Recent content by rust0r

Haha yeah. I had looked at fireproof safes at one point for the external, but it seemed as though most sites suggested that a standard fireproof safe got WAY too hot inside to keep a hard drive's data in tact, that it was meant more for paper and documents. There seems to be a couple...

Haha, that would be awesome! If only I found a bag of money somewhere :toast: Ah alright, I was hoping you had some secret method that I didn't know about quite yet lol You can realistically only put so many safeguards in place and then just leave it up to fate if something tragic like a...

Well, the REAL important things (all pictures I've taken) are backed up regularly at a friends house an hour away, he largely has much of the same media as I do, so 85% of the stuff on my server isn't much of a concern should I lose the entire thing, it can be easily replaced. The other...

LOL, remind me never to shake your hand! Mr. Strong Grip

Thank you :toast: Of the 27TB, 3TB is dedicated to parity (as with most free-parity setups, you just need 1 parity drive that is as large or larger than the largest drive you want to protect). That leaves me with 24TB prior to the 1024mb kick in the pants that all drives suffer (leaving me...

Of course, that's why I posted the build, hoping to give people some ideas and make them get creative! What did you have in mind as far as your build goes? Haha thank you, this made me laugh "BTW you are crazy" :rockout: I highly suggest everyone take a look at Disparity that doesn't...

Thanks! :) It was a challenge as the SAS to Sata cables are 1M (3ft) each, they were the only one's that came pre-sleeved with good quality sleeving so it was a no-brainer; I also wasn't sure what route I would have to take with them to reach the hard drives. All the cabling is tucked on the...

And if multiple drives drop out because they aren't "enterprise raid edition" that cost 2x as much as standard drives.... Raid 5 or 6, both allow for the possibility of losing ALL data in the extreme case, the only way that is happening while running disparity is a surge that somehow bypasses my...

Well, that's always been the thing, at one point 2 years ago, I had an 8 port Areca raid card in my hands but realized it wasn't really needed for what I wanted the server to do. It's mainly storage for files and media, it's streamed to my PC/TV's, most drives transfer anywhere from 60-95mb/s...

LOL erocker: the PSU you see there (OCZ Modxstream Pro 700w), it's a single rail 12v 700w. The Supermicro's cards have staggered spin up enabled, so it doesn't get hit with a high initial spin up load. Is there something I'm missing or should be concerned about though ?

Most hardware is 2-3 years old from my old server, this build is simply to expand the drive capacity/ease of access and use: CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 620 MOBO: Asus M4A79XTD-EVO RAM: 2GB CARDS: 2x Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 Windows 7 w Remote Desktop access for any maintenance it needs I...