Home server thread, post your setups.

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>>52534983
Got drives in my 1950 now. It's my 2nd hyper-v host.

15TB total storage, the SAN is in RAID 10

>>52535008

have you calculated how much it costs you to run that each month?

>>52535021
Yeah, it's like 100 extra. Half that stack is used for homelab, so it's not on 24/7.

The r900 sucks the most power, and I don't use it very often.

r900 is 4x xeon 2.5ghz and 128gb of ram

>>52535021
oh, and I removed the r200 on the top and 3 of the cisco servers, because they were unnecessary.

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> tfw poor
> living in a country when technology is over priced

here's my "home server"

>>52535214
You have a 'rack', which is more than I can say I have.

After I sell my other servers I got from Dell outlet this one will be free:

Precision R7190

Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 Processor (1.6GHz,15M Cache,6.40GT/s QPI,No Turbo,No HT,6C/6T (85W) Max Mem 1600MHz)

16 gb ddr4 ECC ram

256 gb SSD

Quadro K620

I know the CPU is literally as basic as it gets for the R7910 and I may upgrade it later but for now, what are some good ideas for this? I may just sell it entirely or use one of the dual CPU (same cpu) configs I have instead.

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here's a picture I took for /guts/ the last time I had to open the case to work on it. It's just an old Q6700 that seeds some torrents, makes my backups, and sometimes runs a game server for my friends. Not pictured: ordinary consumer gigabit switch, ITX machine running pfSense.

>>52535214
>tfw you'll never have a server rack made of bamboo

>>52535428
What is it running

>>52535449
Debian testing. I had it running stable, but I needed a newer version of a few things, and that was easier than fucking around with backports or grabbing individual packages from testing repos

>>52535428
I mean the O

>>52535503
Wouldnt running game servers be easier on a windows server ? Maybe a windows VM

>>52535523
well depends on the game. in my case it's usually Terraria, and their server has a native Linux port.

>>52535507
The O?

>>52535649
Os . and you answered that already

>>52535046
Why would you need so much?

>>52535046
>>>52535021
>Yeah, it's like 100 extra. Half that stack is used for homelab, so it's not on 24/7.
>The r900 sucks the most power, and I don't use it very often.
>r900 is 4x xeon 2.5ghz and 128gb of ram
Are you curing cancer with folding@home?

>>52535214
>> tfw poor
>> living in a country when technology is over priced


Buy a NUC, use Paypal financing

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Hyper V cluster

I want to build a home server for Email server, Web server, possibly a game server if I ever play one which requires a game server, backups, and seedbox. Is this possible to make without boosting the power bill up an insane amount?

>>52535983
that kind of stuff will run on any potato, except the game server (what gaymen), so power requirement depends on the hardware

>>52535983
none of those things except (possibly) the game server requires a whole lot of CPU grunt to do, unless you want to, say, serve 1,000 simultaneous users on your site, with TLS. I doubt you are though.

you could probably put it on a celeron or an i3 or something and it'd spend most of its time sitting there at a dozy 800 MHz or so, and probably use something under ten bucks a month in power.

I currently have an old ricer case (One of those with the ridiculous sized fans on the side) running 12Tb on a FlexRAID setup. Works well enough for the times I fire it up. I would prefer a low power NUC connected to a USB3 rack or some such though. Not sure if I could make much savings either way to be honest.

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Firebox x1250e running pfsense
Dell C1100, dual E5540, 48gb ddr3, 2x500gb ssd RAID1 for OS and some VMs
Storage, some faggot rackables unit where half the lights dont work. 11x2tb for media and VMs, 3x750gb for VM daily backups

>>52536103
I was thinking an i3 yeah. Thanks a lot. Chances are I wont get a game server running on there anyways

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replaced my readynas with this

>>52534983
A 7 year old Acer Aspire laptop

What is the cheapest method to build a small raid array?

I want to look for a second hand rackmount server or even an xserve to build a small 6tb raid 5 array. Any recommendations?

Buy three used Hard disks, the same size.

>>52536361
nigga you fucked up you should've got the rackable with metal trays

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Running OpenMediaVault. Serves up Sabnzbd, Sonarr, and CouchPotato. 5 4tb drives are getting ordered pretty soon and I'm migrating to a ZFS pool.

>>52537171
>two drives, preferably but not necessarily of the same size
>a Linux machine to plug them into
bam, RAID1

what do you use these for?
is it worth it for a normie to set up a home server?

>>52537950
>is it worth it for a normie to set up a home server?
No

>>52534983
What are some of the more intensive and or unconventional things you guys do with your servers?

Currently just have a synology, since it was an easy setup, and its updated often.

Was considering getting something more powerful if I ever want to do more transcoding or something, maybe have it handle home surveillance since my synology is a lowly ds213.

>>52536103
Also if he isn't careful, don't isp's shit on people for doing that kinda thing? How they detect that I don't know.

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It's a big ass mess right now because I'm in the middle of a project that I haven't had much time to work on, but it is what it is

>>52538095
i have that same serial to ethernet cable :3

used it to program a bunch of aerohive ap-121's i got off ebay for $15 a pop. amazing little APs for the money. Gotta config by console if you don't have their bullshit license, which is just fine for /g/

>>52535046
>tfw electricity is part of my rent

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>>52534983
Contra Booting, or... something.

Internal - 4x 2TB SATA presented as JBOD
External 4x 4TB SATA presented as RAID 5

JBOD is handled by Storage Spaces, and redundancy is set at the virtual disk level.

Replacement is spec'd and ordered. Not worried about sloth their performance on the spindles, they will be tiered with the SSD's and nothing is going to be heavy load anyway.

