New storage system

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

I used to have a pile of external HDs for storing all of my photos... that was a pretty ghetto setup.

I just put in a new system here, complete with a few pictures. It's a bit less ghetto...

I still have to get a tape autoloader (Exabyte VXA-2 probably) as well as put in shelves for more components, but it's coming along. There are two UPSes... the little one on the bottom left just powers the hubs and router..I have a much larger one for the computer system.

It's a 5x400GB RAID system, with 4x250GB LaCie's underneath to do weekly on-line backups. Once I put the tape system in, I'll do D2D2T backup (Disk to Disk to Tape), and do offsite storage.

I just had to share my excitement... I've had the system for about a week now, and it's pretty damn fast.

Mike

garveyj · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 877 City: Savage, MN

Very Nice Mike - I am jealous. I take it you can expand that - how much can you go to?

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

I can go up to 14x400 drives in the XServe RAID unit, for up to 5.6TB total. With mine, I have 5x400gb, but setup in a RAID-5 system, so I have 1.45TB usable space, and about 930GB usable space on the LaCie's below.

Or you can install several of the RAIDs if you need a lot of space, like a buddy of mine: http://intranet.21productions.com:8081/PumaLives.jpg .

oldschoolripper · Outlaw Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 143 City: Tupelo

good googly moogly thats some serious storage. I thought my 300 gig external HD was big!

dmb · Posted: Aug 20, 2005 11:48 pm Post subject:

Holy Jesus.... That is awesome Mike! I have the same Motorola Modem as you Cool

Hahahaha
Where did you get the black casing for it all from? I haven't seen those before... So how much space is being used on that system at the moment?

m4t1x · Newbie Joined: 20 Jun 2005 Posts: 19 City: Simi Valley

thats soo tight. all i got is a 120gb hd and more than half of it is used. Im in need of serious upgrade, but got no money. how much did that cost?

Mike Isler · Moderator Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 718 City: New York

dmb, the black casing is an APC NetShelter, 19" rack that's 25U tall. It weighs about 300lbs, and was not fun to get to my 2nd-floor home office. The Motorola modem was probably the single cheapest item in that cabinet!

I'm using about 1/3 of the capacity at the moment. This past year I upgraded to all 8MP equipment, so everything needs more space. Having the additional space gives me freedom to save layered PSDs and other things that I might not keep "on-line".

m4t1x, the whole setup above... well, if one wanted, one could buy a nice Kia or Daewoo car instead, for the same price. Hit up Apple.com and look at the prices for XServe and XServe RAID, and it'll give you a ballpark. Plus, the black metal cabinet alone is about $1k.

Cheers,

Mike

DC · Soul Rider Joined: 11 Mar 2003 Posts: 456

I never thought I would say this to another guy, but "nice rack!" lol..

What kinds of drives are you running SCSI, SATA?

Bowen · Posted: Aug 22, 2005 7:56 am Post subject:

Mike Isler, P.I.M.P. Those G5 XServe Raid's are sooooo nice!

southshoresledder · Criminal Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 75 City: meyers

sick set up bro... i am jealous

Paul-o-rama · Newbie Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 28

DAMN!!!!! THaT is so hot, it makes me want to cry......... I'm so jelous