Justin
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Well, for a while my NAS has been getting long in the tooth.. for about 2 years now it's been a large array of 40GB drives with many hot spares, plus 2 very large drives to mirror those
I took this weekend to do some upgrading of it.
IT was formerly as follows:
2 x 250GB SATA in RAID1 for CD Images and movies
2 x 40GB IDE for booting
8 x 40GB in RAID6 with 4 hot spares for the data array
3 x Promise UX133 IDE controllers
For various reasons I didn't like this. The 40GB OS drives were dodgy and slow, the 40GB drives are getting old, the majority of drives were SHARING channels which is a no no, and I didn't have enough space. Sorry, 240GB plus 250GB mirror don't cut it.
I spent this weekend doing the following upgrades:
1) Adding Adaptec 29160 SCSI Controller
2) Adding 2 x 10,000RPM SCSI CHEETAHS
3) Replacing all 40GB IDE with all 80GB IDE!
4) Destroying by fire and hammer the old 20GB boot
5) Added a 4th UX133 IDE Controller
So now I'm left with a system that does:
* Gentoo Linux
* Gigabit LAN FTW
* Boot off a mirrored 10,000RPM SCSI array
* Has an 8 x 80GB IDE RAID6 array with 2 hot spares
* Has a 2 x 250GB SATA RAID1 array
* Drives do NOT share channels! Hooray!
Leaving me with a 480GB very redundant array for my massive porn and data collection, and a 250GB array for CD Images and Movies
Here are images:
The drives removed from the NAS:
(drives on the far right were not in the NAS)
The new NAS!:
oh man i'm in love
yes I know the cables are a disaster, but I go for function. I have more rounded cables on order to clean it up a bit.
I took this weekend to do some upgrading of it.
IT was formerly as follows:
2 x 250GB SATA in RAID1 for CD Images and movies
2 x 40GB IDE for booting
8 x 40GB in RAID6 with 4 hot spares for the data array
3 x Promise UX133 IDE controllers
For various reasons I didn't like this. The 40GB OS drives were dodgy and slow, the 40GB drives are getting old, the majority of drives were SHARING channels which is a no no, and I didn't have enough space. Sorry, 240GB plus 250GB mirror don't cut it.
I spent this weekend doing the following upgrades:
1) Adding Adaptec 29160 SCSI Controller
2) Adding 2 x 10,000RPM SCSI CHEETAHS
3) Replacing all 40GB IDE with all 80GB IDE!
4) Destroying by fire and hammer the old 20GB boot
5) Added a 4th UX133 IDE Controller
So now I'm left with a system that does:
* Gentoo Linux
* Gigabit LAN FTW
* Boot off a mirrored 10,000RPM SCSI array
* Has an 8 x 80GB IDE RAID6 array with 2 hot spares
* Has a 2 x 250GB SATA RAID1 array
* Drives do NOT share channels! Hooray!
Leaving me with a 480GB very redundant array for my massive porn and data collection, and a 250GB array for CD Images and Movies
Here are images:
The drives removed from the NAS:
(drives on the far right were not in the NAS)
The new NAS!:
oh man i'm in love
yes I know the cables are a disaster, but I go for function. I have more rounded cables on order to clean it up a bit.