KARINKA カリンカ Photoshoot (nerds only ;))

Monday, 23. May 2011

As mentioned in my last post about the Home Office 8.0a (the planning is still in progress), I couldn’t get the spare parts sold that I had used for the server before. As I don’t want to put those nice parts into a rack and leave them there and already complain about the bad performance of the Onntos attached to the Mac mini and then shared via network, I put the parts together last night. I used to installed Debian Squeeze as OS.

I used the following hardware for KARINKA (somehow the font looks like an IKEA furniture, right? ;) )

CASE		Yeong Yang YY-0221
CPU			AMD Athlon X2 245e (45W)
BOARD		Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3
RAM			4x 4GB Kingston ECC RAM
NICs		2x Intel Desktop CT 1000 PCIe x1
CONTROLLER	Intel SASUC8i/LSI flashed to IT firmware
GRAPHIC		old ATI Rage 3D PCI
SYS HD		WD 160GB Caviar Blue IDE
RAID HDs	6x Hitachi 1TB DeskStar SATA
			1x WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA
			1x WD 1TB Caviar Black SATA
			3x Samsung 1.5TB HD154UI SATA
			3x WD 1.5TB Caviar Green SATA
OS			Debian Squeeze

And here some data of the HDD temps (while running in the basement).

root@karinka:~# temps

Temperatures of RAID Array Mediapool
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/dev/sdb: SAMSUNG HD154UI: 26°C
/dev/sdc: SAMSUNG HD154UI: 27°C
/dev/sdd: SAMSUNG HD154UI: 30°C
/dev/sde: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1: 36°C
/dev/sdf: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1: 36°C
/dev/sdg: WDC WD15EARS-00Z5B1: 38°C

Temperatures of RAID Array Storagepool
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/dev/sdh: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 30°C
/dev/sdi: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 31°C
/dev/sdj: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 31°C
/dev/sdk: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 30°C
/dev/sdl: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 31°C
/dev/sdm: Hitachi HDS721010CLA332: 32°C
/dev/sdn: WDC WD10EADS-00M2B0: 32°C
/dev/sdo: WDC WD1001FALS-41Y6A0: 35°C

Temperature of the system disk
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/dev/sda: WDC WD1600AAJB-00J3A0: 36°C

I think those are quiet nice temperatures :)

PS. I’m now using the plugin “RSS Image Feed” – hopefully it will resize the included images to 200px width…

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  1. pali7xNo Gravatar

    god i adore that case – perfect for NAS/SAN setup. do you mount them all using iSCSI or mapped drive?

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    • dennisNo Gravatar

      It would be perfect with Hot Swap chassis, but as that would just give me space for 10 HDs and those “5 in 3x 5.25″” are damn expensive, I’m fine with this kind of installation.

      I currently mount it via AFP (netatalk) to the Macs, via SMB to the Media Boxes and iSCSI is planned for Aperture libs (AFP is a bit bitchy with AFP shares).

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  2. Lord_PinheadNo Gravatar

    What is the name of the case? Is it an Yeong Yang Servercase?

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    • dennisNo Gravatar

      Yes! Yeong Yang YY-0221 Cube

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      • Lord_PinheadNo Gravatar

        Damn, i think about getting one :)
        But there are not much shops selling these. Lets try Ebay @Home :D

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        • dennisNo Gravatar

          Just keep in mind that you can’t easily fully use it! There are 2 more 2×3.5″ metal brackets, but it’s nearly impossible to put in HDs mounted on those brackets. As you can see on the photos above, even with “just” 15 HDs, it’s getting a bit cramped.

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          • Lord_PinheadNo Gravatar

            “just” 15 HDD´s :D
            I use 4 1TB and 2 200GB Disks atm and think about more space, but my case is full.
            I use all 3,5″ racks, and all 5,25″ racks with adapter brackets. So, besides the fact, i have more dust in my server, then in my garden, i need more space :)

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        • Lord_PinheadNo Gravatar

          And there it is, my ne Binford 6100 Servercase :D
          http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330566582401

          Hope he sends it fast. 64 € inkl. Shipping for this one is a good deal, dont you think :)

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          • dennisNo Gravatar

            Even the Binford print is worth the case price ;) Let me know about your process!

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  3. LeukemioNo Gravatar

    I am more amazed at the motherboard which supports ECC RAM. Are you RAMS ECC Registered? Ehehehehe…

    That’s one hell of a sweet casing. Would also want one for my NAS

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  4. Dennis KleinNo Gravatar

    Hi @Leukemio
    Well, it is supported thanks to AMDs great CPUs (they tell the board if ECC is supported or not). Unlike some Xeons who sometimes support ECC AND ECC registered (for example: my Mac Pro came with 3GB ECC RAM, but now runs with 16GB ECC Registered RAM), AMD only supports the regular ECC RAM w/o registered versions, which is kinda annoying if you have the same modules for ECC and ECC registered mixed in the systems :)

    But be careful! Only a hand full of Gigabyte & ASUS boards support ECC RAM. It’s kinda hard to find one (for example) with more than 1x PCIe x16 – which is bad for a fileserver when you want to put in an Intel SASUC8i/LSI controller + a HP SAS Expander… I drift into too many details – you get the idea ;)

    Honestly, my next NAS will be based on a 19″ 4-5U Rack case with 20-24 backplane slots (like Norco or Chenbro for example). Good photos of such a thing: http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1033721843&postcount=7 ;)

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  5. LeukemioNo Gravatar

    That’s the exact problem. I am looking for a board which support LGA 775, supporting ECC DDR2, and having multiple PCI-e lanes.

    It’s really hard to find one. =/

    And yes. It is indeed annoying to have mix rams. I have plenty of HP ECC RAMs here lol. I think they are registered RAMs.

    *sigh*. That’s nice. LSI controller, SAS expander… dayum.

    also dayum… that post in hardforum… the main rig… dayum…

    That’s no longer NAS. That’s “storage rack” LOL

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