Something I find interesting about this new chassis and I don't fully understand the 'why' of it... My system did it's first scrub since moving into the new chassis and, with no other hardware changes, the scrub finished a full hour and fifteen minutes faster than it used to do.Yeah since they are so close to me it's just a quick drive down and grab it. Picked it up about 1:15 today. Really nice guy. Looks like they are just moving into the building they have as they didn't even have desks all together. From what I was told they are going to have a good amount of stuff coming in. Said he will have a bunch of DDR3 ECC RAM soon in 16GB and 32GB sizes. Was also talking about some large SAN but those are gonna be high dollar and not really useful to me.
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As I was pulling out UPS was pulling up so maybe you will get lucky.Add me to the cool kids club. Hope it arrives next week.
Don't even think about paying full price. Apparently they have a pretty large stock of these things.
The hardest part of connecting the SAS cables was the fact that all the hard drive trays need to come out first. Then the trays that hold the backplanes can be unscrewed (thumbscrews on the front of the chassis) and slide forward a few inches (without disconnecting any of the already connected cables) to allow fingers to get into where the connectors are.BTW how hard was it to get the sas cables plugged into the backplanes. I only had it open long enough to look inside and then my LB6M showed up. Today has been my Christmas with taxes coming in and selling off my crypto and paying myself back for that build.
I don't think that would be advantageous and it might actually cause problems because it would make a loop. Kind of like having a loop in a Ethernet network can cause problems. I ran a SAS cable from each port on my SAS controller, one to each backplane, and it is working really nice.One thing I was wondering is if it would be advantageous or cause issues with the backplanes to link them together. Basically use the "out" from one to the other one's "in" and also link to the SAS controller. I am not that well versed in all that type of stuff but just wondering if it will chose the fastest path or allow one connection to act up and still keep everything alive or if it will just cause issues. Would still have one direct connection to the controller to each backplane and add two extra SAS cables to link the two together.
Probably a good call. The front fans were like that to start with and I kept them that way, but the rear set I connected to my system board and they keep ramping up and slowing down. I was trying to get that sorted by adjusting the IPMI firmware but I have not got a satisfactory setting out of it yet. The CPU fan (I installed the Noctua this weekend) works great. Even running at 450 RPM, it is keeping the CPU cool enough, between 45 and 55c. I didn't even put any fans at the rear of the chassis, it just didn't feel like it was needed because the HDD fans are pushing a good amount of air through the system.Well looking through the information about the backplanes I decided that I would just power the 120MM fans from the backplane instead of the MoBo.
I got the NH-D9L that was suggested by @loch_nas and it is working with no trouble. It fits several CPUs with the included hardware, but I don't think the 1366 socket was one of them.Glad to hear the Noctua is working well. I am looking at the NH-D9DX since my current board is LGA 1366. Till I have them I will probably just leave the rear section open and run the Hyper 212 EVO's if I transplant things into the new case.
I don't think the power consumption is really any different than with the old server. It is down to the number of drives and how much power they consume. I moved the 16 drives I have running in this chassis from the older chassis I had before, along with the system board, SAS card, CPU and RAM. I plan to add additional drives for another pool later, which was the whole reason for the bigger chassis, but all the key components are basically the same as before. The new chassis even has the same number of redundant power supplies but they have a lower amount of heat output. It isn't like I put some fancy meter on it though, I am just looking at the readout on my UPS. If I had the money to do it, I would fill it with SSDs so I could save real money on the electric bill.Hey Chris, thanks for the report and best of luck. The local electric company must love you! :)
Hey Chris, thanks for the report and best of luck. The local electric company must love you! :)
Each drive gets a little plastic bracket that is attached by two screws. It gives you a handle to grab the drive with when you want to pull it out and it helps align the drive with the connector when you are slotting it in. There is no catch because gravity hods the drive down. It works great by my way of thinking. We have one of those 45drives.com Storinator serves at work and they don't give you any kind of drive bracket for the drive alignment, so it is a pain getting it aligned properly to go in the chassis to begin with and almost as much a pain getting a grip on the drive to pull it out when you need to. I would never suggest one of those systems to anyone for anything.
You know, since they relisted these, they already sold three more.I hate you both. You are evil temptresses and you should repent for your sins against my wallet!!
You know, since they relisted these, they already sold three more.
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