[project]6th GeN. 30TB TriplX

Guess its time for a update again...

Whats been done

* Paintjob done
* Mounted case back up
* Mounted frontplates
* Mounted Laing pumps
* Tightened fittings for hoses
* Mounted wtfpwn wheels on the lower module

The paint job

A entire chapter should be dedicated to this one, cus honest, its been a ****load of work to get the finnish decent enough to be happy with it :P Been sanding for hours, placed up primer, and hung stuff up and sprayed it with a spray gun... After a 30 hours drytime it was finally ok to pick it back down and start getting this case up running again....

Looking real good :up:, outstanding monster case :banana:.

Damn, I wish I had a paint boot like that at my disposal. The paint turned out very well, very nice finish. The whole thing looks great all together.

oh man thats cool :)


jase.. my whole shed is a paint booth atm we are gunna rip ot down soon so its got a compressor in it only.. getting vento painted then pullin it down. :P

wow... looks very sexy in black!! A+ paintjob. :)

Hi guys!

Its light in the end of the tunnel! Finally! Mounted up alot of stuff now, and its clearly turning out to be possible to get this PC up and running quite soon =)

The Storageish

Got pretty exactly 36 sata and 4 ide drives thats all going into this build, leaving another 8 slots for new disks in the future ^^ stuff tends to be filled up at a alarming rate... with, uhm... family photo's ofc ^^

First row in place ^^

Anyone stated that stuff cant be clean with 40 drives? 0.o

Aaaand.... the first batch of 24 disks up

Power em up?

Watercooling

Hah! Stuff looks so messy right now,but hey... its only gonna move water around... might change some loops tomorrow

Current status pic

OMFG HDDs lol. I really like the way you have done the HDD cables, it is really neat and tidy, the water loop is looking good also.+rep

looking really good mate.. i love it!

WHO NEEDS THAT MANY HDDS?! SERIOUSLY!

Nice work man, definitely the best of the 'GeN' series so far, in my opinion. +rep.

the higher the number the better they get :P

Iv been watching this for ages. Its great to see it come to a close finish.. I bet you cant wait to power that baby up and hear 40 hard drives do the power on tests :P I really enjoy my 5 hard drives doing it.

Cant wait :) go for gold

Hi guys!

Time for the long awaited update =)

Whats been done
* More cable management
* Some hose management
* Made a new holder to keep sata cables out of sight on the bottom module
* Soldered power cables for the pumps and light's
* Test booted all 3 PC's

Well... as mentioned before, have been putting quite alot of time into cable management, its now officially day 6 of the management... and a decent 30 hours has allready gone into it 0.o

God i hate this amount of cables... but hey... hopefully its gonna look decent when its done

Also tried to hook up the screen earlier, works flawlessly =)

Cable management looks great mate, very very neat and tidy, your best effort yet.

yeah man getting tidy now!! u have had alot of practice tho :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBk4YPh1R9c

Craziness man. If I haven't already, a big +rep!

Rightside design done.... this is the entire case side ^^

Should be done with the rightside one aswell later today

I'm liking that, respectfully shows your sponsors, and looks awesome ;).

well arnt you just to cool then :)

Finale?

nah... afraid not... but hey... getting truly close to finishing this project =)

Windows 7 installed on all 3 comp's, running flawlessly, the temp seems to keep stable at 34c full load on the phenom 955 + 4870x2 loop

Its not making any noise at all practically speaking, ill get a DB measure up within the next days

The final weight for those who's wondering is 63KG

The dragon is done, but still need the sponsor marks up there, and the watercooling has been filled up, should be able to get some benches soon aswell

So... what might be left?

* Screen cover on the backside
* mobo consealer on the rightside
* cathodes and LED's
* power button's
* HDD rack hider for the holders thats left empty for now
* get sponsor decals

Thx for tagging along on this build guys and ladies, truly appreciated with all the support thats been given =)

Dude it looks awesome, really cool, truly a beast, your best one yet. +rep

Wow, it turned out looking really nice. I think this is my favorite generation :D It feels much more polished than even gen5. I love the dragon, it manages to scream AMD and yet still look awesome and not like a blatant advert. +rep incase I haven't yet for this project.

That dragon on the clear plexi looks amazing. Truely awesome.

OMG the cabling is so neat & outstanding, looks very kick a :)
Brilliant job on keeping it nice, cool & quiet too for such a beast :)
Looks all round are awesome also, well done m8.
63KG wow thats like the max weight on my weight bench lol, so it is possible to move it, the wheels must be ultra strong to carry that weight.
This is probably the kind of pc I would have if I was very rich :D
For such a huge monstrous case it is gorgeous.
+rep if I have not already :).

i like it :P

whens the next gen coming out? lol

Hi guys! As some of you might know is the yearly "The Gathering" LAN party in vikingskipet Norway coming up soon.... hopefully will it be around 6000 contestants around in a large hall ^^

and when that is done, will it be time for me to move on....new ideas allways emerge when you give it enough time, and the modding mind is starting to have some cravings again.. i believe this would be some kind of mentally illness, but a strive for perfection still persist

Would therefore be happy to announce that the 6th GeN project is going for sale quite soon, to make headroom for well... 7th gen, lol

The project have had a build cost of a staggering 14,000 USD not counting in the time and effort to build it all

If anyone would have some interest , please dont hesitate to send me a PM =)

Best regards,

Christer Grevaeg

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i like it :P

whens the next gen coming out? lol

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Planning just started ^^

Guess ill give u guys a little heads up 0.o, The previous build got kinda large, and honest... its a pain in the ass to move around, lol

so i guess its time to size it down a notch, not much though... the 6th gen will be sold as a whole... including hardware, screens and cooling, will hopefully get a decent price for it so i can fund the upcoming build ^^

Going to get rid of the 500gb drives, and go up to 16x 2tb ones instead, assume that it will be one gaming rig + fileserver this time around, kinda considering getting a new phenom rig with a 5890 or two for now

There is no way in hell im going back to aircooling either... its just inferior ^^

Got a small design challenge now though... kinda hard to top the previous build... and the level of casemods around in this place and on bit-tech seems to be increasing, people are putting casemods to another league -.- so guess ill have to step it up aswell, theres allways room for improvement 0.o

Anyone got some wild ideas they would like to see implemented in the next gen?

