Well it has started... the upgrade has started...
So far, I've gotten the Norco RPC-4020 Case.
Bought the 3 120mm bracket in the server and got 3 120mm Noctua Fans.
Replaced the back 80mm fans (as they were too "server" sounding loud) with 80mm Noctua Fans.
I also got 16GB of G.Skill Ripjaw Ram for the server.
I am using 16 2TB WD20EARS drives and 4 1.5TB WD15EARS drives. However, I have to replace all those drives with Hitachi 2TB 7K3000 6G drives due to WD eliminating the ability to change the TLER to under 8 seconds to stop the controller from dropping the drive in a raid 6 config. So look for me selling these drives decently cheap (like $40 for 2TB drives) sometime in the future. I think that'd be a fair price for about 100HRs of use on the drives and all drives having still 2.6years of warranty on them (all failed drives I got have been swapped).
Course that all depends on if the controller I got has issues with the drives or not, if they fall out of the array, they'll be gone... if not then I'll be good.
My RAID controller I bought is the Areca 1880ix-24-4G with the Areca Battery Backup as the speeds are amazing from it and I wanted a quality Hardware controller that could control everything inside as well as the HABEY external drive array.
I'm still waiting for a good sale in this next month for the Asus M4A89GTD systemboard, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Processor.
Once I get that I can back up my 2008 server, install everything go with 2008 R2 and set up a new array of 22TB (2 spare drives) in Raid 6....
Hopefully I can be completed in the next month with it! :T
So far, I've gotten the Norco RPC-4020 Case.
Bought the 3 120mm bracket in the server and got 3 120mm Noctua Fans.
Replaced the back 80mm fans (as they were too "server" sounding loud) with 80mm Noctua Fans.
I also got 16GB of G.Skill Ripjaw Ram for the server.
I am using 16 2TB WD20EARS drives and 4 1.5TB WD15EARS drives. However, I have to replace all those drives with Hitachi 2TB 7K3000 6G drives due to WD eliminating the ability to change the TLER to under 8 seconds to stop the controller from dropping the drive in a raid 6 config. So look for me selling these drives decently cheap (like $40 for 2TB drives) sometime in the future. I think that'd be a fair price for about 100HRs of use on the drives and all drives having still 2.6years of warranty on them (all failed drives I got have been swapped).
Course that all depends on if the controller I got has issues with the drives or not, if they fall out of the array, they'll be gone... if not then I'll be good.
My RAID controller I bought is the Areca 1880ix-24-4G with the Areca Battery Backup as the speeds are amazing from it and I wanted a quality Hardware controller that could control everything inside as well as the HABEY external drive array.
I'm still waiting for a good sale in this next month for the Asus M4A89GTD systemboard, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz Processor.
Once I get that I can back up my 2008 server, install everything go with 2008 R2 and set up a new array of 22TB (2 spare drives) in Raid 6....
Hopefully I can be completed in the next month with it! :T
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