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user who ordered pic-related here, just arrived today. I haven't had a chance to install anything on it yet, will probably do it Monday.

First thing I noticed is this sucker is heavy. They weren't kidding about it weighing 100lbs.

Second, it's LOUD. When people say their desktop fans are loud I usually ignore them because it's nothing to me, but this shit sounds like a vacuum cleaner. I'm hoping putting it in a cabinet will reduce the noise some, or maybe I'll have to buy different fans, or perhaps there's a way to dynamically control the fan speed based on the temperature.

I think I'm going to buy a wattage calculator too because this shit sounds too loud to be consuming so little power.

anyway,I've been doing some reading and I see that you can increase performance by using an SSD for ZIL or L2ARC. Would it make sense to buy 2 small SSD's specifically for them?

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Bumping to ask a question how do you use 24 drives when server motherboards only have much less than 24 ports??

>heavy and loud

seriously, did you expect anything else?

yeah, ssds for ZIL can help a lot, I think pci-e ones used to be preferred, but I'm out of date.

Not feeling up to hauling stuff out today, so I'll fit the new network card in dalian tomorrow. Just sitting playing with the cluster thinking of things to add - you've got me thinking moving an ssd from my desktop for the clusters docker volumes might be cool.

sas

What about it?

you can get sas cards that can run a shitload of drives.

Would you mind listing all the hardware components in this picture and their purpose? I'm a learning newb

I just switch out the supermicro fanrow for some noctua fans every time I need a server in the house. Cool and quiet.

> I see that you can increase performance by using an SSD for ZIL or L2ARC
You want to use fucking ZFS for anything related to performance?

May I suggest you don't do crazy things like that and instead use Ceph on XFS or something else that actually works?

probably going to buy a rack soon and a rack mountable usp, just havent decided in what yet

sure, give me a bit and I'll knock something up in PS

What filesystem's and other things (raid, lvm, etc) are you guys using on your servers? I have a 5tb drive and 2 1tb drives in lvm to create a 7tb xfs volume but I want something better.

If you're doing RAID, one of your best options is mdadm with btrfs or xfs on top, optionally lvm in between.

If you have more storage or want a cluster, go with ceph on xfs or bluestore (the latter isn't 100% stable yet, won't be wrong to just migrate to it later drive-by-drive if you want to play it safe).

another user here considering a beefier self-build NAS in the near future, presumably ZFS-based.

If my main concern is the reliability of the storage (including the simplicity of generating and sending out encrypted serialized snapshot deltas), would throwing some SSDs at L2ARC or even ZIL be completely wasted in a mostly non-intensive environment?

E.g., do NFS writes from clients finish faster if the server can sync/flush via SSD instead of disc writes?

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> If my main concern is the reliability of the storage (including the simplicity of generating and sending out encrypted serialized snapshot deltas)
Yea, that doesn't theoretically really *need* a SSD regardless if you're doing it with ceph, lvm, brtrfs, zfs or something else.

> do NFS writes from clients finish faster if the server can sync/flush via SSD instead of disc writes?
Again, I imagine that theoretically, you shouldn't *need* such a thing.

Then again, ZFS performance is an arsepain to estimate in practice. It's typically okay until for one or another of a hundred possible reasons, it stops being okay. Maybe you'll need the SSD after all. But I figure you should purchase that later if you suspect you need it.

Nice, thanks user.

no worries

I just have shitty 2009 late 2009 server

Fwiw Ive kept a dell r710 in my garage with no issues for 3-4 years now. It's over 100 inthere some days in the summer and gets down to around 45 in the winter (hvac is in garage so it doesn't freeze in there).

Posting my server. Guarantee it's baby shit compared to whatever it is you Sup Forumsus are running.
>Pentium G4360
>2x2GB ddr3
>Samsung 250GB SSD for boot
>2x1TB WD blue drives (executable files, pictures backup, music)
>2x2TB HDDs. Seagate and a used HGST with more than 70,000 hours (better drive health than the Seagate, used for Anime + TV series)
>2x4TB Toshiba X300 HDDs (movies)

All my stuff is backed up using the fire and forget Windows 7 backup utility.

>Let me use photoshop to reveal that everything is a fucking Athlon 2 or raspberry Pi
>Oh yeah, don't forget the epic anime pictures!

>Mfw I have every model of the rpi except for the $5, one
>Mfw I always had these cool ideas I wanted to do with them networking wise, but always found how limited they were
>Mfw they all have cases and everything, yet haven't been even looked at in years.

Fug

are you triggered?

seriously, if its not worth at least $10k you should not post it, I thought this was just common sense.

>14 year old orders server rack equipment off ebay with no understand of what to do with it or how it works
>WOW ITS HEAVY
>WOW ITS LOUD
No shit you fucking tit, those things are designed to be mounted into $3000 rack cabinets and locked into separate climate-controlled rooms because of how fucking loud they are.

