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titaniumone posted:Earlier in the thread someone brought up aggregating network ports. I ended up buying an Intel Quad Port PCI-E 4x card for my server. A little bit of configuration in FreeBSD and on my Cisco switch, and now: Also, you're welcome. I believe it was me who mentioned LAGG, I'm running it with a dual port NIC, because it's in a low-profile pci-express port.
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thebigcow posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_S1 Welp, there goes my plan. Thanks for the link 
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What's the general feeling here on unRaid? You can set up a pretty huge NAS for relatively cheap http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid=827661%23pid827661#post827661 Any reasons I *don't* want to do this?
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crm posted:What's the general feeling here on unRaid? You can set up a pretty huge NAS for relatively cheap Slowest updates ever, we're talking 5-6months between the last beta release and last weeks RC's. Between that time serious bugs with LSI hardware that forced people to compile their own. The developer moved and the project kind of stopped for a while the relocation was taking place/new business with unRaid was being set up. Replace the stock ui with SimpleFeatures and its quite nice. Besides that 5.0 has been stable for me, plugins work (sabnzbd/sickbeard) well, and the new webui plugin should be stock.
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The appeal of the "ever growing storage thingy" is great. You can't really do this with ZFS, can you?
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May 7, 2012 16:17
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crm posted:The appeal of the "ever growing storage thingy" is great. You can't really do this with ZFS, can you?
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May 7, 2012 16:32
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evil_bunnY posted:You can't add drive to a raidz vdev, but you can add vdevs to an online pool. But you pretty much have to add vdevs as mimimum 3 drives so you have fault tolerance, correct?
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May 7, 2012 16:48
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evil_bunnY posted:You can't add drive to a raidz vdev, but you can add vdevs to an online pool. This is the only reason I stick to LVM on top of a bunch of mdadm arrays. Until I ran up against the 16TB ext4 limit (that I didn't know about when I started with it), it was a simple matter to add a drive to the machine, expand a RAID array, and expand my LVM pool.
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crm posted:The appeal of the "ever growing storage thingy" is great. You can't really do this with ZFS, can you? You can resilver existing vdevs, which is basically doing a kind of dangerous 1:1 replacement of each drive in the vdev. If you have a 6-drive RAID-Z2 vdev made of 1TB drives, you could individually resilver each drive with a 2 or 3TB drive and "grow it". Or, you can plan to expand in terms of vdevs. My server was built around 6-drive RAID-Z2 vdevs, so I just bought 6-drives at a time to expand until my chassis was full.
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IT Guy posted:But you pretty much have to add vdevs as mimimum 3 drives so you have fault tolerance, correct? Part of the reason I went R6 instead of ZFS. Single drive expansions.
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Running my raidz-2 array with a missing disk until Seagate feels like sending out our RMA 
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May 7, 2012 18:27
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DNova posted:Running my raidz-2 array with a missing disk until Seagate feels like sending out our RMA Same here...Hitachi takes awhile to ship drives. I'm hoping the rebuild goes OK 
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May 7, 2012 18:33
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DNova posted:Running my raidz-2 array with a missing disk until Seagate feels like sending out our RMA That's why you went raidz-2, a little extra wiggle room. Now if you lose another...start worrying
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May 7, 2012 18:36
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UndyingShadow posted:That's why you went raidz-2, a little extra wiggle room. Now if you lose another...start worrying If I lose another, it's going offline and I don't care how much the people here want their data. I have backups on another smaller NAS but I don't want to deal with giving them access to that and then merging the changes later.
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May 7, 2012 18:44
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ilkhan posted:Yes, as I understand it. With Raid 6, can you expand the array one disk (or more?) at a time? How much trouble is it to do this?
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crm posted:With Raid 6, can you expand the array one disk (or more?) at a time? How much trouble is it to do this?
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crm posted:With Raid 6, can you expand the array one disk (or more?) at a time? How much trouble is it to do this? It can be done if softward/firmware permits, Linux software raid has this capability. The trouble is that it requires a complete rebuild.
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crm posted:With Raid 6, can you expand the array one disk (or more?) at a time? How much trouble is it to do this?
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to add to the RamChat, I have a 16tb ZFS volume and 8GB of RAM and I have no kernel panics or performance issues and no swap usage even though I have it configured to have an additional 8GB swap file available in FreeNAS. Your mileage may vary, but 1:1 is definitely more of a recommendation than a requirement, at least on a consumer home storage level which seems to be where most people are headed in this thread. I would do 1:1 in a production environment where there are more than (in my case) 3 simultaneous users of the storage, but not on a thing where we are all basically just using the thing to stream porn to our Boxxee.
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Telex posted:stream porn to our Boxxee.
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Hooray, new drive showed up! Hopefully this goes well!code:
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So we are looking for a backup solution at the university where I'm currently working and this is what my boss is considering: NAS for our lab space NAS to have across campus to serve as a backup solution I have heard mixed things about Netgear, and that is a lot of cash to spend on iffy products. What should I offer up as an alternative or would this work fine?
