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Hi all Im working on an HP ProLiant DL385 Gen 7 for work as a project. It is currently unused. It was reported some years ago (before I started ) that there was Malware on the Server. Is there a way to check if this is true and even if I reinstall Windows Server 2019 R2 on it - will it be safe to use? Any help would be appreciated Cheers! Shane

Hi there! I've recently decided to get going on a server project involving my old gaming pc. I was hoping for some advice into which direction to with it, if there is a 'software' that's more useful with my pc or just tips generally. I have looked at some YouTube videos about DIY TrueNAS server, but would just like some feedback from others with experience before diving into the project My PC Nvidia Asus GTX 1070 8GB Intel Core i5-7500 <3.8GHz CPUK Be Quiet Pure Rock Cooler DDR4-2400 Crucial 8GB ram MB1151 Asus B250M-A Prime PSU Corsair TX550M 80+ Gold Modular I was currently thinking of buying some hard drives, just need to find out how much storage I need. I also have a kit of 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz ram, that i might be able to switch if needed. I would love to use the server as a storage for old documents, projects, pictures and maybe be able to host my own website? All help appreciated, Prestige

I just wanted to share a Server rack I made for about 22$ *not including the computers* I'm just super happy with the result I can have my dedicated minecraft server and Das with room for another PC The total for the whole thing was 15k php or around 300 USD The mc server has an i5 6500 With 20gb of ram And the Das/back up PC has an i7 3770 and RX 5700xt Through a year of saving and finding amazing parts deals I was able to get all this for about 300$

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!

Looking for an OS to run my home NAS, ideally that is free. Will be used to store files that won't be used very often So I can be slow Hardware: CPU: Xeon E5-2680 V4 Cooler: Silverstone Krypton KR02 Motherboard: AliExpress X99 LGA 2011-3 Motherboard Ram: 32GB DDR4 2133Mhz ECC AliExpress ram Boot: Dual Western Digital Green 480GB NVME M.2 SSD Mass Storage: 4x Seagate Barracuda Compute 8TB (Used), 2x Western Digital Blue 8TB (New), 3x Seagate IronWolf NAS (12TB) Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon X1950 Pro 256MB Dx9.0c Graphics card (An old GPU I got a long time ago, will be used just to display out) Case: Fractal Design XL R2 ATX Case (Used) Power Supply: Corsair CV650W Others: Molex to 5x Sata Power x2 4x 3.5" Hard Drive Cage

So I am in the process of setting up a Minecraft server and I got all the necessary files and things in place...or at least I think I do. But when I run the server I am unable to connect. For reference I am running an ark server from the same system which works perfectly. I have opened all the ports for it and it should be working but when I launch it I am still unable to join. My first point of interest is if you look at the command prompt, where it says: "starting Minecraft server on *:25565" is there supposed to be an IP address where the "*" is? Also I am pretty new to this stuff so if anybody needs more pictures or knows how to easily fix this I would appreciated it greatly.

Hello everyone! I've recently moved to Sweden, and i only had one choice of ISP, Tele2 - Now, i have their modem/router box, but i also have my AX3000 4-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router that i use for game streaming in the house etc. i've tested it, using my personal router instead of using the modem/router as an access point is better for these uses. However, i seem entirely unable to port forward anything. I haven't called the ISP to check if they're fucking with it, but i will unless you all have any bright ideas here I'll provide any information you need to help me, if i'm forgetting any. https://i.imgur.com/9P5ZTkZ.png https://i.imgur.com/l6ISqP1.png I'm both not hoping and hoping there's something incredibly simple i'm forgetting. Lemme know if there's more intel to share! I can show the modem web page aswell but that would mean i have to pull my Ethernet out of the router and back into the modem for the 10th~ time today :') I do realize the fixes you all have for me probably will mean i have to though x) thanks for any help in advance! Full transparency this is a crosspost from reddit - i'm not getting any responses on there, but if i do, i want others who find this post having the same issue to at least be able to find both posts to potentially help them fix the issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/16vc653/port_forwarding_my_router_connected_to_a/?

Hi, First post on the forum! I'm trying to find out where I could obtain a server and I've been looking for places where I could find decommissioned servers for sale but all I've found are refurbished ones. I'm trying to get my hands on something like an HP Proliant DL380 Gen 8/9 LFF to use it both as a NAS and as a hosting server for game servers, web hosting, plex and other applications. Does anyone know of anywhere I could find some good deals, even if only periodically? Thanks

Hey all, Im looking to build a new home server. I currently have a Dell R320 with Unraid running on it along with a The server is in garage in Cali so you know for a fact it cooking out there tho surprisingly on a 100 degree day the cpu temp is only 60c NVIDIA Quadro M2000 Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2470 v2 @ 2.40GHz 4X 4TB Hitachi SAS Drives connected to a H710 Im looing to set up a new server with extra parts that i have laying around but i cant decide what type of drives i want to use Ex. SAS or SATA and what card to use. the parts i have extra are Z370 Aurous and an 8700K , I also have a AMD 5700x have not deiced which to use. Also dont know which would be better for a home server 32Gb of 3600MHz mem a NVidia GTx 1080ti and a 700 watt psu Just looking for thought on what to do. The unraid server i have seems to be having issues with steaming plex sometimes.

I've read alot of posts about whether you need ECC or not before but I'm having trouble piecing it together for my own scenario. I run 2 Dell Optiplex's with ESXi and a Synology with Btrfs. VMs go on the nas over iscsi and there's some smb fileshares on there too. I store all my design work, including that for clients, past and current work on that nas. But there is no ECC in my datacenter at all. Should I be concerned? I heard that different filesystems needed it more. Is that true? I get the idea of ECC but like, I don't have it on my workstation or MacBook. Isn't it just as possible that my work could get corrupted on my workstation as it could while being processed in my homelab? I have Veeam backups of the vms and file shares to the same nas and to the cloud but I don't open every file every 90 days, which is my retention period, so I guess it's possible for a file to get corrupted and go undetected until the good copy in backup has been aged out? What are your thoughts on if I should invest in ECC workstations, hosts, storage, or other solutions and please let me know why. I'm curious. Charles

Recently my electric company raising electricity price per KWh from $0.070 cent to $0.10 cent, and I think I need to decommissioning my old Haswell-E/EP "All in One" server, the server is quite reliable for the past 3 year, and actually pretty ridiculous how efficient they are compared to it's more modern sibling in Skylake model which more expensive even in used condition. Here the outline of the specs: Intel Xeon E5-2695v3 14C/28T Huananzhi X99-TF-Q (Q87 chipset) 4x32GB (128GB) Samsung ECC RDIMM 2133MT/s Quad Channel Nvidia Quadro NVS 295 (for basic display) Dell GTX 1070 OEM (for transcoding) Sapphire Pulse RX 470 4GB (for MacOS VM) 2x Kingston A400 120GB (mirrored; TrueNAS SCALE boot drive) 4x Samsung PM961 128GB NVMe (VM boot storage; RAID Z1) 7x WD Purple 4TB (Bulk storage; RAID Z1) Mellanox ConnectX-3 OCP 2.0 NIC (with PCIe adapter) Alseye M90 CPU cooler IndoCase IC4008 4U rackmount case + 5x Deepcool XFAN120 + 2x Deepcool XFAN80 IndoCase 800W 80+ Silver PSU (Rebranded & binned up Gamemax GM-800) All that component (except PSU, case, HDD, and Cooler) are purchased in used condition, and total price is hover around $1450 in Q3 2019 price. For $2000 or less, can I get lower power demanding server builds and maintain at-least 1:1 performance to my old machine? I prefer AliExpress or my local market pricing (Indonesia) for the component price, or I should pending the shopping spree for something better in the future? I actually want to upgrade to 2nd gen EPYC but the used motherboard price alone make my pocket cry. Any help and suggestion will be appreciated!

Hey im getting the server and i could wish i was an anime fan of Gakuen City Z p.s. i play Zgirls3 because its my favorite game where and how would i buy it is it from 45Drives

Hello, I am having issues with setting up TrueNAS core and connecting it to AD. The initial setup for AD went on without an issue. I have all the windows shares (smb) ACL settings configured and assigned to the AD Group my test profile is under. I am not able to see or map the drive on my windows login. I am sure I am missing a step or something but based on all the documentation i have read and videos I have watched once the data sheet is connected to the AD group every time people logged in to the user in a group, they could see the drive. PLEASE HELP!

Hey guys, so ive been running a minecraft server off my laptop for some time now. Right now i currently run a server with datapacks and plugins (yes ive made sure they are compatible with each other). My server tps is severly degraded at 5-6 players (drops to as low as 9 TPS) and my ram usage is maxxed out at the 9 gbs that i have allocated. Would something like this be worth investing in? New PC Specs: Used dell optiplex on craigslist intel core i7-6700 16gbs of ram <---- is this enough ram for the 15 plugins and 5 datapacks?? 256gb ssd Laptop specs: Lenovo somethin somethin Intel core i7-1165g7 12gbs of SOLDERED ram 512gb ssd Server ver: paper 1.19.3 Like i said the issue with the server is the ram. The cpu is usually sitting at 10% usage when the server is running. The reason I am hosting the server myself compared to using a host service is since I want a dedicated PC I can tinker around with on linux anyways. Lemme know what you guys think!

I have been wanting to have a smart card sign in for my personal PC. I have been trying get this to work via a VM using Hyper-V but I can not get it work. I have the Domain controller created and have a CA. I just can not get my personal PC to connect to the Domain. I have been working on this random project on and off for about 4 months. I have tried looking into a Linux alternative but can not find one. If anyone knows how to get this project working or have a Linux alternative I can use would be great. Any help would be amazing.

i what I want to know is it possible to use a gpu to run a server for MineCraft? i have 2 rtx 3060's which mine crypto when not in use. If this is possible how can it be done.

Budget (including currency): Unlimited (Job pays very well and no wife to spend my money for me) Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, Video Streaming, Light Video Editing 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): All of current config is mounted in a server rack. CPU: Ryzen 9 3950x, Asus rog strix x570-e mobo, 64 gig ram gskill ripjaws 3200, 3090 ti founders, 3x 4TB WD blue SSD's in RAID 0 (part of upcoming upgrade plan is adding another 3), 12 tb backup HDD ( to be removed to put in new NAS), monitor will be upgraded to a 4k/ 160 hz Asus ROG Strix XG32UQ, and 1600w Evga supernova 80+ plat. Rest of the rack includes game server, 1 gig/ 10 port switch (not used currently), NAS (Drives being installed as the upcoming round of upgrades 8x 12 tb Seagate Ironwolf), and as part of the new upgrade package a game caching server which will be a dell PowerEdge R230 with 1tb SSD's WD red (I host LAN parties every month and 10 people on 1 gig from my ISP becomes tragic). Now here is the shtick.... As of now the rack has been happily enjoying itself with me in my bedroom for a while now. As all hardware was pretty much consumer pc based and therefore not very noisy (albeit sometimes a bit warm for my liking). With the addition of my game caching server that I will be adding in, my sleep would take a massive hit cause of the new blowie-matrons. I plan on moving the rack to my laundry room in order to get the noise away from me. The other benefit is my network center is on the other side of the wall so setting up connectivity will be trivial and the load center is close as well so running 240v to it will also be simple. I am looking for a solid solution to pass the IO over the 50 ft cable length (through attic and walls) to my desk. I've seen many options but none seems to meet my zero compromises requirements (games must go burrrrr). The only item that might be of some help is due to the convenient new location being so close to the network switch, I can easily free up the 2 already installed CAT 6 cables that run to my desk. Could be handy (from my research). Please help me! I would love to hear some suggestions

Hi, I'm looking for a rentable server for file storage. I need a lot of storage, and a access stable enough to be able to download these files when i need them (and those files are big, i have some .rar files 40 gb big) That need to be accesable in Europe (mainly Poland) Do you know any hosting site that i could use for it?

This question is regarding the Optiplex 9020 I'm attempting to convert into a personal server, that I first mentioned here, posted in Servers and NAS. I'm not really familiar with the technical language used to describe the differences between each of the connectors involved, so bare with me here. But, if you look at the image I've attached you can kind of get a better idea of what I'm working with. Basically, the 6-pin plug on the left is the connection I have to the system's mobo and ends in one SATA power connector. I need three drives for my server set-up, one as the boot drive, and the other two as the redundant storage pool. The mobo features three SATA data connections, and the one puny power connector; So, I think I should be able to make it work if I replace the power connector with a three way splitter that'll daisy-chain everything together, like the one on the right I bought off Amazon. Question is, can I replace the connector on the amazon cable with the existing one from the system with a bit of solder and heat-shrink, and have everything work out, or is there some difference in the connection standards or limit on power the mobo can push from this one small-form-factor connection that'd make it impossible to run two 3.5" Barracuda HDDs and 2.5" Adata SSD? The system has a 255W power supply so ... (Fun part is, I don't think I'm even going to be able to fit all of the drives in question inside of this tiny PC, I'm likely going to need to drill a hole in the side of the PC's case and hot glue one of the 3.5 HDDs on the side of the case, lmao.)

