backup
Highlights
- 36 terabyte ZFS file system with RAID-Z and RAID-1 arrays (28 TB usable)
- 8 hot swap 2.5″ drive bays
- 7 hot swap 3.5″ drive bays
- rsync configured to run on daily boot, backup all local systems, snapshot, and shutdown
Hardware
Intel Xeon X3430 2.4Ghz quad-core CPU
Supermicro X8SIE-F Motherboard
8 GB (2x 4 GB) Registered ECC DDR3 1333MHz Nanya NT4GC72B8PB0NL-CG Memory
LSI 9211-8i PCIe 4-port SATA/SAS card
Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X 8-port SATA card
Supermicro CSE-M14T 4-in-1 hot-swap 2.5″ drive cage (bays 1-4)
iStarUSA BPU-124DE-SS 4-in-1 hot-swap 2.5″ drive cage (bays 5-8)
Antec Nine Hundred Case
Corsair VX450 450W Power Supply
8x hot-swap 2.5″ drive bays (bays 1-8)
7x hot-swap 3.5″ drive bays (bays 9-15)
Drive Layout
1. (tl) 160 GB Intel 320 SATA SSD (formatted to 80 GB drive size)
2. (tr) [1] 4 TB Seagate Laptop HDD ST4000LM016 128MB Cache 5400RPM 2.5″ SATA HDD (H9R)
3. (bl) [1] 4 TB Seagate Laptop HDD ST4000LM016 128MB Cache 5400RPM 2.5″ SATA HDD (ZQL)
4. (br) [1] 4 TB Seagate Laptop HDD ST4000LM016 128MB Cache 5400RPM 2.5″ SATA HDD (55S)
5. (tl) empty
6. (tr) empty
7. (bl) empty
8. (br) empty
9. [1] 4 TB Seagate Desktop HDD.15 64 MB Cache 5900 RPM SATA HDD (54P)
10. [1] 4 TB Seagate Desktop HDD.15 64 MB Cache 5900 RPM SATA HDD (XJL)
11. [1] 4 TB Seagate Desktop HDD.15 64 MB Cache 5900 RPM SATA HDD (BG8)
12. [1] 4 TB Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 32 MB Cache 5400 RPM SATA HDD (LDJ)
13. [2] 4 TB HGST Deskstar NAS 0S04005 128 MB Cache 7200 RPM SATA HDD (WJB)
14. empty
15. [2] 4 TB Seagate NAS HDD 64 MB Cache 5900 RPM SATA HDD (C66)
Bays 1-4: Intel
Bay 5: Supermicro
Bays 9-10: Intel
Bays 11-12: LSI
Bays 13-15: Supermicro
Software
- Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS (64-bit)