SuperServer

SuperServer

SuperServer is the nickname for my 40 TB personal data storage server, currently running in RAID 6 with an Adaptec 71605 RAID card on kubuntu 10.14. This baby can pretty much download the internet!

It used to contain an Adaptec 31205, along with a vast assortment of hard drives I have collected over the years - a number of which were formerly part of my K'nex hard drive rack. Those however, have since been removed and will eventually be re-purposed.

One thing that was kind of a pain with the case was the fact that the top drive bay was only for optical drives. I managed to find a hard drive bay for an Antec Nine Hundred on NCIX, but with shipping & handling it cost a lot more than it should have. It didn't quite match up either, and didn't have a fan grill or speed controller. But hey, it's better than nothing at least!

I also used to have three RAID cards at one point, one was an old IDE raid card to hook up a single ATA drive (since the other 2 were hooked into the motherboard directly) that used to be in the case, and another was just for the DVD drive since I'd used all the SATA ports on the motherboard. They've since been removed, though.

SuperServer V2 Hardware Specifications:


SuperServer V1 Hardware Specifications:

Component Boxes
All the components still boxed up.
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Close-up of the components.
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Close-up of the Adaptec 31205 RAID card.
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Getting the case ready to go.
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Power supply installed.
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Getting the motherboard ready.
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Processor installed & motherboard ready to go!
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Motherboard installed & hooked up!
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Cable management in the back.
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Video card & test hard drive installed.
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Ready to give it a whirl!
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Beautiful blue glow. Everything seems a-okay!
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Testing out the RAID card, seems to be working fine!
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Browsing through the RAID card settings.
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Upgrades! Picked up a new PSU, SSD, RAM & wireless card.
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Computer parts scattered about.
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Hard drives mounted into drive bays, & ready to install into the case!
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RAID cards & new video card installed.
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Cable management part two.
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All the hard drives installed & hooked up!
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An awful lot of cables to cram in there, but I did the best I could!
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Getting ready to install a fresh shipment of new drives!
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Unpacking the new drives.
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Drives installed into bays!
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Cable management part 3.
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New 40 TB RAID 6 array ready to go!
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Getting ready to build the array.
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And now we wait...