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Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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What do you guys use for backups on these systems? Tape is so drat expensive yet, especially for multi-terrabyte arrays.

I've been ignoring the issue on my "little" 1.5tb array as nothing is really mission critical on there (basically all dvd rips of stuff I own, so would be annoying to recreate, but I've got hardcopies of everything).

However, I'm looking at WHS and adding another array for backups of all the various windows machines I've got, and that I'd like to actually back up, so fishing for recommendations.

As long as I'm posting: Anyone have any recommendations for external enclosures? I'm not unwilling to add something like an unattached NAS for extra fileserver space, but I'd really rather expand the system I've got, and the 6 drives it has in it currently is all that will fit. I'd prefer something like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816111049

Has anyone had any good experiences with any particular backplane enclosure?

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Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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alecm posted:

A Boxee Box is $180 and will output at 1080p. For local playback, I think it is a much more robust device than an Apple TV.

The Dune D1 is also an excellent playback device for this purpose.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Krailor posted:

There's a plugin for Chrome, called chrome remote desktop, that does exactly this.

Couldn't you also just use something like Teamviewer?

Do any of the canned NAS products like the Synology support running something like sickbeard?

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Isn't the old standby just using a drill with a good metal bit?

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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So would a Synology 416 of some variety work for me if I'm looking for RAID-5, Sonarr, Sabnzbd, plex, and possibly a local crashplan backup?

I only really need a couple tb generally speaking, so I'm contemplating the slim version cause I think it looks better, is there a preferred drive for those since they can only take 12.5mm height drives?

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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I'll finally be able to download most of my steam library!

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Welp, already obsolete

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/10/toshiba_100tb_qlc_ssd/

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Limit 5 atm

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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That's why you slap an A2000 in there

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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IOwnCalculus posted:

Which is 3x+ the cost of the Arc A310 and draws a lot more power.

It's 45W vs 70W peak, don't need to get too dramatic about it

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Anyone have any experience with the asustor flashstor products?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZCM22WD/?th=1

I have a fairly low end proxmox cluster set up and put in ceph on some nvme for storage, but while I don't need a lot of performance for what I'm doing, I need more than what what I'm getting after the ceph overhead. Long term my new plan is to set up a real ceph cluster that I can use for multiple things, but I don't want to spend that kind of money right this second, so just a NAS with NFS will do the job for a while, and since I've already got the 6 nvme's...

But if this thing is hot garbage I'll go back to looking at building my own little box to host them, but I like the simplicity of just getting a prebuilt.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:

Thank you for the link - that is some seriously cool technology. in a weird way, it almost made me...nostalgic? For those "early" days in tech where you you would read about Google trying something cool like this every other day in 2008 or whatever.

You can still!

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Twerk from Home posted:

Huh, when was this announced? Did I miss discussion of it here? GlusterFS is getting removed from TrueNAS scale, effective right now:

https://www.truenas.com/docs/solutions/integrations/smbclustering/

I find it likely that it was pretty unpopular, but doesn't this also mean that TrueNAS Scale... doesn't scale anymore? There's no replacement to scale horizontally?

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhs

GlusterFS is EOL at the end of the year

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Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
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Don't sleep on the ultrastars either, they're the same drives pretty much

https://youtu.be/QDyqNry_mDo?si=Dh1F7i1YR37Rp1NC

Recent video comparing WD's whole rainbow

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