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1 hour ago, ToboRobot said:

RAID or parity?  Expansion when you fill the drives you currently have? 

The 2 drives are in a ZFS mirror. Looking at my current usage, I don't think I will run out of space for at least the next 5 years after some cleaning up of duplicate files. If I need more capacity, my path would be to get higher capacity drives and add my current drives to my offsite backup machine.

1 hour ago, ToboRobot said:

You sure two HDDs will be enough for the future?

I will also have 2 1TB M.2 Nvme SSDs for my applications that will live on this box. I just didn't list them because they don't really matter for picking a case 

16 hours ago, chtorogu said:

What do you intend to use your home server for?

Nas, Minecraft servers and a Media server for now.

Minecraft servers, especially modded ones can get quite intense on the CPU

14 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Does it hard shut down, does it become unresponsive, is it only unrechable over the network?

It becomes unresponsive but doesn't hard shut down.

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Why not get the non f version. pretty good encoders on bord(no av1, but id argue it doesn't matter as a bit extra bandwidth on a local network doesn't matter)

Have a few lying around, trying to repurpose hardware that is otherwise useless

I'm planning an rebuild/upgrade to my NAS and also building a media server using Jellyfin.

Current NAS I have:

• AMD Ryzen 3 3100
• ASUS B450M-A
• Kingston DDR4-2400 8GB ECC
• FSP HEXA 85+ 350w power supply
• WD Green 120GB SSD (Boot Drive)
• 3x 6TB NAS drive (2xHGST, 1xToshiba)
• Unraid Basic

What I plan to do:

• Put New Drives and convert to TrueNAS Scale
• Replace Case with Silverstone CS351
• Put Old Drives in a spare system as offsite backup
• Build another system for jellyfin to live on

Questions for NAS:

• What drive config would be better for reliability? 2x16TB Mirrored or 3x8TB Raid Z1?
• Would it make sense to have 2 SSDs (Maybe Crucial MX500) mirrored as a cache for 1GbE Network?
• How does not having ECC effect ZFS?

Plans for Media Server:

• Intel Core i5-9400F
• Intel Arc A380 GPU (For AV1 Hardware Encoding)
• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS + Jellyfin
• Mount directory from NAS over SMB or NFS for media library
• Remote access through port forwarding and nginx reverse proxy

Questions for media server:

• How does not having PCIe ReBar affect Arc in terms of media encoding and decoding?
• Are there any more severe general issues with Arc on Linux?

8 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

There is a power slider in the menu that goes from light to full, do you have it set to light right now? If so, slide if right to medium or full and it should engage. 

yes it is on full

I have a vega 64 GPU and FAH shows that it is disabled

driver version is 21.6.1

Specs:

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

DDR4-3600 CL16 16GBx2

ASUS B550-A

Radeon Firepro W7100

AMD Radeon Software for Enterprise 21.Q2.1

Windows 10 Pro 21H1

Game plays fine but the output of OBS is barely even 30fps, looks more like 15fps even when output is set to 720p 30fps. Encoding using Both x264 and AMF experience this issue.

45 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

The question is. Why would you game on a VM in the first place? You wanna cheat in game?

4 minutes ago, Levent said:

Read the games terms of use. They are there for a reason.

Most games simply don't say anything regarding the use of VMs. They only say that cheating is not allowed.

There have been many reports about getting banned by anticheat for using a VM. I want to try sth like 8 gamers 1 cpu between multiple friends. Is there a list of what games are safe and what are not?

Rig Won't POST after adding 4th GPU

All components are known good

Specs:

Athlon 3000G

Asrock B450 gaming k4

team ddr4 8gb

rx580 8gb x4

wd green 120gb m.2 sata ssd

evga 850 GA power supply

32 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

What kind of NIC are you looking for? 10Gb? There's pretty cheap used ones.

 

For enterprise use, there's Mellanox and Solarflare.

1Gb

17 hours ago, rhavimarques said:

recently moved, got fibre installed for the first time, yay, except it sucks, super unstable, packet loss galore, don't really know if its the network they installed that's bad or the configs they're using on the huawei spy router they left me, but while i don't get it fixed, i'm using my phone to at least play some dota without massive packet loss, question is..


TL;DR: I have ethernet, and a 4g modem, 4g modem works better for gaming, (sadly), ethernet works best for youtubes. Is there a program that routes all dota/steam connections through the 4g modem, and routes everything else through the fibre? so i can do both at the same time without either eating my mobile data or getting crazy lag in games?

 

edit: i did a quick google before i posted, found a thing called forcebindIP, but that thing is like, command-line stuff that " might" have worked on a win7 machine back in 2013...so....

 

Huawei lol. ANYTHING CHINESE (Especially when dealing with data) GETS THROWN OUT EITHER THE DOOR OR THE WINDOW IF SOMEONE EVER GIVES RELATED CRAP TO ME

I know that intel is the industry standard but I don’t always have that much spare money to buy intel NICs. How do these brands stack up against intel?

Primarily looking at 1GbE Nics

1. Realtek - cheap, Common on lower end motherboards these days

2. Broadcom - Super cheap second hand, often found in macs as well

3. Atheros - These are on some old Gigabyte motherboards and idk if they are good

4. Marvell - I have some old LGA775 motherboards that have these

5. Nvidia Nforce - I have a AM2 Board that has this

2 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

There is no magic pixie-dust inside Xeons, they're just CPUs. There is NO reason why one couldn't run any regular CPU 24/7/365 and plenty of people do that all the time, including me.

On the AMD side Epyc and Ryzen have THE EXACT SAME DIE lol

3 minutes ago, Spirit`yL said:

Sure you wanna use a Core processor for NAS?

For me though,i would choose Xeon-E3 123v6 and C236i from asrock and 16G ECC memory

 

And the i3-7100 supports ECC ram

2 minutes ago, Spirit`yL said:

Sure you wanna use a Core processor for NAS?

For me though,i would choose Xeon-E3 123v6 and C236i from asrock and 16G ECC memory

 

How about going with Ryzen or older AMD platforms which also supports ECC

Just now, Spirit`yL said:

I think unraid is much better

Are there Free alternatives that has the same level of drive support?

Specs:
intel core i3-7100

Asus B250F Gaming

16GB DDR4

LSI 9211-8i HBA card

Boot Drive Not decided yet

Data Drives:
Excel Stor 80GB
WD 160GB
Seagate 160GB
Hitachi 250GB
HGST 500GB
WD blue 500GB
WD Black 500GB
HGST 1TB
Seagate 2TB
HGST 6TB *2

I want a Windows Home Server 1 replacement for this random pile of drives with proper supports and updates. 

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

GA-M61PME-S2P
2 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 2 SATA 3Gb/s devices

M4A785D-M PRO
5 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports Support RAID 0,1,10,JBOD

 

Well, it's a clear winner for the M4A785D-M Pro in my books.
As for the CPU, whichever has the most cores and lowest power usage that is compatible with the motherboard (I really don't know any of the old, low end AMD CPUs, maybe someone else can help you out there) 

All CPUs are compatible with my Motherboards
Both the Athlon II X4 640 and the Phenom X4 9550 are Quad core CPUs with a 95w TDP

Just now, Trevor87 said:

Also what do you want to do with NAS ?

Because if you want to do video encoding on it. Eg plex

cpu is no going to cute it.

  

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