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Here I was happily (and sleepily) browsing the interwebs when this thing pops up on my figurative radar.
Holy fscking bit bucket in the sky.
The "article" includes such gems as:
This is a particularly hilarious one:
My favorite (emphasis mine):
Let this sink in with the help of some back-of-the-envelope math:
Xeon E3 - 300 bucks
X10SL7-F - 300 bucks
32GB ECC RAM - 400 bucks
Supermicro 4U Chassis with PSU and SAS expander - 1000 bucks
20 3TB WD Reds - 3000 bucks
Two SSDs for the OS, just because: 200 bucks
So, for 5200 bucks, we can build a much better server! That leaves 1500 bucks to get a managed switch with a few 10GbE ports and a few 10GbE NICs! Or a nice gaming rig! Or more storage! Or Xeon E5 and more RAM!
Holy fscking bit bucket in the sky.
The "article" includes such gems as:
So why are we planning to use RAID 5 here? Well RAID 5 uses block level to strip data across the drives with parity; the data will be evenly distributed among the drives. So the recovery in case of the failure would be relatively fast/easy. Drives do go bad no matter that kind you use, however, high-end Hard Drives provide longer mean time before failures.
No ECC...we are going to be using i7 3960x CPU with GA-x79-UD3 LGA 2011 Motherboard.
Kingston and stability in the same sentence. Brilliant. /sRam is equally important as it can effect the stability of the motherboard, that is why we are going to use Kingston HyperX Beast.
"We predict that each drive will require approximately 100W when loaded."To power our [9 HDD] system we will use a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold power supply, which offers 1200 Watts of max power.
This is a particularly hilarious one:
I think he means the second SAS port...Icy Dock DataCage has 6 SATA type connectors. If you are planning to daisy chaining drives, then this enclosure is for you.
Cooling in this type of set up is very important. What I wanted to do here is provide CPU with its own dedicated cooling, this is why I went with water cooling solution by Cooler Master, the Seidon 120M.
My favorite (emphasis mine):
One of the most important components in our build is LSI MegaRAID SAS 9271-8i. The card itself is relatively small and offers a battery upgrade function if you need to keep your configurations saved if a power failure occurs.
I hope anyone foolish/ignorant enough to follow this "guide" ends up here and decides to ask questions... and then goes back and kicks the author's behind very violently.I am going to be using Windows 7 Ultimate with our setup, however, you are not limited to Windows OS here. There are multiple NAS solutions available, FreeNAS (freenas.org) and Caringo (caringo.com) are my two favorite operating systems for storage optimization.
Or, if you value your money, save the goddamned 700 bucks, use 150 to buy an M1015 and 650 to get a Xeon E5 system with 64GB of RAM and 10GbE.If you want to achieve best performance for your buck, look into hardware RAID controller cards as they would provide you best sequential speeds over software RAID cards.
This, kids, is why the "author" is writing shitty "guides" for a living on the internet instead of competing for jgreco's paycheck.Earlier in the article I expressed that this storage array will be able to support small to mid size company for about 5 years.
*sigh*This is one of the reasons why I picked Gigabyte motherboard. They are famous for providing “rock solid” motherboards for gamers and computer enthusiasts along with fairly priced boards.
"We buy whatever falls off the back of a truck in Shenzhen and stick it in our enterprise DIMMs"-reliable!Kingston offers many types of ram and most of them are affordable, so picking the right ram should be easy.
If we leave the nitpick that they don't build PSUs aside, they really have a rather mixed to nasty track record on their low-end units.Cooler Master also makes great and stable power supplies.
This is the kicker.Investment or an expense? Definitely an Investment. If you look from price point perspective, our complete build is just about $6700 USD (as of March 2013, the original publishing date of this article).
Let this sink in with the help of some back-of-the-envelope math:
Xeon E3 - 300 bucks
X10SL7-F - 300 bucks
32GB ECC RAM - 400 bucks
Supermicro 4U Chassis with PSU and SAS expander - 1000 bucks
20 3TB WD Reds - 3000 bucks
Two SSDs for the OS, just because: 200 bucks
So, for 5200 bucks, we can build a much better server! That leaves 1500 bucks to get a managed switch with a few 10GbE ports and a few 10GbE NICs! Or a nice gaming rig! Or more storage! Or Xeon E5 and more RAM!