Moey posted:Anyone run an iSCSI or NFS VMFS datastore at home? Also, be aware that some iSCSI daemons implementation are better than others.
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D. Ebdrup posted:I would investigate which manefacturer is working on implementing NFSv4.2 because it has sparse file support, IO_ADVISE, and application data holes, all three of which are very important for VMDK storage on NFS. Damnit. You know I was looking for a yes or know response, right?
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Moey posted:Damnit. You know I was looking for a yes or know response, right?
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Moey posted:Anyone run an iSCSI or NFS VMFS datastore at home? Yup. Using freeNAS to host iSCSI VM repository for Xen
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Jeez, I had a few typos in there last night. With freeNAS, are you serving up spinning disks or SSDs?
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Moey posted:Jeez, I had a few typos in there last night. Spinning disks, 16x 900GB SAS 10ks in a ZFS array. I'm building out a SSD only array right now.
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IOwnCalculus posted:At that price I would expect "new" "refurbs", not actual new. I have a few of the former, they've been good so far. You know I thought the same thing but the same ebay seller has actual refurbs with 60 day warranty for $10 less so... I'm gonna check it out in CrystalDisk and if there's like 1000 hours on it or something I'll be returning it since the listing clearly states "new". I was just wondering if those HGST helium drives had any weird problems or firmware issues to be aware of. It seems like a reasonably good deal and while two 8tb disks won't be as fast or flexible as an array of four 3tb disks, it's more storage and cheaper for drives that look like they've been handled at least a little better than the average eBay drive. Thanks for the input. e: I just looked again and it states the condition as new but then says 'like new' under the description
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I don't know if it's just me but my SAS drives report far less info to smartctl than my SAS drives do. Results of a "smartctl -iA" to SATA and SAS HGST 8TB drives: SATA: code:
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IOwnCalculus posted:I don't know if it's just me but my SAS drives report far less info to smartctl than my SAS drives do. Results of a "smartctl -iA" to SATA and SAS HGST 8TB drives: Yup, that's normal.
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I'm looking to replace a 1.5 TB drive that's been in use for 5 years continuously. I'm pondering going with: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07H2RR55Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Would this be a good drive to go with? Budget isn't very big, I'd say around $60-70 or so. 2TB is generally what I would prefer. Bonus if it's on Amazon as I can get that drive tomorrow via Prime. Thank you!
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Hello thread. I'm looking for a sanity check re: storage, thought you might be able to help. Short version: I'd like to expand the storage on my PC, but I'm out of drive bays so I'm thinking an external solution might help. If I don't particularly care about RAID (I'm relying on Backblaze for backup and it's worked fine so far), and I have just one computer on the network. So... I don't actually need a NAS, do I? Surely just a multi-bay external enclosure is what I'm really after? Either that or buy larger drives and replace the existing ones.
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Trabant posted:So... I don't actually need a NAS, do I? Surely just a multi-bay external enclosure is what I'm really after? Either that or buy larger drives and replace the existing ones. You are correct. You don't need a NAS if you have no intention/need to access you files when your computer is off (for example, streaming them via Plex to a TV or accessing them from outside your home via VPN or whatever). If all you want is more storage for your PC, I'd see about replacing a smaller drive first, and if that's not economical, then consider an external enclosure.
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What's the most secure method of making a NAS accessible via the internet in TYOOL 2020? I"m sure the answers will differ based on the product, but I'm more generally curious. For example I've used SSH on FreeNAS and port forwarded my router to the NAS so I can browse wiles with WinSCP or just map them as SMB shares. What's more preferable to that? OpenVPN? I don't really see that as an advantage.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:What's the most secure method of making a NAS accessible via the internet in TYOOL 2020? I"m sure the answers will differ based on the product, but I'm more generally curious. OpenVPN would be fine for securing though perf is poor if you have a good internet connection. I have Gigabit so that’s my point of reference. I have a WireGuard VPN setup that all my devices have profiles for. I use that to do phone backup of photos and videos as well as accessing things off the NAS. I generally don’t expose SSH directly to the internet but that’s a personal preference. Mostly, WireGuard has better perf if you’re doing significant file transfer.
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You could run an instance of Nextcloud with a reverse proxy out in front for access to files. For getting to the NAS itself via smb/ssh or its management page I would still use a VPN rather than exposing either to the internet.
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DrDork posted:You are correct. You don't need a NAS if you have no intention/need to access you files when your computer is off (for example, streaming them via Plex to a TV or accessing them from outside your home via VPN or whatever). If all you want is more storage for your PC, I'd see about replacing a smaller drive first, and if that's not economical, then consider an external enclosure. Thanks!
