/homeserver/

Bump, or maybe I should just buy a prebuilt NAS and put a custom distro + zfs on it.

>>62271791
>What am I doing wrong
being poor

>>62271791
>not spending $10k+ at least on your entry level server

get out

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Get a hp microserver if you wanna start off but you know how to install centos.

Get a Synology shitbox if you're a normie like me.

>>62271791
The cheapest way to stuff a lot of drives in a rackmount case are those generic Rosewill 4U cases that Newegg sells. Those only have fifteen bays though, and they aren't hot-swap. But for like 90 burgers you can forgive a lot of sins.

For ZFS, well, yeah, you want ECC, but if you can't get it, it's not the end of the world like some people would have you believe. (for an explanation as to why, go here: http://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/) As for amount of memory, that depends mostly on your performance requirements. Which generally aren't large, for a home user. The bigger decision you'll have to make is how you're going to lay out your array - RAIDZ has better space efficiency, mirrors are easier to expand incrementally.

>>62271971
>>62271994
Why is this so expensive?
I can understand if it was a server for a small business, but its literally just me accessing my damn anime on a local network, granted it's a lot of storage(30TB)

>>62271996
I have an old Synology shitbox already and it's not gonna cut it. I'll have to look at the specs of an hp microserver.

>>62272002
>Those only have fifteen bays though
That's good enough. I can just buy 2x and link them.

>that depends mostly on your performance requirements
I'm using this as if I had a regular HDD attached to my main rig, that is all.

>he bigger decision you'll have to make is how you're going to lay out your array
Oh no, I'm not doing RAID. It's JBOD since this is just my backup server. I'm going to use a program to sync the files between my main drives.

>>62271791
2 cores are good enough.
1.5 x tb = ram

you don't need ddr4, ddr3 is perfectly fine and cheaper
you don't need 128gb for the os specially since you are not investing in enterprise grade hardware
you don't need ecc because you will not have any advantage of it since you are not working in an enterprise field where data corruption and data loss is crucial

you want shit you don't need, that you don't know how to take advantage of. you are literally throwing money out for no valid reason.

buy a shitty ryzen 5, buy some ram, buy a fractal design case, buy some drives and a psu. you will be at 800 alone for 4x4tb drives. if you want cut power costs then you need a controller that can do jbod, which is still shit and not recommended for zfs. that controller should be capable of staggered spinup, you can then invest less in a psu and scale relatively high on drive capacity, while only having draw backs on the boot time

>>62272069
>>I'm using this as if I had a regular HDD attached to my main rig, that is all.
Then you don't need piles of memory or L2ARCs or anything. Saturating gigabit ethernet with sequential reads/writes from one source is easy.

>Oh no, I'm not doing RAID. It's JBOD since this is just my backup server. I'm going to use a program to sync the files between my main drives.
then what the fuck were you going on about ZFS for? The whole point of ZFS is using RAID to protect data. JBOD doesn't protect data at all, if a drive dies, well, whatever's on it is gone. If you want that just use LVM.

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>>62272069
>Why is this so expensive?
Because they're quality cases.

>I can understand if it was a server for a small business
You're basically building this

>granted it's a lot of storage(30TB)
No its not.

>>62272137
>not having 40GbE

>>62272069
just look at the hdd prices and you will see that storage in large amounts will be the highest expense you will have. hp microserver as >>62271996 suggested is a good start. look at the drive compatibility list and hp doesnt cuck you and supports > 4gb, though 10tb drivers are really expensive. and your anime ain't worth shit

>>62272132
>you don't need 128gb for the os
I choose 128 because I can barely find any decent SSD that's lower than that amount.

>you don't need ecc because you will not have any advantage of it since you are not working in an enterprise field where data corruption and data loss is crucial
actually data corruption and loss is pretty cruical. I really do not want to lose my anime, but I'll get regular ram then.

>need a controller that can do jbod, which is still shit and not recommended for zfs
why is jbod shit for zfs?

>>62272137
>then what the fuck were you going on about ZFS for?
I thought ZFS protected against file corruption since it uses checksums. This also means I dont have to worry about defragging.

>JBOD doesn't protect data at all, if a drive dies, well, whatever's on it is gone
that's fine, it's just a mirror and can be easily replaced.

>>62272154
>No its not.
30TB isn't a lot for a consumer? Well ok.

>>62272184
I was planning on buying refurb 3TB's for $55.

$550 = 30TB.

> and your anime ain't worth shit
the anime thing was a joke. I have <500gb of that.
I've got seriously important data on here.

>>62272154
>You're basically building this
What is that? Prebuilt NAS?

>>62272306
>i have important data
>I'm going to get non-ecc ram and poorfag the rest of this build with desktop class HDDs

>>62272235
>I thought ZFS protected against file corruption since it uses checksums. This also means I dont have to worry about defragging.
you dont need an ssd for the os! you need a god damn usb stick and that's it

>actually data corruption and loss is pretty cruical. I really do not want to lose my anime, but I'll get regular ram then.
you don't understand what data corruption or data loss implies. your shitty anime will rott on this thing. the only time when modify the capacity is when you eventually add some more shitty animu. for these cases ecc is completely useless. you are not working with constant data transfers that could potentially harm your shitty animu. learn2ecc

a storage is not a backup. a backup is an offline copy of data. if your disks are connected to anything and running, the chances of the data being destroyed by random power outages or drivers going bad is much higher. learn 2 differ between backup and data redundancy.

>I thought ZFS protected against file corruption since it uses checksums. This also means I dont have to worry about defragging.
again learn2ecc also learn2zfs

>that's fine, it's just a mirror and can be easily replaced.
you don't understand the fundamentals of zfs as a technology itself. zfs does not work raid and works terribly with controllers because of controller cache etc


do yourself a favor and read. you make it obvious that you don't understand the fundamentals, and you'd be just wasting money and endup with a unstable piece of shit because you can't trust on your own knowledge and would always rely on others to help you out. also you don't need any of it, you will grow out of animu at some point and will have wasted thousands of dollars on something that will be essentially worthless to you. find a hobby which is less garbage and drives you to consumerism in order to make you think you are happy

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>>62271791

I do it to tinker and test crap before rolling out to work since no real test env. Currently rebuilding my system center stack

Currently rebuilding my env on loaded up R610

>>62272393
You don't need ECC. ECC is literally a fucking meme in a home environment unless you're doing professional flows through compute units. Back your shit up on multiple drives (ensure some of them remail offline in secure storage) and stop being a brainlet who likes to waste money so they can feel elite.

You got a bunch of trash tier data that can be duplicated across 3-4 Western digital blue drives. Learn how to manage your compute/data resources and stop trying to join the league of LARPers who go to excess for dumbshit reasons.