>>52535214
'straya? I see the power outlets master race

i can get x7dcl mobo with e5410 and 8 gb of ram.
considering my homeserver is running on c2d e7200 with 2gb of ram now that seems to be valid upgrade.

what would be good used case for this stuff? something with eaay access to drives and dust filter/easy way to nigrig my own ones preferably.

what are my options for 771 cpu cooler that doesnt sound like a jet engine?

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>>52537958
uh any reasons cunt?

>>52538432
Forgot link to replacement.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jc62hM

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>>52534983
reposting for the 9483092870432 time.
>1TB+500GB+16GB SSD drives
>Dual core AMD G-t56n CPU after undervolting
>8GB DDR3 RAM
>WiFi module acting as tor AP
>completely noiseless, fan is disabled ATM
>15W of power consumption with two VMs at 50% load

$ sensors; uptime; free -h; grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1:        +67.6°C  (high = +70.0°C)
                       (crit = +100.0°C, hyst = +97.0°C)

 22:01:18 up 33 days,  1:08,  1 user,  load average: 0.34, 0.32, 0.46
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7.8G       7.6G       158M        36M       109M       1.9G
-/+ buffers/cache:       5.6G       2.2G
Swap:         7.4G        59M       7.4G
model name      : AMD G-T56N Processor
model name      : AMD G-T56N Processor

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Migrating data around, waiting on this WD green drive sucks.

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>>52538095
>>52536361
>>52535905
>>52535008

PowerEdge Servers are my Fetish.

My setup, a lot's in progress. A PE 1950 arriving on Tuesday of next week.

>>52534983
>home server
literally my desktop + universal media server
been that way for almost a decade when it was just ps3 media server

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>>52538837
Here's some for you...

Cisco MDS9134 (4gb FCAL switch)
Cisco Catalyst 2960s-10g 48p gig-e switch
Rariitan KX2 232 KVM
PE 2950 (2x Xeon 5440 / 32GB RAM / 8x 146GB 10K SAS)
PE R900 (4x Xeon 7460 / 256GB RAM / 8x 146GB 10K SAS)
PE R900 (4x Xeon 7460 / 256GB RAM / 8x 146GB 10K SAS)
PE 2950 (2x Xeon 5440 / 32GB RAM / 8x 146GB 10K SAS)
PE 2950 (2x Xeon 5440 / 32GB RAM / 8x 146GB 10K SAS)
EMC AX4_DAE (12x 600GB 15K SAS)
EMC AX4_DAE (12x 600GB 15K SAS)
EMC AX4-5f (12x 600GB 15K SAS)

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>>52538837
And the back...

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>CPU
Intel i3 6100
>MB
Supermicro X11SSL-F
>RAM
Crucial 8GB DDR4 EUDIMM
>SSD
Intel 335 Series 240GB
>HDD
~30TB in Seagate Archive & Barracuda
>Case
Norco 4224
>PSU
Seasonic XP-760 Platinum
>RAID
IBM M1015 in LSI9211-8i IT mode
>OS
Winblows 10 Pro

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>>52539007
>>52539019

Anon I am in love. Although why no GIII 2950's with 64GB RAM?

Also mad love for those older PE's down there.

>>52539007

>that kvm

holy fuck, dude!

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>There are gigabit ethernet plebs in this thread

>>52539152
The 2950's are G3, but I chose to use what I had in 8GB FBDIMM's in the R900's. They did all the heavy lifting anyway.

>>52539007

>all of that shit

for what purpose?

>>52539289
Hyper-V automation testing, and some SQL / SCCM / SCOM / SCVMM / Exchange automation as well.

>>52539235

>500 Watt PSU in a "server"

Gigabit Ethernet is the least of your problems.

>>52539235

Spacs?

>>52538528
Don't listen to him. Just install WAMP/LAMP and shove your website html in the "www" folder. Set your router to do port forwarding through 192.168.1.1 to your internal IP, get a domain and set it to connect to your external IP (see: http://myexternalip.com/). Set your drives in RAID if you need to get more drives for space (ideally raid 0 if you don't care if one of them fails in the future). Literally that easy.

>>52535008
Where do you back it up to?

>>52539235
>prosumer shit

Keeeek

>>52538432
Why did you buy the hp switches? Is there any benefit over other brands beyond aesthetics?

>>52540458
Probably aesthetics. I'm planning on having a few of these and I'll try to find the same used HP switch for that comfy look.

>>52538060
some ISPs close ports to stop you from running web or (especially) email servers, both because malware likes to send spam and because of Judaism. A lot leave at least some open though. It's almost always technically against the ToS to run a server on a residential connection, but generally they can't be bothered with finding you and telling you to knock it off unless they get reports of spam.

>>52538528
If you don't know, then don't do it.

Hey /hst/ I was looking for a small passively cooled x86 board with video output, 1-2 usb port, ethernet and 1-2 sata ports. I cant find anything thats not overkill for what I need and doesnt cost 200€+ or uses 30w of power. It will most of the time sit there and host game servers and whatnot, nothing cpu/ram intensive

How do I find what I need

>>52542628
Make a VM instead.

>>52542628
>passively cooled
Just buy the cheapest asrock + lowest tdp Intel CPU. Or get something like a zotac id18.

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HP genserver 8, it's basically a plex machine, sonarr + transmission, and running nginx for random stuff. Oh well, I also use it for time machine with my macbook.

>>52539235
>Thinking he'll ever hit full throughput on a 10GbE connection

Nigga I've seen corporations that can't fill a 10 gig pipe.

anyone played with intel and marvell ports before? how come i can't access my drive with intel ports but it works just fine with marrvell ports

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>>52542759
>time machine over a network

>>52535428
That case must vibrate like hell with so many hdds.

