Homemade 16TB NAS dwarfs the competition with insane build quality (video) From the man that brought you the OS Xbox Pro and the Cinematograph HD comes... a cockpit canopy filled with hard drives?
Not quite. Meet the Black Dwarf, a custom network-attached-storage device from the mind of video editor Will Urbina, packing 16TB of RAID 5 magnetic media and a 1.66GHz Atom N270 CPU into a completely hand-built Lexan, aluminum and steel enclosure. Urbina says the Dwarf writes at 88MB per second and reads at a fantastic 266MB per second, making the shuttlecraft-shaped 12.7TB array nearly as speedy as an SSD but with massive capacity and some redundancy to boot. As usual, the DIY guru shot a professional time-lapse video of his entire build process, and this one's not to be missed -- it showcases some pretty spiffy camerawork as well as the man's welding skills. See sparks fly after the break. AtomN270 Articles on Engadget. SSD Articles on Engadget. 6Gb/s SATA+SAS RAID Controller Cards. Raid card comparison.
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Lots of drive bays. Cons: Unreliable, pain to work with, poor product support (drivers and BIOS), incompatible with everything, etc. It looks like a good deal, but save your money. And, in case you're wondering, setting up a 10 or 12 disc RAID5 array with this is extremely difficult, which is what I'd bought it for originally. It was a real pain to set up - the instructions are poorly translated from Chinese, and they largely dump driver and BIOS support off onto the poor company that makes the chipset for this unit, which means the drivers leave a lot to be desired, and the updates and platform support are very poor. And to top it all off, 4 months in, the unit has flaked out and corrupted a 7 TB RAID5 array.
So much for Parity RAID acting as a failsafe against data loss. Norco Technologies Inc. Best current 24 port RAID card? I'm still a little confused on how the SAS expanders hook up to the host adapter.
For example, if I build something like this, using an ordinary PC case with a lot of bays and ATX power supply, and mounting only the PCMIG backplane (plugged into the ATX connector) and a HP SAS expander (mounted in a rear slot and plugged into the PCIe 1x slot on the PCMIG backplane), how do I actually make use of this enclosure in concert with a SAS RAID host adapter in another system? Say I have an Areca 1880ix-24 in the main system, which also contains 16 Hitachi SATA disks, and I want to have 8 more Hitachi SATA disks in the external enclosure described above, and use all 24 disks in the same RAID6 array, what other cables do I need?
Could someone please describe how it all connects together? Can it be done with only one cable running externally between enclosures? If I wanted to have 16 disks in the external enclosure instead (for a total of 32), is this also possible? Preview of 24 Drive RAID Build in Norco 4U Case Linus Tech Tips. Modding Guide: Inline SATA Connectors. The Desk!!! Mod i7 Upgrade (1/2)