Donci
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I have a rockstor nas, and I can't manage it remotely. The nas says I can access the web-GUI at 192.168.0.26 or 127.0.0.1, but neither is working. I tried looking up the IP address on multiple computers, but it says its not responding. It's on a dell r410 if that helps.
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What do all of those Ethernet cables do in Servers
Donci replied to AlphaBetaDelta's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
An ethernet cable isn't just used to connect to the internet. If you want servers to be able to work together, they will need a means of communication. Lots of ethernet cables might also be a result of a need for higher bandwidth between servers, because there is a way to leverage the bandwidth of multiple cables. Servers usually also use sfp+ or qsfp+ cables, they are also used as an interconnect, and can carry both ethernet and infiniband. -
Are you looking for something that can do hardware RAID or just JBOD? Good Jbod cards are the lsi 9300 series. If it has i16 on the end that means it has 16 ports (4 x sff 8087
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Help picking out a process for my home server
Donci replied to Gk2011's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
I'd say an i3-7100 or a xeon e5-2670 -
FlexRaid seems like a pretty interesting option to me. Does it correct bitrot? Because I have heard that traditional RAID doesnt do that, but I have also heard that when using enterprise SAS drives and ECC ram it really doesnt occur.
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If unraids built in RAID allows for that thats good, but does it do checksums to protect against bitrot? If it does i dont even need btrfs
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Yes, the problem is, that I know of no modern xeon (DDR4 ECC Reg supported) that is lower powered than the e5-1620v4. I mean the e5-2603v4 is like 100$ less expensive so that could be a thing, but it runs at like 1.7Ghz. You are right about the ram tho, but I dont know how you would connect a SAS Jbod controller to a pi
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There will definitely be a backup, although it will probably be backblaze, so getting the data back would be to say the least complicated. I think BTRFS is really the only option for me because I definitely dont have 8TB of free storage. And I thing RAID 5 ( atleast in btrfs) can be done with just 2 drives, although it would be somewhat pointless because BTRFS can just change between raids.
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Thanks! For 1) : I have heard BTRFS can do switch between RAIDs
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The thing is thats just the OS: -What file system? (HwRAID doesnt seem that compelling) -How do I connect from outside the network? -Caching? -Media streaming and photo sharing platform?
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What software stack do you suggest for this server? Usage: -NAS: should also be accessable from outside the network, photo sharing within and outside of the network even from smartphones -Media server: 1080p video streaming Hardware: - SAS HDDs: starting with 2 (something like RAID 1) dynamically expandable up to 8 (something like RAID 6) - 2 x SSD Caching (something like RAID 1) - 16GB ECC ram - 8threads at around 3Ghz (e5 v4 so pretty new xeon) I would preferably like a GUI and as little command line interfaces as possible.
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Thanks
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Ok so my questions is, can I use BTRFS for unRaid cache drives as well?
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1. What exactly replaces a virtual machine? 2. I want to use unRAID because its a simple and adaquite solution 3. Expanding a ZFS system can only be done in blocks, and I could not change the parity configuration. 4. A multimedia server is important because this way the entire library can be watched any time any where from any device Thank you for your reply but this definitely wasnt constructive for me.
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I'm planing to make an unRAID server for data storage and media streaming. An important thing will be expandability, as I dont want to pay for 8 drives up front, this also means being able to change from RAID1 to 5 to 6. (SAS drives would be used for mass storage (w/ JBOD card) but not the Cache pool, that would be 2 sata ssds in raid1) I'm wondering what file system to use, I have heard that unraid has built in paroty but it doesnt seem great. Is running BTRFS (or you can suggest a different system) over top of unraid a good option? ( when referring to RAID I always meant the equivilent in the choosen file system) Edit: I have also heard that Btrfs doesnt handle VMs well, is there a work around so I can still have VMs?