Specifications⌗

Total storage raw: 10TB

Total storage usable: 5TB

  • 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
    • 24GB (6x4GB) 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
    • SanDisk 240GB SSD (SDSSDX240GG25) (boot drive)
    • 10x mixed Seagate 1TB (ST1000NM0011, ST1000NM0033) and 4TB (ST4000NM0035) Constellation ES SATA drives (zfs data pool)
  • Optical Drives
    • Samsung slimline DVD-RW
  • Operating System

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⌗

Data pool:

  • 5x 2-way, striped mirrors
  • 1x spare drive

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
Mounted in the rack

Updates⌗

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

Nov 16 2016: Updated information on number and type of drives along with size of the ZFS pool