Wee have a 9.1TB raid6 array using an 3ware raid card that had a drive go bad.  Wee put the new drive in and told it to rebuild and the stupid f0rkin card went and created a NEW 12 drive raid6 array that hsa 1 drive and 11 missing drives instead of add it to the original array...lucky for us it did that because upon going to 3ware's page the card wee have has a flaw in the firmware that pretty much guarantees your data is going to be corrupt after rebuilding!  double you tee eff

It then recommends getting the latest firmware and driver.  Of course upon doing that to fix the problem the array needs to be rebuilt and all our existing data is going to be gone :O  So they say backup your data and flash the firmware.

Wee have 8.8TB of used space consisting of captured and edited video for projects that have been completed but need to stay in case there are changes from the client, or the footage gets used again for something else.



Wee also have a $150,000 Edit share system that is 2 systems that each hold 24x750gb on a 10GB/s Ethernet network..but...whenever wee start transfering to it the stupid f0rkin server says 'Path not found' after a few minutes (I think the probelm there is some or all of the drives still have the jumper to limit the speed to sata150 because wee had to borrow 2 of them that had stickers saying "tested spare" to use in this monstrosity and both had the jumper on it..so the whole system is running half speed and it cannot playback 24p HD footage, when it supposed to be able to handle 2 full streams of that)

So...wee happened to have these parts laying around
1x 80gb drive
9x 500gb drives
2x 750gb drives
an Asus a8n-sli deluxe motherboard/cpu/memory
1x geforce 7800 gtx video card
1x 3U rackmount server case
Sonnet tempo 4x4 sata card (4 internal+4external)
a coolermaster 4 disk lunch box filled with harddrives with MORE client data that cannot be accessed because the hackintosh i have down here won't load the other sonnet driver to see the array.

So...i made a bracket from a front panel of a rackmount server case to hold 6 drives standing up so they didnt domino over, and then wee seperated another 5 drives with cd cases and used some gaffers tape to hold them together so it didnt fall over while transfering all this data.   Took the power cables from the lunch box and extended them to the stack of drives, used 3 of the onboard sata connectors and 8 of the sonnet sata connectors and had windows raid5 them all together!

Wee couldnt power 12 drives off the 450watt powersupply so i raped the lunchbox to use the data and the esata connectors to connect to the stack of harddrives and after 3 hours of sweating, swearing, and laughing, wee got windows to build a 4.20tb raid5 array that will hold half of our required data that wee can transfer over the weekend until wee can fix the transfer problems of editshare.



Here's how it all came out

Holey smoke batman...array is building now and I'm going home!
It was GREAT success!!
HIGH FIVE!!!

What a time for me to quit smoking

(This post was last modified: 28/03/2008 12:06 PM by SchmilK.)

holy spoon

u_c_taker Wrote:holy shit

u_c_taker Wrote:holy spoon

yeah, holy spoon.

that's freakin rediculous...

shows some people need biiiig big drives nowadays though

*stack*a*stack*a*

Where you work at ? NASA?  you guys need a lot of TBs.

Very interesting! :)

WOW, now that is is a nice rig.

Give me a Gig-E line and 4 weeks, I'll see if I fill it all up.

yeah wee do audio/video editing and have a full sound stage, green screen stage, and main stage that peopel rent the space to make movies/commercials/doctor videos. THe theme is 'space to create'

with that wee have final cut editing suites, avid editing suites, pro tools editing, and some 2d/3d graphics editing, everything here is HD!

Wee have had a Fletcher Red camera (the video camera in my SchiDeLoaDeR theme's video icon) that records on 8gb flash drives at 4k resolution(4096X1714)...with that you get 4 minutes of video/audio!  :X

I personally couldn't ask for a better job!!

(This post was last modified: 28/03/2008 01:01 PM by SchmilK.)