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So I always have some sort of crazy pc build I am making. My latest is using a "coinmine" motherboard (a shill and now defunct crypto mining company that sold mini itx pc's that were just plug in and mining machines for laymen) that has a great 16x pcie slot and a few ports for things like wifi and an msata card which makes a great pc for a home server, decent retroarch machine, home server etc... I am using it to make a dedicated LTO4 backup device with a 4TB HD for storage of all the files i want to transfer on and off tape drives and an msata card for the HD and a fiber channel card to transfer data between the LTO4 drive and the computer itself. I got the motherboard off ebay for something like $10 and its perfect for a little backup server. I've gone though the trouble of designing a custom 3d printable case for it and the LTO4 drive (the see-through mockup is pictured below) My question for LTT which i desperately want answered is the crappy and cheap ATX power supply modules (such as: doubtful its actually capable of 300watts, or this one: i have my doubts here too) meant for cars or whatever make this build all possible for me, but I have no idea is the actual power rating is even close to the advertised (super doubtful) rating (some pictured below). But this seems like an amazing, cheap, and super informative test for LTT to do if they want to take it on which i highly recommend. Or if anyone has any experience with these types of power supplies, please share your insight!! I'd love to hear any of your experiences/horror stories, so I can make my own determination on how I should power this LTO4 drive as well as the MB and HDD.... my guess is ill need something close to 300-watt, but I last did that rough power estimate a while ago and I forget how I came to that conclusion. Any help/insight is much appreciated!!! maxresdefault-2414477080
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Can you guys help me on building a home Storage File Server Any Guide would Help i would like to try to use my old computer that has a i5 2400 and 16gb ram just planning to make a home file cloud storage server Can you Please help me?? -
Hey guys, I'm trying to upgrade a network for a medium sized business (1 main store and 2 branches) which is also looking to expand sometime in a few years and one of the upgrades are the servers. Each store will have their own server connected to the main store's server. The server from the main store will contain the database and other important files so the other 2 servers will update the main store constantly. What I want from the server is that it is able to upgrade its storage size later on as well as being reliable and has high bandwidth to handle all the traffic. Thanks Also, my budget is less than or equal to 5k for each server
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Hey all! Planning to upgrade my current file/minecraft/FTP server to something a little better. I'm basically looking at trying to get something as cheap as possible, with low power consumption and high performance (nothing too crazy, just enough so MC servers will stop complaining about the server being overloaded ) I've currently got a Core 2 Duo E6550 CPU in there, with an Intel DQ45EK board, and 4GB DDR2 RAM. Core V1 Thermaltake case, 3 HDDs, and a Delta PSU I nicked from an Acer PC over a year ago now (the PSU is quite old). I'm basically looking at just some new RAM (4 to start, 8 eventually), a cheap low end (but still better than the old one) CPU, and tbh any motherboard with at least 3 SATA ports. (the PSU IIRC is rated for 250W or so) I've had a little look and I found the G1820 celeron CPU to be cheap as balls but still good performance wise. Is this a good choice or can you come up with something better? I'm open for suggestions (obv)! Thanks for your help, Aidan. EDIT: Anything from 4th gen up would be nice (or anything from AMD, really, I'm not biased!) Budget is around maybe £120 (at the moment anyway, I get paid in a couple weeks time so if it goes a little over, it should be alright).
