Didn't see one so, home server thread!

Didn't see one so, home server thread!

That pi isn't connected to anything.

My two servers. The PowerMac's got 4GB RAM

It's cracking the hdd encryption

RAM:

Hence why I stated how much RAM it has in my post, you moron.

Headless

You could use ethernet-over-usb to connect it to router. It might save you one ethernet port.

>100mbit Lan shared bandwidth with USB
>home server
Pick one

Also
>Pi USB port runs at constant overload
Enjoy you're dead board

Is it possible to set up a remote seedbox with that setup

Im planning to get one, hide it inside my work computer or cabinet and steal the internets
my only problem is the power source

The network administrators aren't retarded you know?

You are dead board? Ok, guy.

>falling for the weakest bait in Sup Forums history
How new are you exactly?

>Board dies
"fuck, better spend 30 bucks"

~2007, how about you pal.

>Takes the HDD with it when dying
>"oh well, I just buy all my lost files new"

1995

If you lose files from a single drive failure it's your own fault no matter how it happens. Backups are a thing for a reason.

Hi

>back up your PC to home server
while (true){
>back up home server on another home server
}

>a server can only have one drive
How retarded are you?

>Server dies
>all is gone
How retarded are you?

Nope. The little white antenna the the bottom left of the board means it's a Raspberry Pi 3. Not much bandwidth but it'll probably do for 720p stuff

>offsite backups aren't a thing
How retarded are you?

The pi 3 has a default amperage of 1.2 amps, 2.5 inch drives use about 1.2 amps

I have 2 desktops sitting around doing absolutely nothing but I can't think of anything I could possibly need a server for

...

...

>clean white aesthetics
>most advanced operating system ever made
>best wifi

This is the only correct answer.

as a former network administrator, i resent that statement

Wow look how many wifi ports it has

...

microwave oven?

requesting the cloud computer

Works surprisingly well as server/media center/emulation box.

The controller is a bit shite though.

...

EEE? man what happend to them

Is a raspberry pi going to be powerful enough for what I want?

I want it dedicated to torrenting stuff, movies mostly.

Then I want it to be a DLNA server. Will I be able to watch 2 movies simultaneously while the torrents are still going?

Will the pi or the hard drive bottleneck?
I have an old 2tb WD green (would put it in enclosure to power it)

Or would I be better off buying a cheap MiniItx with one of those low powered CPUs in it?

It should be powerful enough, the only thing bottle necking would probably be the network or harddrive

I'm searching to do my baby's first, and I'm having a little hard time between HDDs.

It will be an Odroid-XU4 + 2 HDD, one HDD I already have it, an oldie samsung. But I cannot decide over the other one.

I always though WD Red will be a good idea, but everybody says WD is shit right now and that Red are Greens modded.

Should I go with HGST Nas oriented, or just HGST or what?

I will do monthly backups so it is kinda important I guess

HGST and WD are the same company now.

Greens are not bad hard drives, they just have very aggressive head parking.
8 seconds without use, the head parks. You use it as on OS drive or something like that, you are parking and unparking your head all day long. It leads to short death.

you can change the head parking time and greatly increase the life of the drive with a utility

WD reds have head parking disabled, it also has deep recovery disable (TLER). In Raid you cant have your drive parking, or stopping for deep recovery cycles on bad data.

Obviously that eats more energy and creates more heat.

Also do note that WD Blues that are larger than 1tb are literally just rebadged greens.

I cant tell you what to get, but Reds arent bad and HGST drives are coming out of the same factories.

Been rocking a pi as a server for a while. But it's definitely got it's limitations. Wondering what will be better, but still quite low power.

Im considering a pi.
What problems are you having

Yeah, I noticed the other day Greens are going out of stock replaced by hybrid Blues.

Do you think it is work Red against Green, or should I stick with Greens and changing head parking?

Also, if helps, the HDD will be 4tb

Biggest issue is streaming video over the network. It can do it, but I'll get dropped frames.

It could be that it's the original pi, with only 256mb ram.

yeah for streaming 1080p, rule of thumb is you need a full 256mb of graphics memory. the pi3 has 1gb, i think, so 512 to the system, 512 for graphics

I have reds because I use RAID.
Not sure, you wont use the "features" of the Reds, but they do have a better warranty.

And I have no clue what HGST badged drives are out there.
Im just having good luck with Reds

Why I won't use the features? It is supposed to run 24/7 so I though that's why Red will be good for me.

I'm very new in home server, if I'm saying something dense, please, tell me.

You should be able to completely turn parking off, but leaving it at 300 seconds or so isnt bad. Parking every 8 seconds all day long is bad.

The "TLER" is a "feature" as a way to scam people who need RAID.

Western Digital removed the ability to change sector recovery times.
Normal WD drives do
>see bad sector, spend 30 seconds trying to reread it
With TLER
>see bad sector, recheck it for a few seconds, marks bad goes on

You used to be able to change the time it does this, but WD stopped that to sell higher priced drives with TLER on it (a set time that doesnt stop and reread)

When in RAID, if one hard drive stalls for any extended period, some controllers go crazy and think the drive died.
And even though controllers have fixed that, it still slows your shit up every time it does it.

