Dell r710 help

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 hours ago, Oli1549 said:

Ive ordered 4 300GB Hard drives and caddies for my server, thats enough to create a RAID 5 array with, which counts me for 1 drive loss. If at a later date i wish to upgrade these drives i could switch to a 1 TB right? i could always treat a drive as a loss and put a bigger one and let it re-create itself?

Can you stop the order? Id stay away from those old slow drives.

 

7 hours ago, Oli1549 said:

Ive had a play around in the RAID config and installing/using proxmox, if it can see my drives and its loaded and installed proxmox, is everything right? god knows what settings ive ended up with in RAID because i dont know what im looking at.

What does the raid menu look like? Pic?

[Oli1549]

On 10/5/2018 at 5:38 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you stop the order? Id stay away from those old slow drives.

 

What does the raid menu look like? Pic?

Can’t stop order, were only £4 a piece. It was just fir test, they always have a use! What 1TB drives do you recommend? £100 budget?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Oli1549 said:

Can’t stop order, were only £4 a piece. It was just fir test, they always have a use! What 1TB drives do you recommend? £100 budget?

For a 100 euro budget, id get the biggest drive you can, so probably a 4tb drive.

 

Do you know what raid card you have yet?

[Oli1549]

Perc 6/I. Il be doing raid 5 so why as big as 4tb? Why not 3x 1TB 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Oli1549 said:

Perc 6/I. Il be doing raid 5 so why as big as 4tb? Why not 3x 1TB 

then your limited to 2tb drives. Thats not a great card

 

 

Id run dual 2tb drives. Personally id run raid 0 and just have a good backup.

 

Bigger drives are often a better value, use less bays, and are faster,

[Oli1549]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

then your limited to 2tb drives. Thats not a great card

 

 

Id run dual 2tb drives. Personally id run raid 0 and just have a good backup.

 

Bigger drives are often a better value, use less bays, and are faster,

I simply do not need the storage, 3tb would be ample. And, I really can’t be pissed with a off site backup, id probably want that aswell. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

I simply do not need the storage, 3tb would be ample. And, I really can’t be pissed with a off site backup, id probably want that aswell. 

How much space do you need again?

 

How about a single 2tb drive then.

[Oli1549]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How much space do you need again?

 

How about a single 2tb drive then.

3TB is fine. I’d want Raid 5 or 10 for redundancy though so maybe 3x 2TB drives? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

3TB is fine. I’d want Raid 5 or 10 for redundancy though so maybe 3x 2TB drives? 

Id still do 2 x 2tb drives and a backup.

 

The backup could just be something like a external hdd, and will be much better than redunancy. The chance of a hdd failure is low, and you will need the backup anyways.

[Oli1549]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Id still do 2 x 2tb drives and a backup.

 

The backup could just be something like a external hdd, and will be much better than redunancy. The chance of a hdd failure is low, and you will need the backup anyways.

But if something goes wrong it’s a big hassle.... 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

But if something goes wrong it’s a big hassle.... 

Yea, but thats unlikely, probably less than 2% a year.  You can buy anouther drive if you want, but with that budget, I wouldn't bother.

 

And since this is a home server, im guessing uptime isn't the most important thing.

[Oli1549]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea, but thats unlikely, probably less than 2% a year.  You can buy anouther drive if you want, but with that budget, I wouldn't bother.

 

And since this is a home server, im guessing uptime isn't the most important thing.

When I said the budget I meant per drive... and I meant what make/model should it be best? Raid 5 sounds convenient but what do you recommend I’m keen on having redundancy and might end up getting a other method of backup too, I’m a data freak I like to keep it secure ;D

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

When I said the budget I meant per drive... and I meant what make/model should it be best? Raid 5 sounds convenient but what do you recommend I’m keen on having redundancy and might end up getting a other method of backup too, I’m a data freak I like to keep it secure ;D

 

IDK about prices there, but id go for wd red or ironwolf. Id go 2tb, its the max size, and there normally a much better value. Id get the cheaper of the two, there basically the same.

 

 

Id setup an external hdd for backup, cloud + off site hdd is a good idea aswell.

 

 

[Oli1549]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

IDK about prices there, but id go for wd red or ironwolf. Id go 2tb, its the max size, and there normally a much better value. Id get the cheaper of the two, there basically the same.

 

 

Id setup an external hdd for backup, cloud + off site hdd is a good idea aswell.

 

 

What about getting a new raid card? Do they make a difference to performance? 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 hour ago, Oli1549 said:

What about getting a new raid card? Do they make a difference to performance? 

Won't make a big difference with hdds, but id get one for ssds or if you want hdds bigger than 2tb.

[Oli1549]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Won't make a big difference with hdds, but id get one for ssds or if you want hdds bigger than 2tb.

Alright, How can i make a SMB file accessible from inside windows filebrowser? for my big NAS?

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Oli1549 said:

Alright, How can i make a SMB file accessible from inside windows filebrowser? for my big NAS?

In proxmox you can just install samba and edit the config file or make a container with something like the turnkey and use a web gui.

 

Do you have it installed now?

[Oli1549]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

In proxmox you can just install samba and edit the config file or make a container with something like the turnkey and use a web gui.

 

Do you have it installed now?

yep, have no idea how to do any of that stuff though

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

yep, have no idea how to do any of that stuff though

Gotta learn then?

 

Here is a little guide https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple

 

 

[Oli1549]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Gotta learn then?

 

Here is a little guide https://wiki.debian.org/SambaServerSimple

 

 

Thanks, I assume i have to use the shell for all of it, no way out of that?...

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Oli1549 said:

Thanks, I assume i have to use the shell for all of it, no way out of that?...

There is a lot of shell stuff in linux, Id learn that if you want to use linux.

 

Most server stuff is using the command line as its much more powerfull than a gui and faster.

[Oli1549]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

There is a lot of shell stuff in linux, Id learn that if you want to use linux.

 

Most server stuff is using the command line as its much more powerfull than a gui and faster.

yeah i know alot of the basics on command line, its just easier on GUI but hey ho! 

[Oli1549]

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1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

There is a lot of shell stuff in linux, Id learn that if you want to use linux.

 

Most server stuff is using the command line as its much more powerfull than a gui and faster.

Just as a question, do you know how i can team connections on my r710? it has 4 Ethernet ports and i have a big switch, can i do this?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Oli1549 said:

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Just as a question, do you know how i can team connections on my r710? it has 4 Ethernet ports and i have a big switch, can i do this?

What switch do you have?

 

What is your goal with teaming?

 

There are many ways to do this, depending on your use case.

 

 

[Oli1549]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

What switch do you have?

 

What is your goal with teaming?

 

There are many ways to do this, depending on your use case.

 

 

Biggest goal, faster speeds for moving files, i get about 103MB/s at the moment, thats using 1 line. My switch is: Netgear JGS524E