What is the point of having all this shit?
It's not powerful enough to be used for business or enterprise work, and its so excessive that all you could possibly be doing with it is wasting power.

>raspberry pi
>excessive power

pure Sup Forums autism at its finest

>10xRpi's
>Not excessive

What ISP are you using

>20W
>excessive power

>I'm hoping putting it in a cabinet will reduce the noise some
It will reduce noise a bit, but at the cost of seriously reducing cooling. That risks killing your rig.

>or perhaps there's a way to dynamically control the fan speed based on the temperature.
Unlikely. See, rackmount servers are not designed to give a fuck about noise. They are designed to cool like a boss and noise doesn't matter at all. I doubt the fans even have that capability.

If you want to run this thing, you want to put it in a datacenter. That's what they are for.

Needs to be condensed down a bit more but it's still coming along.

AP Playground next.

The five white ones are managed by the M300. The multicolour antenna one is a Pineapple and the Asus one is running Advanced Tomato.

>Second, it's LOUD
They sell super quiet fans for it. You also will want to buy the super quiet PSUs like I told you before.

>a cabinet will reduce the noise some
It wont

>Would it make sense to buy 2 small SSD's specifically for them?
as I told you before make sure you buy enterprise class SSDs

SAS expanders

people cry when you have nice things. just seeing bixnood.net triggers autists here.

>I doubt the fans even have that capability.
They do

>See, rackmount servers are not designed to give a fuck about noise.
You can make them quiet. I have a 4U and 2U supermicro box at home. they're not obnoxiously loud.

>not just having one computer with 32 gigs of ram running esxi to do all of that

he never said excessive power
he just said the whole setup is excessive
also rpis under load will easily use 5 watts each, so no idea how you got the idea that 10 of them only use 20 watts.

I have one with 48GB, and two more with 32GB each, RAM is not an issue.

>if its not worth at least $10k you should not post it
lol, what a loser!

You make cute diagrams

r8/h8 my setup Sup Forums:
>Xeon E3-1225 v2, 4C/4T
>16GB DDR3 RAM
>120 GB SSD
>2x 500GB IDE HDDs

Runs ESXi with PfSense and Ubuntu Server. PfSense runs Squid, Squidguard, Unbound, NTop, ClamAV, Pfblocker, and OpenVPN.
Ubuntu runs Apache with GitLab and personal website, Shadowsocks, and SSH.

I was thinking about running LDAP (no clue how) and Owncloud/Nextcloud on the Ubuntu server as well, thoughts?

What do you all even do with your home servers? I honestly can't think of what I would use it for other than download anime, and I could just use a pi for that.

Hmmm, I was thinking of doing something similar to my old PC that I cannabalized. I just need to decide whether I want to invest in a better processor and more space.

Is this all you use your server for? Website and Git repo? Wont ISP know who you are even if you use shadowsocks as proxy? SCP is slow as fug for file transfer, might as well just bite the bullet and use nextcloud.

If it works for you, that is what is important.

I have an all in one FreeBSD server with tons of disks and nics with ZFS and many bhyve machines performing various jobs. One of those machines is an OpenBSD firewall.

It works really well but the setup is extremely complex specially with bridges and vlans.

I've recently ordered a pcengines APU to use a dedicated OpenBSD router and I plan to go back to pure jails.

>They sell super quiet fans for it.
Yes I'm going to replace them with noctua. I'll need to get some use of fans for 'something' though.

>make sure you buy enterprise class SSD
I was more asking if an SSD would be needed at all, but confirmed it.

>If you want to run this thing, you want to put it in a datacenter.
I've seen 2 anons here on Sup Forums with the same SuperMicro unit I have and they've had it for years with no problems(inside a cabinet at that). Plus, I don't think having it in a cabinet with mesh panels would reduce the cooling by much.

Mine is primarily going to act as my backups/plex. When I have all my HDD's purchased(60TB, for mirror vdev), it'll be used as my primary storage. As I learn more about it I'll probably do more things with it.

So far I've spent around $1k on this server. Once I'm done buying my HDDs/cabinet, it'll probably only end up being $2k, about as much as a high-end gaming rig.

I'm still looking for a nice 30'' depth+ server cabinet that supports >500lbs under $300 though. Seems really tacky just leaving it exposed on a desk.

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Hey Sup Forums, would this be good for a home server?

year old orders server rack equipment
Don't think a 14 year old would have the funds to do what I'm doing. Even if they did, I'd imagine teen would be more obsessed about buying $1000 graphics card to run their vidya games rather than dropping that money on some server. Cute insult though.

>with no understand of what to do with it
I know exactly what I want to do with it.
That's why I bought it.

>or how it works
I've got a general idea. Only way to get a better understanding is actually buying it. I possibly could've started out with some ghetto spare parts rig, but I've really no patience for that. I need my proper backup asap.