>>52535428
i am impressed, what are those PCI-E cards? i need more SATA ports as well

>>52540458
These are managed, and will do PoE with injection.

>>52543108
How so? My 4 drive raid 10 reaches 400mb/s sometimes which is pleb tier in terms of enterprise storage so surely a couple of SSDs or enterprise drives could saturate 10gbe?

>>52543253
Probably SAS controllers or RAID controllers.

>>52543209
Depends on the disks used and case

>>52538799
>autism time
Why

>>52535866
>use Paypal financing
>falling for the debt meme

>>52534983
>pentium g3258
>freebsd
>8gb of old unbranded ddr3 that i found on my floor
>didn't fall for the ecc meme
>2 2TB drives ZFS striped
>deluge running in jail
feels gud

>>52543108
you haven't seen very many corporations then.

>>52535866
I have money but I still wanna do this. Link to a good and cheap Nuc?

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what is this data output? eSATA or what

>>52544638
Just plain old ordinary sata.

>>52543108
>http://www.cinevate.com/blog/confessions-of-a-10-gbe-newbie-part-6-breaking-the-10gb-data-barrier/

>pleb with prosumer nas and nvme hits the 10gbe limit

The fuck are you babbling on about

>>52544652
hows that sata ?

Bump. Will post setup later

>http://www.scan.co.uk/products/4-bay-silverstone-ts431s-sata-hdd-storage-tower-via-mini-35-sata-sas

>4 bay SAS enclosure
>£127

I'm using esata at the moment and its a piece of shit. Any recommendable low profile sas controllers?

Don't need raid because storage spaces.

>>52544999
just get 1x3.5 enclosures

What's a good USB 3.0 HDD enclosure that can do 4-5 TB

>>52545022
4 power supplies, 4 cables, more costly. Why?

>>52545288
sorry i thought you wanted to just use them one by one and not all at once

just put them in your pc case

>>52545309
No can do my negro. It's a microserver so only has 4 drive bays. Would be my obvious choice if I could.

>>52545343
What kind of microserver doesn't have SATA ports

>>52545371
Mine has 5 and they're all being used. Do you really think I'd be looking into an external SAS solution if I had available internal ports?

>>52545484
PCI-E

>>52545514
What? That's what I've been asking for the whole time..

>>52544999
>any recommendable low profile SAS controllers?

>>52541636
How's the USA working out for ya? I can't hear you over my non-USA residential connection freedom

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cant complain

>>52544653
8 drive 32 TB RAID5 volume, this faggot deserve to loose all his shit.
People are retarded.

>Reconsidering retrying setting up a VPN

Should I go the openVPN route after all? I wanted to avoid using another application for a task built into most OSes already.
Other ideas were to go IKE, L2TP or PPTP

>>52546316
>tfw on a home server forum where people regularly bitch and moan about how and why their raid10 failed and how muh mirrors are supposed to be backups

People clearly don't care about their data senpai

>>52546383
PPTP is reportedly easily hackable, while IKE and L2TP are nightmares to setup correctly. Mind you OpenVPN is better but can be long-winded to setup too.

>asus nettop with usb 3.0 ports
>500GB external drive

i use it for my downloads
no cable.
no dvr device
90% of my usenet activity is tv shows.
other 10% is movies.
>nzbget with rss
>nzbs.org rss feeds and button to push nzbs straight to nzbget
>nzbget addon configured to send me a text message when my download is done

works alright.
that atom processor sucks though.
i wanted to get a real OS for it but i seriously hate configuring linux just to do things that MS does straight out of the box.

>>52546415
I know all about PPTP's flaws, but it's the only solution that works so far, and was relatively easy to set up.

IKE and L2TP never worked after going through various guides to set them up. I never knew why even while I was looking through the logs.
OpenVPN is pretty much the last resort here.

>>52546430
i really should just get a raspberry pi since i dont really use this setup for anything else.
its an atom processor so the whole setup uses less than 30w (PS is rated for 60 max)

Anyone use a HP MSA60 or similar? They're dirt cheap on eBay and they're way cheaper than !most 4 bay solutions.

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does this recognize 4TB hard drives ? by recognizing it, i mean, does it SUPPORT 4TB because most of these fucking shitty enclosures pretend 2TB is missing because they don't support it

MB973SP-2B

>>52546383
OpenVPN is by far the best option.

>>52546409
I think most of the time they actually care about their that, it's just that generally speaking people are retarded and incapable of making the right decision (e.g. hiring someone who actually knows what he is doing).
Using an 8 drive RAID5 for intense workload is pants on head retarded, shitty performance and shitty reliability.

>>52546588
>2 NUCs in the top
Explain? I'm curious.

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>>52544669
how is it anything else?

>>52546527
I am interested in this too.

>>52546602
set up as HA cluster on ESXi, running AD and other tasks that need HA.

>>52546527
They're loud and SATA 1.5, but yes, I have a couple.

Look at a D2600 or D2700. Better enclosures.

>>52546594
They care enough to briefly read about raid and what it does but don't seem to care about the bigger implications of it all.

>>52546575
pls any1

>>52546730
Post a fucking product name.

>>52544669
have you literally never looked at the back of a consumer HDD in the last decade?

>>52546780
MB973SP-2B

>>52546792
>MB973SP-2B
Give a look at this review: http://www.servethehome.com/icy-dock-mb973sp-2b-review-35-525-trayless-hot-swap-usb-30/
They seem to use 3 TB HDD, I can't find any info on higher capacity HDD.

>>52546881
iktf bro, thats the only review i found as well

>>52546721
Ah that sucks balls, could have sworn the msa60 was sataII.

