--> 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? Seems like Green WD are not sold nowadays. So WD Reds are okay for the price if you want "NAS Drvies". Otherwise HGST and Toshiba are your friends.
I got a server rack full of Proliant DL140 G3s free. Are they shit? Should I just gut/sell them and get something modern?
Nolan Bailey
Any recommendations for large NAS enclosures? Looks like a used Supermicro 24 bay server might be a good cheap option
Jack Rivera
Yea, at 16+ drives in one box, it's usually a good idea to look into server rackmounts.
Although consider for a moment if lowering drive count with bigger drives or choosing a more cloud storage like architecture with like, gluster or ceph [you know, to avoid that one server taking all of your drives offline when whatever part fails, never mind getting the option to easier deal with additional drives of different size that you purchase gradually as-needed] wouldn't be better.
you can upload like unlimited data to google drive for like 600$ a year. why build a home server and spend money putting 100$ harddrives in it every 2 years? the cost of the highspeed router/cables/motherboard/cpu/power/drives you use will literally be more than using google cloud.
your limited to 750gig upload per user per day but to get unlimited you have to make 5acounts and pay 50$ a month. if you don't need to upload that much its just 120$ a year....
NAS/home server are retarded unless your literally collecting pedophilia. google doesn't care you have pirated movies or games on its servers if you don't share it.
Kevin Green
and if you live in some shithole where you cant retrieve it fast enough from google servers then you wont be downloaded that much data to begin with and even if you have a laptop a external 5tb drive or some thing will be enough for like 2years of downloads. and your cheap router will prob let you plug it into that even.
you guys are trying to fix problems that literally don't exist or your just pathological hoarders with mental problems
Adam Miller
>home servers are just for storage No.
Kayden Hall
what would be the cleanest way of adding disks to my local machine. right now i got sata cables dangling out the case to my hd cage and its not comfy.
Cameron Jenkins
forgot to say i dont want a new server, just want more spinny bois and dont want spaghetti everywhere
Xavier Taylor
Anyone ever build their own rackmount case? I have a couple desktops worth of parts including a low profile cpu cooler and I figure I should put them in a rack. Low budget of course, so I want to build the rack and the cases. Any tips?
Lucas Mitchell
>gets a server >has only used it once for a few hours to upload some 500GB to google drive >regrets doing it as user could just had plugged the hdd into the openwrt router
The electricity bill is real.
Josiah Bailey
Orico has got big cleanly attachable devices for up to like 8-10 HDD.
But the cheaper way is just to replace your tower, or maybe even mount the drives on metal rails and route your cables well. Or use Orico multi-cables for a bit less spaghetti.
Owen Garcia
Pic related. There are like 40 models. You probably don't want any builtin RAID, mdadm is better.
Suggestion on a PCI raid card under 50€ with at least 2 sata2 port?
Ayden Scott
Get a SATA controller off ali for like $10.
Let Linux handle RAID with it's md/dm layer through mdadm or LVM2. Proprietary hardware RAID is usually dangerous crap.
Jaxson Collins
i was thinking more of a interface instead of an enclosure, like a port multiplier but has outside connectors (sas i guess) because i already dug myself a hole by buying a $80 5.25 bay. right now i got the side panel off just so i could get the cables out of the case
Jordan Lee
I have 4 onboards sata ports, so that is ok I have always worked with hardware raid and never had problem, do you suggest to give software raid a try? PS: intention is to boot from usb drive and use 2 disk in raid 1 for syncthing and an off-site backup
Brody Reed
> like a port multiplier but has outside connectors There are PCI cards with external SATA or SAS ports, but that still leaves you with a relative mess of external cables.
... have you considered simply drilling a hole?
Dylan Thomas
i might just sell the shithead on letgo and buy your pic, kinda mad i wasted money on it because i cant find a server rack that fits it along with space for other things i need
Ryder Russell
What's the recommended solution for running a small ssd cache to speed up a bunch of bigger HDDs on linux nowadays?
Do I need to be extra careful when using it together with LUKS?
Connor Morgan
>I have always worked with hardware raid and never had problem The problem starts once you have a problem. I've seen one shitty HW RAID array self-destruct an array due to an intermittent failure, and another that couldn't even be convinced to bring the array back online from what likely were just a few bits of inconsistency
The only HW RAID I'd trust are 3ware cards, but they just cost more than they're worth at this point.
> do you suggest to give software raid a try? Yes, absolutely. Mdadm RAID is very well-tested and performs well, has essentially all management functions you can get with RAID including RAID level migrations & the load it puts on modern CPU is nothing particularly noteworthy.
Colton Hill
Yea, might be the way to go. Or a full new server case, with a decent one migrating the hardware probably doesn't take longer than 1.5 hours.
I recall lvmcache or bcache[fs] were something to look at.
Logan Mitchell
> Bought this today (are the same) > One will be a mirror of the other > Backup purpose, connected once every two/four weeks
> Questions: 1) Reliable? 2) How to get sync? 3) Encryption (linux) method? Thanks.
>1) Reliable? About average, probably. No, nobody really publishes good data. > 2) How to get sync? Mdadm or LVM2 RAID1, probably.
