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thebigcow posted:Probably part of the ilo hardware. This, and also I'm not sure if the Xeon chips have integrated video (probably because it makes ILO/LOM/DRAC/Whatever harder).
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# ? May 23, 2013 15:48 |
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Goon Matchmaker posted:Matrox G200 video? WTF? Matrox is still around? How old is that chip anyways? Why not just use the integrated intel graphics? The G200 will 15 years old in a couple of months.
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# ? May 23, 2013 16:24 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:The G200 will 15 years old in a couple of months. No poo poo, I had that chip on an AGP board in a PC that we bought in early 1998. How many drive bays does it actually have? I seem to be blind as I can't locate that on that site.
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# ? May 23, 2013 18:57 |
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I've had 6 Reds from B&H photo running for about 6 months, all's well:code:
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# ? May 23, 2013 23:32 |
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In case anyone was interested, Newegg is selling the HP N54L Microserver for 15% off along with a $50 mail-in rebate for $239 and are also throwing in a USB 3.0 controller card as well. The mail-in rebate expires after tomorrow, so I assume that the 15% off promo will expire then as well. Because I love burning money all at once apparently, I splurged and went with the combo offer they were offering, which included the following: - HP N54L Microserver - USB 3.0 Controller Card (Included w/N54L) - 2 x 4GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR 1333 ECC - 4 x 2TB Western Digital Red HDD's After an additional $80 combo discount, the total came to $735 for everything. I'm well aware of the QC issues Newegg has had with the Red drives, but assuming everything arrives in one piece, I hope to use this as a media server for my desktop and HTPC. This is my first foray into any find of NAS/Server, so I'm painfully ignorant of the finer details on how to do anything. A cursory glance in this thread and elsewhere seems to point towards using FreeNAS and setting up a 6TB ZFS pool, but I'm open to any and all opinions and/or tips since this is my first time doing anything like this.
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# ? May 25, 2013 23:30 |
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Looks good to me. With the bios tweak and e-sata port, I'd go with ubuntu+ZFS for my OS on a spare 2.5 laptop/cheap SSD. The onboard USB header is such a cool feature I think. My higher end SuperMicro board has it, and I'm still trying to find something fun to do with it besides an OS install.
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# ? May 25, 2013 23:47 |
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For the last four years I've been using a HP MediaSmart server as my NAS. Yesterday, it started rebooting under any type of heavy hard drive usage. I thought it was a problem with the system drive, bought a new drive, restored the OS, started transferring the first files to the new system drive, and it started rebooting again. Now it can't be trusted, and I need to replace it. I don't want to build a PC for this. I'm thinking about ordering the Synology DS413. I had never heard of Synology before today, but the more I read, the more they sound like the industry standard. I wish I had gone with them four years ago instead of the now-dead MediaSmart running the now-dead WHS. Synology's hybrid RAID sounds similar to Drive Extender, which is awesome. The only other things I did with my HP were running a personal FTP, iTunes server, nightly backups of my desktop, and (sadly, manual) backups of itself. It sounds like any of the Synology products will do these for me, plus about a billion other things if I need them. I was just wondering if anyone had experience with the DS413 in particular? There are a ton of references to the DS412+, but I don't know if any of the extra features and faster processor are worth the extra $180 to me. Edit: One other question. This is also the first time I've looked into the WD Red drives... Would there be any issue mixing a few new Red drives with my existing Black ones? Like, will any performance gains from the Red drives be negated by the fact they are mixed in with the others in the same NAS device? Gambl0r fucked around with this message at 04:48 on May 26, 2013 |
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rainwulf posted:Im going to chime in with my experience with slightly higher capacity storage. I know that I'm digging up an ancient post here, but I'm genuinely curious - How the gently caress did you get the SASMF8I out of RAID mode? I tried to flash it to the 1068E firmware, but that just resulted in Windows 7 refusing any driver I'd present to it.
