Dizzy49 94 Posted April 12, 2017 Author Share Posted April 12, 2017 And this is an example of how the inside of a computer should NEVER LOOK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 YUCK! Is that your old rig? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8215 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 Got a server that sees about that much dust every 6 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 The little bit of dust that collects on the front of mine, bothers me. If I were getting that much, I'd make filters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8215 Posted April 12, 2017 Share Posted April 12, 2017 (edited) Just scheduled maintenance with a can of air Outside. Edited April 12, 2017 by Happy2Play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 YUCK! Is that your old rig? Yes, that's after living through 9 months of heavy demo/renovation in the house. That included cutting a ton of old concrete, demo of tons of old lathe and plaster, and putting up all new sheetrock. ALL of that right where the server sits. CPU: Xeon 1274 v3 Mobo: Supermicro X10SLH Ram: 32GB ECC Ram PSU: Corsair TX650 HBA: LSI 9210-8i LSI 9211-8i Drives: OS: 120GB OCZ (Windows 7 Pro) Data: 2x 3TB WD Green Landing: Samsung Spinpoint Optical: Panasonic Slim BDR He has 6 more drives we will add once I deliver it to him this weekend. I cleaned it up and fixed it up and now it's ready to head to my dad: I'm waiting on a few more cables to get mine finished up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Well, damn! Nice job! All sparkly, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 And here's mine... Drives OS: 256GB Samsung (Windows 10) Data: 4x 10GB Ironwolf 4x 4TB WD Enterprise 4x 3TB WD Red 4x 3TB Barracuda XT 2x 5TB Toshiba Landing: 3TB Barracuda XT I am EXTREMELY disappointed with the WD Enterprise drives! Enterprise Class Datacenter drives my ass! They start throwing heat warnings at 105F, and the heat up FAST! If I have one by itself (no drives above, under, or beside) then it idles about 95F. If it's in a stack (with one open bay in a 24 bay case, it is indeed stacked) it idles about 101F. Give it any kind of load and it jumps to 105F and starts throwing errors. My WD Red's get to 101F under full load. If they are running, then the Enterprise drive sits idle at 104F!! My Barracudas which I EXPECT to run hot usually run 102-105F, but they don't throw warnings until 115F So far I'd have to say the Enterprise drives are a complete waste of money and I would NOT recommend them! For the money, I should have gotten more Ironwolf drives! Here's how she looks right now. I'm waiting on a few more of the thin SAS cables, then I'll clean it all up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 Looks great! I didn't bother numbering mine. Have you thought about using an M.2 SSD for your OS drive? Then you can lose the Samsung and the cables for it. It'll give you more space. I use a Samsung EVO 950pro NVMe, for mine. The 960 is out now, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted April 19, 2017 Author Share Posted April 19, 2017 I considered it briefly. Having a SSD at all is probably overkill, but I got it pretty cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 276 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Asus used to be my Go-To brand, but I went all out on builds for my wife and my personal computers, and had ALL kinds of problems with the boards. After being replaced 3 times, and getting nonstop excuses I sadly gave up. I've built a few Gigabyte and was happy with them. I love the one in my HTPC right now. Rock solid, been on for nearly 3 years straight Used a couple ASrock and find them to be feature rich and budget friendly. That's a good board recommendation. I have the cFos software on my existing server and really like it. I can concur about Asus, you summed it up pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 276 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 (edited) Very nice system you're building, I am wishing for something similar as soon as I make up my mind. You might consider slapping to your RPC-4224 the lcd display that Doofus put on his, for fan controls I believe. While on the subject, Norco's default fans don't have very good rep. (noisy and low performance) Again Doofus and others have immediately upgraded theirs with better ones. Edited April 29, 2017 by jlr19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted May 1, 2017 Author Share Posted May 1, 2017 (edited) Very nice system you're building, I am wishing for something similar as soon as I make up my mind. You might consider slapping to your RPC-4224 the lcd display that Doofus put on his, for fan controls I believe. While on the subject, Norco's default fans don't have very good rep. (noisy and low performance) Again Doofus and others have immediately upgraded theirs with better ones. I was trying to get info on the CFM of the 120mm fans in the center. I have a bunch of Silenx fans I can replace them with, but I don't want to if it's less CFM. The case is in a dedicated rack, and honestly the switch I have has a RIDULOUSLY loud 25mm fan in it that is way worse than the Norco! Also the Silen fans are pretty thick and I think it would be a pretty tight fit. Then again, if they fit, I might as well take the fans from the rack and use them. Those things move so much air when I turn them on it's like a wind tunnel in the hallway! I have 2 set of 120mm Silenx fans, one set is 18dba and 90CFM, and the other is 14dba and 72CFM. The 14dba will easily fit. The 18dba will be a TIGHT squeeze. I did add a couple slot fans that I had laying around to the back as well. They move quite a bit of air. Edited May 2, 2017 by Dizzy49 