Unless you do NOT want it to sync immediately because it's supposed to protect you against accidental deletes, then I'd suggest borgbackup on a systemd timer / fcron or something.
> 3) Encryption (linux) method? Usually LUKS. Probably with a pretty standard configuration if you just want the usual encryption for privacy / easy disposal of defective drive reasons.
Brandon Ortiz
Thank you Currently using kde partitioner, easy setup single encrypted partition
Gabriel Jenkins
ZFS, the same as the solution for everything else.
Jacob Moore
nah btrfs is where its at
Luis Watson
Hi y'all, I want to repurpose my 5yo PC into a server. I installed Ubuntu and installed lamp following a very barebones tutorial. My current goal is to get my server open outside my network. Any advice?
Sebastian Smith
I think that's just fine. Pretty sure kde partitioner creates entirely standard partitions with LVM2 and LUKS if you ask for it.
Which will mean you can use them under any distro with equally standard tools [that do not have to be kde partitioner itself] and even from various other OS' if you care enough.
Christian Wilson
> My current goal is to get my server open outside my network. Any advice? Usually mostly related to port forwarding on your internet facing router if you're like most and still doing IPv4.
Nicholas Davis
Yup, currently moving data to new disk. Doing this this night and tomorrow will try some kind of automatic sync with second hd to have backup up to date. Feels good. Only issue is that Bios say it is a 850gb disk, but seems it is only informational, Linux detect 2.7Tb anyway
Connor Myers
just bought a 2-nic mini itx board for a router.
pfsense or ubuntu server?
Jaxon Walker
Fedora is what I'd prefer - but you know, whatever you like.
Charles Rivera
I've got a 970 laying around, is there anything cool I can use it for (aside from mining) on a home server?
Carson Williams
Sucks to make changes.
Isaac Campbell
If you want to learn how to configure every network service and iptables and ip then ubuntu. If you want something to just werk pfsense. I've recently switched to pfsense after years of ubuntu as a firewall router because iptables is a lot of pain and i know how shit works now.
Samuel Wood
Video encoding?
Tyler Wright
draw.io
Evan Parker
Pencil and paper?
Sebastian Jackson
what's their use then ? Honest question here user
Mason Richardson
not him, but how can the SAS controller cards be so cheap on AliExpress compared to my country?
AliExpress = 10 bucks for SAS controller card with 2 SAS ports
Sweden = 100 bucks for SAS controller card with 2 SAS ports
Kevin Smith
most likely used in servers and now being sold off for cheap
Juan Clark
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Jacob Ward
>how to sync rsync or RAID. Raid for redundancy and drive-failure tollerance, rsync for actual backup. Choose which is more important to you!
Noah Price
Backup, is data that will not be online always. Any GUI for rsync that can sync from A to B disk?
Blake Clark
Genital ?
Sebastian Ward
Anything you can imagine. Code repo, dropbox replacement, game servers for your friends/family, personal website, tuned up router, network-wide adblocker, smarthome hub, etc etc etc. Maybe you took a wrong turn at Albafucky there user...
Isaiah Young
Why use a GUI? You can completely automate full-system backup with a single command in a cron.
Forgot to mention, if you want to use that command and have it properly sync, you need to add --delete-before as an argument, otherwise it retains files that are actually deleted from the source path.
Jonathan Long
I have an old HP tower that im repurposing to use 3 2tb drives in raidz on debian with zfs, will 8gb of ram be enough for this or would i be better off just using ext4? also should i be ok with using a usb stick for the os or should i be looking at using a smaller size hdd?
Nathaniel Roberts
I did try to portworward in my modem settings but it didn't just work. I searched online and got hints about editing the info tables and/or installing webmin. I'm still researching what that is but I want to make sure I'm on the right track. Thanks!
Because will not be automated, only connected few times every month, archiving purpose. One drive will be the mirror of the other. Took almost 8 hours to copy 1.7Tb, seems first sync will be at night again.
The usb will work, but if costs allow it, an SSD works better for use cases like yours
James Nguyen
I have some spare cheap 120gb ssd that i can use, what would i need the ssd for compared to just using a usb or even a 2.5 hdd?
Dylan Collins
The OS you're running. Having a fast OS will definitely benefit a fileserver. And depending on OS, you can also use the SSD as cache for your most accessed files.
Easton Lee
>Enjoy your slave bot server for hackers c&c
I'm very new to this, if you would explain what you meant would be definitely appreciated. How would "hackers" know my IP? And what's c&c?
Asher Watson
Someone can scan port from 0 to 99999999, from ip 0.0.0.0 to ffffffffffffffffff and eventually find an open mysql port in your ip, then can attack your login or exploit it with hack. Once hacked, obviously he/she will not take you down, but keep your machine (bot) controlled from a central place (Command and Control server) where, with others machines, can do bigger attacks, like ddos. And don't worry bobby, nobody born with knowledge, just ask.
It's not advisable to have apps like MySql open to the internet. they have a lot of vulnerabilities and require a semi-privileged account.
Consider buying a VPS on aruba.it for $1 and play around with stuff on there. At least that way if your server gets infested it won't affect your personal computers.