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So I've wanted to set up my own file server, as well as a better machine to run VMs, for a while now as a personal project. I could run both on one machine, but I pretty much have an entire spare PC from upgrading my current rig. As well I have an old desktop from ~2011 from work that we have no use for (i3 2120, 8GB), which I'm currently using to run VMs, altho it's not getting much use right now. As well, I can probably get around 5 1TB drives from work (pulled from new PCs, replaced with SSDs), which I intended to use in RAID 5 for the FS. I just ordered a 6600k, so I can use the FX8350 currently in my system, which will give me an entire extra PC in parts. Here's what I have to work with: Full system, in parts (including case), extra AM3+ mobo (ASUS M5A97 R2.0) Dell Precision T1600 (running ProxMox for VMs right now) 5x 1TB drives (new) Regardless, I'd have to buy hardware to make it work. I'm thinking I should buy an AM3 CPU from ebay and a $50 case (extra board is ATX, T1600 is mATX) and use the rest of the hardware from the T1600. My other option would be to buy a RAID card, but I don't know much about them and what's good / reliable (would I need a 6 port card, or could I use onboard ports alongside the RAID card?). Plus, I believe an average one would cost a fair bit (or am I wrong?). Now for the software side of things... I'm thinking FreeNAS with ZFS (I'd have enough RAM). As for the VMs, I'm thinking ProxMox again. I also wanted to run a Plex server on the VM PC, could I use the file server as the storage for it? Or does it have to be local to the Plex app? Also, what would be the recommended OS to run Plex on? I'd assume Linux, but I don't know very much about the different distributions, as well I have very little experience with it in general. I would use Windows, but that uses a lot more resources, and I don't want any issues when watching something. I'm a noob when it comes to things like these, so sorry for the stupid questions. Any and all help on this is greatly appreciated! If you want any more information, just let me know. Thanks, Michael
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I there! WARNING Hopefully, my title make sense. Sorry it it doesn't, I'm not the one who will configure the machine, but I'm pretty sure that's what our IT guy said to me, but I could be wrong. SHORT VERSION We need a new file server / web environment / VM machine and I was thinking about a Ryzen 7 since it's a lot cheap than current Intel offerings while still having high-core count (and supporting-ish ECC memory if we decide to go for that). I want to know if any of you tried something similar with good result. Especially concerned with AMD compatibility / performance with ZFS / Linux / VM machine and ease of setup, vs our old Intel machine. LONG VERSION I work at a web agency and we are currently looking to upgrade our local dev/file server. It is used simultaneously by ~10 programmers + any designers / project manager who needs to access a files. We also send links to our clients for approval before anything goes live. Our current setup is something that they made at the very beginning of the business: A old Core 2 Duo, I don't remember the specific SKU 6gb of DDR2 some WD reds 4-5To in raid (Those will be use in the new build) The system is used daily for 3 things: As a simple file server, for our development files such as images, texts, videos, .psd, .ai, etc etc. As a Linux web server. Roughly half of them are customized Wordpress websites and the other half is our own in-house CMS. As a VM machine. Sometime we need to setup VMs to accommodate certain clients needs. Probably around 2-5 VMs would be up at the same time (That's something we are currently unable to do). Our old server is not even thaaaat terrible, but we start having longer load time for our dev websites, backups during the night are not done when we arrive next morning, and running even just one VM is just not an option. I searched online, and people tends to say that in the past, AMD was not best suited for these tasks, but what about Ryzen? Did anyone here tried something similar with good result? I am especially concerned with AMD compatibility / performance with ZFS / Linux / VM machine and ease of setup, vs our old Intel machine. If you think I missed any relevant information, ask bellow, I'll update this post. Thanks! -
Hi, I want to build a NAS box on a mini-itx platform, but the boards available for current APUs only have a single x16 slot (please let me know if any am4 or lga1151 itx board has this feature). I am looking at the ASRock AB350 motherboard and the A12-9800 for 4 cores and UHD output (I want the fileserver to also be the HTPC in living room). In my reading, I'd rather not use onboard SATA (can't find a board with 8 ports anyway). I want to install a LSI100301 (8-port mini-sas 8087) and use the forwrard mini-sas to sata (4 way) connectors to reach eight 3TB WD Reds. This frees me up to put 2 ssd's on the mainboard SATA for ZIL and L2ARC or to install another operating system besides Free NAS. WIll the LSI HBA work in a x16 slot meant for a GPU??? I want a four-core desktop cpu for plex transcoding, logging, and regular scrubbing, and security (my family will be putting medical records and some business backups on this). Thanks!!
