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Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 9 months agoDamn are all 24 disks internal? That’s some rig! I have the hardware on my latest NAS to connect up to 56 drives in hot-swap bays, and at one point while migrating data to the new drives I had 27 active units. Now that I’ve cleaned it up I’m only running 17 drives but it still seems like quite a stack.
stealthnerd@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yea they’re internal. That’s normal for a fully loaded 2u storage server. Some even have 2-4 extra disk slots in the rear to cram in a few more.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Wow that’s packing a lot in 2u. I’ve only ever had 1u servers so eight 2.5" slots is a lot for these.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
To be fair, that’s for something like the R720xd, which drops the disk drive and tape drive slots to fit an extra 8 disks in the front. I have a regular ole R720 and it only has 16 bays. I didn’t need that many bays, and wanted better thermals for the GPU in it.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 9 months ago
The 2u (R720) is quieter than the 1u (R620)? Or quieter than the R720xd?
Unfortunately the 720 wouldn’t have worked for me as the majority of my drives are 3.5" (8x18TB + 5x6TB). What I ended up doing is designing a 3D-printed 16-drive rack using some cheap SATA2 backplanes. Speed tests showed the HDDs were slower than SATA2 anyway, so despite the apparent hardware limitation I actually still clock around 460MB/s transfer rates from those arrays. Then I use the internal 2.5" slots for SSDs. Seems to be working a hell of a lot better than my previous server (a PE 1950 which only had a PCIx 4x slot and topped out at about 75MB/s).