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May 9, 2012 15:55
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FreeNAS 8.0.4-RELEASE-p2 is out. It fixes 2 security bugs.
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Modern Pragmatist posted:So we are looking for a backup solution at the university where I'm currently working and this is what my boss is considering:
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May 9, 2012 18:18
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Upgrading FreeNAS through the GUI has been a very unpleasant experience. I'm now booting up the ISO from a CD after giving up.
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May 9, 2012 21:07
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I've found QNAP to have the best offerings at the moment if you want proper enterprise stuff. Seconding this for cheap "enterprise" gear. We now have 5 qnap boxes at my work. Set them up right and they work well.
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May 9, 2012 21:10
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N40L goons: Do I have to use ECC RAM or can I just use the RAM I've got lying around/in my normal computer?
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Sombrero! posted:N40L goons: Do I have to use ECC RAM or can I just use the RAM I've got lying around/in my normal computer? Non-ECC RAM is hit-or-miss, so you might as well give it a try with what you have. Also, I hear that Windows (home server) is a bit more forgiving than the linuxy systems with regard to non-ECC RAM.
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How can one OS handle flipped bits in ram better than another OS? I'm not doubting the validity, just based on my knowledge of how that kind of memory corruption happens I'm at a loss to understand how something as high-level as the OS would help.
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Wheelchair Stunts posted:How can one OS handle flipped bits in ram better than another OS? I'm not doubting the validity, just based on my knowledge of how that kind of memory corruption happens I'm at a loss to understand how something as high-level as the OS would help. Obviously you just extend the VM subsystem to do channel coding.  I'd very much like to hear the explanation for how windows (home server) handles non-ECC memory better than linux. Longinus00 fucked around with this message at 01:37 on May 10, 2012 |
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May 10, 2012 01:33
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IT Guy posted:Upgrading FreeNAS through the GUI has been a very unpleasant experience. I'm now booting up the ISO from a CD after giving up. elaborate if'n'ya please
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Sombrero! posted:N40L goons: Do I have to use ECC RAM or can I just use the RAM I've got lying around/in my normal computer?
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IT Guy posted:Upgrading FreeNAS through the GUI has been a very unpleasant experience. I'm now booting up the ISO from a CD after giving up. What happened exactly? I've upgraded through the GUI twice now, and both times it went flawlessly.
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Fangs404 posted:What happened exactly? I've upgraded through the GUI twice now, and both times it went flawlessly.
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Wheelchair Stunts posted:How can one OS handle flipped bits in ram better than another OS? I'm not doubting the validity, just based on my knowledge of how that kind of memory corruption happens I'm at a loss to understand how something as high-level as the OS would help.
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necrobobsledder posted:I think some people might confuse how an OS could "handle" certain kinds of memory failures better than another with an OS is loaded into a different part of memory than another with different memory access patterns that are more statistically likely to be affected by most memory failures in non-ECC DIMMs. Aside from research OSes that explore cryptographically secured execution contexts or something where every other memory segment is encrypted or something, nothing really modern OSes do that'll inherently make one more or less susceptible to memory defects aside from just using less RAM or something. I suppose you could do some kind of software based ECC? I know, ZFS for memory!
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FISHMANPET posted:I suppose you could do some kind of software based ECC? I know, ZFS for memory! What if your ARC gets corrupted? ZFS still does a non-trivial amount of semi-critical operation in memory.
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DNova posted:elaborate if'n'ya please Fangs404 posted:What happened exactly? I've upgraded through the GUI twice now, and both times it went flawlessly. It just sat at the "please wait" screen forever. The messages at the bottom never change. I read the documentation, disabled the services, etc. Same issue as this guy: http://forums.freenas.org/archive/index.php/t-3282.html Except that changing my browser didn't help at all. I tried Chrome, Firefox and IE9 both with and without compatibility mode. Booting the CD worked flawless for me.
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Viktor posted:Slowest updates ever, we're talking 5-6months between the last beta release and last weeks RC's. Between that time serious bugs with LSI hardware that forced people to compile their own. The developer moved and the project kind of stopped for a while the relocation was taking place/new business with unRaid was being set up. I used to recommend UNRAID to everyone but based on the frequency of updates as Viktor said, I dont. V5, which supports a lot of things modern raid systems do has been in beta for YEARS with a lot of crippling bugs. It also costs money, 120 dollars if you want the OS that supports more than 6 discs, 70 if you want the 6 and below setup. V4 which is what I am on works fine, but I want to upgrade my array size soon and do not plan on shelling out for the more expensive license. Really at this point I'd wait and see how Windows Storage Spaces shakes out since it does parity protection similar to unraid.
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IT Guy posted:It just sat at the "please wait" screen forever. The messages at the bottom never change. OK... but it let you upgrade and retained all your settings and all that good stuff?
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