Show Us Your Servers - 2016 Edition

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Welcome to the Servers 2016 thread!
 
If you want to show your fellow Neowinians what your server looks like, this is the place to do it.
 
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Has no-one shared theirs this year? I'll start, I recently built a new NAS, but I need a UPS, any recommendations that I can get in Australia?

 

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More pics and specs, and build vlog: http://smithydll.id.au/blog/2016/03/25

 

The video card is for GPU pass through to Windows 10 which I am using as a virtual HTPC. It's amazing what you can fit into a miniITX form factor now.

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My FreeNAS box.  

 

AMD Sempron 140, ASRock 880GM, 8GB RAM, Syba 4 port SATA card, Transcend 8GB USB drive (for booting), ICY Dock 4 bay...this thing is 5 years old now.  Jesus...I'm getting old. :(

 

I have two big volumes.  The main volume has 4 3TB Reds in the ICY Dock totalling 10.7TB.  I have a small volume with a mixture of 5 hard drives (various sizes) located in the bottom HD caddies ... they total somewhere around 8TB I think (yea...I'm gonna have to put a bigger drive in the mix eventually).  My desktop/HTPC/notebook computers only see "see" the big volume.  My bedroom HTPC's Kodi streams media from this box.

 

Every Friday night at 9...a cron job runs rsync to mirror data from the Reds to the mixture of hard drives in the bottom cages.  So if one of the Reds fail...I still have the data on the mix drives.  If one of the mix drives fail ... the data on the Reds will not be affected.  I then of course have all the data on the desktop, HTPC, notebook ... so if the whole FreeNAS failed ... I wouldn't lose anything.  Now, if house burned down...that would be a whole different story though important items are stored in the cloud.  I would lose all my movies, TV shows and the music not on my iPods though. :(  Of course...if the house burned down I'd be worrying about more important stuff (like if my dogs got out)...haha.

 

This thing is heavy.

 

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Lots of cables.

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4 hours ago, smithy_dll said:

@jjkusaf How much power draw have you got? Is that a SATA HBA card? Do you run any jails on FreeNAS?

Worried about the PSU ... so am I. :)  I'm guessing I'm ~3 (probably more) amps over the PSU specs during bootup and the rsync cron job.  The bottom 5 hard drives spin down after 1 minute and stay spun down until Friday's rsync job or next boot sequence...so majority of the time the PSU isn't being stressed.  It has been fine in this particular configuration for about a year and a half (when I added the 4 Reds and Icy Dock).  No burning smell yet.  I have contemplated putting in my old PC Power & Cooling 750W (which came out of my desktop) which gives me about 25 amps more on the rail ... but yea it is 10 years old.  Which would go first ... the overstressed or grandpa PSU...haha.    

 

No HBA card.  It is just a cheap 4 port SATA card for the Reds.  No jails either.

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