Preview of 24 Drive RAID Build in Norco 4U Case Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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I've been promising to do this for a while you can see that's a box of hard
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drives and here we have that Norco case that I promised I'd do just a stupid
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raid build in and that's what I've been working on for the last little bit here
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so in terms of the hardware specs we've got an antech 1200 wat power supply
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we've got a DFI x58 board 4 gigs of ddr2
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RAM we've got a fairly low-end uh Core 2
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Duo processor in there and then probably the most expensive piece of this entire
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build is this guy right here this is an arka 24 Port raid card with 512 Megs of
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RAM on it you can actually replace that with more RAM if you feel like it it's
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got a high-end processor and we're using sff 887 cables to connect to the back
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planes that are built into this Norco chassis so I'm going to I think that
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covers pretty much everything I got I got kind of a basic video card in here
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and uh this is just an in progress shot so you can see I've actually just just
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begun to install hard drives in here so I've got two Western Digital 1 tbte
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black drives and that's it so far so I'm
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going to be installing another 22 drives
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so that means uh depending on how we configure it we can have up to a 24
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terte raid zero hard drive partition so
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uh yeah that's pretty cool don't you think and uh I guess that's all there is
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to say about it for now we're just going to I'm not sure what I'm trying to
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accomplish with this it's just like I had this casee and like I had this card
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and I was like okay well what kind of stupid voodoo magic thing can we do with
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this and this is what I came up with so stay tuned