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just brew it! wrote:Weird SW, HW, or both?
DiMaestro wrote:just brew it! wrote:Weird SW, HW, or both?
Virtualized on ESXi 5.5. Hardware passthrough (two IBM sas cards passed through) utilizing a virtualized unraid running .. umm more than 9 drives (storage, OS SSDs, etc).
just brew it! wrote:DiMaestro wrote:just brew it! wrote:Weird SW, HW, or both?
Virtualized on ESXi 5.5. Hardware passthrough (two IBM sas cards passed through) utilizing a virtualized unraid running .. umm more than 9 drives (storage, OS SSDs, etc).
Yikes. That is weird!
Mine's only weird in having an extra 3-drive hot-swap cage stuck to the outside top of the case with foam mounting tape, and the power and I/O cables to the upper cage snaking their way out through one of the PCI slot openings.
just brew it! wrote:My current home server setup:
Asus M5A97
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
8 GB unbuffered ECC
LSI 8-port SAS/SATA HBA
9 3.5" hot swap bays (6 mounted internally, 3 externally as noted in previous post)
120 GB SSD boot drive
Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS
MD RAID-6 composed of 7 4 TB drives (20 TB usable capacity); drives are a mix of WD desktop drives and Seagate IronWolf
DiMaestro wrote:The Thuban was perhaps the best AMD cpu I ever owned, 1055t. Hot as *hell* but never failed. It was my main desktop, then my HTPC, then an early version of my NAS.
DiMaestro wrote:I tried a FX8350 and burned through 3 cpus and 2 motherboards before I tossed em. Haven't had AMD since (well, tried a ryzen, was DOA)
just brew it! wrote:DiMaestro wrote:The Thuban was perhaps the best AMD cpu I ever owned, 1055t. Hot as *hell* but never failed. It was my main desktop, then my HTPC, then an early version of my NAS.
Since this is a light-duty server I have the CPU governor set to "conservative". Unless it's doing its nightly mirror update or monthly array scrub, all of the cores idle along at 800MHz most of the time, so the power usage isn't *that* bad. CPU is currently reporting 28C, which is only ~7C above ambient. Looks like it got up to around 36C during the most recent array scrub. I still should probably replace it with something more efficient, but I went with the various bits of repurposed hardware I had on hand at the time.DiMaestro wrote:I tried a FX8350 and burned through 3 cpus and 2 motherboards before I tossed em. Haven't had AMD since (well, tried a ryzen, was DOA)
Either you had a phenomenal string of bad luck, or something ain't right there. My primary desktop is *still* an FX-8350 (on an Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0), and it has been rock-solid aside from the massively flaky onboard USB 3.0 - stupid ASMedia USB chipset. (PCIe USB 3.0 card with an NEC/Renesas chipset fixed the USB issues.)
And yeah, I've got a Ryzen build on deck, to commence as soon as I clear the pile of junk from my workbench.
Krogoth wrote:My NAS box is just repurposed, *mothball* hardware
Core i5-3570K
Gigabyte Z77-UD3H using the PCH on it as the controller
2x4GiB of G.Skill PC3-6400
4x4TB WD Reds (Don't know the exact model number off hand) in a striped mirrors zpool
128GiB Cruical SSD drive (Boot device)
FreeNAS version 11.0
I'm aware that it is running non-ECC memory but the system is only on when I need to write/read data on it. It acts more like an archive than a true NAS. ECC is only a necessity in a production environment or you are ultra-paranoid of data corruption.
DiMaestro wrote:I bought a pizza
DiMaestro wrote:I think a lot of AMDs issues are actual physical connections. AMD should just use a socket like intel. No pins on the chips - just pads.
DiMaestro wrote:Krogoth wrote:My NAS box is just repurposed, *mothball* hardware
Core i5-3570K
Gigabyte Z77-UD3H using the PCH on it as the controller
2x4GiB of G.Skill PC3-6400
4x4TB WD Reds (Don't know the exact model number off hand) in a striped mirrors zpool
128GiB Cruical SSD drive (Boot device)
FreeNAS version 11.0
I'm aware that it is running non-ECC memory but the system is only on when I need to write/read data on it. It acts more like an archive than a true NAS. ECC is only a necessity in a production environment or you are ultra-paranoid of data corruption.
How do you like freenas? I haven't tried it for years.
Krogoth wrote:DiMaestro wrote:Krogoth wrote:My NAS box is just repurposed, *mothball* hardware
Core i5-3570K
Gigabyte Z77-UD3H using the PCH on it as the controller
2x4GiB of G.Skill PC3-6400
4x4TB WD Reds (Don't know the exact model number off hand) in a striped mirrors zpool
128GiB Cruical SSD drive (Boot device)
FreeNAS version 11.0
I'm aware that it is running non-ECC memory but the system is only on when I need to write/read data on it. It acts more like an archive than a true NAS. ECC is only a necessity in a production environment or you are ultra-paranoid of data corruption.
How do you like freenas? I haven't tried it for years.