The one you listed is going for about 6x the price of the msa20 or 60.

I just want a shitload of jbod drives senpai.

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covers me pretty nicely.

>>52547062
They do SAS 3gb, but SATA is only 1.5. It's weird.

Other options is a Dell MD1000. I think those are SATA 3G.

i want enclosures in my drive bay that can power on/off individual drives, must support 5TB or more

suggest some

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ayy lmao

>>52546730
>>52546881
Come one guys use your brain. It's not a controller. So yes, if your controller supports 4TB drives, it will work.

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>>52547092
Where's your mac?
>macfag

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>>52547389
>>52547585

>cpus under 2 gigahertz

>>52547688
You don't need the gigahertz for a server, you illiterate dumb fuck

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>>52547732

Not a single Xeon in any of my server is below 2.5ghz, try getting an actual workload faggot.

The 6-core Opteron's I had running at 1.8ghz took over an hour longer.

>>52547688
get that greasy nigger out of my face

>>52547762
>"oh, fuck. i thik i leave my xeon on my other pocket"
you don't need four fucking operon for a FTP/Apache/SSH server if you are the only user

>>52547258
pls

>>52538837
Have poweredge 2800 lying around, any recommendations what should i do with it?

>>52547762
>what is architecture

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Am I a poorfag?

>>52548412

Specs? That'd have U320 SCSI disks in it, so it could be used for something small.

>>52548530
>:
2 scsi drives of 34 gb each i guess, 8 gb ddr2, xeon 2.8

>>52548530
+ Processor ----------- Intel Xeon 2x2.80 GHz (Dual HT Processors)
+ Mother Board ------- Intel Original
+ Cache Memory ----- 2 MB Cache
+ Bus Speed ---------- 800 MHz Front Side Bus
+ Memory ------------- 8 GB DDR-1 ECC RAM
+ Network Card ------- Dual Giga Bit 10/100/1000 with ASF Support
+ Expansion Slots ---- 128 bit PCI Slots
+ Hard Disk ------------ 2x73 GB - SCSI - 10,000 RPM
+ RAID Controller ----- RAID Onboard
+ Optical Drive -------- DVD & 1.44 MB Diskette Drive
+ Form Factor --------- Tower Casing
+ Power Supply ------- Heavy Duty Dual Power Supply
+ Fan ------------------- Dual Fan

>>52548691

Ah, good it has the Dual 930W power supplies. I mean theoretically, you could use that box for an over the top pfSense router/firewall/web cache.

The last time I played around with a 2800 it had full blown Microsoft Exchange server on it.

Personally I like the 2800, it's a good system to keep around, even if it is aging. Runs quieter than the 2900 with similar specs.

What do you wanna do?

>>52547843
>you don't need four fucking operon for a FTP/Apache/SSH server if you are the only user

You make the assumption that our servers only have one user...

>>52548873
I was looking at arch linux ricing in /g and desktops showcase thread. Really loved the setup.. Was thinking of doing it, But kinda noob in setting up arch linux. So was thinking of something along the lines.

>>52547157
Yeah I've seen plenty of md1000 at similar prices as the MSA series. There shouldn't be many problems in terms of compatibility right? I have a hp microserver and will probably end up with a HP SAS controller if I were to hookup a md1000

>>52547762
>MY REQUIREMENTS EQUAL YOUR REQUIREMENTS
>HOW DARE YOU NOT PISS AWAY MONEY ON POWER YOU DONT NEED

You should actually fucking kill yourself.

>>52535008
what is that on the bottom? looks like my r900

>>52549036

Sucks being too poor to do so, huh faggot?

>>52549063

That is indeed either an R900, or an R905

>>52548923
>FTP/Apache/SSH server if you are the only user
>if you are the only user
>IF
>IF

He wasn't assuming shit about your faggot ass server you dumb nigger. Not everyone needs a 16 core xeon at 6niggahertz. That's all he said.

>>52543190
im not the one you're quoting....but yeah...? why not?

>>52548923
Not yours, mine

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im not walking down to the basement to take a pic, but here are the specs from Esxi. i also have a 6tb acer easystore h340 running windows 2012 r2 storage server. thats on the domain being managed by the virtual windows server here

>>52535905
>Hyper V cluster
what is and what do you use it for?

>>52547258
>>52547258
pls

>>52549114
> Being this mad

>>52549137
You don't need it for you? I follow now.

>>52549298
I use my server to learn how to configure things and as FTP server. It's not under a heavy load. Also it cames form windows XP era

>>52549255

>R900

Pic please.

>>52549298
I'm not even mad senpai. Just a bit baffled that someone has such shit tier reading comprehension.

>>52549255
>Esxi
i wanna install esxi on pe2800, any guide?

>>52549340
Too many windows open. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it...

>>52549332
ugggghhhh. brb.

>>52549356
Don't. You'll be stuck to 32 bit VM's.

Actually, to clarify, if you want to learn VMWare, it should still give you something to work with and learn. So for a teaching tool, that should be fine. Boot off the ESXi CD, and install to a 4GB flash drive.

>>52547258
>>52547924
>>52549294

I mean to be quite honest, I've never come across any enterprise hardware (NAS, DAS, SAN, etc) that supported powering down individual disks after they've been spun up. Most of those arrays have raid, and enterprise disks.

For what you're asking for, theoretically couldn't you just mod a 5.25" drive enclosure and throw a switch on the front of it connected to the 5V rail?

Please define "in my drive bay" as well, not really sure what you mean.

