Recently I wanted to add some additional shared storage in the lab. I also noticed that post-Las Vegas shutdown I had tons of Pliant/ Sandisk Lightning SLC SAS drives. I decided to see what I had in the spare parts bin to build a new storage setup for the lab.
Head Node
Thus far it is extremely mundane with only 26 drives sans-NVMe. Adding another 50+ TB of disk tomorrow. I think it only has 50TB+ in it right now,
I also had to re-wire the S2600GZ machine for 12gbps SAS. I wanted to use the 1.6TB Toshiba PX03 12gbps SAS drives in it so it seemed like a good idea.
My plan is to have enough room left over to add higher capacity drives over time since it is a ZFS machine.
Hardware pics coming. I know this is all a bit eclectic but was just a collection of items I had available.
Head Node
- Intel S2600GZ system w/ 8x 2.5" drives
- 128 GB DDR3 RAM (16x8GB)
- 2x Intel Xeon E5-2690 V1
- 2x Intel S3500 160GB boot drives (WAY overkill but what else would I use them for?)
- 8x 400GB SLC SAS SSDs with a LSI SAS 9300-8i controller (flashed IBM)
- 1x Intel DC P3700 400GB NVMe
- 1x LSI SAS 9300-8e (to JBOD)
- 1x Intel XL710-QDA1 NIC (40GbE Mezzanine)
- 1x Chelsio T580 (2x 40GbE PCIe)
- 45 bay Supermicro (iXsystems branded) SAS2 dual port expander JBOD.
Thus far it is extremely mundane with only 26 drives sans-NVMe. Adding another 50+ TB of disk tomorrow. I think it only has 50TB+ in it right now,
I also had to re-wire the S2600GZ machine for 12gbps SAS. I wanted to use the 1.6TB Toshiba PX03 12gbps SAS drives in it so it seemed like a good idea.
My plan is to have enough room left over to add higher capacity drives over time since it is a ZFS machine.
Hardware pics coming. I know this is all a bit eclectic but was just a collection of items I had available.