>>62272393
>desktop class HDDs
My data's important but I'm not rich enough to buy fucking 30TB of enterprise SAS drives. That shit would cost me 10k+. I'm fine with replacing a failed drive every 5 years.

My current drives have been running 24/7 for 7 years, no issues. They're also SATA, and refurbs.

>>62272411
>you dont need an ssd for the os! you need a god damn usb stick and that's it
I know but I may as well just pay $50 for a cheap ssd.

>you are not working with constant data transfers that could potentially harm your shitty animu
I'm a data hoarder so I actually am constantly transferring files. I have 7million images that I'm indexing(hydrus network + gelbooru/pixiv/myfigurecollection siterips)

>again learn2ecc also learn2zfs
well obviously I need to learn thats why im asking. if i knew i wouldnt have made this thread

>zfs does not work raid and works terribly with controllers
I dont understand. I said im not doing RAID. I'm just throwing a bunch of hdds in my case with ZFS as the file system. Is this somehow not right?

If the server motherboards you are looking at buying only has 9 x SATA3 but you are looking at buying one of those meme cases that have like 24+ bays how do you get more than 9 drives with that board?
Don't know much about HBAs but is that what I'm looking for?

>>62271791
Why not just buy something like an old dual socket 1366 with two X5650 and put it in a different case? Would cost pretty much nothing. For home use it really isn't going to matter that much.

>>62272452
>ECC is literally a fucking meme in a home environment
Its not, i've had modules go bad and I found out through the ECC error messages in the SMBOIS log. And its generally a bigger problem than bit rot.

>Back your shit up on multiple drives
wont do a damned bit of good when it is corrupted in memory

>stop trying to join the league of LARPers who go to excess for dumbshit reasons.
i'm >>62272154 with 288GB DDR3 ECC and 16x 4TB enterprise class HDDs. ECC memory isnt expensive.

>>62272466
they make enterprise class SATA drives too

> I'm fine with replacing a failed drive every 5 years.
you dont know what unrecoverable disk errors are do you? or why enterprise class disks exist? they have one to two orders of mangitude better error rates.

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>>62272486
you either get a lot of HBAs or you get a backplane with a SAS expander. or you get a hba/raid card with a integrated expander like my areca 1883ix-24

>>62272466
>I know but I may as well just pay $50 for a cheap ssd.
look kiddo. you are crying about costs but want to waste 50$ on an ssd which you won't even use 10% of. 10$ for a 16gb usb stick and you have 40$ for other resources that are important. stop being an unreasonable retard. if you go by that logic then buy an enterprise solution for a couple of thousand.

>I'm a data hoarder so I actually am constantly transferring files. I have 7million images that I'm indexing(hydrus network + gelbooru/pixiv/myfigurecollection siterips)
what impact does it have on the real world? how much of the 7million images do you view on a weekly basis how much of the 30tb animu do you watch?

>well obviously I need to learn thats why im asking. if i knew i wouldnt have made this thread
you are just being a fucking lazy fuck and you know it. you just want to get a silvers poon handed without thinking much.


re-evaluate your life kid. you are trying to solve problems that don't exist

>>62272466
So your data is important but you're going to spread it across ten refurbed desktop drives with zero redundancy whatsofuckingever, you're trying to keep costs down but want to blow $50 on a literally fucking useless part? What in the fuck is your use case even about, are you trying to use it as a ghetto RAID1 (except even more unreliable) on a remote location with a goddamn fucking shitload of excess processing power because you can?

Just get a fucking 12-bay NAS and be done with it. It'll be infinitely cheaper, faster, easier to set up and more reliable than whatever that unholy twisted shitfest is that you're trying to plan here.

>>62272563
What's the difference?

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>tfw my home server cost 0 dollars

>tfw also it looks like this

pray for poor people like me, server runs well though. Plex, Nameserver, Mailserver, Wireless for the home 2.4 and 5 Ghz, PoE, switch etc.

>>62272619
using a usb stick for my main server os is degenerate im not doing it.

>what impact does it have on the real world?
That's irrelevant.

>how much of the 7million images do you view on a weekly basis
I personally dont view it but the program that I'm using does routine maintenance checks which indexes it for integrity reasons


>you are trying to solve problems that don't exist
My main HDD's dying and having no backups is definitely a problem that exists. If you want to be a childish ass about(which you are) it then you can fuck right off.

>>62272563
backplanes are hard to find which aren't already soldered to a tray or designed for specific cases. sata hubs used to be a thing and backblaze used them in their first iterration of storage boxes iirc. expanders cards are expensive and infiniband cables are too

>>62272714
>plex
literally why

>>62272684
>spread it across ten refurbed desktop drives with zero redundancy whatsofuckingever
RAID is a meme.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAuEgepZG_8

>but want to blow $50 on a literally fucking useless part
Why the hell are you so stuck up about me buying a damn cheap SSD? This isnt even a crucial part of the build.

>shitload of excess processing power
Did you read the OP?
I intentionally left everything blank because I'm debating how much power I need

>>62272749
>using a usb stick for my main server os is degenerate im not doing it.
you are a fucking retard kid. you know why servers like the r6XX series from dell have redundant sdcard slots inside the chassie? because they mirror the sd cards for operating systems like esxi which needs like 50 fucking megs and runs in ram afterwards.

>That's irrelevant.
>I personally dont view it but the program that I'm using does routine maintenance checks which indexes it for integrity reasons
whats the point in having the data, it costs you money to maintain it with absolutely no benefit. take your "server money" and visit a shrink and get your hoarding fixed.

>My main HDD's dying and having no backups is definitely a problem that exists. If you want to be a childish ass about(which you are) it then you can fuck right off.
nigger im giving you advice and you are ignorant and dumb. im wasting my time on a god damn ignorant man child who has no self control over his own impulses of not clicking a download button. you are fucking degenerate kid, go back to /a/

>>62272714
nigga that's ghetto as fuck

>>62272792
What else should I use for streaming to my TV, Phone, Laptop and computer?

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>>62272829
>because they mirror the sd cards for operating systems like esxi which needs like 50 fucking megs and runs in ram afterwards.
Is it that hard for you to ignore the fact that I want a damn cheap SSD for my boot.

>whats the point in having the data
Because I don't like relying on fickle online sources which tend to purge said data. Having it offline gives me a sense of safety knowing that I will always own it.

>absolutely no benefit
The benefit is me having fast, easy direct access to it without an online connection.

>nigger
I will not tolerate such trash mouth in my comfy server thread. Please leave immediately.

>>62272893
kodi?

>>62272911
sheet. Guess I should install that.

