1997 CD-ROM Library, to Become Bunker Storage DAS - 1303
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- I have this CD-rom Library tower, that I have been saving for like 15 years,,,,, Just because I thought it was cool. Now I want to use it for a DIY DAS Storage Box for the Tiny Data Center Bunker.
To make the DAS, I will be using the Adaptec AEC-82885T. 36 Port SAS Expander.
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Networking computers together back in the 90's was always fun.
Yep,, spent a lot of time messing with that.
I had the HP version of this. The HP had http, ftp, and other protocols (if i remember correctly), and i used as an arive for drivers and Linux ISO back in the late 90s early 00s.
This video made me very nostalgic.
Hi @Ardinia
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
It's definetly a nice box! And a cool project!
Thank You,, I think so too! :-)
And to all of you who hasn't a CD-tower laying around: there's an Sharkoon ATX-Case with many 5,25" bays in the front. Room enough for a mainboard with a sas-card, a 10gb network-card and truenas, unraid or any other distribution. The sharkoon Rebel-12.
I would not think that is to many people :-)
@@MyPlayHouse My Truenas is an itx-case from LianLi equiped with a jetway q77 board, 8gb RAM and 5x 5Tb WDred HDD. With an 120Gb SSD as Cache it's fast enough for iSCSI and virtualization and also for every backup. Saturates it's 1gbit/s link.
Lots of these were used in BBS Systems with the CD-ROMS full of Shareware programs for BBS users to download
Yes,, back when 650MB was a lot of storage :-)
The DP15 is the AUI connector, used to go to a converter to either PDS, Thinnet with BNC (RG59) or Thicknet with N-connectors (RG8'ish), or even TokenRing in some cases.
I might have a few AUI/Thicknet converters somewhere in the "museum" ;)
I am sure I had some of those as well,, not sure where they are or went to :-?
Just some thoughts on this project...
3D Print a bracket to hold the SAS expander and insulate the backside of it from any metal surfaces.
Replace the stock fan with a pair of noctua industrial 80mm fans for better airflow at a similar noise level.
Replace the front window with mesh for airflow.
Use a pair of 4 bay 3.5" drive in 3 5.25" drive bay holders to still have room for 8 hot-swap 3.5" drives, and put in an 8 bay 2.5" in one 5.25" drive bay for SSDs (tiered storage).
3D Print a case to hold your SAS HBA with a fan blowing on it.
I personally would replace the PSU with something modern. Modular ATX supplies are great for this, you just need to bridge the power-on signal to ground, and there are very cheap ATX-24 pin adapters with just those two pins populated for this very reason. AT supplies are getting quite old, and can fail spectacularly. At a former employer we got in a palette of new never used AT supplies from a reputable company, the caps had all leaked out and when you plugged them in the +12 volt line would shoot up to about 24 to 28 volts and blow up anything you had plugged in. A 25+ year old used AT supply is a liability.
Thank you for all the sugestions,, I would like to be able to run the DAS from DC,, at some point,, in the bunker.
With all those disks in it, might be a good idea to uncover that blanking plate and fit a second exhaust fan.
The new drive holders,, comes with fans. I want to wait, with that, until I see if it is necessary. Thank You :-)
I'm proud to say i'm older!
couple months but counts!
I am also a few months older,,, or 22years.
I'd be careful with that old AT PSU, they don't usually have a lot of 12v capacity, which is what everything these days runs on. Also the poor thing is over 20 years old, and deserves an honourable retirement. I'd look for an alternative for power, like some of the modern SFF units.
Well a little CAP smoke has never hurt anyone :-) If it dies,, it dies, and we will deal with that. Not a problem.
Everything runs on 12v these days, except for hard drive electronics.
2:20 I have a 13 dvd burner copier and never used it only brought it to help someone out who was short of cash,....
That must have been an expensive help, he got.. that cant have been cheap.
In the front there sits 12 drives with those 3 lff to 2 5.25 inch cages
The ones I am getting is 5 in to 3 - 5.25 inch cages. so 10 3,5", and maybe 8 2,5"
I'd love to do something similar to this with four SCSI Seagate hard drives I have. They are 5.25 inch full height drives. If this unit was one drive taller, I might even be able to use the original controller and network the drives!
Hi @eanhutchison9849
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Fantastic
Thank you so much 😀
I used one like that - an Axix cd tower - scsi , TokenRing network (Intentia Danmark - long gone and forgotten)
Yes,, today,, we would just mount an ISO from a share..
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Hi @skynetcybersystem3tech
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
It would be funny to put a blue ray drive in the box
I think the Network is 10/100Mbit/s os max it moves like 15MB/s I do not think that would be enough for BlueRay :-/
What about taking all the old cd players and remove the guts but mount the facia back on the cd case.
It would look like nothing happened, no one would try to steal it and the metal cases could be screwed back in place for each hard drive to sit in.
Or you can say ' Get knotted i'm not going to that much trouble' lol.
Humm secret storage... maybe.
Morten do you remember in the old days when you had many dvd burner like in this tower you have and you where copy a cd to many at one time....:)....
I never had one of those,, tried to build one,, but never got fare.
Will you need to attach a small 40mm fan to keep that card cool like I have to do when i put the 10g server cards in my desktop cases?
Uhh I would really like to avoid those small noisy disks,, but it might need cooling.
@@MyPlayHouse I use the "ugly" noctua fans they are nearly silent a little more expensive yes but worth it IMHO.
Consider using TrueNAS Scale?
Maybe,, :-)
I miss this era when there was a variety in cases. Catering to gamers ruined everything.
I think you have way more choice now..
@@MyPlayHouseby chance I just looked it up, and you’re correct. The whole time I was looking for an ATX case, but these are DVD duplicator cases.
Have you checked the drives for leftover cd-roms 😸😸
humm No I did not do that... that is a good idea :-)
would the card not fit in the slots on the rear of the case, then the sas cable will already be out of the back
I want it out of the way from the drives. and the card is a lot longer than the network stuff I took out.
thats funny as i used to have a cd duplicator like that was scsi do believe mine was
This was also SCSI,,,, this was so expensive back then.
Hay Morten, funny i have just managed or something like 4 weeks ago, get a similer CD-Rom box you have, only issue been told does not power up, possble PSU issue, no biggy.
Well I do actually also not know if the PSU is any good in mine yet.
@@MyPlayHouse nice one on the find, a soon as I get it will test it , talk about a very rare find Morten
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isnt it a cd copy station?
No,, the driver could only read.
@@MyPlayHouse yea i also later notice from the head unit... but then i got confused by that long SCSI cabel witht that many ports, didnt knew it is possible
Name of the card?
Is in the description,, for all to see :-) And if you want one,, see the china = CN link,, as it is bloody expensive on amazon.
cd/dvd are untenable - just move to usb flash - do nvme arrays
Hi @shephusted2714
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
yeah copy cd over lan with max speed of 100 mb🤣
:-) that was about 10MB/s I do not miss that..