-08

[shazam]

Promised picture, so here you go :P


By scroll_lock88 at 2011-09-08

...and like a pro he didn't label the two drives allocated for cp.

[Scroll_Lock88]

those arent used yet, which is why they arent labeled

[Raccoon00]

So you have 12TB, oh thats cool.......

[DarkShadow]

that's cool scroll but honestly... after maybe 6 months you'll be lucky if you have half left due to the fail rate on WD 2TB drives, they are the sole reason I don't have 20TB of storage atm in my nas.

failure rate is around I think 10% on 2TB blacks, bit higher on the greens hell even Soulwind can back me up on that considering he bought 3-4 of them and they all pretty much died.

[shazam]

English fail, we meet again.

[Bumblebee]

Im curious, you have all those hard drives and that wee motherboard and cooling.. psu is ok. I dont want to know how much you spent on all those hard drives. :|