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>>62272869
Its worse inside.

Didn't want to get more Ethernet cards, so screwed a switch in. Power bar for plugging it all in although the 12v things run off the ATX PSU. Two wifi routers one for 2G other for 5. Few extra fans. Wired most of the things to the black PCB on the front for controlling fans and turning things on and off.

>>62272543
It is a meme. I've ran my compute resources for over a decade w/o it and by ensuring I backup data to multiple drives never once had a data loss or corruption issue that can't be solved.

>wont do a damned bit of good when it is corrupted in memory
You ever hear of offline storage? if your active drive gets corrupted or fails, you have an offline backup. ECC ram doesn't fix a failed hard-drive.

>>62272154 with 288GB DDR3 ECC and 16x 4TB enterprise class HDDs. ECC memory isnt expensive.
No clue what kind of operation you're running but that looks like a small business to me. Thus, ECC to you heart's content.

> you dont know what unrecoverable disk errors are do you? or why enterprise class disks exist? they have one to two orders of mangitude better error rates.
You're running 16x 4TB hard drives, this is not a homeserver. This is a small business. Yes, people are aware of what enterprise disks are and you're not a homeserver client so change your OP.

>>62272910
what is the benefit of booting the system once from an ssd when it's going to be loaded in ram for the rest of the time. do you even fucking listen to yourself or read your own shit?

>Because I don't like relying on fickle online sources which tend to purge said data. Having it offline gives me a sense of safety knowing that I will always own it.
you don't even know which images you downloaded at this point. and you are never using it anyway. you are LITERALLY wasting money to save shit that you don't look at.

>The benefit is me having fast, easy direct access to it without an online connection.
which you never use. what is the point in having something that you don't benefit out of? you are putting yourself in chains over some immaterial bullshit that has no impact on your life quality, actually the exact opposite.

>I will not tolerate such trash mouth in my comfy server thread. Please leave immediately.
i actually laughed out loud

whatever this thread is dead anyway. nobobody wants to waste time on a degenerate man-child with now self control. i hope you mental disability gets fixed some day.

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i wonder whether to upgrade to a gen8. it probably isn't worth it but i like new shit

>>62273022
>what is the benefit of booting the system once from an ssd when it's going to be loaded in ram for the rest of the time.
There is no benefit, it just feels ghetto as hell to use an SD card so I'm not doing it.

>you don't even know which images you downloaded at this point
It has dupe checking, and I don't manually download anything. I write a script and it gets it for me.

>and you are never using it anyway
I use it when I'm in the mood to look at some images.

> over some immaterial bullshit that has no impact on your life quality
Collecting is my hobby. I enjoy it. My usage case isn't really up for debate here.

>nobobody wants to waste time
Perhaps you have trouble reading, but this thread already has 40 responses and I have more than enough advice to get started.

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>>62272684
OP seems confused. He has a data store far in excess of a home user/server but want declare he's running his enterprise ops from his house.

Claims his data is uber important but is buying refurb drives. Adding insult on injury maintains that ECC ram is going to solve this shortcoming.

I give up on people like this.
The best and safest solution would be to buy the most stable offline storage solution and backup the bulk and only transfer and run this active when needed. Instead, OP seems to have some crazy scenario whereby he's running 16x4TB hard drives.. No comment about wtf needs that kind of space...

Alas, op wants to keep cost down and is a poorfag who really shouldn't be running this config at home thus is cutting all sorts of insane corners to maintain this idiotic setup.

Also, as I side note, I'm starting to hear a lot of brainlets refer to their ghetto rigged home network as a data center/distributed computing on various discussions boards. You ask them what they're doing w/ their setup and they claim they're doing data center/distributed computing which translates to a basic home network and/or running seti/folding at home.

I really wish this was a joke, but we've gotten to this point w/ computing being so readily available.. Everyone's running a mini super computer cluster or so they claim set upon cutting edge work (running an app)

>>62272809
>RAID is a meme.
Says the idiot who actually plans to use a motherfucking 30-terabyte 10 disk JBOD pool as """backup""".
>Why the hell are you so stuck up about me buying a damn cheap SSD?
Because it beautifully indicates your amazing combination of being completely fucking clueless yet stubbornly insisting to have X and Y because you got it in your head that you need it.
>Did you read the OP?
Yes, you mentioned that you want a Xeon in it. Protip: even those ARM-based shitboxes are fast enough to run around 100 MB/s and no amount of hardware is going to get around the bottleneck of your shitty home network, unless you want to drop four figures on a 10GbE setup.

>>62273117
>>62273117
I agree totally with this.

I run the nigger rig ( as seen >>62272998 and >>62272714 ) for streaming and keeping all my network shit in one box with power. Its not pretty, its barely a server, but I would never say its doing cutting edge work or other bullshit that people seem to claim they are doing when infact they have a raspberry pi running a http server so they can have a homepage.

People who do shit like that are cancer.

>>62273148
Well, RAID is not a backup solution.
I'm building a simple backup.
My current JBOD of mixed refurbs has been going 7 years strong without a hiccup.

>you got it in your head that you need it.
I never said I needed it. I specifically said I wanted it.

>no amount of hardware is going to get around the bottleneck of your shitty home network
It doesn't need to because the bottleneck will be the drives themselves, not my home network.Xeon E5 is for future proofing.

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anons I need some very good but cheap home server for esxi VMs like firewall nas and various different opearting systems

what would you suggest? Please something with minimum power draw when not under load

>>62272998
this is the most niggerest setup ive ever seen

>>62273304
why thank you

>>62273064
Also using an N40L. Wish there were more prebuilts with this form factor - it's perfect to stash a few disks in for network storage & backups.

Seriously though, does *anyone* do generic servers with a similar form factor? (excluding your typical consumer NAS solutions)

Some anons here running NextCloud? I tried to get it a few times but fails + re-evaluation my context made me give up. Beside a backup solution or a acess-your-files-wherever-you-are what would another few uses to Nextcloud? Thank you anons.

>>62273282

I suggest getting a fucking job

>>62273574
rude

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So Instead pfsence on a old c2d hp box to have fun and try out physical hardware networking. So I have snort and pfblock dnsbl with a basics config, but I feel like I could do much more with this machine. What is the next setup? Make the machine run pfsence alongside a NAS or something?

Why are xeons so cheap? I'm hearing people getting 16 core xeons for Iike 40$ while a 7900x is 1000$

People hostname servers at home? Why?

