Do you have your own server/NAS?
What are the specs? What do you use it for? What do you run on it?
I recently got into the entire thing with a Fujitsu Q956 (i5-6500t, 8GB RAM) I got for cheap and I've been learning a lot, but now I suddenly want to upgrade it with more RAM, more HDDs and at some point I'll probably end up buying a R710. It's a slippery slope.
Intel 6100 with 8gb ddr4 and some drives. Remote "ssh anywhere" Arch Linux machine that leeches from my seed boxes and serves as storage for media and programming projects and automation and some idle mining. I travel a lot and it's been great. Really facilitated my Linux learning experience.
I should mention this is a regular ol ATX build and not a rack mount.
Yea. Mostly storage boxes, one doubles as htpc / media box / misc linux usage.
None of them are as powerful as a i5-6500t, but I may eventually have to use some more powerful machine to make use of multiple older hdd.
I have 4 Synology NAS (2xDS1815+, 2xDS414). Work great, excellent web I/F, great selection of native and 3rd-party apps. Run linux natively.
Had two Western Digital units, but in an update they dropped support for NFS, so I dropped them...
Ive been thinking about re-vamping the way my entire home pc ecosystem works. Right now almost everything from gaming to shitposting to data hording is done on my main rackmounted pc, but ive recently finished a mini-itx picopsu tiny pc build that ive put on my nightstand with a wallmounted tv as the monitor and ive been comfly browsing/shitposing from that and only going to my main pc for gaming or work related stuff. I like this so much im thinking about making a NAS from a bunch of spare bits I have, revamping the comfyposting pc with some different parts and then having a dedicated gaming rig seperate from it all.
Back to your post specifically, im thinking of moving over my 2 2tb drives and buying two more into the rackmount case as a start to my NAS, powered by either a core 2 duo e7500 or an athalon 5350 with 8-12gb of ddr3 ram and some shit gpu just so I dont rely on the shitty igpu on either options, just a gtx 650 ti or 7850 since I have a few laying around.
I have a Synology NAS. Runs great, isn't gigantic, isn't loud, super easy to use.
Power efficiency wise, that's a good plan. It'll probably be cheaper to do that in quite many places.
I'm not sure you need that much ram and processing power on a simple NAS, this sounds more like the specs for a cloud storage setup (which currently arent that optimized and put a lot of hashes and stuff into RAM to get faster latencies).
I know, right? I mean, I kinda knew my way around Linux before, but I had no real motivation of learning further.
But now I've learned shitlot more about network, security, Linux in general, VMs and such. I also bought a domain to fuck around with website-stuff.
And that domain is now used with Gsuite Business, for a neat email address and unlimited GDrive Storage.
Pic related, my little comfy computer. It's plenty quick for everything, it's quiet and it sips electricity, but it can't really do more than three Plex transcodes at once, which is a shame. I am gonna put in more 8 more gigs of RAM, so I can have more VMs running.
>r710
>not chad r510
PS: Plain old Linux NAS with SW RAID is pretty much fine with 1gb ish of RAM, grab maybe 4 GB if you'll be running a bunch of services (database, syncthing, samba, torrent, ...). It'll should easily do the job without much optimizing.
Transcoding is pretty wasteful at home. You're almost certainly cheaper off installing some $30 htpc near TV to handle the few overly taxing media files rather than spend $400+ and more power draw extra on fast transcoding capabilities. Your smartphones and PCs can play back anything common anyhow if they are not ancient monstrosities.
>Transcoding is pretty wasteful at home
Right right, but my friends use it stream to their Chromecasts and such. With subtitles, it generally requires transcoding no matter what.
I'm not gonna get a R710 or whatever in the near future anyway - it's waaay too big and too noisy for my apartment. Also, that powerdraw. That's why I'm using this small PC with a 35W CPU.
Thanks for the tip!
Nothing is set in stone except I tested all the components I have laying around my workspace to make sure its all good to go when I make a final decision.
