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NAS/home servers general
What does /g/ use, software and hardware-wise?
- WD Nas 2TB (Mass Storage)
- Old Core2D iMac running Ubuntu 12 LTS CLI (Plex and Compiling)
- NSLU2 with Debian (CUPS and Web Server)
Also have a Wii running Gentoo with FTP for shits and giggles.
Just wondering. Is there any place of tape storage for home use?
>>47644482
>wii running gentoo
teach me
Rate my nas
>>47644575
http://wiibrew.org/wiki/WiiToo!
>>47644402
I kinda want a media server, but I have no reason to build one really
I have 4 1TB HDDs in a software RAID-5 (2.72 TB total). running windows server 2003. used to host my files with in my home network, watch downloaded videos, holding some of my backups (game systems & cell phones).
occasionally make some web apps in .Net. its currently running my hentai manga web app, so i can fap wherever im at.
>>47644591
enjoy your wifi radiation
>>47644591
>>47644809
>wifi cancer
>>47644591
>Dark Knight router
I have 2 2tb wd greens in an old desktop, and another 2 in my desktop.
I don't really know what to do with them because I already have a 3tb in my desktop and a 750 gig hdd in my laptop
>>47644780
I remember you, that app was pretty good.
>>47644402
FREENAS
Celeron ITX 16 GB RAM 3 WD Red 3 TB in a ZFS RAID
>>47645045
Send one to me
>>47645045
give one to me
>>47644780
> its currently running my hentai manga web app
Show a screenshot
Six terabytes of easily accessible porn on reliable HGST NAS drives.
>>47645046
Still needs work
>>47644574
Pls respond. Is managing with LTO worth the weight?
Anyone know the failure rate on 5TB drives? I keep seeing them on sale for $100-$120 and it's so damn tempting
>>47645284
>TFW seeing this, while running a Raspberry Pi with a 64GB USB thumbdrive
>>47645284
>"this side out" facing in
Oh shit nigger what are you doing?
>>47645284
I love how you tried to do cable management but then you were like, "Fuck it"
Automated TV show tracking, downloading and renaming with Sonarr paired up with Emby as a media server.
Using Kodi as the front end on my tablet while I use the web client on my pc and cast it to mpc-hc using mpc remote
Quite pleased with my setup.
Still moving stuff around and organising it. (moved from 5x different sized hard drives)
>>47646229
>5x3TB raidZ1
WTF is the point? You essentially have a 100% chance of your first rebuild failing.
Also, enjoy no ECC RAM with your ZFS.
>>47646297
>100%
[citation needed]
Not that guy but it isn't near 100%
>>47646297
Ram is the next upgrade.
And have had a few drives over the years and they've never failed unexpectedly.
>>47645220
>ISHYGDDT
>>47646333
Assuming hard disks with an unrecoverable read error rate of 1 in 10^14 bits (100 trillion bits of 12.5TB), in a full 5x3TB RAID5/Z1 setup when a disk fails you are reading 4x3TB of data to reconstruct the failed disk. 4x3TB = 12TB which considering you're due a read error every 12.5TB is very shitty odds.
Furthermore unless the disks' SCTERC has been set, a read error will result in the whole disk that generates the read error getting dropped. At that point you've lost 2x disks from a RAID5/Z1 & are even more screwed.
>>47646363
Can a Turion motherboard even use ECC?
>>47646438
>(100 trillion bits of 12.5TB)
or, not of
>>47646438
I don't think that's how maths work. And for Z1 you'd have to have the whole array nearly full.
And yes, the N54L has had plenty of reports of people using 16gb ECC
Oh just the thread I'm looking for
So I want to re-purpose an old laptop into a NAS. How would I attach the storage devices? Is a USB2.0 external HDDs good enough? Just films and backup data for my lady and I.
>>47646466
It's a sensationalised article, but it explains things pretty well.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/
>>47646495
I have read the article.
https://www.cafaro.net/2014/05/26/why-raid-5-is-not-dead-yet/
Hard drive bays or NAS?
I'm really wanting to buy a few 5TB+ hdds but NAS machines seem so overpriced
My home server's sitting on my LAN (no WAN access) running FreeBSD on a P4 Dell pre-built, but it's essentially off all the time.
When i want to use it, i pull out my iPhone (or whatever i have in front of me) and wake it up on the lan and use it to stream movies to my WD TV or Apple TV.
It just has 4 drives @ 1 TB each (Greens), not in raid or anything like that because i have another Unix machine on the LAN running/storing backups on everything else, and because WD Green drives are shit with raid.