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>>62273188
Pretty much. I know people who write kernel code that keeps these LARPers setups running and even they run nigger rigs at home. Who the fuck wants to look at all that shit when they come home from actual work? You have two things : Data and compute. If you aren't a poorfag, most of the shit you used to pack on hard drives is available on the web with a non-3rd world internet package. So, there's your data solution solve. Compute doesn't need 16x4TB drives. So, there's that. Compute beyond a certain scale is dumbaf to be doing at home. At those scales your clown ass should have an office space. So yeah, back in the data, sure : home server. Now-a-days, it's LARP. Unless you run a business from home and even that should hit a max scale, you're LARPing.

> muh Vms
> muh DC@home
> muh ZFS/RAID
> muh Ecc ram

GTFO

>>62273574
^this

Brainlets be like :
> WE WUZ ENTERPRISE

I have a cute arch server at home with a i5-6100 with 8gb of ram that has assisted me in little life tasks and data storage tasks and comfy movie and archive times and I got some of my previous gpus in there mining.
Comfy shit my guy.

>>62274219
>Telling people what they need and how they should use their parts
>Wanting everyone to have a nigger rig like you

>>62272709
price with lots of HBAs being the cheapest usually. bandwidth with lots of HBAs being the best. also i suppose having a lot of HBA's will give you the best queue depth.

>>62273005
>ou ever hear of offline storage?
nigger i have 3 cases of disks

>this is not a homeserver.
it is. technically two.

This is the most uncomfy home server thread

>>62274400
yeah wtf
it's fun to build shit at home, don't be jelly if someone has the money for it

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Is it worthy using an ODROID XU4 with their NAS board as a beginner's NAS?

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>>62274303
I have don't have nigger rigs. I have multiple highly scaled compute nodes for the work that I do. None run ECC ram. None run exotic file systems or RAIDS. I've only had one HD crash on me in a decade and I have multiple backups of sensitive data across various mediums thus never lost any data. Never had data corruption outside of hard drive sectors failing. A decade plus.

Now, you can do whatever you want. I just find that professionals who actually do this stuff and know this stuff for a living don't come home and try to LARP as IT professionals or Data Center specialist.. They have a rig, two or three .. Have basic storage w/ backups and live comfy.

I see so many LARPers on here w/ their custom linux distros and home data centers and I wonder if you do actual technical work for a living. Playing with network configurations/vms, are you doing this to get skills to get a job? What's the draw here?

>>62274312
Tech professional larp detected

>>62274400
Something about OP saying he has super important data at a size of 16x4TB drives but is buying refurb HDs triggered me to finally confront the level of larping that happens on these threads. Sorry for making it uncomfy but this is just foolishnes .. Still no word on why OP needs 16x4TB drives... but the obvious stands out.

>>62274593
>i wish i could afford nice things
>the post

>>62274543
Believing people are jelly about having to buy refurb drives for a nigger tier @home LARP cloud server but feeling the need to buy ECC ram.

People who have money buy a NAS, get their data stored properly, reliably, securely, and move on with their lives.

16x4TBs worth of data on ghetto rigged nodes sounds like OPs storing the obvious though...

>>62274638
>People who have money buy a NAS, get their data stored properly, reliably, securely, and move on with their lives.
lol no. enjoy having your shitbox NAS die after a couple years due to the clock issue with Intel Atoms. Also NAS boxes cant scale out.

>16x4TBs worth of data on ghetto rigged nodes sounds like OPs storing the obvious though...
OP doesnt have that, but I do with S2D/SOFS which does scale up and out

>>62274629
> Has nice things
> Love when poorfags try to LARP and pretend their nigger tier setups are nice things
> Love it even more when they project their insecurities on others even when their speccy shows they can't afford nice things

Overall, what's interesting is, you could have nice things if you scaled down the unnecessary bullshit you have for your homeserver but instead have piles of hardware/software complexity and jimmy-rigging causing unnecessary costs (namely in time).

Nice things = a NAS w/ the desired Storage arrays equivalent to your needs.

> refurb hds
> ECC ram
This will be my new sig.

>>62273005
ECC is great if it supports chip-kill.

You can withstand losing a single memory module on a stick and keep going.

>>62274593
>Still no word on why OP needs 16x4TB drive
I don't have 64TB, I have 30TB, which will eventually be 60TB after I buy my refurb drives.

If I want fucking 30TB of data then I'm going to buy fucking 30TB of data. I already told your ass that collecting is my hobby. A ton of shit I have that you literally cannot find anymore. If I were stupid and relied on 'hurr I can just redownload it again!" then I'd be completely fucked.

It's super important to me because I've spent a great deal of my free time amassing such content and it would be an utter waste of that time if I were to lose it. No, I cannot just re-download it from some file host or private tracker.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying refurbished drives either since it's in a home setting. I have 16HDD's running active 24/7 and only 1 has died in the past decade.

take your frog meme posting ass elsewhere

>>62273282
CentOS
Do as you will with firewalld and SElinux.
Virtualize everything in KVM.

>>62274694
>nigger tier setups are nice things
nigger please my RAID card costs more than your entire shitbox

>>62274694
how severe is your autism?
have considered the fact that building a home lab is a lot of fun for some people?
you don't get to dictate what people may use in their homes just because you work in some shitty IT entry position.

>>62272998
Is that a wall outlet, and a switch inside your case?? KEK, I can't say shit about it, if it gets the job done man more power to you.

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>>62274740
K, now were getting somewhere :
> A ton of shit I have that you literally cannot find anymore.

Now your focus on the data portion of a home server makes sense.
This is known as archiving btw not a homeserver unless you're collecting and offering up.

16 Hard drives... Yeah, so essentially a basic run of the mill mobo with hard drives attached.

>>62274763
Unlikely, there's something that happens every year in the industry : True enterprise individuals clear out portions of their data center through liquidators who then spin around and sell cards that went for $3000 for $100 on ebay and other outlets.

RAID cards though.. yeah, there people go w/ that meme again.

>>62274774
Zero autism.. Just getting tired of these LARP threads here and elsewhere that is equivalent to people putting hard drives in a run of the mill computer and attaching a network cable...

The language that is often used for this is :
> Homelab
> Homeserver
> DC (Data center) @ home
> DC (Distributed Computing)

You get interested and you come and get comfy and then you find out its just someone running a basic computer with hard drives connected to a router calling that shit a homelab.

> shitty IT entry position
LMFAO. When you design this hardware/software for a living (not service it through an entry level IT position) you know dam well what the use cases are. When you have to write code and design hardware to meet a customer's needs, you know exactly why certain things cost more money. You also know that the vast majority of people larping with "home labs" in no way shape or form actually have any requirements or use cases for their speccy or configurations.

So, whereas an enterprise client actually tries to find the least complex, least costly automated solution to their problems, it appears the LARP tier home crowd goes after the most expensive and complex. So, excuse me for wondering what special autism drives this.

