Homemade Home NAS - (Large pictures!)


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    Hi,


    Here are some pics and specs of my NAS. I moved from OpenFiler 2.99.1 to OpenMediaVault 0.3.0.20 without any difficulty. It's running a nice 7x3To RAID5.
    I'm mainly storing movies, musics, pictures. SABnzbd running.


    [Base]
    Case - NZXT Source 210
    PSU - Corsair 400W CMPSU-400CX
    Mainboard - Asus P5K Deluxe Wifi/Ap
    CPU - Intel Core2Duo E6750 @ 2.66Ghz
    RAM - Ballistix DDR2 PC8500 2 x 1Go
    Graphix - Matrox Millunium PCI
    UPS - Eaton Protection Station 800VA USB controlled



    [Storage]
    HBA - 2 x IBM M1015 flashed in IT mode without bios
    HDD system - 80Gb Apple 2.5" sata on MB port
    Storage HDD - 7 x 3Tb Seagate st3000dm001 SATA3 (4 on first HBA, 3 on second)


    [Cooling]
    2 x 140mm front intake
    1 x 120mm door intake
    1 x 140mm up exhaust
    1 * 140mm back exhaust
    PSU exhaust



    Pics:


    Back from the Rue Montgallet (chinese computer street)... it's quite heavy!

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    HDD serial numbers are sticked on each hdd. If one fails, it's can be easily identified.
    First M1015 car is in 16x PCIe slot (16x electrical) and second in 16x PCIe slot (4x electrical).



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    I tried some cable management to make all this stuff as clean as possible...



    HDD Temp are betwenn 31 and 33°C (room temp = 25,8°C)
    UPS load:


    Transfert rate = 55-60Mo/s in SMB (Windows 7 client). Will try some multiple clien transfert.



    If you have any question... feel free to ask!
    Thanks!

    Amazing set:)


    I understand that you use it only at home?

    I know that the world does not expect the us to many. It is sufficient that you answer yourself a very important question: what I like to do in life, and then start to do it.


    HP N36L Microserver 60GB SSD + 2x 250GB HDD + 2x 1TB omv 3.0.X 64 bit - 3.16 backport kernel
    Banana Pi + 16GB SD + 500GB - test platform omv 3.0.X - ARM - 3.4.104 kernel
    Banana PRO + 8GB SD + 320GB - test platform omv 30..X - ARM - 3.4.104 kernel
    SimpleNAS project - OpenMediaVault and Case for Banana Pi/PRO/M1/M1+/M3, LM Guitar

    I'm actually running in some irq conflict problem with the 2 Sil3124 cards I'm using on my server (one PCIe, the second PCI) and consider buying one of those IBM M1015 card (can find some really
    cheap). I'm just wondering : why did you install 2 cards for only 8 drives ? Don't they have 2 SAS ports each wich can handle a total of 8 drives/card ?


    As I'm totally new to those SAS cards and for what I"ve understand reading and googling around, the IT mode you're using will show 4 separate drives on each port ? Can you please confirm this ? And maybe point me to a good tutorial ?

    Hi,


    Each M1015 can handle 8 HDDs via 2 mini-SAS ports. In IT mode, the card acts just as a HBA: the HDDs will show up as separate disks (sda..sdb..sdc..etc.). There are no settings (and the bios is useless).


    I will be using more HDDs in the future and I wanted to test my system with two cards already but yes, I could use just one. As you may read on others forums, some (none server grade) mainboards can fail booting with two M1015 (sometimes, even 1 card will crash it!). If I want to be precise: some mainboards won't be able to flash the card but will boot a flashed card.


    My P5K Deluxe works perfectly with two M1015 (flash and run).


    For you Sil4124 cards: maybe you could try deactivating all non-used onboard devices (serial ports, sound card, firewire, IDE...etc) to free some IRQ.


    No tutorial in mind, but I've read all I could find on the M1015 before buying it!

    many thanks for those usefull information (will continue in english, even if I think you might be french... rue Mongallet :))


    of couse I've already deactivated all unused devices on my mobo (ASUS P8B75-M LE with i3 2120). this is not happening all the time in fact. there's sometimes a message "irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)" from the kernel and thats all. it's always related to sil3124. I tried that irqpoll option, but it didn't change anything. except for this message, there's nothing else (others with same errors reported performance loss, but not for me).


    for the M1015 card, it looks like a real jungle. I've found one at a decent price (105€) but they're talking about 46M0831 controller. is it the same as yours ?

    Yes, I'm french!


    46M0831 refers to IBM part number (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips0740.html). The most important think to check is the bracket (as they are server cards, the high or low profile bracket is no always available).


    105 euros is a pretty high price for this card. I payed 80 euros two cards (leboncoin).


    If your system can run a M1015, i think it will be be far more stable than your current setup.



    There is a pretty good thing with OMV: when I was using OpenFiler, I couldn't access SMART with smartmontools. With OMV, in IT mode, I can see temps and SMART directly in the interface.

    Hehe ;)


    One last thing: i'm not sure you can boot a hdd plugged on the M1015 in IT mode. I don't care because my system disk is plugged on the mb but it might annoys you.


    Bonne chasse!

    same here : system HDD is plugged on the mb. additional cards only neede because I don't have enough SATA ports on the mb for my 14 HDD (yes, 14. I know, I'm a little crazy :D)

    1. RAID 5
    If you mean software RAID 5, any RAID/SATA controller card with "passthrough" mode will present individual disks to the OS. You'll be able to create a software RAID 5 with these disks.
    If you mean hardware RAID 5, the M1015 in the basic setup isn't able to run a RAID 5 array. You can buy a special hardware key that plugs on the card and will enable the RAID 5 in the M1015 bios (46M0832, ServeRAID M1000 Advanced Feature Key for M1015 SAS/SATA Controller).


    2. Performance with my RAID 5 software is good IMHO. I need to practice some tests but I don't know how to correctly test a RAID5.


    If your 150€ card doesn't include the special key for RAID 5, it's clearly overpriced.

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