--> Quick Questions Quick Replies Why would I want a NAS/Homeserver? If you ask why then you don't need it.
>I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get? RPi3 or Odroid XU4/HC1. Odroid upper models has USB 3 and USB bus separated from the Ethernet one.
>B-But muh ARM Then check the onboard x86 like J4105B-ITX, J4205B-ITX or J4205-ITX. All of them have SATA and USB 3.
>What's the best [software] for doing [ask]? Specify you question and elaborate. If you want help put something from your side.
>Which disk is better for my homeserver? The general opinion minus some details are that WD Greens are enough if you deactivate parkdrive, and WD Red are Green overpriced. Also Toshiba and HGST are pretty good.
But seriously tho, why would anyone need a home server now a days? I store all my stuff on IPFS and index them on my local machine.
Caleb Russell
Hoping for some insight, as it only just occurred to me to try benchmarking my NAS drive. I guess from the result, I'm saturating the gigabit LAN link on all but the single queue test? Server is FreeNAS running on 8 disk raidz2. The system is Xeon E3-1230v3 with 32GB of RAM.
I've always just assumed it's "fast enough," but is there a configuration issue that could make things faster? I don't have anything set up for ZIL and L2ARC -- maybe that would help?
>>I want a NAS/HTPC/Plex what should I get? >RPi3 how would a pi be a good NAS if all it has are usb connections? or am I missing something and you can attach a faster storage method to it (I don't have one)
Wyatt Wilson
What naming scheme do you use for servers in your lab?
Eli Campbell
user-whatever, where whatever is some description of the machine or its purpose. If that's too boring then name them after anime girls.
Gavin Turner
jumbo frames, but it's pretty minimal increase. just get a 10gbe card, they are cheap AF
Daniel Cruz
htpc/plex is fine with a rpi for 1080p, NAS will be bottlenecked. get the odroid if NAS is high on the priority list
Jordan Hernandez
Name them what they are used for, i don't think there's a reason to use a scheme for a homelab.
Andrew Clark
I'm more concerned with the single queue test in the bottom row and whether there's any way of optimizing for that. 10gbe presumably wouldn't help with that (though maybe with the top rows that are bottlenecked).