>>62271791
Fucking hell. Where is your rack spacing?

>>62275080
Areca 1883ix-24 with 8GB RAM upgrade and a BBU was $1500

>>62271791
Get something in x5*** in 1366 socket. No reason to overdo it in your scenario. Zfs needs a zpool so be prepared to buy an extra ssd for that. Also no real reason to use zfs unless you are doing some kind of ultrasensitive multiraid as currently it is a huge pain to maintain. You need some *bsd os. Zfs uses oodles of ram so I suggest going with 32gb

why are xeons so cheap when they got liek 20 cores and shit

>>62272928
Yeah, Plex is for plebs who either don't want to fool with setting up Kodi and their own VPN and want to announce to the botnet that they have pirated weeb trash.

>>62273449
Does carddav and caldav.
Lets you share files with strangers using a link.
The android app has an auto upload feature for photos.

>>62274553
this.

>>62271791
>What am I doing wrong
You're looking at new racks. Check craigslist and ebay.

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>>62271791
RPI model A running Apache tomcat

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>>62277414
Server admin checking cables

>>62275294
business sell them after a few years and buy new ones, so they can pay less taxes

Is a small form office Core2Duo PC good for a seedbox? I'd want to connect that machine to a VPN to download the files then grab movies/pdfs/games from it to view/play on my main PC. Is this feasable or is there an easier method of doing it?

>>62271996
>HP Microserver
>Centos
Why specifically Centos? Are the HPE Microservers not compatible with anything else?

>>62275699
I was thinking more in a private usage, for me and maybe some friend, but I will give it a look.

More examples? I think I should learn to set up a cloud but I can't find it usage after it.

>>62274553
My baby's first which I run of today is an XU4 with 16GB EMMC and two HDD. Currently a seedbox and also serving a webpage inside of a LXC container. I think they're fast af (1st ARM board, could be wrong) and pretty cheap for its guts. I will go ahead with just the board and EMMC to learn from scratch.

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This is mine.
Trying to get pfsense going as a kvm guest. How do I set up host-guest networking?

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inb4
>homeserver

>>62278246
because centos is far superior in stability than any debian or arch. the documentation from RedHat is pretty damn good and since centos is the free version of RHEL you can apply it 1:1.

i have actually never met a single person that runs a hp microserver running anything but freenas.

>>62274740
> If I were stupid
you are. people here give you solid advice on how to accomplish something but you are an ignorant man-child.
>It's super important to me because I've spent a great deal of my free time amassing such content and it would be an utter waste of that time if I were to lose it. No, I cannot just re-download it from some file host or private tracker.
you wasted it already, time to accomplish something in life.
>There is absolutely nothing wrong with buying refurbished drives either since it's in a home setting. I have 16HDD's running active 24/7 and only 1 has died in the past decade.
there is absolutely everything wrong with refurbished drives. as i asked you before, do you even read your own shit?

>refurb drives
>muh business critical animu collection
>i want high available and redundant data but i won't listen to people that know anything about technology

god people like you need to be rallied and shot. thankfully your waifu isolates your from the gene pool so we don't have more useless autists on this planet

>>62275454
Got Kodi setup today. Yeah its alot better than plex, thanks for suggesting it.

>>62274878
Yeah it is, it works lol. The switch (God knows why) runs on 9v and I need 240 for the PSU and the PoE injector. Works well, might burn my house down and kill me in my sleep, but works well.

>>62274219
nigger rigs get more work done fact

>>62280103
>nigger rigs get more work done fact
>fact

if you mean by fact setting up house fire or getting hacked and trying to fix the damage afterwards, you are 100% correct

freenas recommends running it from a usb stick. lmao. how getto.
instead you should install it onto a 50gb partition on a 4tb hdd.

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My current home server.
Quiet.
Low power.
Just werks.

>>62280210
what is it standing on?

>>62280210
That's a laptop you pleb.

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>>62280220
Just an official HP stand and dock.

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>>62280235
...and?
It works and does everything I need.

>>62280210
>>62280237
Kek

>>62280129
Maybe I like burning my house down? huh? you think about that?

>>62272869
>>62272998
>Wifi router antennas inside the case, with the side on

>>62280237
i want to stick my dick in that laptop
the design is up there with chinkpads

>>62280282
Yeah no, there are external antennas on the side if you read the sticky fgt. ( See: >>62272714 )

>>62280296
still way too close to the case, you will have awful coverage

>>62271994
enterprise hardware is very power inefficient and loud. theres no reason to get that shit as home server when a normal desktop pc or sometimes even a raspberry pi is enough.

>>62280294
Thanks. That's probably one of the main reasons I've kept it around for so long anyways.

>>62280304
-50 Db from the other side of the house (75m) through stone walls. I run a wISP in my day job I know about wifi.

>>62280321
Coincidentally, when I first started up the wisp I used this machine ( in stock form ) to hold data so I could pull it from one side of the network to the other and monitor.

>>62280321
>I run a wISP in my day job I know about wifi.
Dude, you're probably 17 and don't have a job in the first place.

>>62280351
Gucci mayne, whatever you want to think.

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>>62272998
Damn, that beats my setup. Pic related. (yes it has a battery attached)

But hey, if it works and costs zero, you're the smart one.

>>62279888
>people here give you solid advice
That advice has nothing to do with re-downloading everything online again. You're an idiot that can't read.

>>62280196
>lets waste 50gb on a os that doesn't need more than 4gb
and that's why you don't have a job and sit in mommy's basement, eating tendies and jerkto mlp and animu

>>62280452
just your reply alone proves that you have not understood anything at all. i am baffled how you continue your everyday life with a mindset like that, i would have killed myself if i were you long time ago

>>62280455
Someone that doesn't have a job wouldn't have any money therefore they'd be the ones making these ghetto as fuck builds with 4GB SD cards.

Someone who actually has a job wouldn't be trying to build their own NAS.

Then again, you're fucking stupid, so logic doesn't apply to you.

>>62280475
You've got nothing good to offer. Shoo already.

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>ASRock J3455-ITX with 4x SATA with Gbit LAN
>8gb RAM
>3TB WD Red
>Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced case
>64b USB3 stick plugged in the back for recovery

Runs a headless arch installation with

- ssh
- Samba
- Emby media server
- Apache with HTTP2
- Nextcloud

and probably much more to come.

It does automatic snapshots using BTRFS so I can roll back if I fuck something up. I will buy a 4TB backup drive for proper backups as soon as I can spare the money.

I really wanted to do this with a single-board computer, but they are either too shitty (no Gbit and/or no SATA) or so expensive that you can just as well buy a Mini-ITX board, which I ended up doing.

