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Hey, so I have this project at uni - I have to design (theoretically) a digital system for submitting, tracking, storing and analyzing data about a lot of electrical and mechanical machines in a given industry (say the railroad one in my country). Since they log all info on paper, my job is to design a digital system for that. So apart from databases, a client of some sort and all that, I have to look into enterprise servers. Enterprise networking is mandatory imo as well, however that isn't on focus. Anyone in the industry able to give some information about respected vendors and what not? I know HPE is used a lot for this, but I don't know much about enterprise specific stuff. Considering the workload, the server should be more storage based (since we don't have much for the cpus to do let alone the gpus...). I guess a decentralized solution would be best if budget allows it, but even if we stick to a single server rack, what should I aim for? Also not sure on the optimal topology to deploy this system in all together. Since it's for a national institution, it has to be pretty legit, although quite cheap considering we're talking about the Balkans haha. I can and will do my research in the web, I'm just curious as to what you guys would be able to tell me on the subject of enterprise servers (ofc not the most expensive stuff, nor heavy compute oriented). Thanks in advance and cheers!

Good Morning LTT Community! I'm working on a home server setup and I was looking to get some advice. Some of the goals: Will serve as a Proxmox Node to host several VMs that will need 4 cores each SSD (NVME Gen3 or Gen4) support with support for 4 NVME disks No need for advanced graphic processing Support for dual LAN 1gb or greater I notice that there are a bunch of "renewed" servers on Amazon that are reasonably priced, albeit perhaps lower specs that what can be built around the same price point with desktop hardware. Should I be considering these sorts of "renewed" servers or should I look at building out a server rackable desktop build?

so I want to have a single NAS drive and I already have an enclosure. I was looking at some hard drives I found one that I liked, but it has a "4kn" on it. I did my research and know the difference between 4kn and normal 512e drives. I just want to know if they will function the same (basically, do you need different hardware for either one)?

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

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): 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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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!

Hi, I'm starting in the world of storage and I have a new project assigned to me as part of my training. The applications on the NAS will be: 8 VM 1 DNS 1 DHCP 2 web servers I want to know if there is a relationship between CPU processing and storage. Is there a mathematical formula or any other way to calculate what I need in a CPU? I would appreciate any guidance and advice you can give me.

Hello. I am a private gamer who happens to of come into the grasp of some nice gaming gear lately, I.E I have vr head sets a top ranking home built pc ect through the help of some friends. Anywhom my main problem where I live is that my wi-fi sucks and I don't have the capabillity to get it fixed because I don't own said place of residence or service. So I thought about developing a home gaming server and my claimed budget I am putting on this is $500. Can it be done? I wanna make a way to make a digial archive of a multitude of games at my fingertips. Save things like Wow and Runescape for private useage. Heck knows I have paid out the rear for them. Anywhom If Linus is still doing Vids I'd be more then willing to learn how to make myown home brew gaming servers. (Proof of home battle station below.)

I am trying to install Cells on a friends server, I am not where this server is becuase he lives on the other side of the coutry however i am using team viewer to do some things. While installing it goes fine however when it ocmes to acessing it using their external ip and port number it gives me this error 421 Site [Their IP]:8080 is not served on this interface I don't know how to fix this, I have set the external url to their ip address followed by the port number, and the internal the address of the server. Is there anything else i need to do to allow this connection?

@LinusTech Can you please explain how the server works because I'd love it all explained in one video!

Good morning nurds.. I have a Western Digital Sentinel RX4100 that finally had a drive fail (1 of 4), the RAID5 container's Boot status says "FAILED", but looks like it tries to boot and then hits the mapping screen awaiting a command to exit.. What I did find was the original documents the manual and recovery dvd, I copied it to a USB stick and tried to run the recovery tool. This was software from WD and the machine is several years old. I could only find a few results but none from here so I figured I'd try and hopefully reach the right brain.. When I try to run the recovery tool on the NAS server, the recovery process begins to initialize then it fails with an error message "STORAGE BAD". But I know the data should still be intact unless I'm wrong and should just go quit my job.. I wanted to test and see if I could at least run an OS of some kind get the container mounted or at least open it to copy all the data before wiping/replacing all the drives, to possibly retire the NAS completely. Recovery.txt Log file: Any suggestions or advice would greatly be appreciated. Let me know if more information is needed. Thank you, Trevor

Hi i have an HP DL380 G6, i would like to install a video card for using the server as a workstation, when i put a VGA in the riser card a led start blinking green but the card doesn't output video signals and the BIOS doesn't recognize the card What can i try ? Thanks P.S sorry for my english