Wow thats a monster, me like :up:
Can't wait to see your next project !!!

Mmmm, preeetty.. :D I'm really looking forward to the 7th generation, especially since it's gonna be entirely new hardware :twisted:

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Anyone got some wild ideas they would like to see implemented in the next gen?

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None come to mind atm, but you can be sure I'll say something if I think of any.

I'd like to see the next gen have a petabyte of hdd space but it's unrealistic lol

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I'd like to see the next gen have a petabyte of hdd space but it's unrealistic lol

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Maybe Gen 8 ;)

This build was absolutely amazing...I can't wait for 7th gen

Ok, because I'm...well, I'm not really sure what I am, but anyways, I did a rough estimate of what it would cost to build a 1PiB cluster using off-the-shelf components:

Basically, you would have three storage nodes, each with a crapton of HDDs, and a quad-port gigabit PCIe NIC. Then you would have a controller node, with three quad-port gigabit PCIe NICs. The quad-port NICs would give you a nice, dedicated 4Gbps channel between the controller node and each storage node.

I worked out that to get 1 TiB (not 1TB...at that level the difference is a massive 73TiB!), you would need 581x 2TB drives. To accomodate any RAID balancing you might want to do, lets even that out to 584. With this setup, you could handle a maximum of 596 drives, though unfortunately, 20 of them would be on onboard controllers (8 in this scenario).

Granted, this wouldn't be the cheapest way to get 1TiB, but that's hardly the point, now is it...

Storage node (x4):
EVGA 170-BL-E762-A1 (MBB)
Xeon W3580
24GB Mushkin DDR3-1600
1x 64GB Intel X25-E
6x Acera 24-port PCIe RAID controllers
146x 2TB Samsung F3EG
1x Intel quad-gigabit NIC
PC P&C TurboCool 1200

Controller node (x1):
EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR (MBB)
Xeon W3580
24GB Mushkin DDR3-1600
1x 64GB Intel X25-E
4x Intel quad-gigabit NIC
PC P&C TurboCool 1200


584x 2TiB Samsung Spinpoint F3EG ($180@): $105,120
24x 24-port Areca PCIe SATA controller ($1,130@): $27,120
4x EVGA 170-BL-E762-A1 ($500@) : $2,000
1x EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR ($240@) : $240
5x Xeon W3580: ($1,090@): $5,450
10x Mushkin 12GB(3x 4GB) DDR3-1600 ($750@): $7,500
8x Intel Quad-port Gigabit PCIe ($407@): $3,256
5x PC P&C TurboCool 1200 ($600@): $3,000
5x 64GB Intel X25-E ($413@): $2,065
Total: $155,751

Oh, plus materials to build the custom case(s).

Soo...anyone got an extra house that they'd be willing to sell so I can build this thing? :D

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bla bla bla I have lots and lots and lots of time on my hands

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;) just kidding. that is an expensive cluster setup. d to a m n. haha. I'm bored too.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/

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http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01...cloud-storage/

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Yeah, only problem there is that to get 1PiB, you would need 16 of their units, for a total of ~$126,000, plus a rack to put them in. I was trying to do it in as few systems as possible, with as much reliability and speed as possible (the SATA repeater bridges that BackBlaze uses apparently aren't so good on either front, but in the massive quantity that they deal with them in, it balances out.

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Yeah, only problem there is that to get 1PiB, you would need 16 of their units, for a total of ~$126,000, plus a rack to put them in. I was trying to do it in as few systems as possible, with as much reliability and speed as possible (the SATA repeater bridges that BackBlaze uses apparently aren't so good on either front, but in the massive quantity that they deal with them in, it balances out.

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Well one way to save $$ is to get specific storage chassis that allow you to link HDD backplanes. Intel has a few and there are others out there (supermicro, AIC). You can put up to 188 drives on one controller and the backplane handles the load.

Not that it would save much, but...

Haha, yeah, I was pretty blown away by how much of the cost was just the HDDs :D

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Haha, yeah, I was pretty blown away by how much of the cost was just the HDDs :D

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True. We recently built a server for a customer that had 32x2tb drives. He was shocked at the price until he saw the price broken down. We also cautioned him against using consumer grade drives in a server based appliance. He didn't listen to us and we have replaced 3 of the drives already. We told him the company would not warranty them in this configuration for more than a year.

Well guys, ive kinda reached a limit on how much stuff can be stored.... its quite frankly hard to fill up more than 30TB. Trust me, ive tried.. simply not enough family photos around on the www..

But hey... its still somewhat over the top for a home rig? 0.o

What i would really like to do this way around is to get the rig REALLY silent... as in... 16db ish, i wanna be able to push the button, and hear no difference at all...

Should be quite obtainable with enough radiators and low rpm fan's, anyone have some insight on how much heat a radiator can dissipate? are there numbers out there?

Also wanna put the build quality to a higher level then previous, might be using solid alu this time, and not those hollow profiles :P

Give me some ideas guys, running low ^^

Anyone know if its possible to get waterblocks for the 5890's yet?