Anyway, when i have the dosh i'll invest in red drives and a nice low-power machine (that i put together myself, of course).
But i have to tell you -- having the HBO Go App, the FX App and whatever else is coming has really put a hamper on my torrenting.
I've become super-selective about things since i have a cable tv subscription already.
>>47646484
Probably USB3.0 would work better for HD content. Not sure how many drives you want to attach though.
>>47646515
a NAS is a glorified HDD enclosure with LAN and some processing power.
I got the N54L for under £200 and provides cheap running of the server with a small footprint.
>>47644780
What hentai app are you running?
>>47646553
The WD Green parking thing can be disabled for the drives so that they don't commit suicide.
I also have a subscription for Netflix and Amazon at some point, and stopped using them as I find more convenient to download what I want and then watch offline (hurr netflix doesn't allow offline viewing, and amazon wouldn't work on my fucking nexus 10)
>>47644780
you are a figgit
>>47644482
>>47644603
>>47644575
Holy fucking shit why have I never heard of this?!
>>47646597
yeah i'm like that with my fucking movies tbh. dont want/care what everyone's offering in terms of movies because i want what i have, and what i also want isn't available through the legal channels.
anyway, only thing that sucks with my torrenting over the years is securing all the fucking data and constantly worrying about it. it's gotten to the point where i now have a deposit box at a bank that i keep drives in... and update it every six months to a year.
>>47646693
Why. Depending on which private trackers you're in and unless you're the original uploader, you can probably find everything again.
>>47646722
but i dont want to have to find everything again. and i question that individual's sanity that actually isnt concerned with having to do just that
>>47645178
its here:
>>47645228
>>47646582
havent named it yet. im just calling it "manga library"
>>47646722
oh, and also, i tag my media, and strip it of any tags that were previously on it. and there is at least 2TBs of shit that created/didn't get from the internet.
>>47646229
>4 gigs off ram on freenas on the nl54
Jesus Christ that's hell on lava
>I know this because I had a similar build on the nl54.
Also get a network card with double ports you will not regret it
>and an ssd scratch drive at least 120 gigs
Or else everything will be slow as shit.
>>47646865
define Hell on Lava.
And at the moment the server is connected to a router, that connects to another router wirelessly 2 floors down. Not sure what good a second NIC would do.
And I think I'm out of SATA slots.
>>47646893
The onboard nic is shitty under free nas and sometimes bugs out the jails.
Also if you have the custom bios installed just get a sata cable that doubles one port into or get cheap raid controler and plug that shit there.
>>47646791
have you made it publicly available?
A-Anyone here using BTRFS?
Tfw i'm too poor for ECC ram to go ZFS.
>>47646956
>get a sata cable that doubles one port into or get cheap raid controler and plug that shit there.
I am so confused
>>47644402
1x500GB WD Blue as OS drive
2x1TB WD Blue drives as "production" storage drives for media
1x2TB WD Green as the backup drive for the 3 above.
I do light gaymen, browsing, and run Plex server on this machine. I run SyncToy for the media drives and create a new MS backup disk image for the OS drive every couple of months.
I have an external 500GB drive with critical stuff like family pictures and the like that I'm going to take to my mom's place for offsite storage next time I go over there.
CHECK UM
>>47644402
I want to build a server with the purpose of running XBMC / some kind of emulation frontend for PS1/N64/MAME/SNES/NES etc games, is this doable? I'm planning on connecting a couple of PS3 pads through USB/Bluetooth for my emulation needs, are these gamepads too hard to setup on Linux via Bluetooth?
any tips or pointers in general are appreciated /g/uys
>>47647226
fucking clover I forgot to remove my trip from that r9k medieval army thread
>>47647263
To be honest you can probably achieve that with a small HTPC with bluetooth and storage attached.
-Are you going to use that pc/server for anything else? (eg torrenting, file sharing, subsonic, ftp?)
-which OS do you want to use?
A 1TB external hdd on a shitty asus eee surf 2g with a broken keyboard. It was cheaper than a rpi, x86, has its own battery and adapter, that's about it. Otherwise I could make use of a gigabit ethernet and usb3 ports. Now I bought an old as fuck laser printer/scanner and I will hook it up for network printing/scanning.
>>47647011
The ECC issue is not limited to ZFS.
same olde for now
got upgrades planned, just need to save the pennies for it
>>47647296
I got an old-ish system gathering dust, it's an quad core Athlon II, 4GB ram, etc. would something like that be enough to cover my needs?
