Hey guys, I thought I'd swing by and share a recent project we had at the office. I had to spec out and build a system capable of offloading a significant portion of our video archive (and to allow growth with our other systems)
Full Specs of the system:
Case, 4U Rackmount OEM
ARK IPC-4U600 Black Server Case - Newegg.com
Motherboard, Socket FM2, AMD:
MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
Processor, AMD:
AMD A8-5500 Trinity 3.2GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7560D AD5500OKHJBOX - Newegg.com
Power Supply, over-spec'd to provide stable voltages:
High Current Pro HCP-750 750W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com
Memory:
G.SKILL Ares Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10Q-32GAB - Newegg.com
Dedicated NIC (didn't want onboard due to potential bugginess)
Intel EXPI9301CT PCI-Express Desktop Adapter Gigabit CT - Newegg.com
"Boot Drive"
ADATA Value-Driven S102 Pro Effortless Upgrade 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (Gray) - Newegg.com
and the star of this show:
Western Digital RE WD4000FYYZ Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com
Times Eight. Picture for evidence.
Completed Build, ready to deploy:
Total Formatted Capacity (ZFS RAID Z2) 20.9 TB of raw storage space.
We are running FreeNAS 8.3.0 on the box. It will be deployed using a File Server on our current cluster using iSCSI.
Anywho, thought you guys would like to see. Feel free to ask any questions.
Oh, and for the power minded those of you, the box idles at around 149 watts. Full load is hard to pinpoint, but during a heavy file copy, it spiked to about 220-240 watts.
Full Specs of the system:
Case, 4U Rackmount OEM
ARK IPC-4U600 Black Server Case - Newegg.com
Motherboard, Socket FM2, AMD:
MSI FM2-A85XA-G65 ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com
Processor, AMD:
AMD A8-5500 Trinity 3.2GHz (3.7GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 65W Quad-Core Desktop APU (CPU + GPU) with DirectX 11 Graphic AMD Radeon HD 7560D AD5500OKHJBOX - Newegg.com
Power Supply, over-spec'd to provide stable voltages:
High Current Pro HCP-750 750W TX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Certified CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply - Newegg.com
Memory:
G.SKILL Ares Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1866 (PC3 14900) Desktop Memory Model F3-1866C10Q-32GAB - Newegg.com
Dedicated NIC (didn't want onboard due to potential bugginess)
Intel EXPI9301CT PCI-Express Desktop Adapter Gigabit CT - Newegg.com
"Boot Drive"
ADATA Value-Driven S102 Pro Effortless Upgrade 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive (Gray) - Newegg.com
and the star of this show:
Western Digital RE WD4000FYYZ Internal Hard Drive - Newegg.com
Times Eight. Picture for evidence.
Completed Build, ready to deploy:
Total Formatted Capacity (ZFS RAID Z2) 20.9 TB of raw storage space.
We are running FreeNAS 8.3.0 on the box. It will be deployed using a File Server on our current cluster using iSCSI.
Anywho, thought you guys would like to see. Feel free to ask any questions.
Oh, and for the power minded those of you, the box idles at around 149 watts. Full load is hard to pinpoint, but during a heavy file copy, it spiked to about 220-240 watts.
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