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Smashing Link posted:I think I need a test box. Too afraid to give up unraid and Synology. One of the cooler features of ZFS is that you can just gently caress around with storage pools backed by regular files on disk, so getting the hang of using it on the command line doesn't even require a bunch of drives to play with and you can, say, test scripts on throwaway pools.
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D. Ebdrup posted:How old is VLC? Take however many decades that is, and add as many years as it'll take until they fix their lovely implementation. Plex has paid employees, though. Probably just need a critical mass of customer requests.
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Thermopyle posted:FWIW, I think Backblaze B2 is what people mostly use here for bulk cloud file storage because it's cheaper than AWS. S3 sure but I think Glacier may be cheaper... as long as you basically ever need to restore from backups 
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Shut up Meg posted:If I needed to restore, it would be the result of a whole-house fire and so I'd be needed to make a substantial insurance claim. I checked and the cost of restoring data from a backup would be covered, so that's not a worry. Huh! I should ask my agent about this.
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I found a server leaning on a junk appliance in the alley behind my building recently and, since I don't have any kettle bells of my own and gyms in my state are closed for COVID19, have been using it for suitcase carries, but I'm wondering if it's even worth plugging in and using as a computer.  I tried looking up the service tag but Dell's website says it doesn't exist, which I take to mean that the machine is old as hell. Looks like it has an expansion card for fiber networking and maybe the power supplies are still good, so it could be worth something in parts, but IDK if it's so old that it'd be outperformed by an RPi or what. Anyone know what model/line the front bezel is from?
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May 8, 2020 16:36
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IOwnCalculus posted:The service tag lookup sort of worked for me but didn't return a whole lot of detail - PowerEdge 2950 that was manufactured in 2006. Huh, yeah, it does come up now that I'm at my laptop. Weird. It looks like a factory build inside, so I'd guess it's all original. DrDork posted:If it is indeed a PowerEdge 2950, it's basically worthless--hence being outside like that. Dual quad-core Xeons at 2.x Ghz would be trivial to beat these days--if it's a E5410, it's got a per-CPU benchmark score of ~1800, while a $20 i3-4130 benches at ~3300. If it still has drives in it you might be able to sell those for like $20/ea, maybe. But the rest of it would probably cost more to ship than it would be worth. Nope, no drives. Guess I'll eventually take it apart and see if the motherboard mounting is standard? (lol) At least I'll be able to dispose of it more responsibly than the guys who just come by and take anything metal that's not anchored to the ground.
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Paul MaudDib posted:2950 first gen is probably a Cedarwood (Cedar Mills? I forget the name) Pentium 4. Literal garbage at this point. A Dell R610 looks like a paragon of performance and efficiency in comparison. Yikes - didn't realize P4s ever got Xeon badges. Gross It's just missing the drive sleds or trays or whatever they're called. Original owner probably wanted to keep his Linux ISOs secret. Crunchy Black posted:Is that a NetApp Fibre Channel card? Good lord.  🤷♂️
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This USB3 talk is making me nostalgic for when I used Firewire to network my NAS to my desktop because I already had the dang cable and gigabit ethernet equipment was not what would have considered cheap at the time 
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May 13, 2020 17:20
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Duck and Cover posted:I was curious to the answer of "does somebody make a rack enclosure to lessen noise?". Yes the answer is yes. https://www.xrackpro2.com/ https://www.rackmountsolutions.net/server-racks-cabinet/specialty-server-racks/soundproof-racks/  lol
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D. Ebdrup posted:The question is, why the gently caress do you have one dataset taking up more than 50% of your pool when you could have hundreds of thousands. Newing up a filesystem for every different, ah, "Linux distro" you want to preserve on your NAS isn't going to occur to most people, including me!
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D. Ebdrup posted:Ever since filesystems started implementing hierarchies of folders in the 70s, there's been very little distinction between them. OK but a folder isn't automatically a new dataset, as far as I can tell, and "alias mkdir to 'zfs create'" is neat idea but not something that's going to occur to most people. Probably not hard to replace a directory hierarchy with a bunch of hived-off datasets after the fact, but still not the obvious thing to do when you're a home fletcher posted:Interesting! I didn't know that Windows supported NFSv4. It sounds like Windows doesn't have an official NFSv4 client though, only server. Are you using the client from University of Michigan? I am only planning on accessing these datasets from Windows machines both now and in the future, so I was planning on using the SMB share type on the new NAS. Could've sworn Explorer became a client after you installed the feature but now I can't find the feature to install since they dumbed down the UI 😑 Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Jun 18, 2020 |
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D. Ebdrup posted:No, you do need to alias it, as you suggest - I don't know why it doesn't occur to more people, it's blindingly obvious at least to me. That was a(n attempt at a) joke dude :P Respect the hell out of your ZFS knowledge but most of us just read the enough of the man page to Make It Go.
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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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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Plex is great, although I've never exposed mine to the internet. I'm aware of split tunneling though I've never implemented it. I bought the Plex Pass and it Just Works with no VPN fuckery. Plex is gr8
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:Theoretically how big could it get? https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/to-boil-the-oceans/ quote:Although we’d all like Moore’s Law to continue forever, quantum mechanics imposes some fundamental limits on the computation rate and information capacity of any physical device. In particular, it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 litre of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1031 bits of information.
