Jonas algoet

I guess the best thing to do will be installing 3 times freenas on all of them as i am really not understanding a thing from the first part about gluster fs... Sorry. Eventhough im not understanding a thing about the second part of your message (im really noob) i find that one more explanetory and so i guess i can try that one hahha. Funny enough, these 3 rs300's actually only contain 1 HDD of 250GB... The guys from the machine told me that 1 was a master and the other 2 were slaves but i never really understood what the point was of this... 1/4 of a rs300 has a 250gb drive in and the other 2 rs300's are empty .. why is that?

Decided to upload a picture... As you can see they are very dirty altough i opened them and inside they look quite OKAY only the cpu coolerfins and all the fans are kind of dirty but thats allways the case after 8 years of running in a industrial enviornment.

Thank you for that, So i could make in Theory 2 of them combined for files. And than 1 run something like plex for media?. Or is it just easier to make 3 total seperate "servers", lets say install freenas on all 3 of the rs300's

Going to check it out tnx! Kind regards, Jonas

Hi, tnx for the fast reply, wasnt expecting that. Power consumption isnt a problem, we have our own powerplant generating 2Megawatts/hour :p. And noise doesnt matter as i will put the rack in the basement. Kind regards, Jonas

Hello, In my dads company we have this big sorting machine for peppers. We had to renew the matrix photo measuring machine to a more modern one. Inside the old matrix there were some server hardware rack installed things: - 2x netgear 24 port switch - 1x ups wich i believe is dead - 3x asus rs300-e9-ps4 (i believe could be e10) The asus rs 300's all have 4gb ram and a xeon e3-1220. I know its not the best hardware but this is installed 8y ago. I also found another pc wich was used as a local server. This one had 8gb ram 2 hdd from 500gb fully redundant. Xeon e3-2124. What i want to do! I want to clean this things up and than take them home with me, build a rack from 2 by 4s and make a server at home wich i can acces and store files and photos on. BUT i want to be able to acces the server at the company of my dads. This is the part where im kind of stuck is this possible? Do i need to do something special to get all these rs300 to work with the pc and than make it 1 server ? Its all very confusing to me as i am quite the noob in server hardware and networking. I saw some videos from LTT and others on YT but when i am listening to all this stuff i find it to be to general and i am gonna need some "type specific explanation" on this one i'm affraid. Hope to get some good feedback from you network experts out there, thank you. Jonas.