Danny and Bas watching back to back skate movies from the 80-ies on as many teevees as they could wire up. Some of the teevees are even older then Public Domain

Just before christmas, Martijn send us an email that he had found a nice Circus Pinnball machine for sale on marktplaats. Somehow Santa got this message too, because when we arrived at Circus today there it was in full glory, our own Pinnball machine… Now let’s see who is getting the first highscores.

This year it was time for our Medea SCSI raid to get some rest…
For our new projects on HD we need more space. So after being used 24/7 for 3 years and still working it was time for a retirement. We were looking for something that we could maintain, expand, alter and configure ourselves, with the same speed and reliability as we were used to.

We started building our own raid systems and after half a year of testing, asking around, more testing and google we came up with our own hardware raid solution.

The Circus Nerds created a new RAID that in total can store 8,5Tb of data…
Yeah.. 420Mb/s a second read an a 350Mb/s write…
Thanks for the help from webconnexxion.com and Harald at habanet

Short list of hardware used:
2× RaidSonic EDB979-1 9bay case
20× 5,25” to 3,5” brackets
20× HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 – 500Gb
5x HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 spare disks
4× Addonics 5×1 hardware sATA portmultiplier
2× 5v 12cm ventilator
2x Potentiometer & Voltage regulator
1x RAID card
And a lot of cables and solder…

As for now we have a spare Medea 1Tb SCSI RAID and two homegrown external RAID boxes of 1Tb each… Interested? ask Peejee

Danny and Peejee tried the “new” stencil machine we got from a nice guy in Groningen. The result of the prints weren’t that well so Peejee started cleaning the machine… It helped getting his hand dirty…