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    LIGISTX got a reaction from tanjackson in Which are the best youtube channels that teach configuring network, WAN, firewall, vlan, vpn, etc?   
    Lawrence systems is great. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from goatedpenguin in Which are the best youtube channels that teach configuring network, WAN, firewall, vlan, vpn, etc?   
    Lawrence systems is great. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Kennyn in New NAS software?   
    No info yet.
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    LIGISTX reacted to manikyath in I have a z270 board to use in a multi purpose home server, what is the most bang/buck cpu to get?   
    i mean.. depending on how intense you want to go with plex and minecraft, that g3900 might suffice.
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    LIGISTX reacted to Electronics Wizardy in New Unraid Server Build   
    Ecc lowers the chances of data corruption. Probably not needed for home media storage, but nice to have. 
     
    Consumer platforms typically idle at lower power and will have higher single threaded performance compared to these older server CPUs. You also often get a hardware encoder on the iGPU, so that would remove the need for the a380. Server platforms will let you have much more ram if you need that, but I don't see that being super important here.
     
     
    As far as cases, I like these supermicro 36 bay cases. Pretty cheap used. Here is a example on ebay, should be lots if you look up supermicro 36 bay. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144716914920. Generally pretty easy to work with, and I'd say pretty good build quality.
     
     
    With a 10g nic and that many drives, I'd be tempted to get a different solution for faster disk io than a single HDD, but depends on your needs.
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    LIGISTX reacted to manikyath in New Unraid Server Build   
    i've ran unraid without ECC for years, the reason why unraid prefers ECC is because the software assumes that when something in memory is different from what's on disk (when a bit flip happens), it assumes memory is correct.
     
    the question is, how likely is a bit flip to happen, in a place where it impacts the server? (does your desktop crash due to bit flips?)
     
    so if you dont need to go outside of the PCIe availability of consumer platforms, going consumer is a valid consideration.
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    LIGISTX reacted to bmx6454 in Jumpstart bios question   
    you can do either, if you want to play it safe, no reason you can't install the os before putting in case.
    added this when you posted:
     
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from will0hlep in Moving my NAS to a server rack and have some questions:   
    I don’t know supermicro stuff super well, but when I need to I know enough to do the research to get my answers. But suffice it to say, most supermicro chassis with 24 bays will have this functionality. My buddies 24 bay I helped him deploy has 2 dual port SAS cards, so only 4 SAS cables are running to the backplane and he has all 24 drives working. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from will0hlep in Moving my NAS to a server rack and have some questions:   
    Your backplane probably is a SAS expander… you can run a single HBA and just use two SAS cables between the HBA and the backplane (or as many cables as your HBA has) and it’ll work fine. 
     
    Id recommend doing some more specific research into what parts you actually have. But typically, as I said, backplanes ARE SAS expanders. 
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    LIGISTX reacted to Blue4130 in Moving my NAS to a server rack and have some questions:   
    You can also use a SAS expander rather than a 24i port card or multiple cards. The 9207 can address 256 drives.
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_1
     
    click the levels, and look at the pictures. The only RAID levels that “matter” are 0, 1, 3, and 10. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    I can’t tell if you are joking or not….
     
    The Wikipedia page for RAID has had extremely easy to understand pictures for decades. It’s super simple to understand with a few pictures. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Needfuldoer in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    RAID 0….
     
    Me thinks you should just google RAID, and read for a few minutes 🙂 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from podkall in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    I can’t tell if you are joking or not….
     
    The Wikipedia page for RAID has had extremely easy to understand pictures for decades. It’s super simple to understand with a few pictures. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Blue4130 in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    RAID 0….
     
    Me thinks you should just google RAID, and read for a few minutes 🙂 
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    LIGISTX reacted to tkitch in Fastest way transfer files onto NAS   
    nope, because a single HDD is your bottleneck for speeds there.
     

     
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from will0hlep in Barracuda vs iron wolf   
    As others said, don’t use SMR in a NAS. The time it takes to rebuild a failed array is SO egregiously long, the likelihood of a second drive failing during the rebuild process becomes an actual issue, and at that point you lose all your data if you only have single drive redundancy. 
     
    For reference, I run a 10x4tb array with 2 drive redundancy, and I personally have had a second drive fail during a rebuild…. And I am using CMR WD Reds. So this is not just “possible…. Theoretically”. It had happened to me, and I am very thankful I had dual drive redundancy to save me. And my rebuilds take ~8-10 hours, being at risk for multiple days, no thanks, SMR is a no go. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from leadeater in Barracuda vs iron wolf   
    As others said, don’t use SMR in a NAS. The time it takes to rebuild a failed array is SO egregiously long, the likelihood of a second drive failing during the rebuild process becomes an actual issue, and at that point you lose all your data if you only have single drive redundancy. 
     
    For reference, I run a 10x4tb array with 2 drive redundancy, and I personally have had a second drive fail during a rebuild…. And I am using CMR WD Reds. So this is not just “possible…. Theoretically”. It had happened to me, and I am very thankful I had dual drive redundancy to save me. And my rebuilds take ~8-10 hours, being at risk for multiple days, no thanks, SMR is a no go. 
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    LIGISTX reacted to Alex Atkin UK in 2 NICs horror story   
    They clearly do have a second network directly between the two.  If all they are wanting is shares to use this network, none of what you suggest is necessary.
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    LIGISTX reacted to RONOTHAN## in No power pins on mobo?   
    It has been the top right two on pretty much any consumer motherboard since Skylake, though even knowing that I'll just take a knife and drag it along the top/bottom rows until it starts since it's just easier than trying to quick remember which two it is. 
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from RONOTHAN## in No power pins on mobo?   
    Very bottom right.... JFP1. Probabaly need to look in the manual to confirm which pins are which, but just short any 2 out until it starts, then you will know which two.
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    LIGISTX reacted to RONOTHAN## in No power pins on mobo?   
    It's in this collection of pins right here
    Specifically the top right two:
     
    Either short them with a screw driver/knife/coin/something else metal nearby or if it's already in the case, just connect and hit the power button. 
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    LIGISTX reacted to RONOTHAN## in No power pins on mobo?   
    I assure you, there is. What motherboard are you using?
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    LIGISTX reacted to Alex Atkin UK in 2 NICs horror story   
    As mentioned above, if you have two paths to the same box over different IP addresses, you have to specify the IP address of the server not its name.  Using the name will use the NIC connected to the Internet as this will be considered the default gateway.  Although 20-40MB/s is on the low side even for Gigabit.
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    LIGISTX got a reaction from Alex Atkin UK in 2 NICs horror story   
    Are you connecting to your unraid share over the 10.0.0.0 subnet? Assuming yes, it should work normally without having to disable anything. 
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