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Fellow Techies, What do you think of this board? Would it be worth buying? http://www.ebay.com/itm/READ-ASRock-Rack-C2750D4I-Intel-C2750-Octa-Core-Mini-ITX-Server-Motherboard-DDR3-/162575489138?hash=item25da411872:g:whsAAOSw42JZDT3r
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I'm looking for an easy and simple way to back up and store my media files. I just want to be able to access them from any whereand have a decent upload/download speed. I'm not worried about being able to stream cause my media files usually don't work well with streaming and simplicity. Itried a qnap 451+ but I had nothing but headaches and even tech support couldn't find out why I was having the issue. (Couldn't access files and even though all my http security settings where on could not make a secure connection to Nas. Also link aggration didn't work.) What would be some other good solutions. I haven't tried free as but heard it could be very expensive. ($700 - $1000 Canadian) Thanks
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OK, so after much work I finally got my home server on Debian working as a file server, and now I'm curious how I could set it up so that I can access it even while not on my home network. I looked into DDNS at first but... My router, or should I say gateway, doesn't support it unless I put newer firmware on it, and the only freaking possible way you can put newer firmware on it is through my ISP, and the only reason they might do it is if my internet connection won't work unless they update the firmware. Great. So I was looking into setting up a VPN (which would be handy anyways since if I ever go to China again (My mom is Chinese) it could come in useful) but I'm not entirely sure if that will work to access files on the file server so I came to you guys. Also I'm not too certain about SSH but if SSH requires support from the router then that's not happening since I can't find a setting anywhere in the router that is about SSH. Thanks guys for the help! -
So I just purchased a new NIC that uses PCIe 4x however I only have a 16x and dual 1x Slots on my board. Also the NIC has Quad Gbit ports that will be teamed. Obviously it has the 4x connector because it needs it for full saturation however it will likely only see up to a single 2Gbit client hitting it at a time... at worst 3 Gbit Clients. A PCIe 8x RAID Card will be in the 16x slot. How much of a bottleneck/performance hit would I see? Will 4Gbit speeds even be bottlenecked by the 1x PCIe? (Its also probably PCIe 1.0 or 2.0)
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Currently our business is at 15 users doing basic CAD design work. We don't do any rendering, we don't do any virtualization and don't have any plans to in the near future. Our current server is a shared file server for design projects and that is it. Big Boss comes in today and says that he is getting us a new dedicated server, and that it is going to have 300GB+ of RAM because the server sales people told him he needed that much for "future expansion." Now to me, that seemed a little bit excessive and shocking at first hearing, but I wasn't really sure and I didn't want to speak up because I haven't messed around with servers very much. That is why I wanted to check in with you guys here at the Linus forums to make sure that my boss isn't getting scammed. Is 300GB+ of RAM for a 15 user file server too much, too little, or what do you think a recommended number might be? -
I have a Dell T420 with a Perc H710 Monolithic Adapter running Windows 2012. It is a domain controller, file server and print server and a Ubiquiti controller, no remote applications though. It has 6x500GB drives in RAID 5. I've noticed a message that it is in need of a new firmware and driver update. I have no problem updating firmware and drivers on most devices but this one is company critical and I haven't worked on Servers or RAID arrays much. I'm a bit nervous to do this and have put it off for awhile but it's time that I should get it done. I'm also experiencing a disk error on one of the drives that was replaced after a failure due to a power outage that I wasn't able to right in time. Dell walked me through the replacement of it and it doesn't have any warnings in OpenManage. It is disk error 153. The error is the IO operation at block (one of 2 addresses) for disk 3 was retried. I've dug through Dell's support forums and technet but haven't found a solution yet. It also has iDRAC7 which I've never used and don't know if it's even set up. Current firmware is: Firmware Version 21.2.0-0007 Minimum Required Firmware Version 21.3.1-0001 Driver Version 6.801.05.00 Storport Driver Version 6.2.9200.16813 Any pointers, information, or solid guides would be much appreciated. I'm probably behind by a few updates now so if I have to update them one at a time instead of jumping to the newest one would also be useful to know. Thanks in advance!
