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just brew it! wrote:I retired the last of the Chieftec Dragon / Antec SX1030 / ThermalTake X cases in my family a while ago. There's no point in putting up with old noisy 80 mm fans when modern cases use larger and quieter fans.This is an old Chieftec full-tower. This system will be moved to the crawlspace, so I don't care about the fan noise!
JustAnEngineer wrote:just brew it! wrote:This is an old Chieftec full-tower. This system will be moved to the crawlspace, so I don't care about the fan noise!
I retired the last of the Chieftec Dragon / Antec SX1080 / ThermalTake X cases in my family a while ago. There's no point in putting up with old noisy 80 mm fans when modern cases use larger and quieter fans.
just brew it! wrote:4 3TB WD Reds
just brew it! wrote:...this system will be moved to the crawlspace, so I don't care about the fan noise!
anotherengineer wrote:Boxes from the floor to ceiling!!!!!!
anotherengineer wrote:That case, wow the color, I wonder why it was on clearance
Flying Fox wrote:If you bought them relatively easily, you may want to check that head parking timer and either bump it to 300 seconds or disable it altogether. Don't feel like searching now, but I remember posting links before.
The Egg wrote:I would've been more worried about actually having to look at that case; good lord. Crawlspace is nice for free air conditioning, but I'd be nervous about possible water issues.
just brew it! wrote:Flying Fox wrote:If you bought them relatively easily, you may want to check that head parking timer and either bump it to 300 seconds or disable it altogether. Don't feel like searching now, but I remember posting links before.
I assume you meant "recently" not "easily"...
Yeah, one of the things I did was test the drives to see what the head park timeout is. It appears to be set to something north of 2.5 minutes so I think I'm good.
Concupiscence wrote:In the scheme of things how big a deal is the ECC memory for this? I ask because I'm slowly building a server at the moment and have no ECC laying around...
morphine wrote:Those Chieftec cases are workhorses to the extreme, weighing a ton, and nothing short of a M1A tank blast will dent them.
just brew it! wrote:morphine wrote:Those Chieftec cases are workhorses to the extreme, weighing a ton, and nothing short of a M1A tank blast will dent them.
I think it would be funny to use a pair of them as the legs of a low table or bench. I bet they'd remain sufficiently rigid to house running systems.
LoneWolf15 wrote:Any interesting/exciting options for the drive controller?
I think your original thought of RAID-10 is a pretty good one.
just brew it! wrote:LoneWolf15 wrote:Any interesting/exciting options for the drive controller?
I think your original thought of RAID-10 is a pretty good one.
Nahh, nothing fancy on the controller front. We're talking low RPM drives and a single gigabit network connection, so I'm just going to use Linux software RAID. This will be served out over NFS for the Linux systems in the house, and Samba for the Windows ones.
Speaking of SATA controllers, I just realized there was something I wanted to check before declaring the build complete on the hardware front: I need to test the eSATA ports for port multiplier compatibility, and (possibly) swap out the PCIe SATA card if it's a no-go. This isn't just idle curiosity, as I have a couple of dual-drive eSATA docks that require FBS port multiplier capability if you want to use both slots. I think I just added a "to do" item to my list for this evening...
Welch wrote:Dang you brew, now I want to build another home file server.... I even have a spare 40gb SSD laying around that would be good enough for the OS, /sigh. *Walks over to bench and starts grabbing parts begrudgingly*
I really dig those hot swappable bays, did those come with the case or did you retrofit those? If so where did you grab them and how much . I'm assuming your board supports hot-swappable SATA and that you have enabled them...? Be it that you are running RAID 1's you won't probably be doing much hot swapping anyhow.
Welch wrote:What are you doing for backups?
Kougar wrote:Whoa, I recognize that thing anywhere. So who made the underlying case, Antec or Chieftec? I bought my first desktop case way back in 2002/2003 locally, it was an an Antec SOHO SX1040BII that's identical to that thing (minus the paintjob) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811129120
just brew it! wrote:@LoneWolf15 on the caching controller issue... that's what the 4GB of system RAM is for!
Waco wrote:just brew it! wrote:@LoneWolf15 on the caching controller issue... that's what the 4GB of system RAM is for!
I think he was referring to the speed of writing...if you're running without sync, I feel sorry for your data in a crash.
just brew it! wrote:A couple of additional thoughts...
@LoneWolf15 on the caching controller issue... that's what the 4GB of system RAM is for! This system has no GUI (I am currently using pure CLI to set it up though I might install some sort of web admin interface at some point); and it is only going to be serving out files and DNS to a home network. Given the circumstances I'd say 4GB is pretty substantial overkill. Most of that RAM will end up being used by the OS as disk cache.
The server will be on a UPS, with battery monitoring (automatic shutdown if the battery gets low). I also plan to install some custom thermal monitoring scripts to cleanly shut things down in the event that the temperature of the motherboard, CPU, or hard drives goes above preset limits.
just brew it! wrote:They are retrofits. This unit from Newegg.
Flatland_Spider wrote:There is a version with faux wood bezel.
SuperSpy wrote:Flatland_Spider wrote:There is a version with faux wood bezel.
For when the NAS box has to match your wine rack.