17HDD's aka Big Fat Aluminum Case fully loaded!

[coiler]

This is class! One of my customers decided to install ALL his harddrives into one case! :shock: :)

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\"As requested please find a few photos of the first run at packing 17 HDDs into that case.

Just for interest that is made up as

5 x 300 GB in the bottom bay
5 x 300 GB in the ICY DOCK
1 x 300 GB in a floppy location
1 x 20 GB IDE in 2nd floppy location
1 x 300 GB in a 5 1/4 location
2 x 300 GB on the swing Arm
2 x 300 GB Sticky Padded to the roof of the case

The rest is an Athlon 3200 with 2GB ram, 1Gig Ethernet, an 8 port SATA interface and an 8 port SATA Rocket RAID card\"


http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/hdd175.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/hdd174.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/17hdd3.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/17gdd2.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c400/pault123/17hdd.jpg

[Belso]

Holy moly thats crazy.

He better hope that EZCOOL power supply, will hold firm. :wink:

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[lucy]

Wow... That is a little stir! :)

XxX

[Mighty_Jah]

Heh.....love it....reckon its gonna be a hot box that one, EZ cool 700w might cope for a bit...I'll give it 4-5 wks till its first moan/sulk, prolly only be the PSU that gives in though so no biggie new PSU every 5 wks, sorted.

Nice plan though... :wink:

Please keep us informed on its progress, Im willing it to live!!!!


Mighty... :wink:

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[mac124]

17 hdd?? er.....why??? i am guessing its a server of some kind????

[Anonymous]

4.82 terrabites of space! give me one, i have 100gb :(

Why dont you hook it upto your central heating, bloody hell that will give off a lot of heat.

[problemchild]

HI there all !

Thats my box there and I must say that in fact it's not that hot and the continuous is only 300W which both my power meter and UPS both confirm.
Either way I'm beefing that PSU so there's two of the blighters not least now I have more Molex connectors and thus less (rather counterintuitively) wireing and that wiring is MUCH simpler to keep clean rather than doubler Heaven as it is now!

For anyone who cares the system runs Linux (fedora core 5) and exports the file system to both all my UNIX boxes and my Windows Lumps via SAMBA.

My friend has a much bigger server named \"SLIM\" take a look at the link
http://home.org.uk/gallery2/v/Computers/P1160272.JPG.html?g2_fromNavId=x83e8441f

[Firerat]

Puts my 9 drives to shame

11 if you count the two DVDRW

[Micky007]

Jesus !

Man thats alot !

What ISP are you both with then because most ISP dont allow you to turn your pc into a server and use there connection.

[coiler]

[quote:b93eb82ac7=\"ÈL ® ö B ì Ñ\"]Righty then, who wants to be my dad?

Sorry Firebabe....your no longer my hero :wink:[/quote:b93eb82ac7]

Your well impressed El Robin! 8)

Think the chicks would dig your rig even more if it contained 17 HDD's - you would be the MAN!

[Mighty_Jah]

Right...I'll be ya popz for a bit...bearing in mind Its PP's turn next...then our Bels....!

Mighty... :wink:

[problemchild]

The server only provides files for my own network so my ISP has nothing to worry about in this instance!
I'd wired the house with CAT 5 when I moved in and have a rack and patch panel which everything plugs into so everything is sweet !

[djdaface]

I wouldnt want to forget where i saved something with your set up!!!

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[problemchild]

Funny Enough I totally agree :shock:

I'm running Lucene and Nudge to scan and index my filesystems.
It's like having a mini Google in your own box :)


http://lucene.apache.org/
http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/

[coiler]

I think that setup is secretly running google :shock:

[Belso]

[quote:05e2b20b1b=\"Mighty_Jah\"]Right...I'll be ya popz for a bit...bearing in mind Its PP's turn next...then our Bels....!

Mighty... :wink:[/quote:05e2b20b1b]

That would be pretty strange, as olde El is actually older than me, believe it or not :o

I could be his good looking twin :wink:

[Gregoroth]

Maxtors? :wink: EZCool?.....That looks like a problem waiting to happen tbh, even if those drives are Seagates.

[problemchild]

Hi all!
\"Pimp RIG!\".
How about my old Sun E3500 was described as a deskside server, makes a thunderous noise and eats Kwh like mad (yum yum).
6 CPUs and 6GB of RAM but the 10 HDD's only give it 180GB in total, a whole load of networking and Fibre hardware on the back makes it an interesting beast.

At 75 KG it's only a tiddler but it took two people to get it into the house

It's an addiction thats got to stop...Aghh

http://www.e3500.com/
http://www.e3500.com/E3500.gif

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[djdaface]

I have a dell server under my desk at work i use for training.
it has 4 CPU's and 8 sets of ram totalling at 1.4ghz processing power and 4gb of ram

and it sounds like a desiel engine haha. :D

[problemchild]

Sorry Dude ..Can't hear a word you're saying!
It's more of a small Jet noise than a diesel.

It's also great to put on in the garage just before you go in to take the chill off :twisted: