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Something just for fun ...



Putting together all the pieces.


12 drive bays


3 attachments for fans


3 cooling fans


putting all power/sata cables in place


upper adjustments


putting all hard drives in the bays


heavy metal


final installation


my new computation server ... dual opteron, quad core, 32 gb memory, areca ML1130 12-port controller, 20 TB+

Works

Kick ass!

That's freaking awesome

Good stuff.

That is awesome! Just curious, what's the noise like? I would think with those drives sitting on the plastic they've gotta be a little noisy unless they're low speed...

Thanks for sharing!

I got an extra room with computers and printers, so noise is not a problem

This is really really cool - thanks for sharing

there's got to be a way to thumbs up a forum post

I've been looking to get a little RAID box for my PC, something like this might be the way to go.

Awesome!

quattro-x wrote:

I got an extra room with computers and printers, so noise is not a problem

What kind of drives and controller are you running?

I don't post that often but had to post to say that's brilliant, top marks for ingenuity

Now, about a case for the server?

That is awesomeness piled on top of awesomeness!!!

HAHAHA awesome.

I shudder to think of the vibration tolerance, but clearly this ain't that sorta project. Awesome job.

That is one of the coolest things I've seen in some time!

I think your fans are pretty irrelevant and could be removed. But the rest is quite cool!

continuum wrote:

I shudder to think of the vibration tolerance, but clearly this ain't that sorta project. Awesome job.

That's what the packing foam underneath the array is for. After all, this entire rig looks to be open-form.

5150 wrote:

quattro-x wrote:

I got an extra room with computers and printers, so noise is not a problem

What kind of drives and controller are you running?

Areca 1130ML 12 Port Sata Raid Controller with 256 Mb Cache, and 2 x 80 GB Fujitsu as system disks and 10 x 2 TB Hitachi as data disks.

I'm looking at making this would you be able to PM me the schematics?

rstein8 wrote:

I'm looking at making this would you be able to PM me the schematics?

Holy thread necro, Batman!

The pictures are still hosted, there appears to be plenty of detail to reproduce this if you wish.

You need some of the drive enclosures from these to round out the look.