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rufius posted:OpenVPN would be fine for securing though perf is poor if you have a good internet connection. I have Gigabit so that’s my point of reference. I'm not and really I'm just looking for something convenient so I can get to files from any computer. OpenVPN would still require me to download the client and all my traffic would be tunneled which is not only slightly inconvenient, but might also raise some eyebrows at work. But the reason I ask is because I would also rather not expose SSH to the internet. Synology seems to have a decent solution for this but I'm unsure of the tech behind it. Like how is it accomplished? If I were going to replicate with FreeNAS should I use HTTPS via SSL and something like Let's Encrypt for a CA? e: THF13 posted:You could run an instance of Nextcloud with a reverse proxy out in front for access to files. noted. Thanks.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I'm not and really I'm just looking for something convenient so I can get to files from any computer. OpenVPN would still require me to download the client and all my traffic would be tunneled which is not only slightly inconvenient, but might also raise some eyebrows at work. What kind of files are you wanting to access. Generically, NextCloud is good for a lot of things. If it’s media, Plex does a good job in my experience. I expose my Plex instance though it’s locked to limited users.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:But the reason I ask is because I would also rather not expose SSH to the internet. Is port knocking not a thing people do anymore? Or if you’ll be connecting remotely from a known IP you could set the firewall up to drop any connection attempt from other IPs.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:What's the most secure method of making a NAS accessible via the internet in TYOOL 2020? rufius posted:I have a WireGuard VPN setup that all my devices have profiles for. I use that to do phone backup of photos and videos as well as accessing things off the NAS. Wireguard is going to be the standard going forward; it's baked into the linux kernel which is as close to a chosen winner as you're gonna get. If I were gonna design a personal VPN these days that would be my baseline. OpenVPN probably has more google-able troubleshooting stuff right now to get you up and running, but if this is a long term thing, definitely look at wireguard.
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I hope it's cool to keep posting HD deals in here. I like coupons and deals but I rarely just browse it looking for sales and as far as I can tell we're all fiending for big bytes. Anyway, Amazon's got the 12TB WD Elements for $175.49 right now and claims it will end the sale in just over 22 hours. I guess if they run out it may be sooner: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X4V2M3B/
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Rexxed posted:I hope it's cool to keep posting HD deals in here. I like coupons and deals but I rarely just browse it looking for sales and as far as I can tell we're all fiending for big bytes. Apparently the same deal is for Amazon.de where the price is 194€ for me. Ends in 12h 40min. I have considered making a server/nas: - 4x 8TB shucked wd elements - samsung 250gb 960 evo m.2 - ASRock B550M Pro4, mATX - 2x8gb ecc like Kingston Server Premier, DDR4 2666MHz, ECC, CL19, 1.20V - seasonic 550w focus gx-550 - fractal node 804 - freenas - ZFS mirrored vdev ("raid 10" = fast rebuild, fast in general, easy to add storage) - cloud backblaze b2 ($5/tb/mo hosting, $10/tb download) - offline backup (replication) to external hdd BUT what CPU to use? Ryzens seem to be a good value. I don't want some piddly CPU which chugs under any load. I tought about Ryzen 3400G because it has system idle under 30W -> could get around 50W total usage with 4 HDD's (500kWh/a which is around 60€ here in Finland): https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/amd_ryzen_5_3400g_review,4.html The problem is.. cheap AMD APU's don't support ECC! AMD please!! So what to do. I want power, speed, storage (if possible). Budget is around 600-700€ for NAS hardware (equal to 5 slot synology/qnap pricing) and 600€ for storage. 600€ gets 16TB. Of course that deal would give 24TB for 780€. 50% increase in storage for 30% increase in price. Could go further with the 24TB and avoid buying a SAS card (unless of course the B550 is poo poo). Ihmemies fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Whelp, tonight my own old Synology DS415+ died (the Atom C2000 bug we discussed a few pages ago). I can confirm that the 100ohm resistor fix does work on already failed hardware, which is nice. The hardest part is getting access to the unpopulated header on the board to solder it on - the whole thing is very much not designed to come apart and go back together easily. Twenty second fix, plus an hour to pull it all apart and put it back together. Good thing I had all my electronics equipment in storage, including the right resistor. Wasn't looking forward to waiting around for parts during the pandemic.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:all my traffic would be tunneled Doesn't have to https://openvpn.net/for/split-tunneling-with-access-server/ If you just want to get to your totally legal backup copies of your music, Plex is very good, btw
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Munkeymon posted:Doesn't have to https://openvpn.net/for/split-tunneling-with-access-server/ Re: Plex - and if you didn’t know, Plexamp is a thing and it’s quite nice.
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Munkeymon posted:Doesn't have to https://openvpn.net/for/split-tunneling-with-access-server/ This is what I run. All your internet bound traffic is still out your normal route, any internal stuff goes over the VPN.
