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Very interesting rack!
Are those two âtowersâ connected to each other by default. Or only equipment/shelf is what connecting them together?
Moved 3 Nodes from VPSs to my home, increased from 1.5 TB and 2x3.4 TB to 12TB each.
PC is odroid h3.
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I like the dust cover. Smart move! 
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- Synology DS1621xs+
- Syba 8 Bay USB 3.0 Enclosure SY-ENC50119
- 7 HDDs: 3 in Synology, 4 in Syba. 60+ TB total, about half used for StorJ.
- UPS: APC ES 550G
- ATT 300Mbps symmetric Internet (can be upgraded to 1Gbps symmetric)
Synology is mostly used for IT-services of the local Non-profit.
Also, Iâm running Video Surveilance on Synology.
So, StorJ is running as additional load on the side.
Currently getting ~$60-70 a month. Eventually I may add more HDDs in Syba.
I read warnings about unreliability of hosting on USB drives. Can confirm: yes, there are issues specific to USB, so generally - I wouldnât recommend it. Works ok in my case⌠Here is an example of up/download rates:
========== DOWNLOAD ===========
Failed: 8
Fail Rate: 0.122%
Canceled: 80
Cancel Rate: 1.224%
Successful: 6449
Success Rate: 98.654%
========== UPLOAD =============
Rejected: 0
Acceptance Rate: 100.000%
---------- accepted -----------
Failed: 234
Fail Rate: 1.725%
Canceled: 1
Cancel Rate: 0.007%
Successful: 13330
Success Rate: 98.268%
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Can you post more pics please? I want to print something like this, i have a sunlu t3
Is it possible to use PLA for this, or will the HDDâs get too hot?
I have printed some enclosures to hold 24/7 passive cooled 3.5 HDDs with PLA. HDDs had up to 50° C at the summer. No problem. I made the walls of the enclosure bit thicker (8 mm) to be sure, it will not bend because the temperature.
PLA does not get liquid at 60 degrees, its glass transition curve is not very steep, so this was expected.
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Does the Syba shut down, when the connected host shuts down or does it keep running?
No, there is no way to shutdown Syba via Software.
It can be shutdown only by pressing buttons (each drive has itâs own shutdown button).
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HP Proliant dl360 g7
2x xenon x5650
16gb ecc ram
Running truenas scale with storj installed
I have one terabyte of storage for storj and one for nas use
Yea it looks jank because I donât have extra hard drive caddyâs so I used cardboard underneath the drives to raise it high enough in order to connect on the back plane also to prevent shorting from the hdds motherboard to the metal chassis (yeah blue painters tape lol, thatâs for proper air flow and thereâs a section cut off to see the activity light)
So thatâs my rig ,also am new to the whole
Storj node operation and owning a server (Iâve bought this simply to have a nas and to learn about server stuff) But so far so good
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First node was an mini pc with usb hdd. (not the best idea)
Here my second Node:
Gigabyte X570 UD
R9 3900X generously watercooled with aio
32GB DDR4(3200) tested for errors
Windows11 on Samsung 860 EVO 2TB SATA SSD
For giggles: new 1TB 970 EVO Plus M2
For StorJ: new Toshiba 20TB MAMR Drive 512Mb persistent writecache
Radeon 5500 GPU
Aka: My GamingPC.
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How noisy is the G7? I had two 360 G5âs in my lab for a while. The wife hated them as they were incredibly loud.
Well on normal power setting (the balanced profile on the bios) it can get a bit loud depending on how much am really using those x5650s. but for my use case I have my g7 on low power setting and only one core to be enabled (two cores total since I have two x5650s) which is fine since am running just a basic Nas plus storj nothing crazy. on low power mode itself and especially the configuration am running, the server fans basically run at minimum which its very quiet. so basically, i played around on the power profile and core disable option to find that sweet spot on how quiet it runs and the performance I needed.
(Iâve also replaced the thermal paste on both CPUs and the chip set with mx-6 to really get it running quiet and cool)
I hope that answered your question 
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Thank you, yes. I have read that putting non HP parts in the Proliantâs can cause some of them to ramp up fans to max speed. I know for sure that is true of the Dell R730xd we have at work currently. Thankfully it is not true of the T320âs I have at home or my HP ML150G6. All those are fairly quiet.
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Those âtowersâ are connected via common âground baseâ that has wheels, and after that via shelves. Server cases themselves only screw into the front âtowerâ.
What scrypt are you using?
