The most jank, improper server I've ever built:

Tried using eight 160GB WB Blue drives to find 1 is bad and another has bad sectors. 3 were locked and had to have their data map cleaned manually because FreeNAS couldn't do it "Permission Denied". So we have 7 usable disk of which I've only configured 6 in mirrors.

 

The internal hardware is some FM2+ motherboard/CPU with 16GB DDR3. Supports UEFI which was a nice surprise.

I brought in the 10Gbit SFP+ NIC, transceivers, LC fiber cable, SATA cables, That LAZER PSU (easy way to power 8 drives) I brought in a super junk 4 SATA port PCI_ex1 card which you can partially see here:

Then I just used the four onboard ports.

 

Here's the 10Gbit client. You can see the WebUI of the server using Microsoft Edge of all things.

 

I would like to enable SMB on the 10 & 1Gbit networks. Have the 10Gbit client and 2 1Gbit clients. Then dedicate a 2 drive RAID1 to a user who will use an iSCSI drive and if I can get this crappy netgear router to freaking port forward I'll configure the server to work with SSH/SFTP.

 

Myself and this one other guy are the only people who are doing extra credit so if we have the time we might as well use the entire class room and assemble a multi-user file sharing network.

 

As just a proof-of-concept I'd like to use all of the following:

SMB

iSCSI

SSH/SFTP

Class A/B/& C networking intercommunication

Demonstrate port forwarding

RAID mirrors, RAID1

Demonstrating 10Gbit networking & fiber-optics

Make our own Cat5e cables following the T-568B standard

Demonstrate RAM Disks and ZFS RAM read caching

Public/Private Key authentication

and some other things.

 

The funny thing about all this. His extra credit requirements was "Just get something working". Build a computer. Install Linux or something. Well. I'm a networking major. How about I build a multi-user, multi-network file sharing system?

 

The time to work on this is VERY limited so myself and the guy I'm working with may not get as far as I just listed above but I will try to implement as much of this as I can. This is really just for the lol's, my current average is still a 98.56% the extra credit isn't needed at all.

 

The due date for this is December 7th IIRC so I'll discuss this project sometime around then again with how far we got.

 

I might ask for help getting this router to freaking port forward before then actually.