The hardware (minus the 3TB drive) cost about 250€

>>62274553
>>62279569

Are ODROIDs good alternatives to the Raspi for storage?
I plan to use it as a personal NAS, install Nextcloud and as a mail server.

>>62280493
>Someone who actually has a job
Someone who doesn't have a job wouldn't be trying to build a $800+ server*

>>62277388
Oh right I do remember seeing some pretty check racks on ebay before.

>>62280433
Shitttt, thats not a bad idea though for a really cheap battery backed up server.

I thought about putting a shitty UPS or even building a UPS (how hard can that be right? on 240volts kek) for the nigger rig but at the moment if the power goes off there is a good chance that the power to the mast where I am drawing my internet from is out too so not much benefit.

Fuck all the prissy cunts with 1k+ servers /niggerrigs/ unite.

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Posting servers. Basically LAMP

>>62280493
clearly shows you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about kid. go back to watching animu and mlp.

if you'd actually care to learn something and stop spouting shit that you don't know anything about, here are some specs for enterprise grade hardware.

https://si.cdn.dell.com/sites/doccontent/shared-content/data-sheets/en/Documents/R610-SpecSheet.pdf
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/poweredge-idsdm-whitepaper-en.pdf

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>>62280524
> /niggerrigs/ unite
nobody wants to come over to see that ugly shit sitting around.

get some class.

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>>62280550
This one runs an ircd too, but have a weird bug were i can't shut it down

>>62280560
You think that pos is ANYWHERE near the rest of my house? Its in the office.

>>62280560
>blue gaymur LED rack
>3 shitty TVs next to each other in your bedroom
tipping my fedora for your classy choices, sir

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>>62271791
this build is a meme. you dont need such powerful pc for fucking samba and torrents. i have an old dell 620, system runs on 256gb hdd which only 3gb are used, for data i have 4tb hdd. my build works like magic

>>62280560
Where are the cables for the TV plugged into?

>>62280560
ARE THOSE XBOXES?

ISHYGDDT

>>62280560
What the fuck is going on here? Are you multitasking that much?

>>62280530
Is this a good deal?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/4U-Supermicro-X8DTL-3F-2x-6-core-E5645-2-40-48GB-36-Bay-JBOD-Storage-Server-/162650005593?hash=item25deb22059:g:PRgAAOSwDKpZoHDD

$400
4U Supermicro X8DTL-3F 2x 6-core E5645 2.40 48GB 36 Bay JBOD Storage Server

>>62280706
I think it's from faze clans instagram or something

>>62280583
>niggerig anon thinks he has an office
haha, yeah I have an 'office'. ;)

>>62280562
What ircd?

>>62280786
ircd-irc2
but it's just for client develpoing testing

>>62280524
>good chance that the power to the mast where I am drawing my internet from is out too so not much benefit.
what 3rd world shithole do you live in? all the mobile masts and broadband hubs have batteries that last days
t. eastern yuro fag

>>62280818
Cool. What're you doing clientside?
IRC is my jam, from experimental server implementations to its use as a message exchange tool

>>62280841
Its my own private repeater. It doesn't have a UPS or a battery back up because I saw no need for it when I built it, because if the power went out at the mast it was out at my house too.

It runs two Powerbeam AC's from Ubiquity on a 5m pole with a box at the bottom for the wiring, ill try get a pic.

>>62280857
i'm trying to make an irc client from scratch. it's pretty fun but now i kinda putted it on hiatus because i need to do the modular part of it with the initial message parsing with all the server settings like chars or channel prefixes

>>62280732
OP here, now that's what I'm talking about. The shipping on that is $85, so it's actually nearly $500. Still much better than the original price of $2000 for it.

Just need a nice server cabinet, 8U.
4U rackmount
2U UPS
2U extra

Also want some nice ambient lighting like in >>62280560

I think it's better if I buy the HDD's in smaller batches, probably 2 per 6 months. I'll upgrade to enterprise HDD's.

can't wait to get this juicy backup going.

>>62272154
>58TB
What do you even store on that?

>>62280969
What do you think someone on /g/ stores on 60TB.

>>62280982
Memes of course.

>>62281040
I have 30TB, and I store the following:

HDD1 = Classified.

HDD2 = Porn/Hentai Video Siterips.(3TB)

HDD3 = Hydrus Network. (3TB)
Contains FULL siterips of the following sites as of 2017:
AllTheFallen
Danbooru
Dollbooru
DrawFriends
DrunkenPumken
e621
Gellbooru
HentaiFoundry
Konachan
Lolibooru.moe
Mg-renders
MyFigureCollection
Nihonomaru
Nijie
Ohdd
R34Pheal
R34Hentai
Safebooru
TheBigImageBoard
Xbooru
Yande

HDD4 = Source FilmMaker assets/DLsite H-games.(3TB)

HDD5 = nHentai Siterip. Hydrus Network p2(3TB)

HDD6 = Plex media, TV/Movies. (3TB)

HDD7 = Emulation. Every game from 1st gen up to 7th gen.(3TB)

HDD8 = Emulation2. (3TB)

HDD9 = Music (1TB)

HDD10 = Plex media 2(2TB)

HDD11 = Hydrus Network p3(3TB)

HDD12 = Hydrus Network p4 + DLsite H-games p2(3TB)

HDD13 = Applications, personal projects(1TB)

HDD14~16 = Misc

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>>62281117

How long until a hard drive dies in a NAS/home server?

>>62281143
stop posting porn

>>62281117
Now, If I don't plan on expanding my storage much further. I might max out at 40TB, but with an extra 10TB, I'll probably bump my games up to 8th gen(PS4/WiiU ISO's) OR reserve it for more Plex media, because my tv/movie collection is really piss poor for a hoarder.

I only have maybe 30~40 anime series downloaded, and not that many western shows/movies either.

>>62281143
Because honey, some porn is very difficult to get once it disappears off the internet due to copyright violations. Unless its super popular, most porn has a shelf life of 2 years before you have to really dig through hoops to get it

>>62281117
Also forgot, around 800 pixiv artists in HDD3.

>>62280516
Most definitely, namely due to
>1Gbit NIC on Odroid vs 100Mbit RPi
>NIC has it's own bus, vs RPi using USB bandwidth

Odroid transfer speed are much higher than Raspberry

>>62280960
>wanting ambient light on a storage
priorities lmao
>look mom it has a cewl blue ambient light, my waifu likes it to :3

enjoy >1400watt redundant psu blowing your fuse after you turn on your toaster

>>62281381
performance ain't that great though. the ux4 is probably the best choice out of all current odroid systems. OS support is pretty awful, everything is super hacky, rpi is just comfy while completely shit for nas purposes

>>62281175
>downloading porn
reminds me back in the day when there were dudes with 10tb of porn at a lan sharing it over dc++

>>62281463
>priorities lmao
I want to be able to look at my rack and be proud of it. I don't see why that's a problem.

>look mom
I live alone, but it's cute that you're making these silly assumptions because I don't do SysAdmin for a living.

>enjoy >1400watt redundant psu blowing your fuse
Dumbass, a PSU will ever use only as much as the components in the box need. It's not going to be drawing 1400 watts constantly. Probably more around 500.

500w x 24h @ 0.12 cent = $1.83 per month.

Fuck off nigger.

>>62281555
>Dumbass, a PSU will ever use only as much as the components in the box need. It's not going to be drawing 1400 watts constantly. Probably more around 500.
the psu has that amount in order to server power for all drives during spinup. if you can ever afford to pack it it will peak at 1400. regular 3.5" drives have a spinup wattage of 20-30 watt per drive. just assume you have it packed with 24 drives that have a spinup usage of 30 watts, that's 720watts just for the drives during boot.

you want to see your rack? i doubt that you will feel that way after having it right next to you for some time, literally annoying the shit out of you.

whatever just buy it, buy two and waste money on something that puts you in chains. im sure your materialism will lead you to being happy.

regarding animu i'd recommend you watch kaji but i guess that's to real for you

>>62280210
>>62280237
>>62280249
somebody with a cheap but good alternative that does not look like a niggerigged piece of shit?
10/10

>>62281662
>that's 720watts just for the drives during boot
its a server that stays on 24/7, you only boot what, once a year?

>i doubt that you will feel that way after having it right next to you for some time
It's going to be next to my router in another room. Still, I want to be able to walk in there and smile at my vast storage array.

>im sure your materialism will lead you to being happy.
Collecting does make me happy. I've literally been doing this shit since I was 11.

>i'd recommend you watch kaji
Already seen. S1~2 + manga are in my Plex HDD.

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I swear I only reboot when FreeNAS has an update.

>>62281707
you boot because you update firmware, os, etc. you might change components like ram modules, cpu, etc, general maintenance. technology isn't exactly something you throw in a corner and hope it'll just work forever. monitor it and take care of it.

your general ingorance aside the supermicro is ok but it's really heavy

>>62281744
though because of backplane limitations you can't exceed 48tb which is a bummer

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>>62281736
And my guts, it's under powered for sure but since I only use it for file severing it's plenty fast enough for that. At some point i'm gonna get a Super Micro mobo, ECC Ram, and like 10x 6tb drives. Until then this will do me fine

>>62281780
would have gone for a fractal design node 804 if i were you. same drive slot amount but specifically for micro atx boards.

>>62281780
>Modular
>80+
>But 450W
Didn't even know these existed.

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>mfw tempted to buy this 42U cabinet
>only 8u will be used
I know it'd be dumb but damn I'd look like a fucking BOSS.

>>62281555
>500w x 24h @ 0.12 cent = $1.83 per month
I don't know what kind of math you did there, son.

>>62281463
>OS support is pretty awful, everything is super hacky

Is it that bad? Can't I just slap Debian onto it and call it a day?

>>62283125
https://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/electricity-cost

>>62283195
0.12cents per KWh. Ok that was the missing unit.

>>62280969
It is 64TB and mostly video and VM backups

>>62280516
>>62281381
>>62281463
>>62283142
I don't think is that bad. I have a XU4 and at the moment is really nice and fast.

Although the OS support is not that great, I won't call it bad. The pro is that the forum itself provides you the kernels (3.X and 4.9 atm iirc) and the OS, like the Debian version an user did. The cons is that outside its own ecosystem is a little hard to use things, but it is not bad.

You can run it at full power with just a chipset cooler and no fans.

In my case, I run ssh, samba, transmission-daemon and LXC. Inside the container, typical nginx + php5 + mysql for a forum.

>>62283429
Nice. What's the power consumption of a XU4?
I assume the XU4 is the most powerful?

>>62283454
It should be. The page says its DC input is 5V/4A

I understand the value in having zfs around for iscsi targets but if you just need storage why not use btrfs instead?

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>When you're stuck in the building process because just one part is coming from Germany and probably won't arrive for another week.
>Feels badman.

>>62283429
last time i had a forum provide sources or binary was utilite and while the hardware was and technically is still nice, the platform is shit.

look if your hardware vendor can not provide proper builds, push code upstream to mainline and maintain a repository server, the platform is just a hacky piece of shit. odroid just like to bring out a platform every season like it's some sort of fashion and move development focus on the current hot shit. this is not how a platform should be maintained and one of the reasons why arm devices are still garbage, even though we have android running on it for years now.

>>62281117
Damn, son, that's a lot of anime porn...

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>>62281744
Long as it's under the 100LB capacity my cabinet supports, then it's fine.

24x HDDs @ 1.6lbs = 38.4lbs

Almost set.
Just need to decide on the type of HDD's to buy and what OS. Will probably do some test runs in a VM.

>>62283975
Specs?

>>62284358
that cabinet isnt deep enough you retard, also it doesnt look like it is 15U

>>62284433
damn nice catch.
seems to be 699m while the cabinet is only 600m. Also seems the rack weight is 91lbs, but doesn't say if that's 91lbs empty or full. I'd be surprised if an empty rack was that heavy. That would put the weight at around 130lbs.

guess I'll look for a better cabinet that supports that weight + 700m+ depth.

>>62284413

Case: Logic Case SC-316
CPU: E5-2660 v1
MB: X9SRL-F
RAM: 64GB of Hynix DDR3 ECC 1333
HBA: SAS9201-16i
HDDS: 16 2TB WD RED.

>>62284566
>I'd be surprised if an empty rack was that heavy
they are

>guess I'll look for a better cabinet that supports that weight + 700m+ depth.
you'll want more than 700mm

also the fans in the PSUs will be obnoxiously lound unless you buy the SQ versions of the PSUs

>>62271791
use Windows Server 2016. join the masterrace. also, RAID 5 that shit. don't be a retard

>>62284433
>>62284628
this

>>62285309
>raid 5 over max of 24 disks with one parity and one hotspare
god stfu, go install mspaint or something

>>62281381
Would Orange Pi or Banana Pi be a good alternative? iirc Banana Pi has gigabit ethernet on its own bus.