Some time ago i decided to get a 1u server, an HP DL360e Gen8, with two LGA 1356 E5 2400 series xeons, i wanted a cheap NAS and this seemed to offer quite good value for the price, and the price is low, I got mine for 35 Euros, you can get one for a similar price from Ebay or other sites with cpu included, in my case the specs were 12 GB of ECC DDR3 (3 memory channels), an E5 2407 and well, a matrox G200, because apparently those are still produced. For the same price you can get a raspberry pi, which is a really nice little computer but it lacks the x86 instruction set. The platform used is the aforementioned LGA 1356, the successor to LGA 1366 it was the low end option for Sandy and Ivy Bridge Xeons, some other models from this time frame use LGA 2011, if you really want to get one, the E5 24xx V2 are the better option, built on the 22nm lithography, they are far more power efficient and consume less power, thus making the server quieter. It also offers decent networking for the price, 4x 1 gigabit ports and 1x ILO4 port, ILO is the remote management platform used by HP, quite useful in some cases, ad-in cards are an option, there are two Pcie ports and if you really want to game on it, you can install a GPU, albeit it has to be a one slot model (yes I tried, it worked but not well, the GT 710 is not exactly a gaming beast). There are in total eight 2.5" drive bays, which can accommodate both SAS and SATA drives in RAID, thus making it a good NAS for a budget... if you really hate silence since this thing is louder than a vacuum cleaner, the noise level greatly depends on the ambient temperature though; in my case 31c, but if you don't live inside mount doom the noise level is... acceptable, more akin to a gaming laptop at full load intensity and pitch wise. Another fun thing in these servers is the presence of two power supplies, it is technically possible to how swap PSUs with the server not shutting down. So what is this thing useful for? Well, it can be a cheap high capacity NAS, a Steam cache server (one of the coolest things you can do if you have a slow connection), it can be used for home lab purposes, it also is a very accurate, albeit expensive thermometer, and sure, you can sure use it as a Minecraft server, but performance could be crippled by the low clock speed.

Is there away to run games off servers running windows storage pools i tried it and a lot of games specifically from ubisoft and battle.net not booting or refusing to boot due to it being on a network drive is there no way to do it?

So I want to make a dedicated gaming server, hosting multiple gaming servers at once. The game I want to host is minecraft, and I know minecraft is very RAM dependent. I want to build a server, rack-mounted on a server rack and able to handle a lot of player traffic. I have all of the software ready for the server (minus the OS) and I just need to find out what hardware to use. Can you people help me out?

I am looking to build a custom server for a few reasons. Right now I have a Dell T5500 with 2 Intel Xeon X5550, 4 cores 8 threads, and since I have 2 Xeons in one box, I actually have 16 threads altogether with 24GB of ECC DDR3 ram, 2 1TB WD Blue in Raid 1 and 2 WD Red 6TB for a total of 12TB of storages. Don't get me wrong this is a good server box but there is one MAJOR issue, the heat output from a metal box is unbearable especially now that summer is on its way. It's also very heavy to carry outside to clean, and the amount of dust and the fact that the motherboard is custom to Dell, there isn't a whole lot more I can do with it. Now what I want to do is build a brand new server where I can render videos on, create virtual machines, run Minecraft Servers and TeamSpeak servers, and still, have a high volume of storage WITH expandability. For example, I have a Corsair T760 Graphite case and was able to fill all the hard drive bays. I'd like to have the same amount of Ram, cores, and storage without going overboard on cost. Something I can get started on now, and build over time into the future. I'd also like to have a better cooling solution too. I like the Intel 6950X but that's over $1,000 alone. So I want something similar to it. I was hoping someone here could help me get started in making a price and parts list so I can see if I can build something newer and better. Thanks in advance Grid

Hey people! I am fairly new to the forums, yet I have a few years of experience with building PCs. Yet on the other hand, when it comes to servers I'm a big noob when it comes to selecting the correct products. I really don't know as much as I would need to in order to feel comfortable spending the amount of money I'm about to without some help designing/picking this rack. So my end goal will be to host my client's websites (currently I rent a server). The servers I will be looking to purchase are as follows: Gigabit Switch Storage/Raid Server Main server for control of the storage servers Secondary server for 'LAMPS' to host the client sites and my site. Furthermore, In the future, I will be looking into a storage server for backups, as currently, I use 2 external hard drives and valuable space on my server which is stupid as that's what I'm backing up! So I would be aiming for an A high-speed storage system that we can work off of and have mass storage on. Limitations: Funding at the moment is our largest limitation so I am looking for suggestions of environment taken servers (pre-used) and lower end equipment without much of a sacrifice on performance. The only places I would really be purchasing servers from are eBay, amazon, people rather than larger companies due to cost. Additionally, I need a server rack to hold all this in I am thinking between 14-20U due to the space in which I can store this rack, yet I can only really afford a rack of between 100-150 GBP. Any suggestions, tips, and tricks would be amazing; Thank you!

Ok, so I have been getting into programming a lot lately, I'm not too good or anythings but I was a bit interested in more server side things. What do servers include, like what is RAID exactly, is there any programming involved in server stuff? I'm confused but trying to learn. Are servers just used to host things like game servers or are there other uses? I'm just looking for an overall view on servers and how they work and what they do. If anyone could help me out on this it would be much appreciated. Thanks!