Hello LTTFourm, I am recently trying to get into the server space for the purposes of me buying my home-lab when I get into college. I'm building a server for storage and VM Experiments for college my chosen career is in information systems technology, and my career path being in server administration. There is one small problem. I'm trying to learn all about SAS connectors as it is important for me to know to expand my storage. The problem is from the looks of it there seems to be a lot of different types of SAS connectors to choose from. I'm looking for advice on what SAS connectors I should use, what would be an ideal for my use case. Thank you.

Hi So i want a server and I'm undecided on buying a full server or build up one myself. What do you advise? My requirements are: Dual CPU (Xeon or i5); Redundant power suply; At least 3 pcie lanes; Thank you

Budget (including currency): Up to $25k Country: United States Hello I am a major PC enthusiast and do a lot of programming in crypto, 3D modeling, Game design, as well as gaming in general and in anticipation of the next gen Ryzen launch and the new rtx 4000 series I wanted to look into a endgame system to serve all my needs (and wants XD) equally. Now of course I understand this cannot be done with one system so I was initially thinking a corsair 1000D build with the ITX motherboard tray running a 16 core Ryzen chip with whatever top single GPU comes out from Nvidia and then in the main tray a thread ripper with a AMD graphics card as on this system I will be running a KDE arch Linux install and I would like to use and hopefully contribute to Wayland and Linux gaming development in the future. Now I should mention some needs from the workstation tray. I need it to be able to run a U.2 SSD array in either raid 5 or 6 (whichever you guys think is best when dealing with money) most likely virtualized under a hypervisor as a NAS and then two other VMS one for general system usage as well as pushing and compiling code (high core count necessary) and then another which is capable of allocating individual threads to run various crypto full nodes. So for example I want one full bitcoin node, avalanche, ren bridge, and lightning node, (in addition to something like a media server, PLEX perhaps running on a separate HDD array) with each of their data stored on the raid array who's processing is handled by a single dedicated thread on my CPU. Both systems should have a decent amount of ram I would like the development vm to have at least 64GB if not 128GB and the gaming to have at least 32GB. With that out of the way let me describe some problems I ran into while specking out a design. First of all consumer thread ripper is being discontinued according to Linus but some leaks have suggested it being brought back for the 7000 series in 2023 with up to 96 cores. Now this is purely speculation on what AMD might come to bear and I don't want to rely on that or wait however long it's going to take for AMD to release that chip but I am also 100% against using a Lenovo workstation. Mabey a sever motherboard with EPYC? or maybe I can gut a Threadripper Pro rig if they haven't locked down their functionality? Otherwise let me know if it would be better without thread ripper or with three Ryzen 7000 systems instead (I perhaps would like to sell some of this in the future so that could be good). My main concern there is my interlink between the systems. I want to be able to transfer files from one system to the next at speeds at least at 10gigabit or preferably 25 gigabit. And Ryzen 7000 only has 24 PCIE gen 5 lanes. With one GPU in two of the systems and perhaps a raid card in the last as well as a highspeed M.2 NVME array for the gaming and development systems I'm not sure Ill have enough lanes. There is some speculation that M.2 SSD's could be reduced to 2 lanes each which would allow me to fit 4 M.2's into the lane budget but then I would need control of lane allocation which could be done but IDK how feasible that is. I guess I perhaps don't need 4 NVME's per system maybe just two on the gaming and development motherboards but I just want to know I'm going to be able to saturate all my network bandwidth. This also opens up the problem of a new case solution maybe the corsair 1000D isn't the best. I love the idea of rackmount PC's but nobody sells them outright from what I can tell. If you have any ideas that would be greatly appreciated. Another problem is that Ryzen 7000 only supports ddr5. I'm not sure if there's anything I can do about this but currently ddr5 cas latency paired with mediocre speeds and their outrageous prices is very unappealing. Hopefully you guys think we'll see better latency and faster speeds by the time 7000 drops but without backwards compatibility for ddr4 I will be literally paying more for less because every ddr5 kit on the market is slower than a ddr5 3600 C14 kit. System latency and responsiveness is a huge thing for me I don't like clicking on applications and boxes and nothing being shown on screen. Also loading assets into memory is one of the really annoying tasks on my current rig which has very slow ram. Like I said nothing can probably be done I'm just throwing it in there. On the gaming system I like to run triple A as well as indie but were always talking demanding applications Including VR, CP2077, Call of Duty, God of War ect. Also I was wondering about monitor ideas. I love to watch high quality movies which i would stream off the plex server HDD array. I have a huge library of blurays (digitized of course) so i was hoping up to like 80TB of storage on the HDDS combined. And as for monitors I'm drooling at the idea of the new QD OLED ultrawide, but idk if its a good idea to buy the Alienware now or wait and hope for a Samsung native release in the coming months. I would also like to have displays for monitoring the NAS and Node servers that I'm running so i can keep track of their performance and uptime. And then maybe another display for development windows but with the size of QD ultrawide I'm not really sure of a good way to position these on my desk lol. Anyway use leaks speculate all you want I would just like to see what you guys come up with. The timeline on this build is for summer to winter 2022 and budget is somewhat flexible so go crazy if you need to. I just don't want to pay more for less like any other person.

Basically, I have been reading, watching, videos and articles about the basics and terminology about servers and I have some basic questions they may seem simple to you but.. PLEASE HELp!

Budget (including currency): US dollars. virtually limitless within the scope of this single case. Country: USA Workloads that it will be used for: dual-system, Servers - software development start-up small business (yet to explode!) Hi Linus and team, I am seeking advice for an explanation that will satisfy the question in my head that's been brewing for weeks. I have come to the time where I need to make a decision and I find myself still grasping the straws of this project with information missing. The facts of the case: I came to realization that any enterprise virtualization solution requires at minimum 2 nodes to function. You can hack the 2 into 1; however, the time it would take to accomplish this is not worth the instable result that would come to fruition. After creating a second budget, I purchase what I hope to be the end of this long journey of setting up the hardware, to the infrastructure, that I could/would use to build my company. And then... forced-my-hand situation, not totally in my control, resulted in the lost of several of the components in these systems that I had built, that took me years to have enough saved up to buy in the first place. Case: MASSIVE Thermaltake W200 Supermicro X11spi-tf+- Intel Scalable Silver 4108 (started here) 6x RDIMM DDR4-2666 160 GB Kioxia 1TB SSD XG6 M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe (plan to buy GPU for combo use as processors and for video-rendering overloading for VMs) Supermicro X9dri-ln4f+ Dual Intel E5-2620 v2 (started here) 2x RDIMM DDR3-2133 32GB (must buy more for both CPUs) PCIe 3.0 8x adapter to 256 GB nvme 10 HDD 7200rpm SATAIII This dual-server rig will be running 24/7/365, unless hardware issues arise that require full shutdown. QUESTIONS: ------------------- I understand that putting CPUs back-to-back ("warm" water from one CPU to the next CPU) is a BIG no-no!! However.... ** I'm purchasing 2x 560mm radiators (4x 140mm fans each, with 60+CFM each) EKWB EK-CoolStream CE 560 Radiator, Quad, Black Noctua NF-P14s redux-1200 PWM (1) Can I build a single loop with this? (2) Can I connect the dual Xeon E5s back-to-back? (3) How do I calculate the number of pumps and the amount of total reservoir I need for this system? (4) Is there any such coolant that has something to it (color, tint, glitter, anything) that I can leave in the system forever and never have to clean, as recommended once a year, and that allow me to see moving liquid thru the tubing? (5) I still have plenty of room for more radiators. Do you suggest using the space differently? https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ILA8R9OQB1RK?ref_=wl_share I would greatly appreciate any advice, help, direction, suggestions, etc you could provide me. In return, I will accomodate any request (within reason) you may have for me. One of your great fans, Miki G 20+ years IT --> Sr. DevOps Engineer Teaneck, NJ

Hi, I wanna get some advice and tips on building a data storage server that is as responsive as possible for my upcoming cloud service. It will use HTTPS to communicate with clients and Set/Get data from a specified datastore. There will be the required key, name and ID. A good use would be save data for games. I have the requests go through Cloudflare before going into my network. My connection is gigabit and I have my old setup that consists of reused modems being used as switches. I was surprised how well they perform but I wanna build a more professional setup. So I thought I would see if anyone has any suggestions...