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Did the CrystalMark homepage always have a bunch of really cringeworthy anime schoolgirl crap on it?
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Are the Rosewill rackmount ATX cases pretty much the go-to for shoving desktop parts in a rack or is there a better option out there? I'd be looking for a 4U because IDGAF about density just having space to put a decent cooler on the CPU.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Jump to FreeBSD instead 😈 Is there software for FreeBSD that adds an OK web management UI anything like Free/TrueNAS?
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Yeah, I've been using ZFS on Solaris 10 and now Illumos for over ten years and I'm kind of drawn to being able to save the True/FreeNAS config and restore it on new hardware over having to do a bespoke setup over SSH every dang time. Used to be I could spend a weekend janitoring a server and not mind but that's not really the case anymore and probably going to be even less true in the future. Plus it'd be nice to just open a bookmark and see system status and whatnot, too. Sure, I could learn to use one of those infrastructure as code tools with BSD and find or cobble together a status page but 
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Hadlock posted:Yes Samba is annoying Windows has NFS support, though, right? I man, I saw the check box under optional features, but I've never tried it because the smb.conf file I made in 2007 still works but maybe someone has
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I've been testing this for a little while now, and the autoreplace property, combined with SES-capable SAS chassies, is loving rad, let me tell you. Sorry if you've mentioned and I'm forgetting and failing to find it but what chassis are you using?
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Can anyone recommend some tape? This stuff just slides right off the pins 🤨 Coating the pin in super glue seems to have worked but I'd prefer a covering I can see is in place if I have to move a drive around
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Mar 19, 2021 16:12
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HalloKitty posted:Not if you kill a nice SSD in the process, especially at the rate netspace is growing.. I thought Chia was write-once-read-many which should be OK on an SSD, but I'm not a shitcoin expert
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Biowarfare posted:Chia is two-stage: the "mining" (generating your bingo boards) is basically generating terabytes of garbage, writing, deleting, rewriting continuously 24/7. You then copy the completed board to mechanical storage for the next step. The farming (checking your bingo boards) is read every few seconds It constantly updates the plots?
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Biowarfare posted:Once the plots are generated it's read many. And that'd take a while on spinning rust so people just buy cheap SSDs to burn, right? Guess it's a good thing I got one of the fancy new PCIE 4s before the rush 
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Biowarfare posted:Yes, that's the point. It sucks up both slow and fast drives. You need the slow drives for long term storage, so all large storage is gone. You need as many fast NVME or SSDs as you can to trash through to write as much as possible, as fast as possible (to generate the bingo boards to put into the rotational drives), so all fast storage is gone. The min size requiring 300G+ means that 128/256GB SSDs are largely untouched, though A few minutes thought while I was on the Thinking Throne a while ago (because I forgot my phone) and I figure it'd be cheaper to build/buy a server with ~1TB of RAM once then have it generating plots on platter drives that you migrate to, IDK, external USB enclosures hooked up to Raspberry Pis. Then you only pay for one piece of plotting hardware that doesn't wear out and you could even have hot-swap bays for zero downtime plotting. Maybe that USB enclosure thing doesn't strictly work with throughput constraints but it'd be what I'd do if I was serious about touching the poop.
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The Seagates I bought have a 1.5% failure rate but that's not even the worst on the chart 
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codo27 posted:I mean if you're buying seagate still then its on you I thought Seagate was
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Weird ZFS thing I'm trying to figure out: I moved a RAIDZ we'll call src into a new NAS with new drives to migrate the data to, so I made a new zpool we'll call dest and made a fresh snapshot on src called evac then rancode:e: said vdev when I meant zpool Munkeymon fucked around with this message at 18:45 on Jan 20, 2022 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:i think you need to run du -A -sh to get the true sizes, if the old zfs didn't have compression turned on but the new one had lz4 by default for instance. The ls -R output is different, too, with the original having ~5000 files the new one doesn't.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Are there some similarities shared between the files that didn't get moved over? After some digging, I'm wondering if the last time I moved this data, I got "clever" and made a clone instead of a snapshot. After reading the docs I can find, I'm still not sure if making a clone, writing to it and then making a snapshot on the pool would ignore/bypass the clone.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:The best recommendation I can give is to setup a small test dataset to try with - because I can't remember off the top of my head. I figured it out: zfs receive let the incoming snapshot try to mount itself after it got the first of two snapshots from the sending filesystem, which was the snapshot I made to move the pool the last time. Mounting failed because it was trying to use the same mountpoint that old pool was using and it errored out before it received the second snapshot. I didn't think to compare the snapshot list on the new and old pools before and just noticed tonight that the new one didn't have the 'evac' snapshot that I made to move the data to the new one. Seems like the lesson here it to disable automounting before you send|receive a pool on the same machine.
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Rescue Toaster posted:If anybody has rolled your own NAS setup (did your own samba, openzfs, etc...) instead of using a xyzNAS distro, any links to particular configuration guides you found useful? There's so much ancient info online sometimes it can be hard to tell if you're doing things the right way anymore. I just found https://github.com/davestephens/ansible-nas the other night and will be giving it a try this time around
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Rescue Toaster posted:Thanks, there's some interesting stuff in here. Though I know literally nothing about ansible. I should probably have mentioned that I'm using this as an opportunity to learn it and also have a thing I can run to stand up a new NAS without re-learning a bunch of stuff every time.
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