The quiet beast: dual Xeon and Quadro 4000 workstation

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Using the "power off for a couple days" procedure it seems I was able to "resuscitate" my VTX2 60G SSD, so now it is candidate for VM operations

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Ugh have a LOT of pics to post

Quad Blu-ray reading and writing, all drives eSATA


Fitting the OCZ VTX2-60G behind the front buttons/ports


Remaking: Prolimatech S17s with three Scythe SY1225SL12LM-P automatically controlled. Titan TFD-7010M2B for the chipsets


Papst 612M2GL for the storage controller



The beast Quadro 4000 in place


Hard disk fans, rubber mounted Papst 8412N2GL, 1500 rpm, no vibration or clicking noise


Custom-made modular cable for the internal ODDs and the 60G SSD


Final build, workstation V2.0


Two 4-HDD backplanes, no more empty bays


Three intake grills instead of two


No exhaust grille , have to place an air duct to direct the HOT air coming out away from the UPS... PLenty of USB 2.0 ports, FW800, USB 3.0, perforated slot covers to let the Quadro breathe


All measured up and tidied up front


And down below


Mobo end of DIY panel


Cheers

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UPS modifying, not to silence the 24V Adda fan, just to remove some "box" noise and to gain much better airflow, so fan stays on less





Getting the new Displayport connection to work




While we're at it, anti-slip and anti-vibration mat under the silm ODDs


Placing and connecting the Taurus backup system



Hey my HD collection's growing from day to day

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Some sensor readings in June. The high GPU temp is due to the dual screen handling, in single screen mode it drops to 68


RevodriveX2 card, block size 512K, stripe size 32K


OCZ SSD, block size 256K


RAID group: 4x WDC WD10EADS
RAID volume 0, RAID10, 1536 GB, block size 256K

RAID volume 1, RAID0, 640 GB, block size 256K


RAID group: 4x WDC WD5003ABYX
RAID volume 2, RAID0, 1858 GB, block size 1M