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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > NAS/Storage Megathread: What is this "File Deletion" You Speak of
 
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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?
Just chiming in to mention my newly built NAS. I based it on a Chenbro ES34069 and a Via Mini-ITX mobo. Some key features on this mobo is the four SATA-II slots, gigabit ethernet port and console redirection feature. I have just got it up and running with a 2.5" disk for my OS and 4 x 1TB drives in a software RAID5 setup running debian linux. So far so good, everything looks nice and happy, the array is syncing itself as we speak.

code:
leda:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             145G  880M  137G   1% /
tmpfs                 443M     0  443M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  112K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                 443M     0  443M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vgr5-lvr5
                      2.8T  5.0G  2.6T   1% /mnt/storage
leda:~$ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sdd1[0] sda1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1]
      2930279808 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU]
      [=====>...............]  resync = 28.7% (280680320/976759936) finish=395.1min speed=29354K/sec

unused devices: <none>

ior fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jun 4, 2008

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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?

vlack posted:

Is that the VIA NAB 7500? Where can you buy those?
No, I have a VIA EPIA SN 18000G, bought it at https://www.mini-itx.com. And yes, this board also has TPM which can accelerate SHA and AES.

Openssl benchmark (The 'numbers' are in 1000s of bytes per second processed.)
Padlock enabled:
code:
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128-ecb     120343.76k   438949.82k  1165804.35k  1920796.10k  2353863.99k
Padlock disabled
code:
type             16 bytes     64 bytes    256 bytes   1024 bytes   8192 bytes
aes-128-ecb      23667.88k    25315.84k    25929.01k    26123.03k    26049.46k

ior fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Jun 18, 2008

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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?
Just to mention, I just upgraded my fileserver with additional 5 driveslots. It had 4 x 1 TB. I found a sweet 5 bay eSATA chassis with a built-in port-replicator.

From left to right:
Storbox, eSATA diskchassis
Chenbro ES34069, fileserver with 4 x 1TB SATA drives in RAID5
Powerware UPS
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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?
Oops,

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 134 134 000 Old_age Always - 199361
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 134 134 000 Old_age Always - 198691
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 131 131 000 Old_age Always - 208548

how worried should I be?

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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?

Combat Pretzel posted:

My WD Greens are rated for 50000 load cycles. But that doesn't mean that the drive will automatically fail, if it gets past that value, but chances of a failure increase. I've read about WD Greens with over 500K cycles. But I think there'll be warranty issues.

Oh well, Im doing the idle fix now and I do have backups so... When they start failing I will have a reason to upgrade to 2TBs ;)

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ior
Nov 21, 2003

What's a fuckass?

ior posted:

Oops,

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 134 134 000 Old_age Always - 199361
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 134 134 000 Old_age Always - 198691
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 131 131 000 Old_age Always - 208548

how worried should I be?

So I ran the wdidle3 tool and now it is incrementing a lot more slowly. Current trend will make the drives hit their rating (300.000) in 15 years instead of the earlier 14 months.

Curious thing however is that 1 year ago i replaced 1 of the drives of this 4 drive raid-5. That one has been incrementing incredibly slowly, they must have made some firmware changes.

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 51
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