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) I've got 3 of these for my fan wall. Most of the time I run them at 50%. At this very moment, it's a hot day (88F), I jacked them up to 70%. They are really great fans. http://noctua.at/en/nf-f12-industrialppc-3000-pwm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFCRATC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Edited May 2, 2017 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 Looks great! I didn't bother numbering mine. Have you thought about using an M.2 SSD for your OS drive? Then you can lose the Samsung and the cables for it. It'll give you more space. I use a Samsung EVO 950pro NVMe, for mine. The 960 is out now, though. Hey, what's the LCD I hear you have for your fans? I've got 3 of these for my fan wall. Most of the time I run them at 50%. At this very moment, it's a hot day (88F), I jacked them up to 70%. They are really great fans. http://noctua.at/en/nf-f12-industrialppc-3000-pwm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KFCRATC/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 My rack is in the basement of a 90yr old house. The room was original the "cold storage" room, seemed fitting It rarely gets above 68F in the basement, and all the hot air is drawn out of the room with a vent fan. Those fans look nice, I have used Noctua fans in the past. 43dba seems pretty loud for 110CFM when compared to the 18dba for 90CFM from the SilenX I am waiting on replacement drives for the WD Enterprise drives I had. If they are overheating again I may drop in new fans and see how it does. Honestly, the two 80mm fans are far louder than the 120mm ones. Noise isn't really my issue, it's the airflow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swynol 375 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Hey, what's the LCD I hear you have for your fans? My rack is in the basement of a 90yr old house. The room was original the "cold storage" room, seemed fitting It rarely gets above 68F in the basement, and all the hot air is drawn out of the room with a vent fan. Those fans look nice, I have used Noctua fans in the past. 43dba seems pretty loud for 110CFM when compared to the 18dba for 90CFM from the SilenX I am waiting on replacement drives for the WD Enterprise drives I had. If they are overheating again I may drop in new fans and see how it does. Honestly, the two 80mm fans are far louder than the 120mm ones. Noise isn't really my issue, it's the airflow... i'm using the same noctua fans at 100%. the noise doesnt bother me. the 2x 80mm fans i have running at 3000rpm are much louder. unfortunately my rack is in a room which is difficult to keep cool. all my enterprise drives are below 39c and normal drives run at 26-28c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CharleyVarrick 276 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) Hey, what's the LCD I hear you have for your fans? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KJGYLNM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 There's a picture of Doofus's system in "Show off your network closet" thread (formerly known as Show off your rack; liked the old name better That fan ctrl really pops out if you ask me Edited May 2, 2017 by jlr19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6766 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 "Show off your network closet" thread (formerly known as Show off your rack; liked the old name better Me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediacowboy 438 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 There's a picture of Doofus's system in "Show off your network closet" thread (formerly known as Show off your rack; liked the old name better That fan ctrl really pops out if you ask me Me too Are those hints to change it back to the old name? [emoji13] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBers 6766 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Are those hints to change it back to the old name? [emoji13] Yep. I didn't see a request to change it, so don't know why it was changed, or by who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aptalca 70 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Build looks great but please get rid of windows and put unraid on it [emoji6] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy49 94 Posted May 2, 2017 Author Share Posted May 2, 2017 Build looks great but please get rid of windows and put unraid on it [emoji6] LOL. I actually started with Unraid with my first system. I've always had a love/hate relationship with *nix. When it works, it's great, but when something goes wrong, it's ALWAYS a huge deal and takes 100x longer for me to get it back up and running. I do a lot of my sorting/organization and other things on the server as well, and it just wasn't nearly as easy when I was using Unraid. So Windows it is. It's actually a pretty stripped down install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aptalca 70 Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 (edited) Do you have any redundancies set up like parity drives or mirrors (not sure if windows supports them)? Because in a multi drive system there is a much higher likelihood of drive failure. Edited May 2, 2017 by aptalca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 (edited) Blah! removed Edited May 3, 2017 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted May 3, 2017 Share Posted May 3, 2017 (edited) Those fans look nice, I have used Noctua fans in the past. 43dba seems pretty loud for 110CFM when compared to the 18dba for 90CFM from the SilenX I might give those a try. The quieter I can make my setup, the better Edited May 3, 2017 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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