AAPEN Part. 5

Tid for en aldri saa liten oppdatering.. saa mye aa gjore disse dager, lite tid til noen ting

A poorly lit rats nest!
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Most of the small wiring cleaned up
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Time for some poorly lit SATA cables!
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And even more cables..
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General Purpose Storage
The Western Digital 500GB 7.2k RPM drive with 16MB dram cache.
These four will be configured for RAID10 for both redundancy and performance
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The Black Edition in all its glory
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Ready for mounting..
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All mounted
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The top backplane is powered from the board’s SATA controller

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Storage Controller

The Adaptec 1430SA PCIe 4 port SATA controller has finally arrived
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And mounted.
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The last few drives
Finalizing the storage for Polly.

Another Seagate Momentus XT 320GB hybrid drive.
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Two A-RAM 32GB Indilinx Barefoot powered SSD’s
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SATA cables..
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Mounting the Barefoot’s in the 2.5″ to 3.5″ bracket.
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Mounting the SSD’s in the floppy bay.
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The drive cable salad..
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The LED lightshow of the Adaptec controller.
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Polly storage system:

2x Seagate Momentus XT 320GB hybrid drives (RAID1)
2x PQI 64GB SandForce SSD’s (RAID0)
2x A-RAM 32GB Barefoot SSD’s (RAID0)
4x Western Digital 500GB 7.2K Black Edition (RAID10)

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The drive bays in operation.
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The very feature-full (not to mention ultra-reliable) Gigabyte BIOS in all its glory
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Det var alt for denne gang, naa er det paa tide aa leke litt med RAID