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What kind of drive performance can I expect from these Storage Servers? I would like to use 10GB SFP+ modules with this. I want speed from this server, I will buy 2x and have the data cloned from one to the other in case of failure.

 

SSD's or HDD's will work for me, I would like the most bang for the buck storage though.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL385-G6-12-Core-2-40GHz-AMD-2431-64GB-RAM-NO-HDD-P410/183228740890

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Proliant-DL385-G6-12-Core-2-40GHz-AMD-2431-128GB-RAM-NO-HDD-P410/173321113626

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What drives? 

 

What workload? 

 

Why the amd ones? Intel dual 1366 systems are faster in almost every task and about the same price.

 

What os?

 

Those really aren't great storage servers, look at something like a r510 or c2100 or hp dl 180g6 as they can store lots of 3.5 hdds.  

 

How much storage do you need.

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I would avoid HP for G6 for both AMD and intel, I own a very similar DL380 G6 and the thing is more picky on OS than anything else i've ever used.

If you want cheap storage look for 4U servers with 24 drives, something like a supermicro unit would do much better. \

HDD are the way to go if you want GB/$ and usual 8TB enterprise or 4-5TB NAS drives are the best deal.

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3 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What drives? 

 

What workload? 

 

Why the amd ones? Intel dual 1366 systems are faster in almost every task and about the same price.

 

What os?

 

Those really aren't great storage servers, look at something like a r510 or c2100 or hp dl 180g6 as they can store lots of 3.5 hdds.  

 

How much storage do you need.

The workload would mostly be media streaming, Free NAS will be the OS. Hard drives I’m not sure about.

 

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4 hours ago, Chickenfans said:

 

The workload would mostly be media streaming, Free NAS will be the OS. Hard drives I’m not sure about.

 

what type of media? ssds seems overkill for media. 10gbe is getting into the kinda overkill for just media aswell.

 

How much storage do you need?

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Personally what I have is a Dell poweredge r520 and I bought it form Marigold Systems I shot them an email and they helped me pick it out and so far it is amazing.

 

Here's the link to their website if you wanna check it out https://www.marigoldsystems.com

 

Oh, yeah don't let the prices fool you. You can change the configs of it and stuff personally what i did was order the server without HDDs and i saved 200$ by buying my own from microcenter 

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For the money, your best bang for buck is going to be the Dell r510 with 12x 3.5" bays, you can pick them up for pennies these days.  Just make sure it has a H700 RAID controller in it.

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On 8/13/2018 at 6:33 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

what type of media? ssds seems overkill for media. 10gbe is getting into the kinda overkill for just media aswell.

 

How much storage do you need?

We want to get rid of our cable tv provider, and just stream tv. Ten gig was meant so ten people could have a 1gb/s connection to the server, as we might be watching in 4K. Also we will run some special software that automatically downloads tv shows and YouTube videos that we like so we don’t have to wait for buffering.

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On 8/13/2018 at 6:33 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

what type of media? ssds seems overkill for media. 10gbe is getting into the kinda overkill for just media aswell.

 

How much storage do you need?

I think somewhere in the neighborhood of 10Tb of storage is fine

 

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1 minute ago, Chickenfans said:

We want to get rid of our cable tv provider, and just stream tv. Ten gig was meant so ten people could have a 1gb/s connection to the server, as we might be watching in 4K. Also we will run some special software that automatically downloads tv shows and YouTube videos that we like so we don’t have to wait for buffering.

even 4k is normally only about 100mbit, so you can have 10 people stream 4k with a 1gbit network connections, Id use 1gbe for now, and get 10gbe later if needed.

 

1 minute ago, Chickenfans said:

I think somewhere in the neighborhood of 10Tb of storage is fine

 

Id just get something like a synology ds418. Simple to use, small, lower power.

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On 8/14/2018 at 7:23 AM, Falconevo said:

For the money, your best bang for buck is going to be the Dell r510 with 12x 3.5" bays, you can pick them up for pennies these days.  Just make sure it has a H700 RAID controller in it.

Which processor in the r510 do you recommended?

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1 minute ago, Chickenfans said:

Which processor in the r510 do you recommended?

for what your doing, it won't matter at all. Nothing here needs cpu power. Id just get a l5630 as there low power.

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1 hour ago, Chickenfans said:

Which processor in the r510 do you recommended?

For a storage server, it doesn't really matter.  If you are doing something else with it then you may need higher power CPU's but if its solely storage u can use anything.

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Those servers appear to use sas drives which are quite pricey especially for their storage size as stated I would find a server with 3.5 drives or build a cheap unRAID server with an old pc for which I have done and yes I have my 2 rigs hooked up to my NAS with 10GBe peer to peer network and the performance is sick

My daily driver: The Wrath of Red: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen TR4 1950x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA621P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASRock x399 Taichi / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / Samsung 512GB 970 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor x3

 

My technology Rig: The wizard: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen R7 1800x 3.95MHz / Corsair H110i / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / ASUS CH 6 / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / HP 10GB Single Port Mellanox Connectx-2 PCI-E 10GBe NIC / 512GB 960 pro M.2 / ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX 8GB / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor HP Monitor

 

My I don't use Rig: OS Windows 10 home edition / CPU Ryzen 1600x 3.85GHz / Cooler Master MasterAir MA620P Twin-Tower RGB CPU Air Cooler / PSU Thermaltake Toughpower 750watt / MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon / Gskill Flare X 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz / Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe Internal SSD / EVGA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti SSC GAMING / Acer - H236HLbid 23.0" 1920x1080 60Hz Monitor

 

My NAS: The storage miser: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / CPU Intel i7 6700 / Cooler Master MasterWatt Lite 500 Watt 80 Plus / ASUS Maximus viii Hero / 32GB Gskill RipJaw DDR4 3200Mhz / HP Mellanox ConnectX-2 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual SFP+ Ported Ethernet HCA NIC / 9 Drives total 29TB - 1 4TB seagate parity - 7 4TB WD Red data - 1 1TB laptop drive data - and 2 240GB Sandisk SSD's cache / Headless

 

Why did I buy this server: OS unRAID v. 6.9.0-beta25 / Dell R710 enterprise server with dual xeon E5530 / 48GB ecc ddr3 / Dell H310 6Gbps SAS HBA w/ LSI 9211-8i P20 IT / 4 450GB sas drives / headless

 

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