Bigbird67

I bought 2 of the Seagate Exos X16 14TB Drive's for my QNAP TS-563 5-bay NAS. I had 5- 6tb Ironwolf pro and prior to that had 5 3tb WD red Drives in it. all of the drive reported smart errors. I am convinced that it is the QNAP device as I switched to the Synology 1621+ and used the 14tb and the 6tb drives with zero errors. I created 2 drive pools and tested the data transfer speeds across both pools. the EXOS drive were 24% faster before adding the NVME cache pool and 34% after the cache pool. Which are intel 256gb drives in raid 1 for read/write. Also the 14tb Exos drive on Newegg and amazon were approx. $6-12 cheaper than the same ironwolf drives as the ironwolf drive were not in stock at the time. Looking forward to 5 yrs of greaat performance at least out of these Drives.

Does anyone know where i can go to calculate the total data storage by the raid option so that i can best choose how I want to setup my storage. Also need to know how many drives can fail before the bad drive can be moved out and the array rebuit prior to total fail over and data loss.

Thank s Ill look into it. Any ideas on which raid setup that I should use?

I have looked into the edge router. It will not let me aggregate of manage traffic like the USG or the switch will. Unless I have Missed something in my research of this device. Also, are you saying that I should install the vmware ESXI and virtualize my Server 2016 and pfsense for aggregated traffic management and storage? What I want to do for the routing, is to have both Nics on the server setup to be inbound on one and the other outbound separately. and to manage each port separately for certain traffic. The edge Lite was not able to do this in the software that i reviewed.

Hello everyone! I have a general question as to what OS I should run on my server and what raid option would be the best. I am currently looking at doing FreeNas server. I think that i want to us FreeNAS loaded via USB within the slower internal USB ports on the server, But I was wondering if that is the best option, or if a low cost option for me that will better suit my needs, would be to use an SSD for this budget build internally. I have a good understanding of this stuff, minimal command line and such, but would prefer at least some basic GUI for simplicity. What I am trying to accomplish: 200Mbps Down 20Mbps Up internet connection at my highest speed test run Home NAS -A place for a central repository of all the computers in the house to store files and back up to nightly -Something I can easily(but securely) access from anywhere Server- Plex, Kodi,ETC. -I want to take all my Music and Movies (5tb of media) and add them to a media share -as it fills up i want to expand the drive capacity; so adding drives to the pools easily would be a great feature! I would love something with decent security features. short of building a Pfsense Router. Ubiquiti US-24-250W UniFi Switch - 24 Ports Managed Ubiquiti- USG Enterprise Gateway Router Ubiquiti Networks UAP-AC-PRO-5-US Wireless Indoor / Outdoor 802.11ac PRO Access Point, 5-Pack Very soon I plan to duplicate this build for a server at my parents house as a backup and if mine ever goes down that one could pick up where this one left off, if at all possible. System specs: Dell R410 1U Server -2 x Intel Xeon E5645 Hexa-Core 2.40GHz CPU Processors -32GB Ram (16 GB per CPU) -4 x WD Red NAS pro SATA 4tb drives; 3.5" Drives -Hot Swappable -again, going to be increasing the size of Drives as my Media collection needs more space -would prefer to run some sort of Raid 10or what is recommended for best redundancy -2 x 64GB USB 3.0 Flash drives for OS -an Adata 120gb SSD for data cache -Currently working on a FreeNas build; that's why I am looking to use for the OS, Open to getting a small SSD if needed for another operating system. -500 Watt power supply and currently working on getting another 500 Watt redundant supply for the redundant side of the server. -its also on a backup-UPS- Tripp Lite SMART500RT1U Smart Pro 500 VA 300 Watts 1U Rackmount 7 Outlet UPS -ONBOARD SAS 6/IR Raid Controller ( dell part# HM030) -Dell iDRAC6 DRAC 6i Remote Access Board K869T I build desktops for customers but never any servers, I've been doing this for 20yrs and decided to dabble into building a home server, so I can actually use the desktop more efficiently instead of a home "Server" as its ended up being mostly used for. Lagging more and more as I have 6 drives in my Main Desktop and 5 on my backup in my office. I want to have more Peace of mind in Data Storage. I do Practice the 3-2-1 rule for backup; however I maintain 2 backups offsite, 1 of which is for a customers backup data as well. The money that I save will let me finally build a gaming water-cooled custom rig with RGB. For once a new rig for myself instead of used parts! Again ANY help i could get from you guys is VASTLY appreciated and Please stay civil, I don't want to start any Verbal confrontations! lol