More Power To Us Part 2: The Juggernaut
Thursday, July 20th, 2006 at 12:22 pm by zack
Alongside the cpu issues that Wolverine is taking care of, we also were at a slight lack of free disk space in the server rack. As hinted to a few weeks ago, we started looking at cost effective ways to get tons of space.
Our solution wound up at a 15 sata hot swap chassis from SuperMicro, the SC933T-R760. This is a well engineered chassis that has all of the features we were looking for, including 6 hot swap fans and 3 hot swap power supplies. We connected the sata hot swap backplane to a Promise SuperTrak 8300 8 port sata host bus adapter. As time goes on, we can add another of these controllers to take advantage of all 15 drives. The controller is special in that it supports hot swap, hot spare and hot growing of the array.
As it stands, we’re using 4 of the 15 drive bays, for a raid 5 total of 1.5TB of usable space.
The machine is a very basic p4 2.8ghz with 2gb ram and 2x gigbit ports. Just enough to keep all the drives running at full speed.
Now for the pics:
The insides of the chassis:
Me trusting our rack with my life:
Alongside the cpu issues that Wolverine is taking care of, we also were at a slight lack of free disk space in the server rack. As hinted to a few weeks ago, we started looking at cost effective ways to get tons of space.
Our solution wound up at a 15 sata hot swap chassis from SuperMicro, the SC933T-R760. This is a well engineered chassis that has all of the features we were looking for, including 6 hot swap fans and 3 hot swap power supplies. We connected the sata hot swap backplane to a Promise SuperTrak 8300 8 port sata host bus adapter. As time goes on, we can add another of these controllers to take advantage of all 15 drives. The controller is special in that it supports hot swap, hot spare and hot growing of the array.
As it stands, we’re using 4 of the 15 drive bays, for a raid 5 total of 1.5TB of usable space.
The machine is a very basic p4 2.8ghz with 2gb ram and 2x gigbit ports. Just enough to keep all the drives running at full speed.
Now for the pics:
The insides of the chassis:
Me trusting our rack with my life:
