Let's beat this RAID thing to death

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

Wow that's low. Have you got a link or was it research you put together yourself?

Do a search for X7SPE on the unraid forums. I think Lime-Tech posted measurments of an X7SPE (or X7SPA) system. It was somewhere 25-30W all by itself. I think it was 50W idle with 12 drives spun down and one of the 8-port Supermicro AOC cards.

[SomeWhatLost]

Originally Posted by Spectrum

Soooo what I guess I'll do is get one of these and go from there.

following the theory of "go big, or go home" for just a couple bucks more, you should just get one of these... 8 ports...
see I am helping

[SomeWhatLost]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Do a search for X7SPE on the unraid forums. I think Lime-Tech posted measurments of an X7SPE (or X7SPA) system. It was somewhere 25-30W all by itself. I think it was 50W idle with 12 drives spun down and one of the 8-port Supermicro AOC cards.

yea, the xp7spe-HF is the MB I went with for my unRAID (well probably unRAID) server... its a great little board... low power and that IPMI thing is just the best... how has humanity survived this long without IPMI??? being able to watch POST and or fiddle with bios from the comfort of my desktop is just the bestest thing ever... when it comes time to upgrade my CQC/Sage Server I am definitely going to get a MB that supports IPMI... actually, is an ATOM good enough for sage? I can't imagine it takes all that much HP to just schedule & record, my HD200's are doing all the heavy lifting... aren't they?

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by SomeWhatLost

yea, the xp7spe-HF is the MB I went with for my unRAID (well probably unRAID) server... its a great little board... low power and that IPMI thing is just the best... how has humanity survived this long without IPMI??? being able to watch POST and or fiddle with bios from the comfort of my desktop is just the bestest thing ever... when it comes time to upgrade my CQC/Sage Server I am definitely going to get a MB that supports IPMI... actually, is an ATOM good enough for sage? I can't imagine it takes all that much HP to just schedule & record, my HD200's are doing all the heavy lifting... aren't they?

If all you're doing is a headless sage server, then, yes, and atom works just fine. If you are going to try to do any sort of transcoding (sage's built in transcoder runs only on the server) - or comskip, it will start to cry.

[stanger89]

Yeah and Atom is more than enough for Sage. It's probably actually 2-4x the horsepower I've got in my current SageTV server.

I'm actually sort of debating between twin X7SPEs for Sage, or "going big" and getting like an i5 ESXi system. If I go from the ground up I can probably get my R5000 to work over PCI passthrough.

[Spectrum]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Do a search for X7SPE on the unraid forums. I think Lime-Tech posted measurments of an X7SPE (or X7SPA) system. It was somewhere 25-30W all by itself. I think it was 50W idle with 12 drives spun down and one of the 8-port Supermicro AOC cards.

Wow awesome stuff. I may be building an unRAID box soon! The problem is I need to decide before I start loading up these drives. Don't want to transfer data to them only to take them out and nuke em to for unRAID and have to do a data shuffle again

[SomeWhatLost]

well, its actually quite simple.... if your new drives are the fancy new "advanced format 4k" drives don't do unRAID as unraid does not like those drives...

[stanger89]

Not sure about others, but unRAID works just fine with the WDxxEARS drives. You just need/want to jumper them into compatibility mode first.

[Spectrum]

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/inde..._Format_Drives
And I did get the WD20EARS, 8 TB for $400, I couldn't say no to that

[SomeWhatLost]

oh, well, then that's ok then

[Spectrum]

I just pulled the trigger

COOLER MASTER Centurion 590 RC-590-KKN1-GP Black SECC / ABS ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
CORSAIR Builder Series CX430 CMPSU-430CX 430W ATX12V Active PFC Power Supply
SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPE-HF-O Mini ITX Intel Atom D510 processor Server Motherboard
Kingston 2GB 200-Pin DDR2 SO-DIMM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Laptop Memory Model KVR667D2S5/2G

Why get just a SATA controller when you can build a whole new boxen?!?!?

[SomeWhatLost]

just a little minor unRAID update (unUPDATE?)
well, I got most of the pieces put together and all working happy... I also threw my 'kill a watt' thingy on just to see what I was getting power wise...
~90W all powered up and everyone spinning, ~60W with everyone spun down...
I would bet those numbers would be a bit better with 'Green' drives... but currently I just have 5 non-green Hitachi's...