today I am going to give you a quick rundown
on whats in the rack. So we got our dell R420, we got a MD1000,
an SC846, a Dell T620 and Dell R710. Running the control operations down here we
have got a Dell R210ii. And we have got 2 APC UPS's running down below
to condition the power for everything on the rack. So the R420 is capable of hosting 8 2.5" drives
in the 6/2 configuration that we determined was the fastest to saturate the PCIE bus. With madmax this is able to generate a plot
roughly every 36 minutes. The MD1000 is capable of hosting 15 drives. If you find it locally at a great price, know
that you can swap out the ISCSI controllers for the SAS controllers and be able to scale
up to any size drive in 3.5" size. The SC846 is what houses our Dual 2697V2 processors
and 128GB RAM. It runs double duty on UNRAID system as both
a plotter and a farmer, as well serving up the house's media shares and a variety of docker
containers.
The Dell T620 beneath it is our powerhouse
of plotting with its dual 2667V2 processors running at 3.5 GhZ and 128GB RAM. With its massive amount of 32 2.5" drives
connected to 2 different HBA's, we are generating a plot every 32 minuites. Beneath that we have got the Dell R710. It is running mainly what we used to run on
the Dell T620, which is mostly our homes VM's that we use for various things. Beneath that we have got our R210ii and it's
running monitoring applications.
So those monitoring applications just make
sure everything's on time, in sync and also delivers reports if anything gets out of wack. Beneath that we have got 2 UPS's and those
are each capable of conditioning power for 2 of these machines and providing an ample
backup for shutdown in the event of a power outage. Most importantly though, they are here to
provide consistent clean power to the machines in the event of a surge and protect them from
any dangerous surges. We live a little bit on the side of a hill,
and lightning strikes on the poles outside are something that happens quite frequently.
So when I decided to move the rack over to
this area, I ran some new power outlets so we have two 20AMP circuits here that are servicing
this rack right now. In addition we have got the networking stack
on the back of the rack here. So we have got our 4 port Mikrotik 10gb switch. This is capable of delivering really fast
interconnectivity throughout the entire rack and also branching throught the structured
media panel there to the rest of the house where it is able to provide a backbone of
10gb to the node that is there as well. That node is also connected to my desktop
at 10g, which is really great. So this a Dell 5548P which powers our external
cameras, it also powers this mikrotik switch and can even power other POE infrastructre.
It also has some backup redundant connections
that goes to each one of the machines so that for control and certain types of media serving
and media accessing, we dont actually have to actually utilize the same vlan that some
of the other stuff is on. So what do you think? Is that too loud? That's three machines plotting right now,
and and a bunch of storage going. So check out below for more information on
these machines as well check out DigitalSpaceport.com for some more detailed write ups on cool stuff,
like cooling guides for garages and also electrical guides for your house and sizing electrical
load capacity. As well we have got some information for some
more detailed write-ups for these machines on exactly how you can get up and running
with them and some of the other uses that they have. Be sure to like and subscribe.
We will see ya next time..