Would the e7500 and just 4gb of ram be more efficient? Ram and gpu's are probably what im most 'limited' in and even thats a bit of a stretch as I have 4 2gb sticks, 2 2gb sticks and an 8gb stick to work with, and gpu wise I have a few 7850's, a 650 ti, 5870, and 6870x2 to put to use.
By the way, guys, what are your preferred hypervisors?
I'm considering trying out Unraid.
I want to set one up for a personal cloud. How much should I expect to pay, if I were to build it myself, or just buy outright. What would you recommend to keep the cost down?
Depends on your usage and needs.
I mean, for a long time, I just used a Raspberry Pi 3 and I was satisfied with that. But that may not be enough for you.
There are probably a couple of people here that may disagree with me, but I'd say that just about anything with a gigabit ethernet port is good enough for a personal cloud, if you won't be using it for anything else. Then get a couple of WD EasyStore drives (or similar) and set them up in raid 1, so the risk of losing data to drive failure is absolutely minimal.
Ok, can you recommend me some drive bays for the rPi3, I have one lying around that I could repurpose
I'm the type of person that picks out the cheapest shit with the most positive reviews on AliExpress. You could do the same, I guess, otherwise you'll have to look up some reviews yourself, as I don't know much about drive bays/adapters/whatever.
Do keep in mind that, while the RPi3 works well, you'll be severely limited in speed. That was what caused me to upgrade. 8-12 mbps just wasn't enough for me.
If you have a decent/smart switch, the DS414 can bind its two gigabit ethernets, and the DS1815+ can bind all four...
>NAS
TS218, 2x 1tb drives, used for ISO storage and backup aggregation, stores to a pair of 4tb USB drives.
>Server
1x Dell Latitude 6420 acting as a tools server
1x Dell PE T410 running Plex
2x Dell PE R620 running prod, dev, and test.
PE servers have FDR infiniband interconnects, and bonded gige.
You have that backwards...
The 510 is lowest spec (or second lowest) dual socket 2u.
Almost everything else is better, especially the R810/R910...
>power edge
Ow the Edge
I turned an old gaming PC into a server. Is neat, the case is huge so I filled it with HDD racks.
A Pi with an external hard drive might just be enough for you.
For me, my server is my entire storage capacity, I've just turned my house into clients. Almost all access to data is done over the network now and it's cool. Well when you have 10TB in a stationary place and a gigabit line to it wherever you are in the house, that's cool.
Yes, I have a Synology DS411 with 4TB, and another one (DS409+) that I resurrected from the dead after the power went off during a firmware upgrade - that one has a single old 320GB IDE disk in it with a SATA-IDE converter. Not the highest performing devices (think one's ARM based and another's Freescale) but they do for my purposes.
I use the DS411 for web development stuff, it has a LAMP stack so I can write stuff against that and deploy it on hosts with a fair amount of confidence that it'll work, and can run early versions of node.js (0.10) which is good enough for experimental purposes I guess. It also has a git server but i've not been able to find a client which will let me point at my NAS instead of wanting me to sign up with some 3rd party repository host. Can also schedule off site backups of my code on a regular basis too, it's been a pretty handy device. It's also acting as a print server. Be nice if I could get something with a bit more performance, but i'm a pauper looking for a job.
HP DL350
72GB RAM
6 x 4TB SSHD RAID 10 for data
2 x 500GB RAID1 for system
GNS3
1 ESXi for:
NAS
VPN
Syslog
1 ESXi for:
CEH lab with 12 win and *nix guests
Plus I have a box sitting between it and my router with fw & ids, i3, 8gb ram, 500gb for system, 2TB for logs/captures
Kvm, rkt, systemd-nspawn.
But I actually virtualize rather little again at this point. It's mostly conventional Linux sysadmin stuff. Package manager, user accounts, maybe ACLs and cgroups.
How do the hot swap bays handle hdd seek vibrations?
I'm getting tired of managing my own Linux setup (got FM2A85X-ITX for 7+1 SATA ports) but hanging in Node 804 my 8TB Toshibas are already very audible.
synology ds212j with the stock firmware, that's about it really. just werks and has plenty of software that comes in really handy like Transmission so i can use it as a download server
>How do the hot swap bays handle hdd seek vibrations?