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Unraid question, which I'm guessing is on their wiki somewhere, but don't know the exact phrasing to search for. My current unraid has an 8 TB parity drive, a few other smaller disks, and the smallest disk is 2TB. If I grabbed one of those 12 TB drives on sale from Amazon, I'd have to remove the smallest drive in order to put it in the array. Before removing the 2 TB drive, would I have to go to \\tower\disk<2TB disk #>, and move all of this data over to one of the disks with 2TB of space available? How do I get the data off that specific drive, but still keep it in the array? I've done this a few times, but it's been 3-4 years since I've expanded my array, so I can't remember.
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Newegg's got some sale pricing on a bunch of WD Elements models: 8TB WD Elements $128.99 w/ "FNTSTECH76" https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-elements-8tb/p/N82E16822234349 10TB WD Elements $159.99 w/ "FNTSTECH75" https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-elements-10tb/p/N82E16822234350 12TB WD Elements $175.99 https://www.newegg.com/black-wd-elements-12tb/p/N82E16822234406 14TB WD Elements $219.99 w/ "FNTSTECH78" https://www.newegg.com/wd-elements-14tb-black/p/N82E16822234411
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Unraid question, which I'm guessing is on their wiki somewhere, but don't know the exact phrasing to search for. Wait, why not replace your parity drive with the 12tb and replace the 2 tb with the 8? Also shouldn't you just be able to assign the 8tb to the 2TB spot and it'll rebuild the data for you?
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Matt Zerella posted:Wait, why not replace your parity drive with the 12tb and replace the 2 tb with the 8? I think I worded that post oddly. I'm removing the smallest disk, moving the 8TB to where the smallest disk was, and putting a new parity drive in. Anyway, I found the wiki that explains the 3-drive dance: https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure I didn't realize that unraid had an option to copy parity from my old parity drive to my new one. That makes it super easy. Now to decide whether to get 1 drive or 2...
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Rexxed posted:Newegg's got some sale pricing on a bunch of WD Elements models: drat, the 14s are gone already. e: 5% cash back on the 12TB on Amazon if you use their Chase Prime CC.
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Rexxed posted:Newegg's got some sale pricing on a bunch of WD Elements models: Dang, 14's are gone. Another one of my 5TB Reds is slowly dying, been gradually replacing them with shucked 14's but sales on those are unsurprisingly rarer than the 8-12s. Edit: they're backordered, but Best Buy has the 14TB EasyStore for just $10 more. Given my situation I'm getting one and praying for a better sale down the line https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-14tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6390390.p?skuId=6390390 Chilled Milk fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jul 16, 2020 |
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Rexxed posted:Newegg's got some sale pricing on a bunch of WD Elements models: What kind of drive is inside the 10TB?
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I think I worded that post oddly. I'm removing the smallest disk, moving the 8TB to where the smallest disk was, and putting a new parity drive in. The plugin Unbalance in Community Apps lets you do this sort of thing easily, by letting it scatter a drive to other drives.
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rufius posted:What kind of files are you wanting to access. Generically, NextCloud is good for a lot of things. If its media, Plex does a good job in my experience. I expose my Plex instance though its locked to limited users. I can't really find a use case for plex at work. I'm too loving busy to be watching movies and I'm on skype all day so I can't exactly stream music either. corgski posted:Is port knocking not a thing people do anymore? Or if you’ll be connecting remotely from a known IP you could set the firewall up to drop any connection attempt from other IPs. I'd just whitelist my remote connection's IP. If it changes I just add a new rule via my unifi cloudkey. Hadlock posted:Wireguard is going to be the standard going forward; it's baked into the linux kernel which is as close to a chosen winner as you're gonna get. If I were gonna design a personal VPN these days that would be my baseline. Munkeymon posted:Doesn't have to https://openvpn.net/for/split-tunneling-with-access-server/ It would work if I were at like Starbucks or something, but the whole VPN from inside my office network, and installing the client software, is apparently a no-no. So the whole VPN route might just be dead in the water anyway.
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Charles posted:What kind of drive is inside the 10TB? Most of them are white label WD disks that are very similar to wd reds.
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Rexxed posted:Most of them are white label WD disks that are very similar to wd reds. Better than
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Buff Hardback posted:The plugin Unbalance in Community Apps lets you do this sort of thing easily, by letting it scatter a drive to other drives. Oh sweet. I’ll check it out. Thanks!
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HalloKitty posted:Better than Shorter warranty, but basically the same drive in 8TB+. It's absolutely worth shucking drives from a coat perspective, but don't make it seem like they're better without explaining the whole SMR issue that only affects the smaller drives.
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Well it turns out Synology is continuing to act like Good Guys and replacing my 1515+ that was a few months out of warranty. It is the 2nd one they have replaced for me.
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