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>>62277458
>>62277414

>>62284358
if you want consumer drivers, go for toshiba or hitachi, they are amazing price value.

if you want enterprise hitachi or wd.

if your backplane would be able to support disks with more capacity, seagate would be best price value, while seagate has the shittiest record on drive failure on the market since ... basically ever.

if i were you i would check if there is a software update for that specific backplane to see if its compatible with drives >2tb.

i personally think it would be smarter to invest money in something that is small in size, has a low power consumption, is flexible on drive capacity. buying 2tb drives at some point might be actually more expensive than buying 4-10. specially when you think about how fast data grows

>>62271791
I have 12 TB of storage not even in a raid.

HDD1: 6TB as of now empty, gonna fill it with animu and movies

HDD2: 2 TB, WD green from old computer, not mounted yet. Mostly old shit.

HDD3: HGST1 4TB, former main drive with 2 TB anime and 1TB movies + some games. Gonna be for stuff that gets leech alot, new releases, airing anime etc.

HDD4: 320GB OS disk with debian headless.

Everything in an old Dell 220 Vostro micro tower.

Thinking of getting some cool chassis with room for about 8-10 HDD's and use my old i5 2500k + 16GB ram for the server.

Only using Plex, rtorrent & samba atm. Streaming over WAN works wonders since i have 250/250 with unlimited data.

>>62286003
>>I have 12 TB of storage not even in a raid.
the kind of person that would need to feel pain in order to learn from a mistake

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>>62285309
>windows
>server

>>62286067
its not that big a deal as youre making it.
actually having an inexperienced person use raid would be more dangerous and a hassle.

theres a good chance a drive can die during a rebuild which can result in the entire array being fucked.

raid is obsolete

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>>62286067
>>62286520

For important stuff, i store it on a backup, right now it's 2 USB sticks with 32GB of storage. Mostly pictures, info, textfiles and other important stuff.

Sure I will be said if i Loose my Anime and 4Chan reaction folder. But i can just download that shit again no worries.

For me it's motsly that I want to be able to access all of my stuff when I'm on the go etc. And for that purpose this works quite well.

Also I tend to buy a new bigger drive every or every 2 years, which is one reason why my HDD's expand 2->4->6 TB, and yet none of these have failed.

Next time i might build something with MergerFS and Snapraid. But before that, I must feel the pain of lost data through HDD crash before i can really appreciate it.

Why would anyone do this when vps is so cheap now days?

>>62286826
>40tb vps
>cheap
people would laugh at you irl

>>62285806
I'm not even him but... Fuk you niger! cats are great and cute.

>>62285722
Alternative? Yes.
Good? Maybe
Keep in mind that support can be an issue, albeit a small one if you're running Armbian

>>62280103
>>62275454
>>62272911
I am dumb and have a question.

I am using Plex, but am not married to it by any means. If I'm wanting to set something up so that my tech illiterate family can watch from a Roku, would Kodi work for this?

>>62287891
>>62287891
No, Plex is for braindead. Dunno bout Roku but Plex should support it.

On Apple tv Gen2 or later, just install app, sign in, leave as signed on settings and everything just werks.

Most Plex problems I have experienced is with the server. Mostly some permission issues or that the port in the firewall were closed.

Watching Plex on the app is just like any other apple TV apps.

Emby also have this, but i find that the app for Emby on apple tv is worse.

Who /raspi/ here?

>>62285915
Actually I'm running into a problem with my server cabinet search.

Most cabinets only have a max capacity of 133lbs.

It seems the rack is indeed 91lbs when empty, so when it's full, 36HDDS x 1.6lbs = 57.6lbs + 91lbs = 148lbs, and that doesn't even include the UPS or anything else I may want to put in it.

I can't seem to find anything that has a weight cap of atleast 200lbs

>>62285915
>if i were you i would check if there is a software update for that specific backplane to see if its compatible with drives >2tb


Front Backplane : SAS-846EL1 ( Just Support up to 2TB Per Hard drive )

Rear Backplane : SAS-826EL1 ( Just Support up to 2TB Per Hard drive )

>small in size
The minimum cabinet size I can do is 8U. The rack is 4U, the UPS is 2U, and I want 2U free for future proofing.

Speaking of UPS, is it really even necessary since I'm not using this as a traditional server? It's just my mirror backup, so I might can eliminate that entirely.

>>62287891
Your mileage may vary, but I've found that Plex is a very simple idiot-proof program for tech illiterate family members to use

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>>62291012
Nevermind, it seems this one supports 2200lbs.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/27U-Network-Data-Server-Cabinet-Enclosure-900mm-35-Deep-Aluminum-Structure-/151330505498?epid=1465964903&hash=item233c00431a:g:V8kAAOSwm8VUttna

Yes, it's very excessive, but I literally cannot find any other cabinet that supports a weight of 200lbs+.

>>62291222
wait no.
this is confusing

why are 42U server cabinets so cheap?

https://www.ebay.com/p/Dell-POWEREDGE-4210-42u-Server-Rack-Cabinet-Enclosure-PS38S-Fits-APC-HP/1203898910

I have a linux mint installation running apach2, transmission daemon and ssh. Having port forwarded porst 22, 80, and 443 through my router so that I can reach it from anywhere. Though as soon as I did I could see that china and russia (mostly) started trying to gain access guessing passwords as the user "root" but logging in as root is disabled. Its only using basic authentication for the website but its https enforced and has a strong password. Using keys would be a hassle since my friends want to use it as well. The webpage is under development but I can at least watch movies that are on the server through it.

I am currently working on using an API from themoviedb.org to get information and images for the movies that I can show on the webpage.

I have one problem though, the player I use to watch the movies in the web browser is the HTML5 player which only supports h264, VP8/9, aac and ogg. Hence I have to convert all my movies to those formats. I tried using flowplayer instead and I got it working but it only meant that I can now also play flv. Decoding the video on the server side is not an option since it would take much more bandwidth and processing power. If anyone know of a web player that can handle most video formats that would help me greatly, I haven't found one.

>>62279569
>homeserver

>>62291866
Just use kodi or plex. Also hope you have a decent firewall or fail2ban installed everywhere

>>62281117
my hero

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>>62292450
thank you

Also, just ordered this since they only had 5 left in stock.

Still haven't decided on a cabinet yet. I'll probably end up getting one of the 42U ones since they're much cheaper(and can hold more weight) than the smaller ones I'm seeing. I'll worry about that next week. I'm also going to hold out from getting an UPS right now. it's not that important.

I'll start off with 3x 3TB hitachi drives. Spend some days researching a nice distro for my os.

>>62292388
I wanted to be able to stream to any device without having to install anything extra on that device, I have made the assumption that all devices have a web browser hence a website was the option for me, me and my friends would all have to install Plex and have access to my Plex account. I don't know all to much about Kodi but I don't think you can access your movies via webpage from Kodi either. And yes I have fail2ban

There's nothing wrong with ECC memory on even a small server, it adds extra security and can't do any harm