I would only use one function at a time (e.g. play movies or emulate stuff), but it would be nice to use the system to torrent stuff or use it as a storage server every once in a while.
I know my way around Linux, but I have never attempted to setup a Bluetooth dongle or a ps3 gamepad on it, in windows I have to install unsigned drivers and stuff to use those gamepads, which is why i'm being cautious about the setup, I would definitely prefer to use Linux as its OS if it won't give me a lot of headaches in that department.
>>47644482
is gentoo installed to the sd card or on the internal storage, can it still be used for wii games(outside of gentoo of course)
>>47647458
I honestly have no clue about linux and ps3 controllers, but it "shouldn't" be too hard.
I'm sure your pc can do what you want. Maybe consider putting 8gb ram and a cheapo graphics card to make sure you can play 1080p decently.
>>47647378
how are the text bits done in that image? gimp or a similar program?
>>47645813
It's not worth the cost. Tape's cheap, but oh those reader/writers. And because you have to use them manually it's only for infrequent data storage.
>>47647775
aye, photoshop
>>47647841
it looks really good
how do you (financially) support all those machines?
>>47644591
What is your read/write speed on that usb drive?
>>47646229
I've read that FreeNAS requires 8GB ram. How is your performance with less than 8GB ram?
>>47647899
there is nothing particularly expensive to run, rack us the only thing running 24/7 and that's <150W
>>47647991
The recommended standard for zfs is 1gb/tb of storage.
Performance so far has been fine. I've been transferring a lot of stuff over and haven't noticed any hogging.
>>47647338
What other filesystems?
>>47647299
More or less the same, shitty old laptop and external HDD. The lack of USB3 and gigabit are annoying, but for the price it works.
>>47644402
FreeNAS is getting better. A little finicky for my tastes but it works.
>>47647991
The latest version of FreeNAS wont run on anything with less than 8GB of RAM.
>>47644402
just buy green drives and use the admin tool to disable parking
gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
>>47645220
I also have a DS214play, but 8TB. I never use the hardware transcoding, wish I had gotten something with more bays instead.
>>47648164
any
Who here serves media with their NAS?
What do you serve (music/movies/TV)? Which program do you use?
>>47648545
Subsonic for music
emby (formerly mediabrowser) for movies and tv although I haven't used it that much, but it works enough to stream stuff directly onto my tablet
>>47648545
I use PS3Media Server on a linux server and a NAS. NAS publishes an NFS share to various media files (photos, movies, music) and the linux server mounts them, PS3Media Server pushes them to my PS3s via uPnP.
Windows Server reporting for duty
Is it okay to install the OS to a Red drive?
>>47644591
kek, I hope you upgraded your firmware because otherwise now the whole internet can see your stick
>>47649056
eh if your running a NAS storage it would seem more effective to run it off a USB, this is to ensure that all you're drive is doing is managing data.
>>47650182
That was fun
>>47648844
>Windows Server
>not using any linux distro instead
>>47648844
>windows server
>transmission-qt gui on a server
>filezilla server
>remote desktop to a server
I have a PowerMac G5 with
>2x dual core 2GHz PowerPC 970MP (northbridge can't handle dual core so only 1 core per CPU is running)
>8x512MB RAM
>160GB HDD
>1TB HDD
>1.5TB HDD
>4TB HDD
>PCI-X SCSI card
>PCI-X dual port GbE card
>Mac OS X Server 10.5.8
Uses
>file server
>PlayStation 2 game streaming server
>NetBoot
>NetInstall
>torrenting
>web server
>compile server
>workstation (share desktop keyboard and trackpad with Synergy)
>etc.
Planned Upgrades
>4x146GB 2.5" SAS HDDs in RAID0
>2x73GB 3.5" SAS HDDs (I have the drives, just need a PCI-X SAS card)
>ATi Radeon X800 XT
IBM x3455
>2x quad core AMD Opteron 2356 @ 2.3GHz
>12x2GB ECC DDR2 RAM
>1x 160GB HDD
>1x 1TB HDD
>1x AMD Radeon HD 4550
Uses
>virtual machines
>compiling
>messing around
Planned Upgrades
>2x 6 core AMD Opteron 2419 @ 1.8GHz
>>47650585
forgot photo
>>47644591
So that's what those USB ports are for.
Windows 7 with a spanned volume across 4 drives. Totals like 860GB.
Come at me.
>>47650624
yeah. too bad most routers are shit and cant power a usb HDD
I am running nas4free instance on my ESXI box.
P-please be kind to me, /g/.
