Specifications

Total storage raw: 6.5TB
Total storage usable: 3.75TB

Case

• Norco RPC-4220 – 20 hot-swap bay, 4RU chassis

PSU

• Corsair HX 750W

Motherboard

• Supermicro X8STE – single socket 1366; 2x Intel 82574L GigE NIC; Matrox G200 GPU

CPU

• Intel Xeon E5620 Westmere 2.4GHz Quad Core

RAM

• 12GB (3x4GB) Kingston 240-pin DDR SDRAM ECC Unbuffered

Controller Cards

• Intel SASWT4I (LSI SAS1064E chipset) PCIe x4 4-port SAS HBA
• LSI 9201-16i 6GB/s PCIe 2.0 x8 16-port SAS HBA

Hard Drives

• Seagate 7200.10 160GB SATA 3Gb/s (system drive)
• 2x Seagate 7200.11 750GB SATA 3Gb/s (zfs)
• 2x Seagate 7200.11 1TB SATA 3Gb/s (zfs)
• 3x Seagate 7200.12 1TB SATA 3Gb/s (zfs)

Optical Drives

• Samsung slimline DVD-RW

Operating System

• Solaris Express Community Edition (Nevada) b130

Description

The system is used for media (pictures, music, movies), software, backups, and personal document storage. All this data is made available via CIFS and NFS shares.

ZFS Configuration

Pictures

Norco RPC-4220

Norco RPC-4220

Norco RPC-4220

Norco RPC-4220

Supermicro X8STE Board

Supermicro X8STE Board

LSI 9201-16i HBA

Inside ZFS File Server

Inside ZFS File Server

Inside ZFS File Server

RPC-4220 in the Rack

Updates

May 4 2011: Added a picture of the server mounted in the rack