It is a standard enterprise NAS software package. It is overkill for home usage, but it is free though. Pretty stable as long as you aren't trying to do something crazy experimentation.
DiMaestro wrote:just brew it! wrote:Weird SW, HW, or both?
Virtualized on ESXi 5.5. Hardware passthrough (two IBM sas cards passed through) utilizing a virtualized unraid running .. umm more than 9 drives (storage, OS SSDs, etc).
DiMaestro wrote:Krogoth wrote:DiMaestro wrote:
How do you like freenas? I haven't tried it for years.
It is a standard enterprise NAS software package. It is overkill for home usage, but it is free though. Pretty stable as long as you aren't trying to do something crazy experimentation.
I'm not sure 'overkill' and 'nas' are two words I'd ever use in a sentence. I mean I do have 9 3tb drives utilizing 2 IBM M1015 cards in IT mode with dual parity.
You using ZFS on it?
Waco wrote:FreeNAS is not "enterprise software" by any means.
TrueNAS can be with the right setup, but FreeNAS is absolutely not.
Krogoth wrote:Don't let the "Free'" in the name fool you. It is definitely what used to be enterprise-tier and it is not for the novice by any means. The suite has enterprise-tier features but as whole it is becoming legacy since it doesn't support latest hardware and software ecosystems. I wouldn't deploy it on modern enterprise-tier hardware. TrueNAS is just a re-branding and the future of FreeNAS project.
G8torbyte wrote:DiMaestro wrote:just brew it! wrote:Weird SW, HW, or both?
Virtualized on ESXi 5.5. Hardware passthrough (two IBM sas cards passed through) utilizing a virtualized unraid running .. umm more than 9 drives (storage, OS SSDs, etc).
I configured my first DIY unRAID system around two years ago (linked in sig) and it's been a pleasure working with it as a NAS operating system. I like the web-UI, community applications/support is nice with unRAID and I appreciate all the options how to utilize it. I'm not a heavy user since I mainly built it for my file archives and streaming music after digitizing it all to lossless files. I do run a few docker apps like the recently updated Folding@Home. I just finished a duplicate NAS build using this workstation mobo and it is also working very well.
Krogoth wrote:DiMaestro wrote:Krogoth wrote:
It is a standard enterprise NAS software package. It is overkill for home usage, but it is free though. Pretty stable as long as you aren't trying to do something crazy experimentation.
I'm not sure 'overkill' and 'nas' are two words I'd ever use in a sentence. I mean I do have 9 3tb drives utilizing 2 IBM M1015 cards in IT mode with dual parity.
You using ZFS on it?
Yep, I'm using ZFS. FreeNAS suite is complete overkill for home usage patterns. You aren't trying to setup user access lists or quotas to just stream some silly home videos about cats.
Waco wrote:
I know a good number of the iXsystems crew.
I work in the "enterprise" environment as my day job managing hundreds of PiB of data.
You have literally zero idea what the hell you're talking about. FreeNAS is not "becoming legacy". TrueNAS is not a "rebranding" of anything, it's their enterprise product with real support. TrueNAS Core is the new version of FreeNAS that is trying to keep the two codebases closer together. You may not want to deploy it on modern enterprise hardware (not that you have any clue what that means) but the rest of the industry can and will.
Lastly...Jesus, just read my signature. I've run FreeNAS for 7 years now. Stop talking down to literally everyone you respond to.
DiMaestro wrote:You ever play with the video hardware passthrough?
Redocbew wrote:DiMaestro wrote:You ever play with the video hardware passthrough?
I'm about to give that a try soon, although I'm not using unraid so this may not be entirely useful. What I've read so far is that it's generally a bit more work than passing through a network controller, or something like that. It's also a bit easier with AMD hardware because the drivers from Nvidia check if they're running in a virtual machine and return error code 43 if they are. They want you to buy one of their fabulously expensive pro cards instead of passing through a consumer card. I already have an RTX 2070, so I'm going to use that and just tell QEMU to lie to the windows guest about what it's running on.
DiMaestro wrote:G8torbyte wrote:DiMaestro wrote:
Virtualized on ESXi 5.5. Hardware passthrough (two IBM sas cards passed through) utilizing a virtualized unraid running .. umm more than 9 drives (storage, OS SSDs, etc).
I configured my first DIY unRAID system around two years ago (linked in sig) and it's been a pleasure working with it as a NAS operating system. I like the web-UI, community applications/support is nice with unRAID and I appreciate all the options how to utilize it. I'm not a heavy user since I mainly built it for my file archives and streaming music after digitizing it all to lossless files. I do run a few docker apps like the recently updated Folding@Home. I just finished a duplicate NAS build using this workstation mobo and it is also working very well.
I need to rebuild my Unraid box. Hardware it's not bad, e3-1230v3, 32gb of ram, 9 3tb drives, 256 gb SSD cache, and a variety of drives for support under esxi.
You ever play with the video hardware passthrough? If I could get that working I could then store my HTPC box. (And you ever get a Ceton tv tuner working as passthrough?)
I need to update my post on the system.