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# ? May 26, 2013 09:15 |
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I heard some rear end in a top hat has a BR10i for sale in the 'mart. edit: Fractal R4 for $80 shipped for US goons. Awesome case, I grabbed one for full price a few months ago. Fits 8 drives and has 2 5.25 for a few more. You can mount two SSD's on the back of the mother board tray. http://us.ncix.com/products/?usaffiliateid=1000031500&sku=75044&vpn=FD-CA-DEF-R4-BL&manufacture=Fractal+Design&promoid=1281 kill your idols fucked around with this message at 05:36 on May 28, 2013 |
# ? May 28, 2013 04:21 |
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Another datapoint for reds: I ordered three 2TB from Newegg, and they shipped them to me with each in a giant wad of bubble wrap, in a box full of packing peanuts. Two are perfect... one dropped out of the array about 40 days in. Waiting on an advance RMA so I can swap it out. I only comment because I got a survey which had this question in it: I wonder if they're starting to notice.
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# ? May 29, 2013 21:48 |
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Ha, that's funny. My Newegg reds (one was DOA) were packed like yours. The Amazon drives were packed like the picture and had no DOAs.
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# ? May 29, 2013 21:54 |
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Ninja Rope posted:Ha, that's funny. My Newegg reds (one was DOA) were packed like yours. The Amazon drives were packed like the picture and had no DOAs. I had 4 shipped from amazon and 2 from newegg, I believe. Can't remember the packaging on the newegg ones but I do remember the amazon drives being packaged properly. No problems after several months with mine, guess I got lucky. Well, except for the fact that my raidz2 is half-full already. 7TB just isn't enough..
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# ? May 29, 2013 22:07 |
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The last time I ordered drives from Amazon, they were just drop shipped from Ingram Micro, each in its own individually wrapped / padded box that they came from the factory in. Then, all those boxes were thrown in a huge Amazon box which was overflowing with packing material. Was pretty happy with that!
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# ? May 29, 2013 22:14 |
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I just got some 3TB Reds in from Amazon (3) and Adorama (3). The Amazon ones were packed properly, the Adorama ones haphazardly. None of them appear to be DOA, so here's hoping.
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# ? May 30, 2013 01:44 |
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IOwnCalculus posted:Another datapoint for reds: I ordered three 2TB from Newegg, and they shipped them to me with each in a giant wad of bubble wrap, in a box full of packing peanuts. Two are perfect... one dropped out of the array about 40 days in. Waiting on an advance RMA so I can swap it out. Has anyone had any horror stories with buying drives from Amazon? I'm in NJ, so I get hit with tax from Newegg, so I try to grab from the local MicroCenter in the hood. I never bought a drive online so I want to use my Price Membership for something good besides pet food and pregnancy tests to give out on Halloween.
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# ? May 30, 2013 01:45 |
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Remember when newegg would just toss your drive into a box with the rest of your order, and then cover it with a few sheets of brown paper?
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# ? May 30, 2013 06:16 |
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Thoom posted:I just got some 3TB Reds in from Amazon (3) and Adorama (3). The Amazon ones were packed properly, the Adorama ones haphazardly. None of them appear to be DOA, so here's hoping. Remember to set up email monitoring, always nice to get spammed with an email that says everything is a-ok than not be sure when your storage is about to fail. I highly recommend the raidz2 with 6x XTB drives. I'm probably going to add another zdev to mine when I hit 75% usage to raise it to 14TB. That, or build a crazy storage rig and use this as a backup for the more crucial data, perhaps with another zdev as well. Probably the latter.
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# ? May 30, 2013 06:24 |
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Yeah, raidz2 is the plan. I'm currently running badblocks on the drives overnight to head off any early failures before I format them. Is there a standard way to do this email monitoring?
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# ? May 30, 2013 06:38 |
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Depends on the platform. With freenas you can use the builtin tools to run smart checks and scrub your pools. If you decide to run openindiana you can use nappit or write some crons. If you're in the mood for overkill you can set up a nagios server in addition to the above.