Its a "feature"

So, unless I go Raid, I shouldn't worry about Reds, but it is a must not if I do RAID.

Am I right?

so we've come full circle, continue here

You especially need a fast network, the Pi is pretty shit in that regard

Pretty much.
You can configure your RAID hardware to work around the issues usually, but Reds just make things easier

>Odroid-XU4

This looks pretty awesome, im considering it over the pi 3

Would the Pi benefit from having gigabit ethernet like in the odroid?

Ok, I will check prizes for WD Red and some HGST and I will decide on base on that.

Yeah man, I was about to go with the Orange PI, but it only has USB 2.0 and I plan to do OS backup, which be a like 50-70Gb, so I can't go 2.0.

The con is that as it is better, it cost significant more.

Is pi 3 enough to power a wd 1tb passport?
I can't seem to find how much power the hdd consumes.

Are you me? What model? I have a surf 2g with an external drive.

Odroid is reportedly much faster and uses only 6W max.

...

Its running a 2ghz clock vs 1.2ghz ARM quad cores.
1gb of ram vs 2gb of ram.

So yes the specs are better.

But looking into it, the increase in speed is directly related to them using their proprietary eMMC modules instead of an SD card. The read write speeds using SD are almost identical.

So yeah, its a better board. But im not paying 100$ for the board, 25$ for the eMMC, 5$ for the eMMC to USB adapter, and then 35$ to ship it.

Getting too pricy

The new ones have built in wifi/bluetooth. Now I'm not saying running a server over wifi is a good idea but it werks. I cant tell by eye if this is a new one though.

I will check it again because I didn't though on that or didn't realized it.

Is the Pi able to power up the 2.5'' disk? Or it's better to use an external powered USB hub?

What are you guys running on your pi for servers?

your moms dildo

I'm currently running a pi2 as file server.
As long as you don't stream in 2 places at the same time, it can hold it's own. Even in 1080p

>using an extremely underpowered device as a server

You retards have it backwards. Use a powerful device for a server and then low powered devices as clients.

>can only handle a single client
>"server"

You have it neither backwards nor forwards.
Make the server as powerful as it needs to be, make the clients as powerful as it needs to be.
A Pi works just fine if all it's doing is serving some files in a home network

>storage connected through USB
>networking is wifi or 100mbit shared with USB
>"server"

>Networking: 10/100 Ethernet, 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless

Cool file server, bro.

Kids playing with RPi "servers" are like kids playing with power wheels "cars". They are just imitating the real version that adults use.

It's not suitable for actual use. It's just a toy for children.

Buying more RAM shortly to tinker around with KVM.

Or Vsphere if I go full overkill.

Fast enough for streaming video

It's more than a toy, it's more like a 50cc moped. Not enough for anything serious but it can get you around if you don't have much to carry.
You don't match a 50cc moped and a 22 tonne trailer.

>most advanced operating system ever made
Yeah, I don't think so

First; vsphere is the management software for esxi, Also your going to need more than two cores since ESXI needs 4 IIRC since two threads are dedicated to the hyper visor. Thirdly celerons don't support virt extensions. Finally your need 8GB of RAM at the bare min for even a tiny lab.You;d seriously be better off getting an old xeon 8 core and building that up.

>Odroid-XU4
Don't do it user. Odroids have known heat and power draw issues. The bigger they get the worse the problem. You see the 5v4a 5.5mm power plug? You might as well call it proprietary, since you'll have to build a power supply of your own or use theirs. USB chargers can't deliver that kind of power. Combine that with the EMMC and your odroid costs a lot more than they let on.

FWIW I use an Nvidia Tegra TK1. It's powerful and stable. I've hosted modded minecraft servers on it before and can decode x265 1080p in software. Changing the OS involves flashing the emmc and it's a royal bitch to do.

In hindsight at the time AMD had released their Athlon 5350 and had near ready made PCs for sale for about the same price. I'd go that route if I did it again. Also built in SATA and molex power connection for a HDD is on the board so no extra power supply to deal with.

>4tb HDD
Been rocking a HGST for over a year now. No complaints, no issues. WD reds are supposed to be similar. I paid about $15 more for the Hitachi. No regrets.

Does it matter how much clients it can handle? As long as it serves files, it's a file server you douche

as far as i read raspberry pi can handle 720p movies and has a shitty ethernet support
my question is, i have a computer from 2003 which i'm thinking about converting it to NAS, should i buy a raspberry or should i go with my old pc?

So you're making the suggestion of going full pc instead of Odroid? I though Odroid was a good deal.

I wanted one of these so bad.
How much RAM can it handle max? I want one to virtualize with

Just got this old debian box from a friend who didnt need it anymore, whats a good first-time server project to use it for?

>How much RAM can it handle max?
16GB.

They do virtualization well enough, but the RAM is a limiting factor.

