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?
Bumping to ask a question how do you use 24 drives when server motherboards only have much less than 24 ports??
Gabriel Clark
>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yeah, ssds for ZIL can help a lot, I think pci-e ones used to be preferred, but I'm out of date.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.
Hudson Sanchez
sas
Jack Gomez
What about it?
Christopher Perry
you can get sas cards that can run a shitload of drives.
Colton Thomas
Would you mind listing all the hardware components in this picture and their purpose? I'm a learning newb
Owen Howard
I just switch out the supermicro fanrow for some noctua fans every time I need a server in the house. Cool and quiet.
Jason Russell
> 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?
Anthony Evans
probably going to buy a rack soon and a rack mountable usp, just havent decided in what yet