>WOW ITS HEAVY
They are just first reactions user. Why are you this upset

>those things
Yes, thing(s). I only have 1 4U unit, so it shouldn't need a $3k cabinet nor a perma A/C'd room. The only thing about my build that remotely concerns me right now is how much power this consumes, which I'll measure later.

Why do you autists name server equipment after anime girls?

Its cute. How come you don't?

It's not an anime girl, it's a piece of server equipment and should be treated as such. Use numbers or something. Imagine in a workplace talking about your home server with some stupid ass anime girl name - the autism would be RADIATING from your grinning faces

Imagine being this insecure good lord.

hey so did i
did i do go g

You should use that thing as a desktop just to spite us. Make sure it's sideways and crooked and post the shit out of it in battlestation threads.

At least for a few days.

>Imagine in a workplace talking about your home server with some stupid ass anime girl name
I think it'd be pretty sweet, and would probably like to work for said workplace.

>Tewi's drunk user, go check on her
>boring as fuck employee:who's tewi? you mean ARMJ523-151#BETA-C?
>Yes, Tewi.

>Not naming your server Lain

GTFO FAGGOTS, you're not kino, avantgarde and cyberpunk

what lol

Just rent a 1/4 closet at a colo you moron.

look at all that useless shit, people like you make no sense, you can condense most of that shit into a single machine, and your shitty rpis into vms

>renting
>will never pay itself off
Or I can just buy my shit, own it, and never worry about making another payment again.

Lain is overused.
Touhou has been deprecated by Kemono Friends.
I'll name my storage/backup server Arai-san, since my server is going start off being clumsy and full of mistakes for the better part of a year or so.

You wouldn't happen to be sys admin bro would you?

I fucking told you, ignorant hoarding man-child, but you wouldn't listen. Now deal with your ignorance

I want something like whats in ops pic.
Is there any way to build this without it being loud as fuck? Im looking at a couple of norco cases if thats relevant.

Dude I never thougt I would say that, but consuming that much power for such a little server makes you the king, if not the emperor of faggots.

>Second, it's LOUD.
Tower servers tend to be more quiet, like Dell's T-series. I have one.

It's currently just that, but I plan on expanding. Also, I don't use Shadowsocks to get away from my ISP, I use it on my phone/laptop when I'm on an unsafe network and need to proxy away.

>Servers placed directly on a fluffy carpet.
How quickly do the servers get filled with dust bunnies? I prefer textile free flooring and placing the servers at least 10 cm off the floor.

There would be more ideal configurations however all the carpet sitters are rarely on. Most of these boxes shutdown to be woken via wake on lan.

I agree they should be up off the ground and will do so once I get the house and server closet prepared.

indeed

>Imagine in a workplace talking about your home server
OK, please tell me what your workplace is like where this is even remotely a plausible topic.

Been thinking about doing home server stuff as a hobby but don't know what I'd do with one. Probably just vidya.

>Second, it's LOUD.
You can adjust to it, user. For that reason, noise ordinances often tolerate louder levels of *constant* noise than intermittent noise because the latter is much more disruptive. If it's constant, you're good. I sleep in a smol cyberpunk apartment with my microwave fan on at all times to help mask the noise from animals in the hallway at 3 AM.

Also, general question: how do you do encryption on a NAS like a Drobo?

That is actualy a really nice home server.

This workplace looks extremely comfy

>DE on server
>win7 as NAS OS
May I ask why?

>Probably just vidya.
Any tips or tuts to read up on building a server for vidya? I would love to play stellaris on my old ass laptop when I'm not at home.

not at all, i find these pictures hilarious

You might want to peruse the Rooms section of the Cyberpunk archive:
ftp://guest:[email protected]:21212/Cyberpunk/Rooms/

>freenas
>less than 8GB of RAM, much less than i3
>VM host
>J1900
Did you set up your servers in a way to experience excruciating lag first-hand?

i bet you think you need an i7 and 32GB for 'web development'

im running freenas with 2gb ram because im a madman

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Those SSDs alone cost more than what you paid.

>$100

its trash, get a fucking job

People still use ESXI?

neck yourself hyper-v fag

Why not?

non-free

My Windows server 2012 is running a few shares for movies and backups but i also have a Ubuntu server but no idea what i want to run on it.

Any ideas?

>Any ideas?
buy a helium tank and kill yourself for using shitdows 'server'

>Being this buttmad over what someone is running

I also run Windows 10 on my PC

Ow and the server is called Treblinka and the PC Auschwitz.

I'm sure you are a FOSS fag

Terrible. G6 is the lowest you should even consider, and since they up to I think 10 by now 7's and 8's should be more achievable.

Slightly unrelated, but what type of cloud/file hosting should I be looking for if I want to mount it natively as a network drive on Linux? FTP maybe?

>what type of cloud/file hosting should I be looking for

You should never be looking for cloud hosting

>not buying a Mac mini and using macOS Server

lmao freetardness at its best

how acceptable is it to run like esxi and have a VM manage storage underneath for like a NAS?

esxi is never acceptable