DarthBeavis Project: Holocron (Windows Home Server build)

[DarthBeavis]

Specs:
Intel i5 655 processor
ASUS P7P55 LX motherboard (used because it has 3 PCI slots for the 3 eight-port raid cards)
4-8 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Tracer ram
25 two terabyte hard drives
Custom-painted Danger Den Double-wide tower by www.stevenunez.com
Silverstone Zeus 1200 M PSU
GPU . . .not sure yet.
Danger Den H20 of course
Color scheme: Inside all white - white tubing, sleeving, coolant.

Case pics:
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[Trace]

50 TB...Is that necessary?

[StormRider]

aww, where's the stormtrooper women?

[DarthBeavis]

aww, where's the stormtrooper women?
Did not find good enough art for it

[diluzio91]

damnit! now i have to go play force unleashed... love the artwork

[mofo]

I am both excited and disappointed.

When I read holocron, I went Sith Holocron (ie little intricately carved pyramid). Wow, Darth making a super ornate pyramid out of plexi! Nice!

but then I clicked and went doh! It's a media server so its probably referring to the LOADS of info stored on it.

BTW nice case regardless, love the girly jedi/sith chicks.

Can we get higher res screens if possible?

[DarthBeavis]

I am both excited and disappointed.

When I read holocron, I went Sith Holocron (ie little intricately carved pyramid). Wow, Darth making a super ornate pyramid out of plexi! Nice!

but then I clicked and went doh! It's a media server so its probably referring to the LOADS of info stored on it.

BTW nice case regardless, love the girly jedi/sith chicks.

Can we get higher res screens if possible?I should have the case tomorrow.

[x88x]

Heheh, this should be good. :D Nice artwork as always from Steve.

Oh, and Trace...yes...yes it is. :twisted:

[TheGreatSatan]

50 TB...Is that necessary?

I guess he trying to save every piece of data for the whole world, when it ends.

[x88x]

I guess he trying to save every piece of data for the whole world, when it ends.

Shhh.. >_> .. <_< ... Don't let them hear.. ;)

[Waynio]

I guess he trying to save every piece of data for the whole world, when it ends.

:banana: Yep, must be, but 50TB :eek: holy sheet thats a lot of storage :D.
Subbed, want to see this, what do you have in store to keep them quiet & squash the vibration, ah nevermind thats what I'm subscribing for :D:up:.

[DarthBeavis]

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[DarthBeavis]

20 of the 2 terabyte Western Digital HDDS installed
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[Waynio]

Wow :D beautiful artwork & awesome cabling, super fantastic server DB +rep :).

[x88x]

That...is awesome and beauteous.. OOC, how are you gonna be controlling all those drives?

[DarthBeavis]

That...is awesome and beauteous.. OOC, how are you gonna be controlling all those drives?


Three of these: Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X
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[x88x]

Hmm, ok. Do they link or do you have 3 volumes or software RAID?

[DarthBeavis]

Hmm, ok. Do they link or do you have 3 volumes or software RAID?

Windows Home Server

[SXRguyinMA]

50TB for a home server? I'd hate to see what he'd put into an enterprise situation :eek:

[DarthBeavis]

50TB for a home server? I'd hate to see what he'd put into an enterprise situation :eek:

My business server is a water-cooled Skulltrail

[SXRguyinMA]

nice :D

[DarthBeavis]

getting pump ready . . .will sleeve in white of course
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[DarthBeavis]

This project is finished
Final pix and specs:
CPU: Intel SandyBridge 2500k
Mobo: ASUS P67 Sabertooth
RAM: 8 gigs of Crucial Ballistix Smart Tracer – pattern and color can be changed via software
GFX: two NVIDIA Geforce 580s in SLI
PSU: Silverstone Zeus 1200m – some of the cables I sleeved and some are extensions from Frozen CPU
Cooling: Danger Den watercooling including their new Monsoon Resevoir
Case: Danger Den Double Wide Tower 21 – custom
Other: 25 two terabyte Western Digital hard drives, three Areca raid cards


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[Technochicken]

It looks amazing! But why put a GTX 580 SLI in a server?

[DarthBeavis]

It looks amazing! But why put a GTX 580 SLI in a server?
HTPC - hooked to my 70" sony TV. Can game on it. That and I have five 580s with three in my gaming machine so I had two leftover

[PS2SP]

.... so I had two leftover

I'll give one a good home :banana: .... I know I know I'll not let the door hit me in the ass on the way out :redface:

PS. Excellent build, alike all of your projects I've seen :up:

[AmEv]

Two reasons for 40TB:


DVD&BluRay ripping

TBCS primary server :banana:


*Don't forget about joining the TBCS 4TB club!

[diluzio91]

WOW.... gorgeous... I think you have a bubble in your cpu block though.

[DarthBeavis]

WOW.... gorgeous... I think you have a bubble in your cpu block though.
pump was not running

[xr4man]

damn dude, do your lights dim when you turn that thing on?

[DarthBeavis]

damn dude, do your lights dim when you turn that thing on?green drives - they do not pull much power

[Waynio]

HTPC - hooked to my 70" sony TV. Can game on it. That and I have five 580s with three in my gaming machine so I had two leftover

More 580's than you know what to do with lol lucky you :D.
Really nice looking rig though mate, the paint job is fantastic, bet it weighs a ton with all those hdd's :D.

[Fuganater]

I looked at the DD case for my server but I just can't justify the price. Double wide cases are way over priced IMO. So I'll just build my own!

Either way, great build DarthBeavis.

[AmEv]

That's why I'm making my own double-wide case.

Teaser for my personal server build ;)

[DarthBeavis]

I wish I had time to build my own cases from scratch but I have to do builds for NVIDIA on a schedule . . .tight schedule.

[AmEv]

Not a scratch-build, either..........

[DarthBeavis]

Not a scratch-build, either..........
If you are not buying a case but you are making one isn't that a scratch build?

[AmEv]

You'll see...

I'm making a cube case, but I'm not building it from scratch, either.

[DarthBeavis]

Got the cover of CPU Magazine July 2011 issue. w00t

[x88x]

Congrats! :D:up: