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Okay here's the situation that I need a bunch of tech nerds (like myself but smarter and more experienced) to help me with if you are so inclined. I currently run UNRAID mostly as a plex server, but also PC backups, network storage and sandbox for whatever comes to mind. My current set up is built in this case with an i7-8700K on a PRIME Z370-A and 16GB of DDR4. I have 1x 500GB SSD cache (5 years old) and after some drive swapping will have an 1x 8GB Parity, 1x 8GB Data, and 4x 4GB Data. The 8GB are new the 4GB are between 3-5 years old. I'd say I hit the drive with a moderate amount of reads and writes. Nothing too crazy. My user count is high but only a few consistently use Plex. Maybe 10 hours per day is consumed around 50% of the time. I had to add a SATA expansion card as the above totals 7x SATA drives. I had installed a hot swap enclosure but it started having problems after a couple of years so I moved all the drives into mounting locations with in the case above. This has been fine except There's no more room for drives unless I pull the hot swap enclosure out and I don't think I have the hardware anymore to allow more drives to be installed in its place. I could figure it out but the issue I've run up against, or I believe I have run up against is power. I'm currently out of 15 pin power connectors and the ones I am using are all using each connector in the daisy chain. While everything is running perfectly fine, it has been running like that for over 5 years and I think I want to either upgrade or at least set myself up to be able to expand a bit. So....anyone have any suggestions how where I may go. Some thoughts I've had are Use some 1 or 2U drive enclosure solution that will provide more options for drives with power budgets and connectors taken into account in the design. If something like this is used how is it connect to the head unit, what would be required, is the configuration work a nightmare. Is there a way to do this with out create a jet engine server closet? Is my current case just fine and maybe I upgrade my power supply? If so are there ones with extra 15 pin SATA connectors Maybe it behooves me to shift to new tech and add M.2 clearing up some SATA connectors and power (and allow for dual cache). Anyone have mind blowing experiences upgrading in this way? Any suggestions that come to mind with my above set up that would be better a half decade after I built it. Thank you so much for your time. GB = TB. Thanks Skimmilk5

I've been using an old pc ad a minecraft server on and off for the past 3years the pc contains an a10-6700 apu 16gb of ddr3 ram and a gt620 (all the parts are from an old prebuilt the acer tc-130). (I'm gonna call it a server for a large part of this even tho technically it is just a regular desktop) The pc has been working for the last 3yrs, as the nature as a second older pc I've cycled alot of components in and out including multiple harddrives and os (windows 8.1 , windows 10, 11(even tho it's unsupported I goy it working) and ubuntu server) The server was working last week when I decided to switch out the mechanical harddtive into my main pc to speed up chunk loading, the drive ended up dying a day in probably unrelated but gor detail. So I decided to use my 500gb crucial sata ssd to have the minecraft server on with ubuntu server as the os (same as the harddrive) point is i finish rendering the world and went to put the ssd into the server and was met with a reboot or insert proper boot media. Since I've attempted to use 4 different drives a harddrive with Windows 11 on a harddrive with ubuntu server on and my ssd i plan to use with ubuntu server and even tried to use a blank drive and install ubuntu server onto it with boot media which worked whilst installing but after restarting as part of the install process (the part when removing the usb stick) it can't detect a boot device. Since I've tried 5 different ram sticks, a range of different sata cables. I've some what attempted tk change bios settings but have a limited knowledge do a fix to the issue is likely to be seated there if there is one. The only other thing I could suspect is the powersupply howrver the harddrives spin to life on power on so this doesn't seem to be an issue any input is appreciated there's 2 links showing below. (Don't judge me for being on carpet and using motherboard boxes to keep of it ik it's risky but I don't rlly have many other option available at the momment) Boot without keyboard: https://youtube.com/shorts/LdTeL4OqOGM?si=-YN1-Oj4UObUbapt Bios and boot with keyboard: https://youtu.be/zn2lzjh9ZkY?si=9L89AV98_yAI7V8n

Budget (including currency): <~250 (looking for used stuff and would like cheap but if I find a good deal willing to spend higher) Country: U.S.A. Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Proxmox, TrueNas Scale, Ubuntu Other details: I'm looking at building a server and I need to get a motherboard and CPU but I'm having trouble finding something for a good deal. I'm looking for a server board with IPMI. That way I can practice using it. And then I also need a CPU that has good efficiency for its power. I'm thinking of getting a LGA 1151 motherboard but I don't know what to get. This is going to be for my main proxmox server that will run truenas, a game server and whatever else I put on it. I could go with a consumer board but I don't know of any that has IPMI. I also need full ATX as I plan on adding a couple different PCIE devices (GPU, networking, storage). Does anyone have any good advice on what to get? Or maybe they have bought something themselves that they could recommend? power mobo+CPU with IPMI

Building a Unraid NAS server with some dockers like Jellyfin, Nextcloud, and a bit of a home lab, multi server back up. Mobo needs 6-8 (usable) sata ports, Ideally 2x M.2 ports but 1 is OK, 8x PCIE slot for a 10GBE NIC, additional PCIE slots are a bonus for additional expansion down the road, would be nice to have ECC ram but not a deal breaker if not. I dont mind if its ATX or MATX Theres some NAS specific boards out there and some server specific boards, which I have no experience with yet. So besides you standard home / office boards what should I be looking at? Unless of course there are some standard boards which meet my requirements.

Hi guys. I have bought hardware for 2 storage servers, which i was trying to set up right now, but i simply cant get the systems to boot. Both have a nearly identical setup: - Xeon Silver 4314 CPU - 4x 32 GB Kingston Server Premier DDR4 - a Network Card - an HBA-Card - 2 Sata SSDs connected over Sata - 4 Drives connected to the HBA only difference are the mainboards: One is running a Gigabyte mu72-su0 and the other one is an AsRock c621a ws As i said none of them boot. They are giving me a graphis out but i cant get to the BIOS. The gigabyte is stuck at Mermory Initalization adn the whatever memory channel is populated (i tried all slots, only one stick, single 2666 non-ecc stick...) The As Rock is giving me Code E8 (or EB) on the Display of the board and on the screen only a simple 31 in the bottom right corner. I think i could messed up something with the RAM but what...? Every bit of help would ba appreciated, i am really depending on your help guys! Best greetings JD

Hi the server won’t update it sends a message something went wrong and the windows update is missing from the setting It’s stuck on this version Any idea how can I update it ?

Hey guys new here! I’m looking to build a system to host game servers for my friends and I. It would be running single game server at a time for around 4-6 people max. Some of the games I’m looking to run are modded Minecraft, 7 Days To Die, project zomboid, and maybe ark survival. I have a system with a AMD RYZEN 3 3200G 4 core with 8 GB of 2400mhz DDR4 ram already. I figured this would be enough for Minecraft but for the other games, I wasn’t so sure. Currently, I have no set budget but I would like to keep it on the cheaper side. I plan on running windows 10 via an 2.5 SSD. Any suggestions and or resources to refer towards would be great . Cheers!

I have an on old computer I have been using as a home server for Minecraft. This is the computer: https://www.newegg.com/gateway-dx4380-ur308/p/N82E16883113230 the only changes to the handwear is back in September I added another 16 gb of ddr3 ram and cleaned the cpu and cooler then applied new thermal paste and put the cooler back on. I moved the Server into another room and wired it up to the ethernet last month and it had been on since then. The other day I tried to remote into the server and saw it wasn't able to connect, and I couldn't connect to the Minecraft server either. I plugged a monitor in and and a mouse and could not get a display to show up. I then held the power button for about 10 seconds untill it powered down fully. Since then it hasn't been able to turn back on. Sepcs: A8-Series APU A8-5500 (3.20GHz) 8GB DDR3 + 16 GB DDR3 1TB HDD Windows 8 64-bit AMD Radeon HD 7560D

Hello, I was looking on the forum (and other forums) for a similar post, but didn't find anything similar to my case. I will start with the context, then my idea and then my question. Currently I have around 30 smart devices working in my flat (lights, stores, temperature sensors, etc) most of them are a mish-mash of Zigbee devices that I centralize on a single hub and then control through Tuya's Smart Life app. Plus a handful of wifi devices (humidifier, nest speakers, vacuum cleaner, etc). I centralize everything via Google Home. I'm often adding new stuff to make the house smarter, but I'm limited Smart Life's and Google Home's automations, and well, I'm not too comfortable about talking to a Chinese/Google server every time I want to turn my lights on. Also, I automatically backup my family's phones with Resilio Sync on an old laptop with windows 10 which stays on all the time. The computer also stores our old pictures (even some scans from before the digital era), and has a physical copy of our Dropbox and Google Drives (a few dozen gb) with important document scans. All these are important and are stored on the internal HDD, which is backed up by windows every night into one external HDDs (poor man's Raid xD). There's another external HDD with a collection of movies and music that I acquired before 2010 by less than legal means (the video quality is poor, and most of it is on streaming now), so I don't really mind losing them beyond some nostalgia from my broke student years. To access the media on our phones and TV, the computer also runs a local Jellyfin server. The HDD's are currently at about half capacity, but since I'm just storing new pictures and short videos, I don't think I need much more for now. As you may have understood by now, I would like to transition from Smart Life into Home Assistant (to have more powerful automations plus having everything local...). Also, I'd like to turn my hacky Resilio+Windows backup solution into a proper NAS server. Finally, we don't use Jellyfin much, but it wouldn't hurt to digitize all the physical media I currently (and legally) own and have access to it whenever and wherever I want. I know that you can have all that in a single machine, using the magic of Linux and dockers and such, and I've been checking online for how-to's. The problem is that basically every forum says something different, crapping on whatever solution is proposed elsewhere and saying that you'll lose your precious memories or that the proposed hardware is either not good enough, or too good for whatever anything somebody wants to do (my conclusion this far is that I either need a raspberry-pi, or a $2k investment on second hand server hardware...). So I would like to know if people here have something similar at their place and if they have recommendations for somebody trying to follow those steps. Which OS you decided to use and why? Is there's a newby-friendly solution you'd recommend? Do you have everything tucked in one machine or you have dedicated machines for everything? Or I'm good for now and I should just get a home Assistant Green? I think my old pile of junk (AKA, the laptop) is handling its two current tasks like a champ, and I'm sure it'll handle Home Assistant well, so I would like to use it as the guinea pig for this experiment. I could spend a few dozen bucks on hardware or software licences, but I would like to learn before investing on a permanent solution... Also, I'm all for giving old machines as much life as possible, so if I can keep using the laptop for something, I will. The specs of the laptop are: an i7 2630 (quad core/2GHz), 16gb of ddr3 memory, 512gb internal SSD, 1tb internal HDD + 2x 1tb external HDDs (USB 3), a Nvidia GT555M with a 1gbps ethernet connection. My specs are: intermediate coding skills (mostly python), a beginner's knowledge of Linux and CLI (I've been using it at work for about a month now) and almost zero knowledge about networking. I'm not afraid of learning new stuff, but I can't currently devote hundreds of hours of my life to learn a new skill. Thank you so much for reading this far and thank you for your recommendations as well :)

I work in a small school approximately 600 students and a 60 employee Our work varies from documents edit to management work to HR We have a local host HR program and a local question Bank and a exams bank we save and manage our students information and progress on our local server We are using a normal computer with i7 7th generation and a 8 gb of ram as a server for now we want to upgrade our network and our server setup For this type of work which is better a server with a Xeon or core processor Is the Xeon processor worth the extra money ?

Budget (including currency): 500 USD Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Primarily for large scale game storage to have games predownloaded. But also want to have it be able to run minecraft servers and low profile websites. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I already have a beefy pc so this is more of a sumplement to the household that can stay up 24/7. I really don't know much about server building and really need some advice. I want to get something small and compact with a low profile case. Not sure how much power I need, how much RAM, what type or cpu, and what case. Do I need a gpu?

I want the best of both worlds, get it? Hey Friends, long time viewer (on YouTube, not the Forum), first time caller. Please let me know if this is not the correct place to post this, I followed the post rules as best I could. 0. Equipment Owned available for build: -2018 Mac Mini i7 6-core w/ 32GB RAM -Promise Pegasus R4 -4x IronWolf Pro 14TB HDDs -Pepwave Max BR1 MK2 router (pretty sure this isn't useful but it's sitting in my closet, so figured I'd mention it) 0.5 Context/Background: I work in the Film Industry. 8 years of experience as a Digital Loader. My primary responsibility is to take the shot media cards (For this job, the camera is the Alexa35 with 1TB NVMe Arri compact cards) and offload them to "shuttle drives" (typically 2-8TB NVMe) as well as to a "master drive" that stays on my work truck. Once the post production department has written to LTO, I'm able to delete that footage from the "master drive." In the past, I have always used DAS units as a master drive. Mostly GSpeed Shuttles and GRaids years ago. 1. Budget & Location $1,500-$2,000USD (not including drives). The less I spend on the build, the more likely I will go with SAS drives instead of SATA. Located in Los Angeles, California. 2. Aim My true aim is to figure out how to get a subsidized Homelab with 80-100TB of capacity because my company will pay me ~$3K to rent this machine for a 5 month job. I want to build a machine that can act as an onsite "Master Backup Drive" for a short job and afterwards become the basis for my first Homelab as well as the storage pool for my Plex server. Needs to have 6x-12x 3.5" bays (bonus if there's a 5.25" bay to throw my BluRay ripper in), be compatible with SAS and SATA, configurable in RAID5 or RAID-Z1 (Spoiler, I've never used ZFS), and be able to efficiently write data from the 1TB NVMe "source media cards" through my Mac. If I can get 500MB/s, to the "Master" that would be great. My Mac will act as the only client to the server/NAS/storage pool. The 1TB NVMe "source" camera media cards will be plugged into my Mac over TB3, the "shuttle drives" will be plugged into my mac over TB3 and then the server will either be plugged into my Mac over TB2, TB3 or the 10G network card. Everything has to filter through my mac due to the Codex Device manager being MacOS only and necessary to view the HDE virtual volume of the "source" cards. I will also be generating an xxhash64 checksum through Silverstack, Hedge or ShotPutPro from the "source" media cards to the "shuttle" and "master" drives. 3. Monitors The system I'm requesting help with is headless. I have a 13" piece of hot garbage that will do just fine over HDMI into my Mac. 4. Peripherals Irrelevant for this build 5. Why are you upgrading? My current Plex server build has 35 of the usable 36TB filled and I have a job that could subsidize $3K into a significant upgrade. Quick/Cheap/Easy Idea: Buy a Thunderbay 8 or a used Areca 8-bay DAS and fill it with 12-18TB drives. I'm not wild about using SoftRaid on the Thunderbay and the Areca is only compatible with MacOS and Windows...

Hi All, Looking for advice. Currently using my old i9 10900k for my server. Specs are i9 10900k 128gb of 3200mhz ram 4x6tb HDD these are getting change to 6x4tb ssds at somepoint 4x1tb M.2 NVMe 2x2tb ssds Currently running proxmox Truenas scale Pi-hole Home assistant Plex.server Etc that goes with that. Windows VM Ubuntu/other Linux Os Might do a webserver Total I think around 4/5 VMs and at least 8 containers. What do we think is the maximum CPU clock speed I need? Just looking to squeeze down the wattage a little. It's not to bad at most I've seen it hit is 120 watts (when the windows VM runs mainly) Also I know I could do this more than likely on a different CPU etc but if I have spare parts I don't see why I need to replace them. Anyway ideas and thoughts welcome

I’m in the process of upgrading my servers that are currently running VMware ESXi 8. Each server hosts a minimum of 8 VMs, which are primarily used for light tasks such as email or log servers. My budget for each CPU is capped at 1000 euros. Historically, I’ve always opted for Intel as they were the leading choice back in the day. However, I’ve recently noticed that AMD’s EPYC series has been receiving positive reviews. In the past, I’ve found that AMD’s consumer hardware often had stability issues, whereas Intel’s hardware was consistently reliable. I’m curious to know if AMD has improved in this regard. For my use case, reliability takes precedence over performance, which is why I’m specifically looking at server-grade hardware as opposed to consumer-grade. I would greatly appreciate it if someone could help me identify the best Intel or AMD CPUs within my budget, along with their respective pros and cons. Please bear in mind that my primary concern is the reliability of the hardware. Thank you in advance for your assistance.

As the title suggests I have been trying to get a server up and running on both Ubuntu and Rasberry Pi, however no matter what I do no devices on same or different wifi can connect. I think it is Virgin Media Business (long story) Wifi blocking since the device gives a different IP to whatsmyip so I have no idea which to use and given neither work and the port isn't open according to any port checker despite opening the port, I am a complete beginner and really just want to make a basic Paper/modded server so any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I need help, I need to make something that's similar to VMware or Vmbox etc. but physical version. Like mounting 10 motherboards into custom rack, each with cpu. and every single one of them running separate OS. How would it be possible? what about PSU, would every motherboard need it's onw? etc. I'm thinking about doing this because as far as i know there isnt a way to have many OS running at the same time on one PC without using any VM software. Any ideas?

Budget (including currency): Sub $1000, ideally more like $750 Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: PLEX, Windows 11, and storage Hi folks! Long time LTT viewer, just joined the forum to get some direction. I know what I'm doing in terms of construction, but could use additional eyeballs on components for a relatively-budget home Plex server. Here's the PCP list, but highlights below: CPU: i3-10100 (w/ stock cooler and integrated graphics) RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200 MoBo: MSI B560M Pro-E - note: main PC on the network has a ASRock X570 Pro4, so ethernet file transfers are currently bottlenecked to 1gbps PSU: CoolerMaster 550W 80+B Storage: 256GB M.2 boot drive, 2x4TB 3.5in 7200rpm drives (RAID 1) I would love recommendations on the specs themselves, and also revs for cases (ideally with additional 3.5in drive bays) that have an understated, clean look and are easy to build in for someone with Giant orangutan hands. Cheers!

Hey guys! Can anyone help mr to create a server as a cloud storage for backups for a Samsung phone? I have a lot of hardware here and wpuld like to use it 24/7 and then connect my phone to it and upload/download data to the server instead of google drive. Is there any step by step tutorial for this maybe? Thanks in advance!

**Disclaimer** This is a long duration project, I dont plan to produce a finished build until at least end of year earlier next if things work out well. This Project Has Been Revived, Please click the link below to go to current on-goings. I will update link appropriately... unless you want to read the whole thing then you are very much welcome to do so . 11SEPT2020 *Edit: Another Update 31AUG2022 Current revival! 18SEPT2022 Its almost alive!! Man I think life is telling me not to complete this project, anyhow new update. Possible future Folding/BOINC rig, I have been working on this idea for a bit over a 1 1/2 years now. All prices are USD and are current with the re-sellers I have researched so far as of 21March2017. Specs; Original Idea was to use a higher end CPU [previous cpu had hyper threading, I did not realize this then and changed to one with no hyper threading] and 980 TI's but this is a better build I believe, much cheaper as well. The original price was upwards in the $10k. Case: ASUS ESC4000 G3S (Includes MB & PSU) x1 1,200.00 1,200.00 CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2603 V4 1.7GHz 6-Core Processor x2 208.89 417.78 Mem: Crucial 64 16GB (4 x 16 4GB) Registered DDR4-2133 x4 527.25 527.25 SSD: WD Blue PC SSD 250GB M.2 2280 SATA III 6GB S x1 89.99 89.99 GPU: Asus TURBO-GTX1080-8G x4 463.53 1,854.12 $4,089.14 This is my more recent idea but this one will be a bit harder to accomplish. Case: ASUS ESC8000 G3 (Includes MB & PSU) x1 3,200.00 3,200.00 CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2603 V4 1.7GHz 6-Core Processor x2 208.89 417.78 Mem: Crucial 64 16GB (4 x 16 4GB) Registered DDR4-2133 x4 527.25 527.25 SSD: WD Blue PC SSD 250GB M.2 2280 SATA III 6GB S x1 89.99 89.99 GPU: Asus TURBO-GTX1080-8G x8 463.53 3,708.24 $7,943.26 Thing is I can increase the core count with a different CPU and use either machine in double duty as either a home server or email server in addition to the Folding/BOINCing. The idea is there but I am still working on the details. I believe with the gpu I selected I can modify the cooler shroud for better flow of air. Any solid and useful ideas or comments to improve on this would be appreciated. Please be mindful that specs are to meet folding/boinc needs and and not high end top of the line specs, this would only be used/accessed by only me.

Budget (including currency): £300 - £500 GBP Country: United Kingdom Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for Plex, a few virtual machines, NAS (Basic home server stuff) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I understand the budget is low for an application of this sort but just getting started so want to keep it a little light on my pocket and would look to upgrade in future, when required and of course my finances allow. After a little dig here and there I was recommended the below combo, as it fits the budget yet keeps enough power (Yes, it is old and Chinese): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005680177286.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.71.36b86247WziizY&algo_pvid=2c67262f-49cc-4492-937b-58e6d3e37ef0 Have an odd bunch of 3.5" 2TB SATA HDD x4 and 3.5" 500GB SATA HDD x4 (WB, TOSHIBA and Seagate) Have not selected other parts yet, but any suggestion that would be better in terms of cooling, pulling less power from the wall and being a bit quiet as this machine would be in my room Could you advise, if any alternatives or better options could help? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I am trying to create a The Front server and I am running into a problem where when connecting to the server via Steam it says no game hosts available and doesn't show up in the actual game dedicated server list. The server is being hosted on a dedicated PC that runs various servers via a zero-tier network. I have the correct IPv4 IP for the server and it is set on the config file for the server along with all of the appropriate ports being opened for the server to run. When I try and connect via Steam the server gets a ping and tries to respond but doesn't seem to successfully return. config file: @echo off start "TheFront" "C:\Users\Administrator\Desktop\Steam CMD\steamapps\common\The Front Dedicated Server\ProjectWar\Binaries\Win64\TheFrontServer.exe" ProjectWar_Start?DedicatedServer?MaxPlayers=100 -server -game -log -ConfigServerName="Techsavy" -EnableParallelCharacterMovementTickFunction -EnableParallelCharacterTickFunction -UseDynamicPhysicsScene -fullcrashdumpalways -Game.PhysicsVehicle=true -ansimalloc -Game.MaxFrameRate=60 -MaxQueueSize=50 -QueueValidTime=120 -OutIPAddress=10.147.17.28 -UserDir="C:\SteamCMD\TheFront\TheFrontManager\mmg" -ServerName="The Front_231017202217" -QueueThreshold=40 -ServerFightModeType=1 -IsCanSelfDamage=false -IsCanFriendDamage=false -ClearSeverTime="2023-10-17" -Port="5001" -BeaconPort="5002" -ShutDownServicePort="5003" -QueryPort="27015" -SaveWorldInterval=300 -GreenHand=true -SensitiveWords=true -UseACE=true -ServerAdminAccounts="Thisisfilledinwithproperinfo"

Hello all, I have a very specific issue with trying to move from the sda/sdb disk labels that are assigned at boot to the more permanent partuuid system. This is the result of trying to export, then reimport using the " import -d /dev/disk/by-partuuid" command. The odd thing is the rest of the disks just stay as sdb, sbc, etc. I need to migrate the system (new motherboard, CPU) and I know that the UUIDs are more stable. Will this pose an issue? Will the import still work even though the rest of the disks still use a labeling system that assigns letters based on read order in BIOS (or some early boot phase of linux)? $ sudo zpool export archive_pool $ sudo zpool import -d /dev/disk/by-partuuid/e6e3728b-aa97-4246-b19a-c96d989664e3 archive_pool $ zpool status archive_pool pool: archive_pool state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0B in 02:56:30 with 0 errors on Sun Oct 8 03:20:32 2023 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM archive_pool ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 sdb ONLINE 0 0 0 sdc ONLINE 0 0 0 sdd ONLINE 0 0 0 sde ONLINE 0 0 0 e6e3728b-aa97-4246-b19a-c96d989664e3 ONLINE 0 0 0 cache sdh ONLINE 0 0 0 System is a ubuntu server edition version 22.04 version: 2.1.5-1ubuntu6~22.04.1 srcversion: 5A94B4662A7A991696CC35F vermagic: 5.15.0-87-generic SMP mod_unload modversions [ 7.028468] ZFS: Loaded module v2.1.5-1ubuntu6~22.04.1, ZFS pool version 5000, ZFS filesystem version 5 ZFS version 5 as seen above All disks are WD RED 4tb, the cache is a samsung 256gb SATA SSD systems runs a 4770k baseclock and 32gb of 2600mhz ram All the best, thanks for any help.

I've got an old HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 Plus I'm wanting to turn into a NAS with 4 16TB WD Red drives already in it. I've chosen this server because it's fairly power efficient (45 watt AC power brick) I've tried installing TrueNAS but it doesn't seem to want to see any of the 4 NIC's. Does anyone have any idea as to what OS i can install on it that will A) Be easy to set up for use as a NAS B) Work with all of the network hardware in the server. I'd go windows server 2019 which is the OS that was originally installed on it, but I don't really want to haver to pay for a licence for it (yeah i know they're cheap but this is a NAS on a tight budget / for free) and windows 10 is out of the question due to lack of drivers.

Howdy, I hope you're doing well! I recently spun up a minecraft server on Ubuntu 24 LTS and it runs great! But I'm curious if there is a service I can run in a container that would allow me to view the resource usage and see what kind of available resources I have. I plan to run a light vpn server which will only have one or two clients concurrently but I'd like to be able to monitor it as I want to make sure I'm not overloading it.

Hi, relatively new to the forum as a whole, haven't been here much. I'm looking to acquire a 2-3U rackmount server with ideally 10-12 3.5" bays and at least enough space for a two slot PCIe-3.0 x16 lane for a GPU. I love in the EU and not managing to find a lot of good value options. Any recommendations? Thanks