Dell PowerEdge T620 (2x Xeon 2660 / 192GB / 2x 240 GB PNY 1311 / 4x 480GB PNY 1311 / 12x Hitachi Ultrastar (7K3000) 3TB)
Server 2012 R2 Datacenter w/ Storage Spaces.
240's are RAID 1 and for OS + tools
480's are in tiered pool with 2TB drives.
3TB presented to Hyper-V. Presented as multiple mirror. Only VM pool is tiered.
1TB presented as temp transfer share. No redundancy.
1TB presented to profiles. Presented as multiple mirror. Roaming profiles are enabled. This may change.
12TB presented to Plex. Drive is offline to VHOST, and presented directly to VM. Redundancy is RAID 5.

VM count - 22 production
4x DC (2 core / 2GB RAM / 60GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
2x NS w/ DHCP (2 core / 2GB RAM / 60GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
Sharepoint (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 120GB content / 2012 R2)
Team Foundation Server (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 120GB content / 2012 R2)
System Center Operations Manager (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
Plex (8 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 12GB Media / 2012 R2)
System Center Configuation Manager (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 1TB content / 2012 R2 / increased CPU priority because transcoding)
SQL (8 core / 32GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2 / SQL 2012)
Offline root CA (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
AD Subordinate CA (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
2x Exchange 2013 CAS (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2)
2x Exchange 2012 MBX (4 core / 16GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2)
Dirsync (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
AD Federation Service (2 core / 4GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
NAP / VPN / Direct connect (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 2012 R2 core)
PBX (4 core / 8GB RAM / 80GB OS / 250GB content / 2012 R2 / 3CX)

Firewall - PCEngines APU1D4 (128GB SSD / Untangle)
Switch - Dell X1018P (16 port GIGE managed PoE + 2SFP)
AP - EAP1750H (PoE)
Phone - Polycom CX700 (5 in service)

Why?

Ehhhno?

Ethernet and HDD (and also the msd?) would run over usb... And the rpi usb does what, 20mb/s?

Torrent alone... Would be mediocre but ok I think (with the rpi3). But doing something else at the same time? Forget it.

Because I can?

It's essentially a full scale deployment of an Office365 hybrid configuration. All I'm missing is Lync.

>home server
>geforce gt 640
>1280x1024
>KDE

do you want a server or a tux racer machine?

Everything in the machine is how I got it.

My desktop is powerful, but it's noisy because of the fan, and I'm not really comfortable running my desktop with 2 TB HD overnight just to download stuff.
So I'm searching for replacement.

Is Orange Pi Plus 2 good ?
I don't play games, just browsing, TeamViewer / VNC, programming, editing Excel files and VM stuff.

since this a server i guess you should pull everything thats not needed out and use ssh or some remote shell to do things from another computer (because it will be running 24/7) ,and put the server into some corner to not hear it work. you can try doing a mail/file server or some game server if you play some.

A dev board is a good deal, but Odroids have given too many problems to too many users who've jumped on the "muh octo core" bandwagon and then realized this time board has to contend with 4 times the power draw and heat of other boards.

Look for these in a server dev board:
>USB3 or SATA
>gigabit ethernet
>no special snowflake power needs

That's it. You don't need a lot of processing power, just good I/O. Orange Pi, Cubieboards, there's a lot of good options that are cheaper and more reliable.

I was checking their store and seems like I can use my own Micro Sd, so I won't have to get an eMMC.

Althoug, I checked Orange PI, actually, was my 1st option. But I have to get the most expensive in order to get SATA/Usb 3.0. Odroid is almost same price (IIRC) and comes with a fan. I don't really care about processing power since OPI was enough and Odroid is stronger.

Also, what consume can I have? Will it be that bad?

I bet this shitbox pulls 120W on idle, don't be retarded and use old inefficient hardware as a server. Pointless waste of money and energy.

This is what I'm running at home, the server has a 6x3TB RAID6 array, it's currently sufficient space for my needs. Raspi only does UPS management and turns the server back on after a power outage by itself.

Can you recommend that? I though about building such a system for downloading. I only have 2 Mbit at home and therefore need to download 24/7. It could save a lot of power and even noise.

>
>I was checking their store and seems like I can use my own Micro Sd, so I won't have to get an eMMC.
>Althoug, I checked Orange PI, actually, was my 1st option. But I have to get the most expensive in order to get SATA/Usb 3.0. Odroid is almost same price (IIRC) and comes with a fan. I don't really care about processing power since OPI was enough and Odroid is stronger.
>Also, what consume can I have? Will it be that bad?

I have an odriod xu4 running gentoo. Only time heat is an issue is when compiling anything. Connect some shitty 12v fan to a usb cord and let that blow on the heatsink and you won't get hot. Otherwise keep it away from where you'll hear it, and/or underclock it, both of which there are plenty of guides on how to do. 8 cores underclocked is still better than most things. The problem is that the heatsink only touches the a15 cores and is too high for the a7 cores.

I using a 128gb shark SD card from gearbest. And it works great.

The two usb3.0 ports are actually one port. The GBe gets to 900Mbps, just shy of real GBe but still better than most.

Actual power draw won't be a problem as I'm running mine off solar panels I made. I forget the numbers cause I'm an idiot.

Lol I realize my units are mixed up, just correct them in your head

OK give me full server hardware that pulls 5w-10w at top load that costs less than 100$