Not same user, but the slightly more than a ~handful of synology / qnap NAS that I've handled all vibrated a bit more than the average gaymen midtower with basic rubber drive suspensions on its HDD trays or hotswap bays. But it's not really terrible.
On the Synology drive compatibility page ther's a note or two regarding drive vibration...
I just replaced my old gaming system and I was thinking about turning it into a NAS/server. It has a i5 3570k and a gtx 670. Is there anything special I need to know/do or could I just buy a couple of HDD's, connect them with some standard SATA cables, put them in a RAID and install some Linux distro?
It's literally just install linux and you're good. Set up an ssh server and some keypairs to connect to it and then stick it somewhere out of the way and manage it with ssh
I was looking into this recently. I've got the parts for a PC with a 4690k and 12GB of RAM, plus a case with twelve drive bays. FreeNAS any good?
Nah dude just install a real distro and run a samba server
Isn't the point of FreeNAS to streamline that with a webUI? You can even run normal programs in the background like rutorrent.
Depends on what your goal is.
With those specs, you probably want a bit more than just a fileserver, so disregard that dude before me.
I'd go for either Proxmox or Unraid.
I have a colocated server in a datacenter with two sockets and 192GB of RAM, running Debian. I use it for webshit, VMs, DNS, FTP, file sync, software development, and an IRC client. I also have a tiny serial only pfSense box and an ARMv8 mini ITX server as a NAS/seedbox at home.
Goals are a fileserver, streaming to an Raspberry Pi hooked up to my TV and something to seed 24/7. Maybe host a personal website in the future, too.
Well, literally anything would work for that.
Go with FreeNAS if it seems good to you.
I'm just partial to Unraid and Proxmox because I'm a sucker for virtualization.
FreeNAS should be able to do virtualization now that bhyve exists.
I've got a SFTP server using an orange pi lite over 2.4 Ghz
Like 12TB
Rate me
I'm fishing for alternatives because I'm apparently not smart enough to use FreeNAS. Can't figure out how to give myself write permissions so I think I'll nuke the install and start from scratch.
Also I ghettoed it together using 6 drives of varying sizes and ages (2-12 years old with at most 8 years powered on time)
Right, that's true, but I was just suggesting Unraid and Proxmox because they're made specifically for that.
Well, Proxmox seemed pretty foolproof to me.
But then again, you don't HAVE to run some Linux distro.
If you want to keep it really foolproof, you can also just install Win10 Pro and use it for whatever.
I ran Windows 10 Pro, controlled it with RDP and made VMs with Hyper-V.
If you're too dumb to change file permissions you have no business using a computer.
I have a R610 I use as a Nextcloud server but I almost never use it so i'll find something else to do with it
I've followed all the instructions, it just refuses to give my PC write permissions. I've created an admin group, a user in that group with all permissions, I log onto the share with that and I still can't write.
I have a NAS with movies/tv shows/porn at home. It's an old 2600k gaming PC I used to own, threw some 3TB HGST HDD's in it.
I use AWS for my business shit even though I work from home with 100Mbps fiber because it saves me time which I spend doing my actual business tasks that make me money. Ill admit I used to be one of those "ill do everything myself, from my own server no matter what" type of people but it bit me in the ass when my customer base grew.
>I've followed all the instructions
Apparently not.
I've got it working on a separate share for my Ubuntu laptop, but the Windows one is being a piece of shit.
Check the Windows permissions for the mountpoint then.
yes, its going to be my main system (moving to linux) next month when i overhaul my desk setup.
it's just running samba and automatically backs up the running drive to the cold drive when i power it on via rsync.
i hope to setup an owncloud in the next few months when i can be arsed.
an off-the-shelf NAS is too limited imo
I got one using a Pentium G3258, it has an older Adaptec 31205 running 8 drives,6 2TB drives in Raid 10 and 2 8TB Seagate ironwolfs in raid 1, I will change the raid level on the 8TB ones when I have the need for more. Total I get about 17 TB of usable space with redundancy. I mostly store media and host a plex server so I have no need for any backup for now, all drives are using brtfs.