Share your successful ReadyNAS hardware setup

ya ya. I need to fix the time on the webserver since DST changed on the weekend.

It's when you write a list like this that you realize just how much stuff is lying around the apartment

- NAS: ReadyNAS NV+ with 4x Seagate 1tb drives (the ones with the bad firmware last year)

- Server: 8-year old Shuttle box running Windows 2003 Server Enterprise with Athlon XP 1200 MHz underclocked to 900MHz (less heat and power). 786 megs ram and 2x 120 gig PATA drives, Intel Gigabit NIC. Planning to upgrade this one next year.

- Wife's machine: Mac Mini running Windows Vista Home Premium. 24 inch Apple Cinema display.

- My machine: Lian-Li case (looove) running Windows 7 Ultimate with Core 2 Duo 3GHz, 4 gigs RAM, 1x 128gig SSD and 1x 500gig 2½" Seagate Momentus 7200rpm, Radeon HD4850, Coolmax fanless PSU, various very quiet fans from IXP and Scythe, Scythe CPU heasink, Thermalright GPU heatsink, Intel Gigabit NIC, 24 inch Sony display.

- HTPC: Silverstone HTPC case (black of course) running Windows Vista Home Premium with Core 2 Duo 2.13GHz, 2 gigs RAM, 1x 64gig SSD, Radeon HD2450 (fanless), Zen fanless PSU, Silverstone fanless CPU heatsink, Intel Gigabit NIC, 42 inch LG LCD, Logitech Harmony One remote for this one and the Denon receiver+KEF speakers.

- Laptops: Lenovo Thinkpad X200, IBM Thinkpad T41, IBM Thinkpad X22 (older even than the server, but fine for the kids).

- Switches: 2x 3Com gigabit with Jumbo Frame support.

- Router and AP: 2x Buffalo WZR-HP-G300N.


More info and pics. Page needs updating though. http://www.rosboch.net/quietpc.htm

This is a business setup so I'm going to leave some items out.

Rack 1:

Three Dell PowerEdge 2950 Windows 2003 Servers

Three Dell PowerConnect 2724 switches

APC UPS with 8 hours of external battery (I've tested it!)

Pelco DVR

Small APC UPS for router and modems

Two Netopia DSL modems

Cisco RV042 dual router to tie the two modems together

ReadyNAS Pro with six 1.5TB HDs in Raid 6 configuration and Adaptive Load Balancing (main file server)

Rack 1 is connected to Rack 2 with a 2Gbs fiber optic back haul to another building.

Rack 2:

ReadyNAS Pro with six 1.5TB HDs in Raid 6 configuration and Adaptive Load Balancing (backup)

Dell PowerConnect 2848 switch

With this setup, I was able to replace a 200GB Snap Server and a tape drive. The tape drive has now been turned off and all my backups are strictly disk based now thanks to rsync.

Lee Carter wrote:
This is a business setup so I'm going to leave some items out.

Sure you don't mean add in a few phony extras (that's a long list)? :wink:

I have two ReadyNas NV+, two Mac Minis, an Airport Extreme, a Dynalink RTA1046VW, a APC Smart-UPS 1000XL, a Macbook. One Mac Mini is hooked up to a 42" TV.

I finally got around to fixing up my home rack.

Changes:

* Added a locking steel door
* Added wheels on the bottom
* rack-mounted my switch
* added shelves and a cool anodized steel drawer
* I now have wire management (yay!)
* got rid of the old UPS and now use a SUA1000RM1U (which did not fit in my rack) and is mounted to the wall behind it
* Added an AP9619 to the new UPS
* Epoxyed a hardened steel loop 6" into the concrete floor and cable locked my Pro to it

mdgm wrote:
Sure you don't mean add in a few phony extras (that's a long list)? :wink:

Lol, no I still had two other buildings with equipment. I'm envious of all these home setups!

Hello,

That's my setup:



Some text on the picture is in Polish but I am pretty confident you will understand everything :)

ADSL router is going to be replaced with Netgear one (with WiFi N) in some time.

Inside PC there are: Athlon 965 BE, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 x64. Two 160GB drives (mostly for test/backup) and two "primary" 750GB drives. No RAID. So you see I have quite a lot of diskspace in total (~10TB net) :roll:
PC accesories are mostly from Logitech (MX610 mouse, Illuminated keyboard, Wingman Force 3D joystick, Wingman RumblePad gamepad, Driving Force GT steering wheel, S5500 webcam) and some from Creative (2+1 speakers, Aurvana X-Fi Live headphones). Display is Dell's excellent 2209WA.

There's also some home cinema stuff in my setup - 42" Samsung LCD TV, Pioneer DVR and Pioneer receiver, Tannoy 5+1 speakers.

ReadyNAS Duo works both as a file server/print server for my network as well as as a DLNA server for PS3 which I find (except gaming of course) as a very convenient/feature rich multimedia player. Yes, PS3 cannot play MKV's but we have mkv2vob :wink:
Iomega box is quite new piece of hardware in my setup, will probably work as a primary filestore in the future.

Cheers,
Andy

Thought I'd post my setup as I finally finished it in Visio...

I am happy to say that i purchased a Kingston KVR400X64SC3A/1G RAM, and have had no problems with it on my DUO.

Server rack consisting of:
- rackmount 8-port GigE managed switch
- readynas 1100 - with 4x 2TB (WD2002FYPS) drives - XRAID
- readynas 1100 - with 4x 1TB (WD1002FBYS) drives - XRAID
- readynas 3200 - with 12x 2TB (WD2002FYPS) drives - XRAID2
- custom built 3RU linux process server - runs my UPS monitoring server, http/ftp fileservers, and various databases
- custom built 3RU linux file server with 6x 200GB (WD) drives - hardware raid5 (promise hardware raid card) - now pretty much defunct (hasn't been turned on since i got the readynas 1100 systems)
- APC UPS - SUA1500RM
- monitor, keyboard and kvm switch

Network Rack consisting of:
- rackmount 24-port GigE managed switch
- 24-port rack patch panel (going to various drops in the house - only 22 are in use :)
- custom built mini-ATX PC as my network gateway (dual intel GigE nics)
- Apple Airport Express 802.11n wireless access point
- DLink 802.11b wireless access point

Then random stuff in the network (laptops, PCs, printers, etc.) that use the fore-mentioned items :)

Eventually my server rack will be upgraded with a 2RU tape backup auto-loader, to provide me with some much needed offsite backups.

[updated with pics]

Server Rack:


Network Rack: