>paid $50 for LTO4 streamer + LSI SAS PCIe controller + cables + molex power supply
Did I do good, /g/?
Also Home Server + Storage general thread. Post your builds, specs, services and OSes you use.
>>53504111
I think the seller had no fucking idea how expensive and hard to get this shit is.
>90% of the head life
>7 LTO3 tapes included + 1 cleaning tape
shameless b-bump
>>53504358
Why the GPU?
Also what do you use it for?
>>53504358
what's that plastic cap on there??
>>53504402
Probably to not accidentally turn it off.
>like he couldn't just change the default action of the key to "Do nuffin"
>>53504381
Steam streaming. I own a rMBP with no dGPU, so being able to stream games on ultra is actually really satisfying. I do it over LAN and it runs flawlessly, but uses about 12MB/s network to run on perfection.
I still do it over WAN with OpenVPN, where my school has a gigabit connection, so the only issue is latency (~60ms). I couldn't play Dota or CS:GO over WAN, but it still works perfectly for Civ 5, Rocket League, and the works. It's really awesome.
>>53504402
It's an old photo, it's no longer there, but my dog had a habit of climbing stuff. His paw is a perfect fit for the button, and in one instance he accidentally shut the server off. That was there to prevent that from happening again.
>>53504435
>>53504430
Ok that makes sense
I work for a VPS company.
every other day some one or more get infected with Crypto/loki
its like an epidemic here
i don't think it touches Priority/SAP DB's
anyone with crypto stories on VPS's ?
>>53504468
Yeah, one bitch in my company opened an excel spreadsheet containing infected macro completely ignoring Symantec telling her it's a virus.
Piece of shit encrypted her entire HDD and all mapped shares (about 3TB of important shit).
Restoring all this partially-backed up data was such a pain in the ass. Took us like two days to finish.
She got fired btw.
bamp
Pls don't die thread.
>>53505227
I'll keep it alive with my shitpost image storage server.
6x1TB + 1x2TB for backup, X5675 6C at 3.4 or something, 24GB ECC, PERC H700, MNPA19-XTR 10GbE.
>>53504111
specs E3-1220v2 16GB ram 10TB on freebsd nas.
I'm running at the moment Tor relay, Teamspeak for friends.
whats shall i run more?
Can I get some recommendations? I'd love to have a solid backup system with tape drives!
What's a good PCI-E SATA controller with at least 3 ports for use with Linux? I'm simply looking for more SATA ports (for mdadm/ZFS), I do not need any sort of hardware RAID functionality. Performance isn't too important, all my array needs to do is saturate a 1Gbps network link and it will be mainly used for file storage (rtorrent, Samba, NFS).
I keep seeing Marvell based cards, they're cheap as fuck too, but a bit of searching also reveals quite a few stories about them acting weird as fuck with Linux (like dropping drives/resetting on SMART status commands to their drives) or just failing. All I want is 3 SATA ports on a reliable card.
>>53505227
I like this very much
someone toss a xeon my way
>>53505386
Not too familiar with ZFS, but a single NTFS or EXT4 7200 drive will nearly saturate 1gbps. I'm assuming ZFS has some sort of spanning mechanism? Is this array getting its own link or something?
Goddamn 1u's are loud. Might've explained the $100 pricetag.
>>53505410
meant to link
>>53505519
Excuse my potato pic. Browsing from my tablet and took a pic with that. Server is a Pentium G3260 sitting in a n Asrock mitx with 2x2gb ddr3. 2xtTB hard drives. Single 2TB. Sharing movies across the network as well as providing centralized backup location.
>>53505633
And of course its sideways. Sorry everyone. Still haven't mastered how to rotate pics so 4chan don't fuck it up.
>>53505633
>>53505702
Thanks anon! I rotated it in the gallery on my android and saved it like that after the edit but I guess it didn't work. At the risk of sounding very stupid, what exactly did you do so 4chan didn't rotate it?
>>53505459
ZFS isn't really relevant to the question, but yeah, let's say ZFS is a sort of smart software RAID solution.
What I want to know are some good PCI-E SATA controllers, I can't find any. I don't need any sort of hardware RAID controller, all I want is a card that plugs into PCI-E and gets me a few SATA ports
>>53505749
4chan doesn't rotate images, at least it never happened to me. No idea about rotating and saving in Android.
>>53504111
>>53504130
What did you search for? It seems like all the properly tagged ones know what they're worth.
>>53505831
I was searching for anything starting with "BRSLA".
>>53505227
based SM board
also since i normally post physical, heres muh server specs(main shit kicker instance, the host is running ESXi and numerous other VMs)
About 6 months ago I got the ESXi box up and running, realized last weekend that I hadn't been monitoring the health of the RAID10 array that hosts the VMs. And all the drives are used.
Just installed the LSI .vib package that should allow the host to communicate with the RAID card, but that requires a reboot, and I'm not doing a reboot until the server rack arrives this weekend.
At least Veeam is reporting that the backups are healthy, and the NAS is fine. So worst case scenario, it's rebuildable.
usually in server threads I see a handfull of guys who have a whole rack full of stuff. How do you folks power that? Isn't it pretty easy to overload ordinary household wiring?
>lol look at this Burger with his 120v mains and 15-amp breakers
yeah, yeah, I know
>>53506052
Servers don't necessarily draw a ton of power. Some are, and they definitely need to have an electrician do things, but the entirety of my NAS + Networking equipment + server infrastructure is only pulling 2-3 amps from the wall. Granted, I'm using whitebox equipment, so I can build for low power. But that is an option, you can always gut a server chassis, put some standard ATX components in there and just let it run.
>>53506052
>>53506432 here again. Also, this is what virtualization is for. Don't buy a server for each thing you want to do, build a Proxmox/ESXi/Hyper-V host or two. Throw a shit ton of memory in there, (64GB ECC or more), and then just build out a bunch of VMs and containers for everything. Nobody is running services on baremetal hardware anymore.
>>53504111
>$50 for server
>$999 for power bill
>>53506554
It's not a server you dumbass. You don't even realize how stupid you look right now.
>>53506628
I didn't bother reading past the $50 since the thread is about home servers and not tape drives, sas extensions, cables and molex aka fry your pc.
>>53506660
Tape drives belongs to the servers. I was elaborating on my newest purchase for my HP Microserver G8, faggot.
Now you can kill yourself.
Oh, and the molex psu (which is a pretty solid one btw) is used only when I connect this streamer to my thinkpad.
I'm setting up my homeserver again and I want to use virtualization instead of having a bunch of services on one host. The virtual hosts are going to be purely Linux.
What should I go for? ESXi? Xen? Proxmox?
I have experience with ESXi from work, so it'd be easi but I won't learn anything.
Does anyone have experience with either option for comparison?
>>53507342
>not using virtualbox in headless mode
>>53507342
ESXi is the best if it supports your hardware.
I'm using KVM on mine because ESXi didn't recognize my IOMMU (if I even have one) so I needed Linux on the hardware. Tried Xen, but it was too buggy, kept giving I/O timeouts and errors to guests even though the underlying hardware was perfectly fine.
>>53507849
>Oracle shills
>>53508251
Alright, I'll go with that.
I've experienced a lot of ESXi issues on hardware myself, so I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't work.
KVM sounds like a bit of a learning curve since I've never used it before, which is very attractive to me.
Thanks anon.
>>53504111
$50 for the LSI SAS PCIe alone sounds amazing.
I paid 300€ for mine.
>>53504544
This is the real reason you use minimal privilege setups - trust has nothing to do with it.
>>53508277
it looks like that.
Is it really $300? Because I use it only for this streamer lol
>>53508331
I have no idea about your specific model, mine was an Intel RS2WC080 that I cross-flashed to an LSI HBA 9211-8i (or something like that).
>>53508321
But we do. She didn't have admin privileges or anything.
And the shares she had access to are all public anyway. How else could we prevent this?
>inb4 by using linoox
>>53508370
by giving proper access like read and password auth on smb shares
>>53508366
Yours is 6Gb/s per channel. Mine is 3Gb/s with the same amount of channels (8).
And I just found mine for $20. It's the SAS3442E-R
>>53508408
>password auth
>in AD domain
>everytime users connects to the share
Have fun with that.
>>53508331
Unrelated to that controller, but I got my hands on pic related for $45 brand new. Supports RAID 0, 1, and 10. Or each port can simply be used for a stand along hard drive. The controller boots before the OS, so it doesn't matter if you use Linux or Windows. No driver install was required to get me up and running.
Either that or a dual port SAS Controller for $150. You can get SAS to x8 SATA adapters. So up to 16 drives off a single controller.
>>53508430
enjoy losing data, there is no need to give people full access if they don't need it.
let them copy files and thats it.
>>53505280
>AIO
>Server
lol m8