>>52549363

I'll be here anon... <3

>>52549438
5.25 is the drive bay in a normal pc case and icy box offer power on/off buttons for their enclosures but its out of stock in my 3rd world country

>>52549356
>>52549381

Hyper-V will be able to run 64-Bit VM's, if you don't mind having windows server installed as the host OS...

>>52549464

You could also look into a hotswap solution for a 5.25" bay, that way you could just take the drive out, therefore turning it off.

>>52549483
Not on a Nocona based Xeon it will not. I don't think the service will start.

No VT-x.

For the 2950's it will work just fine.

>>52549483

On the PE 2800 that is*

Last time I checked I was able to.

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>>52549460
>>52549332
more to come. and maybe some of the tech junk in my creepy basement if anyones interested.

>>52549356
looks like dell has a prebuilt esxi image for your machine. thats what i used and it saved me a bunch of time because the nics on mine arent offically supported by vmware.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/poweredge-2800/drivers

>>52549517
see
>>52549529

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>>52549530
close up. the info ticker says "eat pizza fuck bitches" but you cant see it in this pic

>>52549530

She looks cold down there all by her lonesome. :(

I see you have the 2.5" Chassis, nice.

What's with the orange warning light on? do you only have one PSU plugged in? Or is the thermal sensor tripping?

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>>52549549
and this is my happy little nas box thing. it was going to be thrown out from my previous job bvecause it came with windows home server and caused a bunch of issues due to WHS 'foh-raid' garbage. this has been a trooper since 09'

>>52538837
TFW one of those is mine...

>>52549539
thanks guys, still reeling onto it, it has pci-x slots, do they support any graphic card???

>>52549514
its precisely what i want anon

>>52549573

>WHS
Gross.

Is it filled up with drives?

>>52549586

Not that I know of... PCI-X is a 64-Bit PCI slot, supports things like quad port NICS and such.

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>>52549567
she is defiantly cold, but the nas buddy is on her back so she's not lonely.

the light is because i put a new HD in there but i havent configured it in the raid card because i want add more HDDs to it first. it only has a drive in 0 right now and this old raid card wont let you add more disks once you have configured a virtual disk. i want to fill them up and run a backup server VM. OS to be determined.

pic is the cat 6 running up to the 'underhouse'

>>52549580

>tfw no one invited you spencer

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>>52549600
it is, i think its 3x 2tb + 500gb OS drive. its on storage server 2012 r2 now. it is very much happier. 2012r2 even runs faster and is smaller than WHS>

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>>52549661
here is junk that has helped me compute.

>>52549630

Yeah, the PERC6/i that came in those systems were not the best for that sort of thing, I've always had to reinstall an OS going up from the first drive to more than one.

Anon you need to bring her some comfy fiber optic friends to play with, that NAS has to get bored not being maxed out on bandwidth every day. (assuming that you don't somehow)

>>52549685

Is that a set of Versa Rails for that R900 I see?

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>>52549685
this was plugged into my old server. but this one doesnt have PS2 so i had to retire it.

>>52549635
>tfw fuck you I do what I want

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>>52549712

>Dat Win95 box
>Glorious PS/2 IBM keyboard

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>>52549712
>not using a PS2 -> USB adapter.

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>>52549686
the nas is pretty much just torrent storage for my Kodi boxes upstairs. i think thers a computer in the house backing up to it. mine backs up to a vm in the r900. but we're on ATT DSL here, if i had more bandwidth i would turn it into a seedbox and just put all the storage in the r900.

>>52549710
yes it is, and its sitting on the fucking floor i know :p. ive been meaning to build a rack, but i dont have $$ right now.

pic is my TNG cutout from the old video rental store. keeps my servers company.

>>52549126
I tried it before but it took over a day to backup stuff, wasn't really practical.

Much faster just plugging in a USB disk then doing an image of said disk every few weeks directly onto the storage server.

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>>52549755
im going to install that somewhere, someday. and have a legit running version of 95.
>>52549768
i sure i have one somewhere, but i really dont care that much. i never go down there and fuck with it. i do everything through vSphere.

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>>52549806
after you get past the initial backup, it does incremental doesnt it? we do TM over the network for one of my companies clients and they never reported a problem.

heres an old mac keyboard for you all.

>>52549483
No, it won't.

Paxville, Irwindale, and Nocona Xeon's do NOT support VT-x. VT-x is required for Hyper-V.

ESXi will run, but you will be limited to

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here is my mame box project for reasons. ill be back in a bit guys, if you want more basement picks of my junk let me know.

>>52549530
>Last time I checked I was able to.
thanks, downloading.

>>52535046

What the fuck is homelab?

Is that like a reddit thing?

Are you one of those people who can't get anything done without >9000 docker containers?

>>52549853
Given the amount of data that changes on my system between backups it becomes quite impractical. Needing to sync 10+gb becomes quite time consuming.

>>52549530
couldnt find esxi link, care to share direct link?

>>52549573
name of model?

>>52549976
Niggah if you want to sync files use freefilesync or robomirror. It's awesome once it's setup, which is fucking easy.

I used to sync 2x4TB drives with 2 other ones every 6 hours.

>>52549994
The download is from Dell directly.

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverid=5YC4T

>>52549879
>picks of my junk
>>>/hm/
>>>/soc/

'Sup /g/.

I have an old Pentium 4 machine (SC) with 256mb of ram. Can i use it as a home router (wifi as well)? Would I run into any troubles due to shitty specs?

>>52550154
thanks, downloading now.

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>>52549976
gotcha that makes sense. i would do everything USB/firewire too.

>>52549994
you need to click change OS. you got other options on there too that might be more fun.
>novell
>suse
>netware

>>52550059
acer easystore h340

heres my broken t420. evidently they cannot withstand a drunken dropkick.

