The Monster! (last updated: 25.02.10 - power usage numbers)

Wibla · **Posted:** Fri Dec 12, 2008 5:16 pm

TMM wrote:

Wibla wrote:

By that trend, I should run out of space in a few months... :mrgreen:

Or just delete some of your porn, that always works :lol:

No way!

that Linux guy wrote:

Wibla, how are you getting a data usage graph like that? Is it some app?

Its called munin, a monitoring application.

I'll start dismantling Oberon (3.7TB rig) next weekend, for a complete overhaul and an impending upgrades next year.

Wibla · **Posted:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:49 pm

Oh man.. I thought a drive had just failed catastrophically today.. Started a verify before I left Bergen this morning, when I got home it had started rebuilding onto the hotspare. Found out a few minutes ago (as it was nearing 99% complete on the rebuild) that it was the SATA cable coming loose...

So now I know that the 3ware handles rebuilding 9.1TB of data, and that doublechecking the connections is a smart thing to do...

Nick Geraedts · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:53 am

Locking cables ftw...

Wibla · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 12:59 pm

Yep... no doubt about that.

Code:

Dec 18, 2008 08:08.50AM(0x04:0x0029): Verify started: unit=0
Dec 18, 2008 02:30.17PM(0x04:0x0026): Drive ECC error reported: port=9, unit=0
Dec 18, 2008 02:30.17PM(0x04:0x0002): Degraded unit: unit=0, port=9
Dec 18, 2008 02:34.20PM(0x04:0x000B): Rebuild started: unit=0
Dec 19, 2008 03:38.17AM(0x04:0x0005): Rebuild completed: unit=0

sniperdude · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:10 pm

strange it says in your first post that it's a 3GHz Celeron when it's a
core 2 duo q6600 in the pic

Wibla · **Posted:** Fri Dec 19, 2008 4:32 pm

If you read the whole thread you will notice that I had to change out the mobo and subsequentially the cpu because the P5E WS PRO didnt support my 3ware card..

The Q6600 lives on in my workstation, while the P5E WS PRO is used in my HTPC for now.

EarlZ · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2009 5:51 pm

bonestonne wrote:

i'm a little surprised myself that one PSU handles 13 drives + quad.

A 3.7Ghz i7 with a GTX295 doesnt even go over 420watts in peak usage according to guru3d (source)

-X-hellfire · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:18 am

Nice server you build

How quiet is it?

with...
12 hardisks in
cage 1: 4-in-3 devices with Nexus 120
cage 2: 4-in-3 devices with Nexus 120
cage 3: 4-in-3 devices with Nexus 120
all in a CM Stacker case

Well, I got the same case but with two
[spoiler]

Quote:

Well, I got the same case but with two
4-in-3 devices with Cooltek 120
cage 1: 3x500gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA
cage 2: 1x300gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 ATA
............2x120gb disconnected

My setup is quite audible, the idle humming, but mostly the 7200.10 r/w action is abit annoying, as the 7200.9 is almost silent compared to them.

The Cooltek 120 is quite quiet, tried Noctua NF S12 1200 on those cages but the air just bounds right out, too much restriction for those fans, works great as case out fans without meshgrills or anything that restrict them

Need more space and is thinking of buying another CM Stacker to put my old P3 and Asus cusl2 motherboard and use as a backupserver...

[/spoiler]

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Ihmemies · **Posted:** Mon Feb 02, 2009 4:31 pm

What's the point of 12X1TB raid? Wouldn't something like 3x 4x1TB or 2x 6x1TB be more reliable?

Granted, you'd lose 1-2TB more space, but I would not personally like to see all of the data disappear when two drives fail simultaneously.

With more than one array you have a greater chance that the simultaneous failures will happen in different arrays, or in bad case you'll lose only one of the arrays instead of everything.

But I suppose that some just like to live on the edge :-)

m^2 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:54 am

Ihmemies wrote:

What's the point of 12X1TB raid? Wouldn't something like 3x 4x1TB or 2x 6x1TB be more reliable?

Granted, you'd lose 1-2TB more space, but I would not personally like to see all of the data disappear when two drives fail simultaneously.

With more than one array you have a greater chance that the simultaneous failures will happen in different arrays, or in bad case you'll lose only one of the arrays instead of everything.

But I suppose that some just like to live on the edge :-)

You're suggesting JBOD of smaller RAID 5? Now that's something pointless.
RAID 6 is way more secure and uses the same or lower number of spare drives.

That's what I would use, but R5 really isn't living on the edge. Double failures aren't common and with proper backup are a very minor issue.

metalheadjoe · **Posted:** Sat Feb 07, 2009 2:45 pm

Wibla · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:47 pm

-X-hellfire wrote:

Nice server you build
How quiet is it?

Its not noisy at all compared to the specs, less noise than a normal OEM pc for the most part, so im happy with that. The Nexus fans on the 4in3 modules are quiet enough, i dont notice them at all over the drives tbh, even at 1000rpm. Having the server beneath my desk certainly helps tho.

Ihmemies wrote:

What's the point of 12X1TB raid? Wouldn't something like 3x 4x1TB or 2x 6x1TB be more reliable?

Granted, you'd lose 1-2TB more space, but I would not personally like to see all of the data disappear when two drives fail simultaneously.

With more than one array you have a greater chance that the simultaneous failures will happen in different arrays, or in bad case you'll lose only one of the arrays instead of everything.

But I suppose that some just like to live on the edge :-)

I'm sorry, what? Living on the edge? nonsense, I have backups.

The only thing thats (imho) better than the current setup is raid6 + eventual hotspare. having several raid5's in one JBOD just makes it a PITA, plus alot of space lost.

My next build will have either a 3ware 9650-16/24 card with raid6 support, or I'll run linux software raid, or WHS.. time will show.

metalheadjoe wrote:

cool

Thanks

DuxBellorum · **Posted:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:34 am

So many hard-drives :shock:

A number you almost only see in SANS or stuff like that :twisted:

well done

shunx · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 12:35 pm

how many watts is the system in idle or load?

Wibla · **Posted:** Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:29 pm

I'm not sure

Havent used a kill-a-watt on it yet, but according to calcs im not above 220W at max fileserver load, probably less than 150W idle...

Wibla · **Posted:** Thu Feb 25, 2010 7:37 pm

Server still lives :shock:

... but its only booted to copy backups over to it these days, with the main server being used most of the time.

Got myself a kill-a-watt a few days ago, here are some numbers for this server, gonna post numbers for the 16x1.5TB server later:

232 VAC / 50 Hz
Boot peak: 365W
Idle: 177-190W
Drive access: 190-240W

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