++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[bigboxes]

moo

 

[Red Squirrel]

OVH datacentre fire.

Not the one my server is at though.

Someone may have set the overclock values a little too high on their server.

 

[bigboxes]

OVH datacentre fire.

Not the one my server is at though.

Someone may have set the overclock values a little too high on their server.

Article says it was most likely caused by a faulty UPS power supply. Where's sid when you need him!

 

[sdifox]

Article says it was most likely caused by a faulty UPS power supply. Where's sid when you need him!

LoL it was probably APC

 

[bigboxes]

LoL it was probably APC

No. It was cyberpower! But it shouldn't have shut down on me when I was using my computer. Stupid design.

 

[Red Squirrel]

A data centre that size is probably using something rather custom similar to what telcos do. Basically racks of rectifiers and big ass batteries. Not sure if they'd be running 48v, or have inverters. Hard to find 48v PSUs for PC/servers so they probably still use 120v. Their DC bus is probably higher than 48v though.

 

[shortylickens]

way too warm today. march shouldnt see 74 degrees.

 

[sdifox]

I should really put the new 14TB hdd on the server...

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol my biggest HDD is 3TB from when those were fairly standard sizes. At some point I will upgrade but been managing with my ~19TB of space. I could pretty much replace my 21 drives with like 4 14TB drives in raid 10 and have roughly the same amount of space, kind of crazy.

 

[sdifox]

lol my biggest HDD is 3TB from when those were fairly standard sizes. At some point I will upgrade but been managing with my ~19TB of space. I could pretty much replace my 21 drives with like 4 14TB drives in raid 10 and have roughly the same amount of space, kind of crazy.

Except you need a new raid controller.

 

[sdifox]

I think I am down to one TB free.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Except you need a new raid cpntroller.

Nah I use mdraid, I prefer software raid, that way I don't need to rely on specific hardware.

Though I don't know if the HBAs have some kind of limit to how big of a drive they can see. HBAs are hard to get too, I had to get these off ebay and then flash them to get rid of the raid. Kind of a pain. That's why I always like to keep an old machine with floppy drive around.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Woah this is from 2013, time flies. This server still feels new to me lol.





Earlier days of server room:



With inverter-charger and Motomaster batteries in the Rubbermaid bin lol.

Even older pic from when I bought my rack:



Crazy to go through these old pics haha. Does not feel like it was THAT long ago though. Actually more than 10 years since I got the rack, that pic is from 2010. Damn.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's great to have redundant power supplies but doubt I could even find a replacement if one died...

Wish they would standardize that really. I guess if one dies at least it gives me time to try to repair it without incurring downtime. If I can't repair it then I'd start looking at other options for power to that box or just pray the 2nd one does not fail.

 

[sdifox]

Nah I use mdraid, I prefer software raid, that way I don't need to rely on specific hardware.

Though I don't know if the HBAs have some kind of limit to how big of a drive they can see. HBAs are hard to get too, I had to get these off ebay and then flash them to get rid of the raid. Kind of a pain. That's why I always like to keep an old machine with floppy drive around.

Your software raid is not going to recognise the drive will it?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Your software raid is not going to recognise the drive will it?

Can't see why it wouldn't. As long as the OS sees it that is. I'm not sure if there's any hardware or kernel based limits that could be an issue. It is something I'd want to test first before I go and put a big order though...

 

[sdifox]

Can't see why it wouldn't. As long as the OS sees it that is. I'm not sure if there's any hardware or kernel based limits that could be an issue. It is something I'd want to test first before I go and put a big order though...

Yes there are hardware limits lol if I don't replace the controller on my PE R710 O cannot stick hdd bigger tha 2TB in it.

I didn't bother and went with external hdd.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Chances are at some point I will build a new NAS though as I do need to upgrade the OS so probably just do everything in one go, new OS, new hardware, bigger drives. Then migrate stuff over. Paid like 3 grand to build that box though, so getting my money's worth. Case alone was like $1,500 or so.

I think if I was to do it over again I would lean towards using commodity hardware, especially now that we don't have NCIX/Tigerdirect anymore. Memoryexpress and Canada Computes don't really have server stuff.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yes there are hardware limits lol if I don't replace the controller on my PE R710 O cannot stick hdd bigger tha 2TB in it.

I have some 3TB drives so I know it supports at least that. Not sure what the next limit increment is. I did make sure to buy hardware that supports 2TB back when I built it.

 

[bigboxes]

It's noon and 72°

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's now 15C in the office. Temp is climbing!

 

[bigboxes]

Here's my AMD X800 GTO from my X2 box. I replaced the stock cooler with the Zalman cooler.

 

[bigboxes]

I did a write up on this build back in the day for another website. I even made my own chart after running some benchmarks for comparison. The year is 2006.

 

[bigboxes]

It was a pretty build and my last Abit board. Kind of bittersweet.