How do I use sql with a home server? How do I make this more than a storage box for porn?

>>52550154
>http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverid=5YC4T
>>52550248


his system only supports up to 4.1. i wouldnt use that one, it might not have the right drivers packaged in it.

>>52550283
It was just the first link I found. I haven't use a PE2800 in forever, so...

>>52550225
thats about as much as a regular router.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_distributions

>>52550278
install sql...then database? you need to figure out specifically what you want it to do.

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>>52549994
>>52550248
do pic related

>>52549573
got xpenology DSM running in that shitbox

>>52550330
>xpenology DSM
oh shit, i never seen that. how does it run? all my attempts to use a NAS like OS have failed due to no video out put.

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I'll bite. Find the flaw.

>>52550354
http://xpenology.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2

thanks to me later

>>52550354
And ya, you need an Adapter for VGA, got it for 25 bucks at ebay

>>52550324
>http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/product-support/product/poweredge-2800/drivers
so, downloading 4.1 update 3 esxi

>>52550385
Way too easy.
>windows on a server

You should clear up that 40c hdd. That's hotter than I'd feel comfortable with.

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Home server/couch gaymen pc/fuckaround box.

Been running it in some form since Squeeze was in testing...

System:    Host: atlas Kernel: 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Console: tty 2 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 8
Machine:   Mobo: ASUSTeK model: CG8565 v: Rev 1.xx Bios: American Megatrends v: 3508 date: 10/29/2012
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i5-2500K (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 3700 MHz 1: 1749 MHz 2: 1789 MHz 3: 1787 MHz 4: 1798 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA Device 1401
           Display Server: X.org 1.16.4 driver: nvidia tty size: 136x37 Advanced Data: N/A out of X
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA Device 0fba driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA v: k4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64
           Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel
Network:   Card: Intel 82579V Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
           IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 10:bf:48:4c:71:8f
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 7401.5GB (40.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: ST3640323AS size: 640.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD20EARX size: 2000.4GB ID-3: /dev/sde model: Samsung_SSD_850 size: 120.0GB
           ID-4: /dev/sdd model: WDC_WD40EFRX size: 4000.8GB ID-5: /dev/sdc model: ST3640323AS size: 640.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 40G used: 21G (56%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sde1
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 64.0C mobo: 27.8C gpu: 53C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 0
Info:      Processes: 246 Uptime: 4 days Memory: 4269.0/16019.4MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5

>>52550494
Was thinking about the low-end nVidia GPU with an AMD APU. It's both HTPC and server, that's why I'm using Windows.

I'll be getting a new case for it soon, where I can fit all the drives much better. Fractal Define Mini or something like that.

>>52550486
correct. i would also make sure your BIOS and firmware and DRAC are up to date.

>>52550486
>>52550486
im like, excited for you. ESXI is awesome. i had allot of fun getting it all setup right and tweeked.

>>52550558
too cool, i am really thankful for the headstart, i will try to download the firmware and said things with it, and start tomorrow morning for it! EXCITED!

what does dual channel mean in those hotswap bays

>>52550583
if you have a DRAC card too you should get that setup. Theres even an app for ios and android that will connect to it and tell you if your server is down and shit.

Are EMC any good? EMC Data Domain ES20 on ebay for £200.

>Dual 4 Lane 6 Gb/s SAS
>16x3.5"

>>52549438
> I've never come across any enterprise hardware (NAS, DAS, SAN, etc) that supported powering down individual disks

lolwut

>>52549438
>I've never come across any enterprise hardware (NAS, DAS, SAN, etc) that supported powering down individual disks after they've been spun up.

Niggah you're describing hot swapping.

i don't want to buy this because it's plastic but i need something that can let me hot swap and power down individual drives

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994171

>>52550762

For actual production in a Data Center they are good, although usually they are ditched once their warranties expire.

Good stuff though.

>>52550861
>>52550886

I was under the impression that he didn't actually want to remove the disk from the system when powering them down.

>>52551557
no bruv i just wanna power my drives on/off when im done backing up my stuff

I have this old Dell that I got from work that I was wanting to turn into a server. I want it to only be local, no connection to the external internet. Could I get a brief outline on how to do this? I can fill in the gaps.

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I was considering Linux at the start but I was a little nervous as I have only used it a handful of times but now I'm considering it. Pic was from a few days ago

Define R4, black
Gigabyte H77M-D3H
LSI 9260-4I / Sas expander / BBU - 20 port total
Intel G860 3GHz Dual core
8GB Kingston DDR3 1600MHz CL9
Seasonic G-650W
CM Hyper Evo
WD Blue 500GB Boot drive
WD Red 3TB x5 raid 5

>>52551607
I'm up tired to think but you can do that with a rocker switch and a molex cable or Silverstone makes some power drive thing just search Google

>>52551691

Model? Specs? What do you want it to do?

>>52550084

What's wrong with rsync + cron?

>>52551763
Nothing?

>>52551692
Hey, that's like mine >>52550503
(sort of).

Just grab a Debian netinst or the latest Ubuntu Server LTS and start playing around.

Most production stuff I bump into generally has some variety of Ubuntu Server on it.

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Are there storage server racks that are very short?

Like pic related but without the room for motherboard etc. All I basically want is a compactish 12-16x3.5 drive bays with SAS connection.

>>52551886
I was actually thinking about Ubuntu as that's what I had been playing with also Mint but Ubuntu had better support for my hardware etc. I've got an old shit system I could run it on to get use to it outside of a vm

>>52551998
You could buy 3 by 5x3.5 bays and just run the SAS connector around the PCB if that makes sense as the bays will need power sort of like daisy chaing which is another option

>>52552265
If they don't allow me to power my drives off individually, there is no point then.

