Project: Rackmount Overkill

thideras · 04-20-09, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Neur0mancer

I hate you Corey.

Muhahahaha, bring it!

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I just spent the last 45 minutes researching server OSes. and I do not even have a server (yet

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CentOS, 2k3 if you don't mind dropping a bit, etc.

Albaholic · 04-20-09, 04:23 PM

Do your Perc's have the backup batteries?

thideras · 04-20-09, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Albaholic

Do your Perc's have the backup batteries?

Nope, I'm not sure if I will get them either. UPS is a "oh heck yes" on the servers though.

gangaskan · 04-20-09, 04:27 PM

wow ... just wow ... :P

can i haz a tb? :P

this is a pretty neat project so far

i want to get going on mine, but finals are coming up here, once classes are over i'll be over my car's data control panel!

Albaholic · 04-20-09, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

UPS is a "oh heck yes" on the servers though.

I figured that was a given. Got anything specific picked out? I'm surprised that corsair can handle all those drives on start up.

thideras · 04-20-09, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by gangaskan

wow ... just wow ... :P

can i haz a tb? :P

this is a pretty neat project so far

i want to get going on mine, but finals are coming up here, once classes are over i'll be over my car's data control panel!

Mine!

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Originally Posted by Albaholic

I figured that was a given. Got anything specific picked out? I'm surprised that corsair can handle all those drives on start up.

Nope, probably going with APC though, love their products.

Adragontattoo · 04-20-09, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Charr

Forgot my previous posts. If you have Windows machines on your network, you should use NTFS & Samba so that the data is easily accessible to all machines, not just UNIX ones.

there are ext3 capabilities within windows.

http://www.fs-driver.org/
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-lin...s-from-windows
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mis...3-windows.html

VinnyTAMU · 04-20-09, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

CentOS, 2k3 if you don't mind dropping a bit, etc.

If you are looking at running *nix I would recommend either:

Debian Stable or FreeBSD 7.1

thideras · 04-20-09, 08:52 PM

If you use Samba though, why would you need an ext3 driver? I can read my web server no problem.

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

If you are looking at running *nix I would recommend either:

Debian Stable or FreeBSD 7.1

I'll look into it, I just don't want to be running 4 different "versions" of linux.

ihrsetrdr · 04-20-09, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by VinnyTAMU

If you are looking at running *nix I would recommend either:

Debian Stable or FreeBSD 7.1

+1

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Originally Posted by thideras

If you use Samba though, why would you need an ext3 driver? I can read my web server no problem.

I'll look into it, I just don't want to be running 4 different "versions" of linux.

They would play happily together.

SuperMiguel · 04-20-09, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

If you use Samba though, why would you need an ext3 driver? I can read my web server no problem.

I'll look into it, I just don't want to be running 4 different "versions" of linux.

Dont be lazy you will do it anyways

Stable server OS debian and BSD

no where else to look

Dice · 04-20-09, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

If you use Samba though, why would you need an ext3 driver? I can read my web server no problem.

I don't think one is needed either. My Ubuntu f/s uses ext3 on the shared drives and I have no trouble reading-writing-adding-deleting dirs and files from my Vista PCs or XP Home PC. I never actively installed drivers for an smb share in Windows.

I do, however, have to ssh into the f/s to alter file permissions when needed. I don't know about file ownership editing from a windows client because I have never tried.

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Originally Posted by thideras

I'll look into it, I just don't want to be running 4 different "versions" of linux.

Each with their own subtle differences... For simplicity's sake, I wouldn't want to do that either. Sounds like a good way to get heartburn.

thideras · 04-20-09, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dice

I don't think one is needed either. My Ubuntu f/s uses ext3 on the shared drives and I have no trouble reading-writing-adding-deleting dirs and files from my Vista PCs or XP Home PC. I never actively installed drivers for an smb share in Windows.

I do, however, have to ssh into the f/s to alter file permissions when needed. I don't know about file ownership editing from a windows client because I have never tried.

It was more a rhetorical question than anything, I knew the answer

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Each with their own subtle differences... For simplicity's sake, I wouldn't want to do that either. Sounds like a good way to get heartburn.

Yup yup

fusion509 · 04-20-09, 10:50 PM

got enough hard drives? I think you might run out of space soon.

SuperMiguel · 04-20-09, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by fusion509

got enough hard drives? I think you might run out of space soon.

good point... What do you have in those HD?? i mean how can u have that many stuff?

thideras · 04-20-09, 11:00 PM

Well, I don't even have 8 of the drives yet, so nothing ATM

Aynjell · 04-21-09, 12:02 AM

Thideras, you're like... addicted to tb's.

thideras · 04-21-09, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Aynjell

Thideras, you're like... addicted to tb's.

Yuppers!

Aynjell · 04-21-09, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by thideras

Yuppers!

With that much storage, you ought to rent out web hosting/data mirroring.

turbohans · 04-21-09, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by thideras

I think I need the DVD version, only problem is the server has a CD reader >.>....guess I'll grab the 6 disc CD version.

OUCH!! dont have a dvdrom it can borrow? LOL

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04-20-09, 11:00 PM	Thread Starter #76
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Well, I don't even have 8 of the drives yet, so nothing ATM __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 30 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 128 GB RAM \| IBM M1015 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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