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I am looking to expand my File/Media server. I already have 16 4TB drives but i am running out of space. I was looking to move up to a 24 bay server rack. I was told it is possible to move my 16 drive to the new server that has a new RAID card. Can anyone give me any advice as i really dont want to loose all my files and folders Also could you recommend any relayable RAID controllers for 24 disk with a UPS if possible
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I live on a canal boat and I would like to build a file server that works with only USB ports. I would like to try and make it wireless. I was thinking to buy a WD My Passport 4TB and then buy a Rapsberry PI and connect the Hard Drive and download the needed software. I just cannot figure out how to make it wireless. What software should I need to access the files on iOS, Chrome OS, Windows and Linux?
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Hello, I'm wondering if this system would be a good fit for a small business server? We would use this to run inventory and connect to it while away from the office. We currently run everything through MS Access and would like to keep it that way for the time being. We would have this up and running at all times of the day for our team to access the database from anywhere. The items I have chosen are meant for location deployment file servers therefore they are reasonably cheap. There isn't really any options out there that are customizable. Any information anyone has would be a great help to us. Mother Board - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071SGQP1Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?smid=AVCN3MVCVULPH&psc=1 Hard Drive - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071SGQP1Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_9?smid=AVCN3MVCVULPH&psc=1 RAM (x2) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017NW5NZY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Case - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06XGB99JR/ref=ox_sc_act_title_6?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Boot Drive - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07J2WBKXF/ref=ox_sc_act_title_5?smid=A2JRWHJVV1XRIB&psc=1 Processor - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07B428V2L/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Power Supply - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZ3WDQG/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 Total Cost - $951.60
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Good morning, I'm trying to build a file server for me and other people using it in my house. I already have one, it is very basic and has an i5 6500 + 8GB ram and 6 x 2 TB disks controlled by an old LSI 8708EM2 in RAID6. Now I want to step up things a little bit, maybe including a virtual machine. The system power draw has to be low, even with high cores count, so I avoided old 2-3nd xeons (I tried one, idle power is too damn high) so I bought a ryzen 7 2700, got one for 150 shipped. I'm going to set up 10Gb fiber between the server and my PC, so the overall performance of the array matters. I've already ordered a DELL perc H310, and i'm going to flash it to IT mode for HDDs passthrough, but I'm really unsure about the OS. At first I was interested in unRAID, with a large SSD cache for writes, but I've read that read speed is determined by the single drive, so 140MB/s for me, and doesn't increase with disks count, like in a normal RAID. With this scenario I won't take advantage of the 10Gb network, It would be useless. I've also seen FreeNAS, and another possibility is Windows Server 2016 Datacenter with Storage Spaces Direcs (ant it seems possible using SSDs as cache). So now I'm stuck because I'm unable to choose OS and RAID level. Maybe RAID 10, it doesn't have the drawback of RAID 6, in which write is very slow. So, what should I do now? Edit: I'm planning to add another 2 x 2tb drives.
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Hey guys! Avid YouTube viewer for a few years and I thought to myself who better to ask for some help Basically the problem I'm having is that I wanted to have a 10Gb connection to my FreeNAS server, but I'm experiencing horrible file transfer speeds. What I was expecting was to achieve around 800-1000mb/s on a 40Gb test file, but instead I max out at 170-180mb/s. I can transfer the same file over my 1Gb connection at 110-115mb/s. Here's my setup. I'll list both 1gb and 10gb connections. --- FreeNAS Server freenas 11.2 Core i7 3820 40gb ram 1tb Seagate barracuda boot drive 2x 4tb Seagate barracuda in RAID0 3x 1gb NIC in LACP lag config (eth0) 1x Mellanox MNPA19-XTR with default drivers (mlnx0) --- Main PC: Windows 10 Core i5 8600k @5.0Ghz Evga Gtx1080 SC 16gb ram 256gb wd black NVME boot drive 500gb evo 860 app drive 2x 4tb Seagate barracuda storage drives (no raid) 1x 1gb nic 1x Mellanox MNPA19-XTR --- Both PC's are connected together with a Cisco passive sfp+ cable for the 10GB network, and the 1GB nics are all connected to a procurve 1810g-24 managed switch. What I've done: -Set an mtu of 9000 on the freenas server, set jumbo packet on Windows to 9000. -max number of RSS processes: number of physical cpu cores -max number of RSS queues: number of physical cpu cores -receive buffers: 4096 -send buffers: 4096 I booted to LinuxLive on the window's PC and did an iperf test which confirmed my bandwidth between the two was 9.4Gb. The interesting thing I noticed was that this speed was consistent if I tried uploading the file to and from the server, with different drives (remember the two 4tb aren't raided in the windows pc), but when I tried transferring the file from the ssd on the windows pc to the freenas s server, I was able to achieve transfer rates of about 500mb/s, but it was really erratic and would drop to zero every few seconds. If anything else is needed I'd be more than happy to provide it.