>>52552265
Don't they need atx power supplies though?

>>52552297
We're not asking for the same thing here senpai

>>52552443
If you buy an actual bay like a iStar, Cineraid, StarTech, Vantec they should have their own power and you can just get a long SAS cable or splitter
>>52552297
Well if they are in raid or jbod a switch can do that but it won't be that safe

>>52552665
It's a bit too ghetto for my data I think.

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>>52538837
My first thought was "how did he get that keyboard to stand sideways and why did he do that?"

i got like 7 hard drives but one got "2 uncorrectable sector counts".

pending sector count and reallocation sector count is at 0.

should i destroy the drive or is it usable ? how "dangerous" is it to have 2 uncorrectable sector counts

>>52551998
what do I search for if I want to buy a case like that?

>>52535214
Argentina?

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QgBkVn

this a good plan for a LAN box that will be a NAS when not on the move? I have a laptop I use for shitposting.

>>52551998
You could get a SAN setup like a PowerVault or something. Does pretty much exactly what you want, but you would use iSCSI.

I picked one up with 15 1TB for like $200, but never bothered to get the thing working. Just ripped it for the drives and scrapped the vault.

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Couldn't be bothered to go down and take a picture of it. HP DL580 G5 with 16 150GB 10k SAS drives in two groups of RAID 6.

I have another 580 with slightly less RAM, and a DL380 G5 with 32GB of RAM. Struggling to find a good use for them with the shitty internet I have (15/1). Not enough space to use them as backup servers effectively.

>>52557791
Im not opposed to SANs, just adds a bit of complexity. I'm more worried about noise. Most of these don't let you swap fans.

>>52554283
If I remember right that chassis is a 2u server chassis.

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ftp/http/php/smtp/imap/network file sharing

what else?

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server at work i just started working
love at first sight

>>52558471
on the pic you can see about 6 routers, one would be sufficient since all the positions have 1 router and another switch next to them so.... its a cabled clusterfuck

>>52558471

Oh man, you need to clean those cables up.

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>>52558471
>no color coding

T R I G G E R E D

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My home server, FTP, torrents, Fileserver and just stream from a lappy running kodi hooked up to tv
5 x 2tb drives zfs zraid1

>>52535422
Shoot me

>http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=483&area=en

>8x3.5"
>2x Mini SFF-8088

Is there a way to daisy chain these? I know I'll need 2x SAS cables, one per 4 drives.

>>52559946
would like to but i have little to 0 right to do this im just at it but cant/ do any shit with the servers :(
also the server admin is a retard

Can I ask for what are your servers? Never got problem with piracy laws?

>>52560819
>Can I ask for what are your servers?
A Microserver.

No Never. I've pirated at least 10TB in the UK.

I always wanted a storage server chassis but i never saw one in fisical shops in my town

Where can buy something online in europe?

>>52560819
Busy designing a mini-itx server, currently using a laptop.
Never heard anything about pirating, in the uk as well.

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$700 USD homeserver build:

Xeon E3-1231v3
Asrock E3C226D2I
16GB ECC RAM
256GB 850 EVO + 3TB WD Green (hoping to swap this out soon)

Running as an ESXi host.

>>52561072
>Where can buy something online in europe?

On the internet m8.

>>52561293
>dat fractal design node

Niggah I'm just looking for an excuse to buy more storage so I can use one of these cases. Any good?

>>52561331
pretty good, I even managed to fit a Hyper 212X in it although the fan might mess with the SATA cables coming out of your HDDs

cable management might be a pain though, and it's not too cheap either, but otherwise it's great

>>52561416
I'd use SAS if I were to fill it with that many drives. Drives the price up a bit more though obviously.

I was once planning on using one of those asrock c2550 motherboards and see just how many drives I can fit into the thing.

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Since I upload 3TB/mo, my desktop serves up more than most servers.

$495. $525 including monitor.

>>52561468
I only actually have two drives right now, but I'm planning to add more soon to replace my current NAS.

My mobo has 6 SATA ports (from the C226 chipset), just enough for the 6 HDD slots in my case, so is there anything I'd gain from using SAS instead?

>>52561567
Is that not the node 804?

SAS Allows 4 SATA cables to run into one SAS connector. I imagine it makes cable management easier but it's quite costly just for easier management. It pays off however when you use lots and lots of drives.

>>52561312
Yeah but not on amazon or "regular" websites

What does a DAS JBOD enclosure require to enable daisy chaining? Just a SAS expander with 2x external ports (1 in/1 out) plus the internal ones for the drives?

what would I even need a homeserver except for backups

>>52561870
If you have to ask you clearly don't need one.
Now you can kindly fuck off.

>>52561870
You don't need one, if you have to ask for a use-case.

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>>52561293
I'm about to go with the same route except it has loads of storage. I'm thinking of going with an SSD for the boot drive instead of the USB flash drive, but I'd be sacrificing one of the SATA ports. Running Debian would be cool, I'd like to try ZFS on Linux.

>>52562026
>$150 for a 4tb red

Fucking kill me holy shit. UK prices are so fucking retarded.

>>52562110
>$149,99 = EUR138,61
>EUR 166,90 retail for a WD Red 4TB.

Fuck my life.

>>52562221
My condolences, Yuro.

>>52562240
Thanks, friendly anon.

I might think about ordering my HDD's from the US. Fuck man.

>>52562221
Yeah and they're between £120-140.

So the increase in price in what youre paying compared to US is added AGAIN, then you get UK prices.

>>52562314
Importing my harddrives from now on, lmao

>>52562355
You didn't know this? Also if you're importing then you'll have to pay taxes anyway. You might get away with it but there's always a chance and when you're talking 4+ drives it adds up.

