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I was only joking about LTT being enterprise. Lol. My homelab is more of a hobby to me than anything else at the moment. Was interersted to see what Linus decided to go with in the end. I think that ZFS ontop of Ubuntu 18.04TLS will do the trick alongside NFS over 10G

I already have a homelab with Proxmox runnning in a cluster, I just wanted to see how a media production company configures their storage, what software and what protocols they use.

Hi there, from watching Linus's videos over the years he has mentioned that he has used FreeNAS, Unraid, GlusterFS on CentOS, and Windows server in his server room and server workflow. Any clear logical idea on how this all fits together and what his use case is for each software. I am trying to setup software for my own homelab to play around with enterprise software. Thanks.

seems like you had a power surge after the thunderstorm that killed one of your ram slots and damaged your motherboard. A new motherboard is your best bet.

@Mikensan Thanks for the clarification

Doesn't software like proxmox allow this out of the box?

Dont leave us hanging!!!

Browsing the web, Reddit, Youtube, managing my homelab. Testing out linux live usb's. playing World of tanks, Xonotic, Robocraft. (All run fine on GT750m) CAD, video editing (rendering of CAD and video will be done by a server), photoshop, coding (python html). That type of stuff.

So i have been googling and searching ebay for a while now. My current computer is a Dell Inspiron 7537 [i7 4500U] and so pretty much anything desktop based would be an upgrade. My budget is around £250. I have arrived at the conclusion that I would like the workstation to be xeon based and must be relatively new at least 3rd Gen. The setup that i am looking at now is: E3-1220v3 Gigabyte GA-B85M-DH3 32GB Non-ECC ram Must have at least 1 pcie x8 and 1 pcie x16 also single or dual socket doesn't matter. However I want to make sure that there is not an alternative that i am missing out on. I've seen all the X58 build logs but truth be told i already have a few Dell R710's to do rendering and other heavy work. I just need a semi-powerful workstation that is power efficient as I cant justify running an R710 for reading reddit and watching LTT . Thanks.

@Mikensan Was it the MNPA19-XTR by any chance. Also what DAC cables are you using. I have heard that in general SFP compatibility can be pretty annoying.

@Mikensan What 10G Cards are you running? What model? ConnectX-2 or ConnectX-3? I am looking at getting some myself soon. Thanks

@babadoctorHi there. Sometimes ubuntu forgets to ask the router to be assigned an ip. To resolve this first make sure that you have root (sudo) level permissions. Then follow this guide: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-renew-dhcp-client-ip-address/ Hope this helps

@Electronics Wizardy Thanks for the help man!! Was the server a dell r710 by any chance/ Do you have the emulex card model number? Also just thinking that it may have been a lubuntu issue as i was using lubuntu at the time as opposed to vanilla ubuntu.

@Electronics Wizardy Yep. Although in the networking tab i set the ethernet connection to forced 1gbe full duplex so maybe it was a glitch. Any chance you could share your setup software, hardware, and smb.conf file please? It would help me out very much. TBH i have no problem using a fresh install of ubuntu 16.04lts and using it. Any experience with iscsi on samba. Thinking of using it to provide storage for my R710 proxmox server.

@Electronics Wizardy It's not that ubuntu with samba itself seems janky. What happened was that on ubuntu 16.04.2LTS ubuntu with samba worked really well. Over gigabit ethernet i was getting 115-120Mb/second all day long. However when i installed Ubuntu 18.04LTS with samba on a second server it was just about hitting 12Mb/second. I tried everything from using the same config as the first server and the likes. It just wouldn't work and it seems that lots of people have had the same problems. Both were using intel pcie nics and had a 840evo 120gb as a test share to make sure that there was not bottlenecks except the OS it would appear.

Hi all, i have been setting up a server homelab for learning various things. I just wanted to know how @LinusTech uses CentOS, Unraid, and FreeNAS. He has mentioned that he uses windows storage spaces on the nvme server so that backup is near instant and that the Storinator uses CentOS with ZFS. However their is a video where he mentioned that he uses FreeNAS for backup. Was this on the old server backup before he got the storinators. He and others have mentioned "the vault" and the "storinator". Are they the same? TBH im just interested as I have been using ubuntu 16.04LTS with ubuntu for a long time and while it works at gigabit speeds [dont have 10gbe yet] to me at least it seems kinda "janky" .

@v0nN3umann Would it be possible for you to give me a parts list of your FreeNAS solution so that I could compare it to the type of hardware that I am using right now? Also how have you configured [software] yours?

@Mikensan Did you have to do any samba tuning and was 10gbe plug n play? Also what cards and dac cables are you using?

It is normal for HDDs to go to sleep if they are not being used to save on wear. They are designed like that. Also as you have optane accelerated HDDs when you are using files that are on the optane SSDs then the hdd is idle and doing nothing. If this happens for an extended time period then the HDD goes to sleep.

If they have windows already installed and you just want them to all run the same software applications then ignore my above post and do the following: Set up 1 pc how you need it. Then create an image of the OS Go to the other 7 pc's and restore from the image. They will still use their own product keys. BTW if you would like to extract they keys for usage on other machines then look at this: https://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-retrieve-windows-8-oem-product-key-from-bios

Install all the software on one machine. Then remove the hardrives from the rest of them. One by one clone the hdd that you installed windows on to the other hdd's. After this they will all be activated with the same key. To get around this issue go to control panel and then go to system. [or type in activate in the search bar] And click change product key. This will open a popup that asks you to enter a new key to activate. Job done. To clone use a software like Macrium Reflect which is free.

Hi there. I have been running a samba server on a custom low power server (i3 2120t, ubuntu 16.04.2LTS) for about a year now. After tuning samba i get about 115Mb/second which is the max you can get over gigabit ethernet in real life. At the time it was the only server i had. However since i have purchased a dell r710 for my virtulisation needs and so was wondering if it would be worth installing freeNAS on the custom server. In the future i want to be able to use zfs, 10gbe, iscsi, and nfs, all of which can be configured in ubuntu. Is there any performance increase with FreeNAS as opposed to ubuntu. Ubuntu would also allow me to run libreNMS and other software at the same time. Does @LinusTech use freenas or centOS on his servers [vault maybe] ? Also if somebody could tell me what their average samba performance is on freeNAS that would be great. If linus uses samba is it possible for him or somebody else to let us know what they did to optimise samba for 10gbe as samba tuning appears to be a can of worms. Thanks in advance.

@nicholasfd what is the model of the linksys switch. Maybe it can be flashed to run dd-wrt or tomato. Sometimes they have a hidden advanced menu that allows these types of changes

@nicholasfd Set up PfSense as the router and if you are happy with the wifi you linksys is generating then just turn of router settings and use it as a ethernet to wifi bridge and it will act like a access point

With ram it reaches a point of diminishing returns quite quickly. It really does depend on your use case for the system. If gaming is what you are doing then I would just overclock the cpu until it reaches the limit of what is stable and call it a day.