From what we have seen, many of the folks in Europe have bought from the US sellers and had them shipped.Anyone selling this in Europe?
From what we have seen, many of the folks in Europe have bought from the US sellers and had them shipped.Anyone selling this in Europe?
Yes I have, and it got delivered about 1½ week after order.From what we have seen, many of the folks in Europe have bought from the US sellers and had them shipped.
An icydock should work.Yes I have, and it got delivered about 1½ week after order.
Btw, Where can I find any hard drive bays for SSD's? I bought an intel 520 and it doesnt fit in my c6100.
...Btw, Where can I find any hard drive bays for SSD's? I bought an intel 520 and it doesnt fit in my c6100.
Very good work on this. I used it a few weeks ago.
**BUMP ON THIS**I have the M1015 on order and it should be in this week. I am trying to determine the best way to connect the drives all to one node. I found the jumper you referenced and have it enabled. Now I am trying to determine the best way to go about connecting all drives to the motherboard SATA ports and the M1015. I am thinking connect 6 drives from the backplane directly to the SATA ports on the motherboard, then using 8087 cables to connect the other 6 (3 per cable) to the M1015 ports.
"Backplane Column 1" - 3 drives connected to M1015 port 1 using 8087 breakout cable
"Backplane Column 2" - 3 drives connected to M1015 port 2 using 8087 breakout cable
"Backplane Column 3" - 3 drives connected to SATA ports 1,2,3 on node motherboard using SATA cables (recommendations...?)
"Backplane Column 4" - 3 drives connected to SATA ports 4,5,6 on node motherboard using SATA cables (recommendations...?)
Does anyone know of a good cable similar to the stock light blue Dell SATA cables that I can use to connect the 6 SATA ports on the backplane directly to the ports on the node motherboard? I measured it out and it seems they will need to be ~32 inches. I can find SATA cables but none of which are bundled nicely to fit easily. These cables look great but I don't think it's long enough.
6J3R2 DELL CABLE SATA ASSEMBLY FOR DELL C6100
Any other ideas or thoughts? Does this setup checkout OK as long as I get the 6 port SATA cable figured out? Thanks for the help. Trying to get into production in the next week or so.
*EDIT* Also this should mean that the activity LEDs will be functional for all drives, correct? And do I lose anything by not using the SGPIO cables?
I think you missed the fact that there is a fan panel in the side. there's plenty of airflow through the box.Wow your server will get baked before noon with that enclosure. I'm actually surprised to see people buy these servers to be used at home.
I really think you should buy portable quarter rack and hookup your servers to it as for the noise, you may switch the fans or simply find a place to host it. Your server will not last with this kind setup.
Thanks for the input - it's definitely not clear from the quickie photo, I did put some thought into it (though it's far from perfect, it was a quick hack). When the doors close there is a 2" slot left at the bottom for air intake or outflow, depending which way the fans run. At present the fans are blowing air in, and warm air exits through the slot at the bottom of the doors, which is admittedly fighting basic thermodynamics but was better at fighting the sonic dinI very much appreciate the need to quiet these c6100s, and good on you for building your own cabinetry - which is no easy task. That said, the cabinet has me worried. I see two small fans that are likely exhausting air, but I don't see a set of vents to let air in. Even if you do add another vent, the intake air for the server will be mixed with some of the output air, raising the intake temperature significantly. On a ninety degree day, the interior of the cabinet could easily reach 110-120 degrees.
Yes it's an 1800-24G.Switch looks like 1800-24G to me.
I did a fix for the noise in the past...Yes it's an 1800-24G.
It seems ok, and if you need something fanless then it's about the only choice.
At work we still have a lot of old Procurve 2824 and 2848, which are an infinitely better switch, and probably cost less than the 1800 on ebay. But they do have annoying fans and use more power.
My problem was that it wouldn't ever slow the fans down. It would start at a high speed and stay there. Very loud. :| I tried all the different power management settings to no avail. Another problem was that it was not displaying anything for fan rpm under the server health section of IPMI. I talked to my ebay seller (pdneiman - Amazing guy! Loads of help) and he sent me a new enclosure (no nodes or power supply) with the PIC18 board in it. That has solved all my problems. Now the fans go to full power at boot and then cycle down to about 3600rpm. I still have the old enclosure (need to ship soon) and can document the changes between the two if you like. The only obvious differences are the PDBs and FCB.
I'm also looking at the San Ace fans but for now the sound level is acceptable to me. Might do it in the near future anyways to cut down on the sound some more.
FCB PCI16 oprate at 7700 RPM (that takes about extra 1 AMP).
FCB PCI18 oprate at 4800 RPM. (Good Power savings).
Dragon posted a while back ( http://forums.servethehome.com/f18/...ode-8-cpu-cloud-server-1247-11.html#post12284 ) about slimline SATA cables, 5 of them being equal in thickness to a standard cable... from the pics, they look very much like the cables that comprise the 3 or 6 sata bundles made for the C6100 blades.**BUMP ON THIS**
I need to get these cables ordered this week if possible. Any advice would be awesome!
See here: http://forums.servethehome.com/f18/taming-c6100-1317.htmlI've had my C6100 for about a few days and I've been poking around, reading a lot on these forums. The one thing that has been truly disappointing has been the noise...
Something must be wrong. I put the cover back on and they still run at full speed. Gonna have to fix that cause it's really annoying. I haven't seen any ideas on google yetAs far as I've been able to tell there is no chassis intrusion switch. With the top cover off you lose all pressure and airflow over the top trays. Without airflow everything starts to heat up very quickly and the fans ramp to full speed to try and compensate - which they can never succeed at no matter how fast they run.
If you want to run it with the cover off try getting a household fan and blow into the top of the chassis. I've done this and the fans slow back down nicely as things cool down.