>>52562475
I am aware of the taxes, but it beats paying €28 - €30 more for the WD Reds in my own country.

>>52534983
I have the NAS OP posted. 12 4TB WD Reds populate it. 40 TB of Media shared out to friends via FTP. Its basically my Feral Seedbox repository. Runs locally as my Kodi server also.It also houses all my video feeds from my home security system. Yeah, it was kind of pricey, but never had a single issue since day one.

>>52561740
Anyone?

>>52534983
This thread made me realize that I need a home server

>>52538658
>>52538658
god damnit this thing is almost melting itself

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>this entire thread
>no LTO streamers
Literally kill yourselves

>>52535214
Why tied and suspended? It was easier to just find them a (horizontal) place

I've just gotten a basic server that I want to run a few VMs on.

I'm currently using VirtualBox on a desktop, and I want to migrate these over. Worst case, I can re-set them up, as the data isn't important on them (or is already backed up).

What VM host will be simple to configure, easy to maintain, and quick to set up?

Big emphasis on being long-term stable.

>>52563727
Literally who fucking cares

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>>52563836

>>52563836
Also, is BTRFS stable yet?

Just bought a 16TB raid array.
Fun times.
Now I'm at 50TB.

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>>52539061
>win10

>>52563854
Cares about what?
Tape drives are the only reason to keep enterprise grade hardware in your house.

>>52543253
the top card is a four-port SATA card (two of them aren't used atm). It's some Syba thing that was on special at Newegg. It has no RAID functions, I do that in software.
the middle card is a USB 3.0 card, since that old board doesn't support it. It has a Molex cord running to it since USB 3 can supply more power than an x1 slot can.
the bottom card is a GT 720. The duties of this machine also include playing Chinese cartoons and displaying a web browser while I'm gaming or something on my main machine, so it has monitors hooked up to it

>>52563936
No one cares about your mixtapes faggot

300+ replies, we need a new thread.

>>52564059
>mixtapes
What.
>faggot
Oh look, someone's butthurt

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>>52564251
>implying bumchafed

>>52563891
I've read that it's improving, but they are always saying that. I'd rather just go with ZFS,

>>52564417
I'd tend to steer more towards EXT4 if not BTRFS. What advantage does ZFS have?

I don't have particularly crazy requirements for storage.

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>>52543190
The only real issue with that is if you're doing it over WAN. AFP isn't encrypted, so unless you're encrpyting your TM backups, all your shit is sent over the clear.

Other than that AC WiFi proves more than capable to back up gigabits of data fast. Even over WAN, with a decent internet speed backups aren't that bad.

I used to do it before I shut the server down because fuck backups.

>>52546588
fucking shit

are you the one that verizon booted off residential and told to get a business line?

I'm so jelly at most of your setups. Maybe a cute NAS with the Fractal Node will come in the future.

>>52564607
pretty sure this dude is dutch

>>52563936
>Tape drives are the only reason to keep enterprise grade hardware in your house.
So storage redundancy, multi-pathing, or clustering aren't a valid reason?

Fuck off...

>>52564578
If i remember correctly time machine stores stuff in an encrypted dmg so that is not usually a problem

>>52564692
They're pretty expensive for what they do. You can always just add more HDDs to your desktop, unless you have some need for distributed consumption or more computation.

>>52563836 here, Debian installer isn't picking up an Intel hardware raid, while the Ubuntu 14.04.3 server does.

What evil proprietary stuff do I have to install to make this work?

>>52564758
>storage redundancy, multi-pathing, or clustering
do you use any of that for anime storage?
Top kek kid

>>52564902
>do you use any of that for anime storage?
I'm a kid because I don't have a tape drive for storing anime?

lolwut?

>>52565136
No, you're a kid because you watch anime and you waste money on LE MAY MAY ENTERPRISE SERVERS to store fuckload of this cancerous shit.
Kill yourself

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Yo senpai I'm new to this, other than if this is a rack worth getting. Is this really only meant for data centers?

And/or can I do this via a hyper-visor via virtualbox on my desktop?

>>52565350
I'm actually looking to make a profit off of this since I'll be moving to a remote location, should that provide for more information to go off of.

>>52565350
They look to be in decent condition, and they even have doors on them. If they had walls, I'd say jump on it. $150 is a great deal for two racks

Although be prepared with a truck and a friend or two. Moving a rack is a bitch, especially full size 42U steel racks

>>52565372
>profit
yeah, nice meme

>>52563936
>it's the only reason because I say so
>my needs should apply to everyone else
you'are memeing

>>52563727
>streamers
As in streaming media off tape? Are you meeming, or is there another context of streaming here?

Are the newer LTO tapes known to be buggy with older Linux kernels?

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>>52565652
Data Centres make money doing this, why not some small start up?

>>52565802
You're going to compete with a DC price range in terms of providing a customer base VPS and dedis without a large specialization?

Haha, good luck

I wish you good luck

>>52565905

Considering where I'm moving where the nearest DC is 2 hours away if even a sign of civilization, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad investment no?

>>52566172
Yes

>>52566172
Well, it would depend on the market. If there's a market there, then you may have a small SMALL chance at getting a small business going. However, there's this magical thing called the internet that makes it easy to have services be run all over the country cheaply.

Location is a small factor in choosing a datacenter. It's nice to have one close to you, but it's not a huge deal if it's not, so long as they have good internet.

Before you make a huge investment, start small. Get a small server going and see if you can rent out a few VM's. Colocation is a whole other ball game that requires professional installations and serious security. VPS's don't require as much if you can guarantee uptime.