Background - I have had various "storage servers" over the years, and all have been based on Off-the-shelf chassis/systems. While all have worked fine for the most part, the noise is always there. The intent of this build is to make a seriously quiet, rackmount, lots of bays, storage server.
This is mostly media/personal data/other stuff storage, so, throughput/speed etc are not that critical. Gigabit connectivity is fine for now, and in the future 10gbe can be added if need be.
I acquired a failed company years ago and I still have a bunch of crap sitting in my warehouse. The other day I roamed through it and selected a few pieces. I had 7 of these 2U chassis (made by Ci Design apparently) with 12 hot swap bays each that were sitting, collecting dust. These are weird lil chassis that take two motherboards (one on top of each other with a single PCI each) and coldwatt power supplies. Not usable as is, but hmm...will make a nice storage array.
So, the plan is to take the dremel to these, hack and stack em and come up with a 14U storage enclosure with 84 hard drive bays. I recently bought 10x of the Intel/LSI 16 port SAS2 expanders that will be perfect for this. Will be running off of one or may be two M1015 adapters.
Stay tuned...
This is mostly media/personal data/other stuff storage, so, throughput/speed etc are not that critical. Gigabit connectivity is fine for now, and in the future 10gbe can be added if need be.
I acquired a failed company years ago and I still have a bunch of crap sitting in my warehouse. The other day I roamed through it and selected a few pieces. I had 7 of these 2U chassis (made by Ci Design apparently) with 12 hot swap bays each that were sitting, collecting dust. These are weird lil chassis that take two motherboards (one on top of each other with a single PCI each) and coldwatt power supplies. Not usable as is, but hmm...will make a nice storage array.
So, the plan is to take the dremel to these, hack and stack em and come up with a 14U storage enclosure with 84 hard drive bays. I recently bought 10x of the Intel/LSI 16 port SAS2 expanders that will be perfect for this. Will be running off of one or may be two M1015 adapters.
Stay tuned...
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