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# ? May 30, 2013 06:45 |
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Running Ubuntu Server (13.04). Crons it is, I suppose. Was something like this what you had in mind?
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# ? May 30, 2013 07:09 |
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I'm not 100% sure what thread this should go in, so I'll start here. I'm trying to *add* about 50 TB of storage to a server split where maximum i/o is achieved by splitting across 4 independent i/o channels (it does not serialize to more than 4). The easiest way to do this would seem to be splitting a 24-bay enclosure into 4 6-bay RAID-6 arrays using a SAS expander. I've spent the last hour researching SAS expander since it's brand new territory for me, but am having trouble drilling down to specific possible hardware choices. Does anyone know any good resources to start researching specific solutions (i.e. chassis, vendors, specific sas expander cards, etc.)?
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# ? May 31, 2013 06:27 |
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code:
Edit: Yeah, from the man page it looks like the feature simply isn't implemented. Thoom fucked around with this message at 07:54 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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kill your idols posted:Has anyone had any horror stories with buying drives from Amazon? I'm in NJ, so I get hit with tax from Newegg, so I try to grab from the local MicroCenter in the hood. I never bought a drive online so I want to use my Price Membership for something good besides pet food and pregnancy tests to give out on Halloween. Me. Amazon shipped a comically large box with 4 smaller hard drives (WD Reds Ironically) in boxes banging up against each other. the kicker was they put in a sheet of paper in there. Just to mock me I suppose. I shipped them back without opening the drives and called Amazon to complain, probably didn't do much good. Maybe they've gotten better, but after what i've seen with newegg and amazon crap-tastic shipping for such a sensitive device, I'm just going to buy drives from b&m places from here on.
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 14:59 |
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Thoom posted:
Is there an advantage to sharing an ZFS data set that one way over the other?
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Bonobos posted:Me. Amazon shipped a comically large box with 4 smaller hard drives (WD Reds Ironically) in boxes banging up against each other. the kicker was they put in a sheet of paper in there. Just to mock me I suppose. I shipped them back without opening the drives and called Amazon to complain, probably didn't do much good. You've never been in the warehouse of a b&m during truck unloading.
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 15:24 |
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Lowen SoDium posted:Is there an advantage to sharing an ZFS data set that one way over the other? The article I read suggested that setting up the shares manually could lead to some weirdness if services got started in the wrong order on boot up. I also read that the ZFS-based solution was faster, but that seems to be an academic point because I'm saturating my LAN connection as-is.
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# ? Jun 2, 2013 17:40 |
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Thoom posted:
Share SMB is Solaris specific. A shame cause it beats configuring Samba.
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# ? Jun 4, 2013 14:52 |
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DNova posted:You've never been in the warehouse of a b&m during truck unloading. I surmised as much, but figured at least with the retail box you can tell if the drive has been dropped if the packaging is banged up. Screw it, I'm just going to stop buying hard drives all together.
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# ? Jun 4, 2013 15:29 |
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So I was getting terrible read speeds on my Freenas HP N40L (like 5 MBs per second) while my upload speed was on the order of 80 MBs. I decided to try to update FreeNAS to the latest build through the GUI, and it completely poo poo itself. I eventually had to wipe the USB stick with zeros and reload a fresh copy of FreeNAS to get it back running. After that, all I had to do to get my data back was click Import ZFS volume, and it had everything back in 30 seconds. After rebuilding my users and shares, it's all good, and my read speeds now match my write speeds. So, gently caress you FreeNAS for being brittle and killing yourself over an upgrade, and a big thanks to ZFS for being stable and storing all your pool information in the drives.
