Homelab / Home Server Thread

>>58002812
I use a raspi as a "home server" to host mumble and my portfolio, what do you use all this power for that makes it worth that amount of money?

>>58002881
Biggest reason if I'm honest is that I wanted a big quality project, and toy. Mass storage. Enterprise grade gear that won't die on me. It holds all of my personal and business data, as well as customer backups. It runs a lot of services which otherwise would require less efficient machines to be running around the clock to offer them. Within 2 years I'm looking to be earning fairly good money with some new things going into the rack to pay off it's power costs.

I don't drive fancy cars, or take expensive holidays. I just enjoy good quality tech :).

>>58002968
desu even though I'm not really a high end hardware guy if I had the money to buy something like that I probably would - what services do you provide?

>>58002812
still using a single case with lowend 2006 xeons

only 1/3 full for HDD bays but at 24TB (raid6)

>>58002812
>>58002968
>66TB RAW data over servers and drives local to clients.
>It holds all of my personal and business data
>as well as customer backups.
How the fuck is that a home lab if you're serving to clients, that means you operate a business you shit.

>>58002968
So it's not a hobby it's a business. What are you on about?

>>58002968

I totally get the man toy aspect.
Starting my own homelab next year.
By far nothing as fancy as you have, but you've got to start somewhere I guess.
First order of buisness is to build a decent backup system. Im currently backing everything on a single external drive. Breaking sweat everytime I turn it on because it could die any second on me and take months of torrents with it.

If only I had a decent connection back at home...
Mainland Europe here and it's basically cancer speed wise.

>>58002812
What is this costing you in electricity?

Is this a good motherboard for a low-power torrentbox containing 11 8TB HDDs in a raidz3 setup? It has a built-in CPU:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157475

>>58002812
Oh wow old shit how cool (not).

my small server. meh it handles all my needs. though when I run outta room and have to upgrade the storage I'll probability drop in an upgraded mobo/cpu/ram along with it.
CPU - Opteron 170
Ram - 4GB
Storage - 8TB (Data) 60GB (OS) 871GB (Client data backups)
OS - Windows Home Server 2011.
Roles - DHCP,DNS,File,Streaming media,FTP, VPN,IIS.
Been running smoothy for past several years. Really only things that happened was a raid card died and a hdd died. but I had backups so no data loss. I kinda forget it's even there (housed in basement)

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in the middle of getting my next esxi host up prepping for my new nas solution

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>>58002812
>> 66TB RAW data over servers and drives local to clients.
>> Over 60 drives used in rack alone.
I have more capacity sitting in boxes offline.

>> VM machine: 2x Xeon QC w/ 60GB RAM
60GB and a pair of old ass xeons isnt impressive

Dual Xeon E5-2670
64GB DDR3 registered
128GB SSD for Windows Server 2008 R2
12TB 10k HDDs in RAID0 for everything else
1000 watt UPS
I use it for SSH/remote shell, web server, backup and media streaming.

>>58002812
Business/10

>>58003138
More storage than you'll likely ever need. How much of it is in use?

>>58004358
What clients?

>>58004667
Have you considered getting a rack to put those HPs and networking equipment in?

>>58005421
He doesn't even have rails lmao.

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>>58005421
>1000 watt UPS
its nothing

>>58005485
Well peak power draw on my setup is only 600 watts. 1 kilowatt is enough for it to properly shut down.

>>58005511
>1 kilowatt is enough for it to properly shut down.
that has to do with the size of the inverter, it is the maximum amount of power the UPS can deliver at any given time, not how long it can provide that power

>>58002812
Nigga my desktop's got 24TB in it and that's not even my server. It's just nice to have that space around if I need it, when it gets too full I dump it to SAN.
I've probably got 70+ terrabytes in disks just sitting as unpowered archives, as in I couldn't be fucked using them for shit.
>TWO WHOLE EGGS

>>58005421
yes i have been considering getting a rack, but the only ones i can get for free are fuckhuge 42u ones which i am not looking to get

i can get rails for free easily but just havent given a fuck for now

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>>58004028
>>58002812
I'm going to guess about $80/month, depending on location. The DDR3 based gear doesn't draw near as much power as the DDR2 stuff.

Pic is a few years old now. Gear has been upgraded and now lives in a data center. Cost nearly $150/month to run at load. From the top down:

Cisco MDS9134 - SAN
Cisco Catalyst 2960s-10G - Network
Raritan KX2 232 - KVM
Dell PE 2950 - 2x Xeon 5450's / 64GB / 8x 146GB
Dell PE R900 - 4x Xeon 7460 / 256GB / 8x 146GB
Dell PE R900 - 4x Xeon 7460 / 256GB / 8x 146GB
Dell PE 2950 - 2x Xeon 5450 / 64GB / 8x 146GB
Dell PE 2950 - 2x Xeon 5450 / 64GB / 8x 146GB
AX4 DAE - 12x 600GB 15K SAS
AX4 DAE - 12x 600GB 15K SAS
AX4-5f - 12x 600GB 15K SAS
AX4 SPS

When I retired these I bumped the servers a generation (R710's, R910's) and replaced the AX4 with a VNX 5400. It's about time to replace those now, and I'm looking at R830's, R610's, and MD1420's, because storage spaces direct.

Not sure if I'm ready to drop ~$350K yet or not though.

>>58002812
I use an Android phone with a Debian chroot jail. It just werks.