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Budget (including currency): $2000-$5000 USD Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: This is a small business file server. Primarily for clips/vods of our 25 - 30 Twitch Streamers. Other details : I run an esports org and we are getting more heavily in to the content creation side. More importantly we are going to be capatilizing on the content cration site. To do this we are going to need a medium to large expandable file server to house our current projects. Im new to all of this sort of thing so any details, tips or anything is apprecaited. Thanks
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Hi! My name is Jose and i am from Argentina, this is my first post. I watch LTT media every day and i learn A LOT from it, thank you for doing it! I have a small office (20 persons max) and we want to upgrade the file server. I never build a PC as a server (the actual server is an old PC with windows server 2008). We dont need nothing fancy, a file server for CAD, word, excel, etc files. The server only needs to store this files and support the acces of the employees. I was thinking in buying a PC stardard AMD Ryzer 3400 8GB of RAM 2 discs 1TB HHD (perhaps in RAID, i never used RAID) 1 SSD 250GB (optional) I have no idea if this is a good specs for a server today, can you please give me some feedback. The SSD will work as a OS drive, we will store the work files in the HDD drives. Also i want to try using a linux distro, if it is possible to work whit the active directory. Thank you for your comments! And sorry for the bad english.
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I am wondering if its possible to create a file server that is disconnected from the "internet". And only accessible through select computers on a company network. In which all permitted computers connected to said server can read a retrieved file but only one computer may actually save new files to the server. This sole computer that can save files should also be allowed to modify documents but only save those edited documents as new documents rather than overwriting previous versions of said document. This computer needs to be completely removed from the internet for extreme privacy purposes. All updates to software and OS and the bios must be done by a removable device plugged directly into the server/pc. Any advice on how to set this kind of server system up? Or instructions?
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hello everyone, so i was shopping on ebay for a nas i plan to build and i came across this and i just didnt really know if the SATA ii would effect my speed all that much. your opinions would be greatly appreciated. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-24-Bay-Chassis-SAS846TQ-Server-AMD-QC-2-1GHz-2372HE-16GB-H8DME-2/202174284803?_trkparms=aid%3D888007%26algo%3DDISC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D44039%26meid%3Df7d7a3e192af469ba72984987a5ec180%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D221693812159%26itm%3D202174284803&_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982 -
Hello, i need help deciding on how to go about solving my impending storage problem. i have many drives ither in, or attached to my PC, and currently mot of them are between 50 and 90% full. because i dont often dump data as im a bit of an archiver, and local media consumer. i had been contemplating building a multi-use NAS machine using newer hardware, but because of the way ram prices had been, and dont appear to be settling down anytime soon, ive been holding off on buying parts. what i cant decide is: should i continue to wait, and see what the supply line, and prices do, or should i just 'invest' in a DAC or something of that nature. something i can just through some drives in, and clump them together for a massive pool. im looking for about 10TB, of usable space. thanks in advance.
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file server Turning My Old PC Into a File Server
Schyken posted a topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
I've got an old HP Pavilion PC lying around and I was wondering what I'd need to do to make it into a file server on my home network. Just a place where I can store and retrieve files from any other PC in the house. It has 12GB of DDR3 Memory, an AMD Phenom II, a 1TB SSHD, a 1TB HDD, and no discrete graphics card. Right now, I just have it hooked up running Windows 10 and I've shared the hard drive over the network, but it's really not what I wanted to do. I need it to be solely for server function without Windows installed. Any tips?
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