Server thread. What's sitting in your closet or basement?

>>46627529
Nobody? Really? Not ven to show off what you bought with your neetbux?
Color me surprised /g/. This is the first time I haven't seen you guys jump at the opportunity to wave your e-peens about.

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>>46627601
>>46627529
don't bump so often.

I have a poweredge R610 but I plan on selling it and get something more flexible to use as a NAS since the 6x 2.5" drive slots are cancer in terms of storage. Not really sure what to buy though. Do I really need ecc memory for freenas?

>>46627634
>blur out the drive names
>doesn't blur the IP
IMMA COMING TO HACK YOU FAGOT
PREPARE YOUR ANUS

>>46627659
um....
lol

>>46627529
What's your settings.json file? I've got a seedbox VM on my server using Transmission.

>>46627641
I also have this box:

i5 760
16GB ddr3
A ton of different 3.5" drives

Is this viable for a nas?

>>46627680
yea it's probably way overkill actually, depending what you're doing.

>are you encrypting?
>do you have aes-ni?

yeah, either of those will be fine for a homeserver.

>>46627529
I've got a PowerMac G5 running OS X Server 10.5.8
>dual 2GHz IBM G5s
>4GB RAM
>4TB HDD
>1.5TB HDD
>1TB HDD
>160GB HDD
>2 port GbE NIC (PCI-X)
>SCSI U320 card (PCI-X)
>FireWire 400 card (PCI)

Uses
>NAS
>PS2 game streaming server
>compile server
>web server
>PowerPC OpenBSD package mirror
>torrenting
>NetBoot
>NetInstall
>DNS

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Specs:
Supermicro PDSMU
Xeon X3210 2.4Ghz
4GB DDR2 ECC
2 x 2TB HDD (Toshiba)

Used for:
RADIUS AAA (SQL-based), DLNA, webhost, seedbox, mail server, and H@H.

>>46627529
Try using PS3 Media Server. It's the only thing that streams DLNA properly to my Samsung TV.

>>46627712
Wont need any encryption. I plan on torrenting+storing movies and then distribute them via plex.

Will ZFS be necessary at all?

Im also a bit worried that it won't handle the transcoding in plex.

>>46627641
Add a Perc6, and a couple MD1000's. You'll be fine.

I hung 2 Perc6's off a 2950 and ran it as a 20TB file server, using 750GB drives.

>>46627779
I can't speak to transcoding, but if you're not encrypting that frees up a lot of power and data bandwidth for the transcoding.

ZFS is nice if you have lots of ram, because it can prefetch and cache in the ram, and snapshots are nice for easy backups.

with 16gb of ram, I'd go zfs for sure, otherwise you would be wasting much of that ram.