++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

@ Red Squirrel Thanks!

 

[mnewsham]

waiting for new phone nef

 

[Red Squirrel]

ned

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[eldorado99]

ni

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

 

[Red Squirrel]

2 hours till home nef.

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

Alright guys. I had a little snafu last night. Stripped some screws mounting some intake fans. Welp, turns out that I had them mounted on the wrong side of the mounting panel. So, I was able to get out all but two screws. Tried my drill out tool set. Just made a larger hole. No traces of the phillips +. Sigh. I was watching the fight last night and had been drinking some beers. Decided to stop before I really screwed it up.

Used some needle nose vice grips this afternoon and turned them out. Thankfully, I had four extra screws since I mounted the exhaust fan with some silicon fan mounts. I get the 24" white braided SATA cables tomorrow via UPS. Got all the case fans mounted and hooked up to the power supply. Cheap ass board only has one case fan header. That works fine for the rear fan, but the intake fans are also PWM fans and now can't be controlled by the mother board. I'm assuming that the new board will have at least four headers. I just looked it up. The motherboard I want has six case fan headers (5 front/1 rear). I have a handful of fan cable extensions that I can use if necessary. Now, I just need to fire this puppy up and see if everything survived the migration.

Silicon fan mount

Noctua industrial 120mm case fan with white anti-vibration kit

Back side of same fan

Rear case fan installed with silicon fan mounts

Doing it correctly this time!

All three intake fans mounted to the mounting panel

The attention to detail is amazing with Lian Li

Intake fans installed

How everything looks up to this point. Will get fancy longer SATA cables tomorrow. Something for boxes to work on after work!

 

[eldorado99]

that is a lot of hard drives! ni

 

[eldorado99]

ned

 

[sdifox]

that is a lot of hard drives! ni

Not really

 

[Red Squirrel]

Looking like a pretty nice build!

Eventually you'll graduate to something like this:





Disk space wise I'm kinda behind though.

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_isengard-lv_root
                       50G  6.6G   41G  15% /
/dev/md0              5.4T  3.5T  1.7T  68% /volumes/raid1
/dev/md1              6.3T  5.2T  817G  87% /volumes/raid2
/dev/md3              7.2T  1.6T  5.3T  24% /volumes/raid3

 

[bigboxes]

Bad news. Those case fans have an ungodly hum. Very sucky. Not sure if it's the aluminum case, the fans, or a combination. I disconnected the front three and the rear one is still audibly annoying. Grrrr. I'm wondering if there is a cheap fan controller that I can tuck away inside of the case somewhere. It's a MONEY PIT!

 

[Red Squirrel]

At some point I want to look into gluster and KVM/Qemu. It looks pretty complicated to setup though, but I'd have to just take the time to figure it all out, then I can just try to automate it.

What would be cool to do is to build a turn key distro and basically combine the two together. Rather than a traditional setup where you have a SAN/NAS and then multiple VM hosts, you have multiple hosts that do both storage and VM. That way you don't need to figure out about getting a high port count controller, you just go with the ports on the motherboard. Each node would have 8 drives and they would all cluster together basically. Each host would be able to access it's own storage and every other hosts' storage even if a host goes down. In a way it would be better than a traditional SAN setup, as the SAN is still a single point of failure. No idea how/if you can even do that but I assume you could. I think that's basically what Gluster is for. It's just super complicated to setup, so that's why I'd want to build a distro with a front end to it where everything just auto configures and you have a nice web interface. So deploying a new host would literally be, install the software, and type in the IP address of an existing host, and it would just auto configure.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bad news. Those case fans have an ungodly hum. Very sucky. Not sure if it's the aluminum case, the fans, or a combination. I disconnected the front three and the rear one is still audibly annoying. Grrrr. I'm wondering if there is a cheap fan controller that I can tuck away inside of the case somewhere. It's a MONEY PIT!

Sucks, that's why I have my server room, I don't care how loud my stuff is. Though I really need to get on finishing it, as I can still hear everything from upstairs, when I finish it and seal it up it won't be so bad. I'll even insulate it so it dampens the sound.

 

[bigboxes]

Not really

I've got over 25 hard drives. However, it's not the number of drives. It's the amount of storage space. I could have 20 x 1TB drives or 2 x 10TB. Which would you rather have?

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[sdifox]

Bad news. Those case fans have an ungodly hum. Very sucky. Not sure if it's the aluminum case, the fans, or a combination. I disconnected the front three and the rear one is still audibly annoying. Grrrr. I'm wondering if there is a cheap fan controller that I can tuck away inside of the case somewhere. It's a MONEY PIT!

Put the computer in the next room...

 

[sdifox]

At some point I want to look into gluster and KVM/Qemu. It looks pretty complicated to setup though, but I'd have to just take the time to figure it all out, then I can just try to automate it.

What would be cool to do is to build a turn key distro and basically combine the two together. Rather than a traditional setup where you have a SAN/NAS and then multiple VM hosts, you have multiple hosts that do both storage and VM. That way you don't need to figure out about getting a high port count controller, you just go with the ports on the motherboard. Each node would have 8 drives and they would all cluster together basically. Each host would be able to access it's own storage and every other hosts' storage even if a host goes down. In a way it would be better than a traditional SAN setup, as the SAN is still a single point of failure. No idea how/if you can even do that but I assume you could. I think that's basically what Gluster is for. It's just super complicated to setup, so that's why I'd want to build a distro with a front end to it where everything just auto configures and you have a nice web interface. So deploying a new host would literally be, install the software, and type in the IP address of an existing host, and it would just auto configure.

Or just build a BB Vault