shaefurr 1337 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Server: (operates as both the server and my main gaming PC/emby client) Intel Core i5 4690k Devil's Canon 8GB Kingston Hyper X Fury MSI Z97S Krait Edition MSI GTX 960 100ME Corsair HX750 500GB Western Digital Black (OS) 1TB Western Digital Green (Games) 4x 3TB Western Digital Green (FlexRAID) 2x1.5TB Western Digital Green (FlexRAID) Fractal Design Define R3 Logitech G700 Logitech K360 2x Dualshock 4 Software Windows 8.1 Emby Server Kodi with Titan skin MBT New MBT Steam Utorrent MSI Afterburner HWinfo Inputmapper Rainmeter Raptr Origin Media Center Master DVDfab Photoshop HTPC1 Asus (forgot model) Intel dual core pentium 4GB G. Skill MSI 430 GT Windows 8.1 MBT Steam Thermaltake Urban S1 HTPC2 MSI P55-CD53 Intel Core i3 8GB G. Skill AMD Windows 8.1 MBT Steam Apevia X-plorer Other Clients 2x laptops Google Nexus 7 Windows Phone Android Phone iPhone 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
footose 2 Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 You guys have some crazy setups! Love it. Keep it going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) So I made some major changes to my setup here in the last week. I got rid of the 2 exisiting SuperMicro chassis, and replaced them with a new server for storage. The new unit is SuperMicro 846e enclosure dual 800 watt PSU's 60GB SSD - OS/Apps 20.2TB RAID 50 Array (24 HGST Ultrastar 1TB 7200 Sata Drives) Adaptec 3805 SAS Controller with 512MB BBWBC Dual Xeon L5520 CPU's (2.27Ghz Quad Core with HT, 16 Threads total) 48GB fully buffered PC3-8500 Windows Server 2008R2 x64 The thing is quite the beast. The array is providing 650MBps read & write which means I'm most likely completely saturating the PCI-E slot for bandwidth Edited May 30, 2015 by JeremyFr79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagetech 66 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Finally got around to sharing mine. Might not be that impressive but she is all mine Top 2U server is my Domain controller also running Hyper V. Host OS just does the basic AD stuff and hosts the Acronis Software for Network Backups, the VM is running all my VPN/Downloading software etc. Specs: Dual Opteron CPU1 x SSD Boot1 x 320GB (backup drive for network)1 x 1TB download Drive32GB Ram Next is the 1U server with the 2 x 3U SAS Case Attachments. This is where I have my Emby installed. I use Drive Bender to manage all the drives and make them into one large volume. It's kind of like Raid, but without the headaches It mimics the Drive Pooling Feature that was introduced in Windows Home Server. I also run Couch Potato and Sonarr on here for media management. Specs: Dual Xeon24GB Ram1 x SSD Boot Drive20 x 1TB Drives11 x 2TB Drives Bottom Acer system is my firewall. I run smoothwall on it. Nothing else to say there There's the gist of my setup. Let me know what you guys think or if you have any questions! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Finally got around to sharing mine. Might not be that impressive but she is all mine Top 2U server is my Domain controller also running Hyper V. Host OS just does the basic AD stuff and hosts the Acronis Software for Network Backups, the VM is running all my VPN/Downloading software etc. Specs: Dual Opteron CPU 1 x SSD Boot 1 x 320GB (backup drive for network) 1 x 1TB download Drive 32GB Ram Next is the 1U server with the 2 x 3U SAS Case Attachments. This is where I have my Emby installed. I use Drive Bender to manage all the drives and make them into one large volume. It's kind of like Raid, but without the headaches It mimics the Drive Pooling Feature that was introduced in Windows Home Server. I also run Couch Potato and Sonarr on here for media management. Specs: Dual Xeon 24GB Ram 1 x SSD Boot Drive 20 x 1TB Drives 11 x 2TB Drives Bottom Acer system is my firewall. I run smoothwall on it. Nothing else to say there There's the gist of my setup. Let me know what you guys think or if you have any questions! Thanks! You just don't see Rackable stuff anymore like you used to, nice setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagetech 66 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Truthfully I hadn't ever seen them before, but when shopping around 2 years ago when I originally got this stuff, I stumbled across it and thought holy hell this is the perfect setup for me on so many levels!! I had a Norco RPC 420 Case and loved it, but at the same time it was such a hastle. with this setup, I can keep changing or upgrading servers if I wanted to, and the drives don't have to move at all! Also, they were one of the few half depth servers I could find since I was working with a small space. they are about 16.5 inches deep which is perfect. Other then that, don't know much else about Rackable Systems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I use Drive Bender to manage all the drives and make them into one large volume. It's kind of like Raid, but without the headaches It mimics the Drive Pooling Feature that was introduced in Windows Home Server. Another Drive Bender user 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagetech 66 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Another Drive Bender user Yeah, I've dealt with RAID over the years, and for all their good, they are also a pain in the ass in my opinion. Drive Bender makes life so much easier. Hey! They just released a new version a day or 2 ago which helps a bit with performance issues. Upgraded and so far so good! Just a heads up! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Truthfully I hadn't ever seen them before, but when shopping around 2 years ago when I originally got this stuff, I stumbled across it and thought holy hell this is the perfect setup for me on so many levels!! I had a Norco RPC 420 Case and loved it, but at the same time it was such a hastle. with this setup, I can keep changing or upgrading servers if I wanted to, and the drives don't have to move at all! Also, they were one of the few half depth servers I could find since I was working with a small space. they are about 16.5 inches deep which is perfect. Other then that, don't know much else about Rackable Systems Yeah I've spent years working in Data Centers and servers, and Rackable was actually a division of SGI (Yes THAT SGI) they were pretty popular for quite a few years, not sure whatever really happened though. These day's I see alot of Dell, IBM, HP, and Cisco UCS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6771 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Yeah, I've dealt with RAID over the years, and for all their good, they are also a pain in the ass in my opinion. Drive Bender makes life so much easier. Hey! They just released a new version a day or 2 ago which helps a bit with performance issues. Upgraded and so far so good! Just a heads up! I haven't had a chance to install v2.3.5.0 yet - might wait till v2.4.0.0 is released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagetech 66 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Yeah I've spent years working in Data Centers and servers, and Rackable was actually a division of SGI (Yes THAT SGI) they were pretty popular for quite a few years, not sure whatever really happened though. These day's I see alot of Dell, IBM, HP, and Cisco UCS. http://www.infoworld.com/article/2632392/m-a/rackable-systems-becomes-sgi--closes-deal.html There's the article that explains that. I do love their systems though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 http://www.infoworld.com/article/2632392/m-a/rackable-systems-becomes-sgi--closes-deal.html There's the article that explains that. I do love their systems though. That explains a lot, 5 years ago you couldn't walk into a data center in my area and not see rackable stuff. It was never pretty but they were built like tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt & Emily 0 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 I was just wondering what people have here for server setup. Mine's pretty simple and I think just on the edge of being not fast enough to serve. Mine: Windows 8.1 Enterprise N 4 Gig Ram Intel Core 2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz 4 - 1TB Drives for 4TB Total - strictly for storage. 1 - 500G Drive that's partitioned to 100 gigs for OS and 400 gigs for anything else. The system only runs uTorrent and Emby essentially. What are you running? What other specs can we share or tips that we can do to make things better / faster? Just a minor recommendation... Use Deluge rather than uTorrent, after news was released that uTorrent had hidden Miners in I decided to try and find a new, 'trusted' (Yeah, I know, rich from a torrenter) P2P client and Deluge seems to be a fantastic replacement offering a open source client without intrusive ads and what not. In terms of hardware, I have: Gen8 microserver, 10GB RAM, 2TB HDD, 64GB SSD (Boot drive), Server 2012 R2 Software: Deluge, Emby Server And that's about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 what happened to all the picture posting.... I enjoy looking at what other peoples setups look like, messy or not.... Post some pix! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 How about a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1IJM_vDzr8 Server was feeding transcode to a roku at this time. Bottom unit is strictly a storage/file server, dell r710 above is the dedicated Emby server. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14923 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Love the rack... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 4, 2015 Share Posted June 4, 2015 Hey don't make fun of my ghetto rack. I only have 7' ceilings in my basement, and yeah it's a pain in the ass. But it works, hold's all my gear and that's what matters lol, eventually I'll get a real rack for down there. For now GHETTO Rack it is lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blaize9 3 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) Main Server (Windows Server 2012R2 Datacenter) Main Use: Hyper-V Processor: 2x Xeon E5-2680 v2 Motherboard: EP2C602-4L/D16 RAM: 64GB ECC Registered Kingston 8x 8GB Storage: Much SSDs Case: ARMOR-EVO Other: 4GB Fiber card Storage Server (FreeNas) Processor: 2x Xeon L5630 Motherboard: MBD-X8DAI-O RAM: 24GB ECC Registered Kingston 3x 8GB Storage: 5x 3T + 1 SSD for L2ARC ZFS Case: ARMOR-EVO Other: 4GB Fiber card Edited June 23, 2015 by blaize9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politby 88 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) Old HP networking rack from Blocket, Sweden's equivalent of Craigslist, for $40 From top to bottom: Belkin rackmount console Main media server running Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials. Pentium G3420, Asus Vanguard B85 mobo, 16GB RAM. 6x Digital Devices DVB-S2 tuners, 2x Blackgold DVB-T2 tuners. Runs DVBlink, Emby & Plex servers. Flexraid tRAID with 24 TB storage. 