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# ? Jun 4, 2013 18:51 |
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UndyingShadow posted:So, gently caress you FreeNAS for being brittle and killing yourself over an upgrade, and a big thanks to ZFS for being stable and storing all your pool information in the drives. IIRC, the recommended upgrade path is not through the GUI, though I've never had an issue with it. I'm looking to setup a new RAIDZ2 NAS, as my old one is Case PSU MoBo Processor (with AES-NI) 16 gigs of RAM Extra SATA ports for the... 10 harddrives (21.8 TB usable) 1 harddrive not in the RAID config Any recommendations on/outside of these picks? Do you think I should wait a bit longer for harddrive prices to come down from their tsunami high?
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# ? Jun 5, 2013 04:45 |
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In my country, 4TB hard drives are pretty much the same price point as the other ones. Are you only getting the 3TBs because they're WD Reds?
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# ? Jun 5, 2013 06:17 |
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telarium4 posted:PSU 750W is too much for your rig which should boot with 300W easily and consume about 40-70W at most. Get something efficient low power like the Sea Sonic G-Series 360W or something else gold rated and <400W. Another option is the FSP Raider 450W, which is has excellent efficiency despite being rated bronze. Other than that, the rest seems fine. Oh, and a lot of Sata->2xSata power adapters.
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# ? Jun 5, 2013 15:35 |
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I have a 6x2TB RAIDZ2 running on FreeBSD. I had a drive die a while back, and since I don't have a job and couldn't afford to spend $100 replacing it, I just let it continue in a degraded state. (I know, I'm an idiot.) Yesterday, I discovered there is a second failed drive. I shut down pretty much right away. Now I can't get any of my stuff, but at least it's not actively being destroyed. If I have to live without it until I get a drat job, I will. The original 6 drives were all Seagate, 5 from Newegg and 1 from elsewhere. One drive failed in January and was replaced with a WD. I do not know which drives are now failed. 1. Is it likely that I can resilver 2 drives without another failure? 2. Is there a preferred way to replace 2 drives? i.e. simultaneously or sequentially?
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# ? Jun 7, 2013 00:13 |
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The risk you run in a situation like this is that while you're resilvering another drive will die, but whether you do 1 drive or 2 drives it won't matter because it's still just reading the data once. Are you able to RMA either of the drives?
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# ? Jun 7, 2013 00:22 |
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I accidentally added a non-mirrored hard drive to an existing zfs pool. It looks I can't ever remove the drat thing, but is there anyway to keep that drive for separate purposes? I wouldn't mind making it a temporary folder while my raidz1 drives are used for long term storage.
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# ? Jun 7, 2013 03:59 |
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FISHMANPET posted:Are you able to RMA either of the drives? No, I bought them too long ago.
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# ? Jun 7, 2013 21:05 |
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evvywevvy posted:No, I bought them too long ago. Meaning the drives are out of their manufacturer's warranty? Or the return policy for where you bought them?
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# ? Jun 7, 2013 21:28 |
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Seagate is releasing a competitor to the WD Red, called 'NAS HDD' http://www.anandtech.com/show/7062/seagate-introduces-nas-hdd-wd-red-gets-a-competitor Available in 2, 3, and 4TB sizes http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/nas-drives/nas-hdd/?cmpid=friendly-_-solutions-nashdd-us
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# ? Jun 11, 2013 15:07 |
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Looking for input on something I'm trying to work out. I want to build an all-in-one box that would serve double duty as a fileserver/transcoder and run on ESXi/Hyper V for testing/learning purposes. I'd be shooting for ~6TB of storage (so 4x2TB raid 5), presenting that to vm host, and running a windows VM for media serving/file storage. However, I get the impression that this probably isn't going to be feasible, or that it's just not a very good idea. In order to make this work I'd need a Hardware RAID card that's ESX/HV compatible, and even then the horror stories of trying to rebuild a failure on disks that size is worrying me. Also, apparently without write cache I'm hearing lots of problems with poor I/O, so that's pushing me into a card that's silly expensive. Should I just drop the idea of a combined unit? My gut is saying yes but I thought I'd doublecheck here.
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You could do ESXi booting from iSCSI using FreeNAS or something
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