Ian-Highlander 145 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) Company I work for was going to send these for recycling yesterday, nothing wrong with them, they've just bought newer ones. I was offered them first, needless to say I snapped them up.Axus Yotta B 16 drive RAID unit with dual 4GB fibre connections and SAS extender, dual redundant power supply and dual fan units in each, fully loaded with 16 x 750GB disks and a slave JBOD unit for it also fully loaded with 16 x 750GB disks for roughly 10TB per unit (RAID 6) with the current drives fitted and I can of course fit larger disks at some point in the future. All cables, a couple of fibre cards and four spare disks thrown in. All for nothing, one very happy bunny Edited October 28, 2016 by Ian-Highlander 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) @@Ian-Highlander - infiniband fibre ? Nice grab - lots of potential with those babies Did you do the lottery yesterday as well? Edited October 28, 2016 by PenkethBoy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 Care to share where you found them? Well have been looking and waiting for 10G networking to become "affordable" for the last few years and i noticed a couple of weeks ago Asus brought out a consumer 10G switch see http://www.wegotserved.com/2016/10/14/10-great-10g-networking-products-for-prosumers/?utm_content=buffere54f0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer but you cannot find the Asus switch (when i last looked) anywhere - i think it might have sold out overnight But it only has 2 10G ports so great that somebody is finally breaking the boundaries of the 10G "lets keep it expensive" club but ultimately if you have more than two devices you need to buy more than one and then it becomes less attractive. So i looked at the next option - the Netgear - still a bit pricey - but in looking for that i found - drum roll please - this http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/products/21791-d-link-dxs-1210-10ts/ - which is a very similar spec to the Netgear and has gone up over a £100 quid since i bought one last week! 8x 10GBase-T ports plus two 10G SFP+ uplink ports ( its not clear from the DLink site but the SFP+ ports are both 10G) and its a Layer 2/3 switch with all the usual goodies. I also picked up at the same time - to take advantage of the SFP+ uplink ports a http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/products/18488-d-link-dgs-1510-20/ which gives me a 1G switch with 2x 10G SFP+ and 2x 1G SFP+ ports with an internal switching capacity of 76 Gbps so in theory i could saturate all 20 ports - eek! The switches will be linked, as stackable, by a 10G SFP+ cable as it would be rude not too.. So thats what the three boxes are you see in the photo. Two switches and a SFP+ cable Plus i got some Cat 6 and Cat6a ( for longer runs) - Point to note - that site sells network cables for stupid money - compared to any other site i have been to for good quality stuff Oh an i found a DGS-1510-20 on eBay earlier this week (only a bit over a year old) - and i popped in a couple of bids - mainly for a bit of a laugh to see what it would go for - and i got Tango'd as i won so the second 1510 arrives Monday for less than half the new price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-Highlander 145 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 @@Ian-Highlander - infiniband fibre ? Nice grab - lots of potential with those babies Did you do the lottery yesterday as well? Nope, just standard FC but dual 4Gb which will do for me Haven't done the lottery in years, maybe it's time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 You guys make me green with envy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 If i had only bought the main switch and the couple of 10G cards i would have spent the same or slightly less than you did on the 6x HGST's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 I'm working toward building an actual server, rack mount etc. I don't need it in the slightest, I just want it lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 i'm in the build phase as well - although from you previous posts i doubt mine will be as sexy as yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 (edited) i'm in the build phase as well - although from you previous posts i doubt mine will be as sexy as yours Lol... I have to be concerned with how mine looks, as it's right in front of me. I'd love to have a server room, but I think I'd spend all my time in there lol I need to redo my speaker cables and have better management. I may do that this weekend Edited October 28, 2016 by Doofus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 lol sounds like you have something to do that not very exciting and are looking for jobs to do that can put that off.... "..sorry darling cant cut the lawn i have to play with my speaker cables..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted October 29, 2016 Share Posted October 29, 2016 lol sounds like you have something to do that not very exciting and are looking for jobs to do that can put that off.... "..sorry darling cant cut the lawn i have to play with my speaker cables..." lol...well there is no 'darling'....but i'm totally gonna play around, this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denanet 7 Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 69 Tb 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Untoten 296 Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 69 Tb You have your prod drives and backup in 1 machine??? Looks like you enjoy living on the edge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denanet 7 Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 You have your prod drives and backup in 1 machine??? Looks like you enjoy living on the edge. Information on disks is of no value. Therefore, a backup is not required. Here is a photo of another computer. File Storage is under the table. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Information on disks is of no value. Therefore, a backup is not required. Until you have to re create a large chunk of it! Like the fish tank on the left of the table .. oh hang on.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Just setting up my new rack with my 10G switches - initial progress Boris missing a couple of drive cages will go below the bottom switch and NAS will go on a shelf with some other bits and pieces Just waiting on my "new" DL380 server to arrive to install that and start playing with my new toys!! Oh andfinally be able to tidy up the bomb site in the background Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3746 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Just setting up my new rack with my 10G switches - initial progress Boris missing a couple of drive cages will go below the bottom switch and NAS will go on a shelf with some other bits and pieces Just waiting on my "new" DL380 server to arrive to install that and start playing with my new toys!! Oh andfinally be able to tidy up the bomb site in the background Oh... My... Gawd... That is monolith. What kind of rack mount is that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 27u (1.4m High) and Boris is in a Lian-Li PC-343B which just fits in side between the front and back rail supports although 5mm to wide to just slide in and out (without modding) - so have to pop him in before putting the back verticals in DL 380 just arrived so off to play 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 what time does your flight arrive? oh hang on your coming from the moon - bring some soup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 what time does your flight arrive? oh hang on your coming from the moon - bring some soup Lol... I wondered if anyone had recognized my avatar. I thought about using a moomin lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 (edited) you have to be of an age I think to notice always thought the soup dragon was the best bit Edited November 3, 2016 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest asrequested Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 you have to be of an age I think to notice always thought the soup dragon was the best bit Ha! Right?! Memories... How's the build, going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 not too bad bit slow lots of little details to get right hopefully first time Just finalising the build of the Lian-li - just waiting for 2012r2 essentials to install - yawn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PenkethBoy 2063 Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 (edited) aah double post Edited November 4, 2016 by PenkethBoy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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