2x Crucial mSATA SSDs in Raid-1 for the O/S. HP DL385 G2 server with 2x 2.6 GHz Opteron dual core CPUs, 16GB RAM. 6 NICs. Runs ESXi with 2 production VMs (Sophos UTM, Milestone Xprotect) and various test VMs. Also has a blu-ray drive for ripping of discs using MakeMKV. Mikrotik RB2011 router, 1000/1000 fiber Internet. USB 3G (LTE signal does not reach into my basement) dongle for fail over if fiber link goes down. HP Procurve 24-port gigabit switch Around the house are two HTPCs running windows 8.1 and media center with Emby Classic, a bunch of Android phones, Windows tablets and desktops. Also have two LG Smart TVs running the Plex client. WiFi is courtesy of two 3Com AP9552 DualBand access points. Edited June 5, 2015 by politby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 Omg, tie up your cables or something! heheh Awesome set up otherwise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
politby 88 Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 (edited) Omg, tie up your cables or something! [emoji14] heheh Awesome set up otherwise! Thanks for the compliment.[emoji3] Since the photo was taken I have actually tied up the cables. I wish I had a patch panel for all of the Ethernet cabling, but my house was built 15 years ago and the electrician who did all the wiring just gave me a blank look when I asked him to pull cat cable to all the rooms. in hindsight I really should have insisted, but I did not, so the Ethernet cabling has been added in a piecemeal fashion over the years. I have managed to install about 10 wall jacks in various parts of the house, but some locations are simply not reachable. I also just noticed that the photo is older than what I think is the coolest addition to my setup, a bright green optical cable that connects the HP switch to a 3com PoE switch installed in the attic that powers my 4 surveillance cameras. I had to run the optical cable through the exterior wall and in a conduit along the siding on the outside up to the attic because all of the existing conduits inside the walls are fully occupied.[emoji16] My summer project for this year is to run underground Ethernet cable from the basement switch to the boat dock, which is about 30 meters from the house, so I can install surveillance camera that watches the dock and have wired internet to the boat when docked (which it is most of the time because I can't afford the fuel bills [emoji26]) Edited June 5, 2015 by politby 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pir8radio 1292 Posted June 6, 2015 Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) Love the rack... . Hey don't make fun of my ghetto rack. I only have 7' ceilings in my basement, and yeah it's a pain in the ass. But it works, hold's all my gear and that's what matters lol, eventually I'll get a real rack for down there. For now GHETTO Rack it is lol Nothing wrong with a wooden rack (except those split ends, pre-drill and don't over tighten) most audio equipment racks are wood. Paint it black put some blank filler plates in, and no one will ever know! plus the cost of a "server" rack for a few devices... Looks good! Edited June 6, 2015 by pir8radio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyFr79 228 Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 Nothing wrong with a wooden rack (except those split ends, pre-drill and don't over tighten) most audio equipment racks are wood. Paint it black put some blank filler plates in, and no one will ever know! plus the cost of a "server" rack for a few devices... Looks good! It really is temporary hence the lack of precision in the building lol. I'm either going to buy or build a nicer rack eventually. But it's solid and gets the job done for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidFX 135 Posted June 7, 2015 Share Posted June 7, 2015 HTPC InformationCPU Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 ATX LGA1150 Memory G.Skill Ares Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-2400 Storage Samsung 840 Pro Series 128GB 2.5" SSD Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPMPower Supply Corsair 600W ATX12V Optical Drive Lite-On ihes112-04 Blu-Ray Reader, DVD/CD WriterOperating System Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit) CasenMEDIAPC Black Aluminum / Steel HTPC 2000B ATX Media Center / HTPC Case 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueeyiz702 216 Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 (edited) these are some nice setsup! check the kodi site,ive been talking to one of the guys that has setup worth almost 17.000.00 so far.i mean he has total automation for home and even has kodi running off tablets mounted in his car,its sic! thats what i call all in guys1 Edited June 10, 2015 by blueeyiz7021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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