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Jago posted:Got any friends without a limit? Do the initial upload there and you can maintain from home. Nope, here we have the option of DSL @ 150gb limit, Uverse @ 250gb limit, or comcast at 300gb limit. Comcast only offers unlimited on business accounts which require a 1-3 year contract and installation charges (even if you are just converting a residential account)
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If anyone else is looking to pack 12 3.5" drives into a cheap* full-size tower, Newegg's got a promo code going for the Lian Li PC-A76 that drops the price down to $133. Also free shipping. *(compared to like a Supermicro or even Norco rackmount or something like that) Farmer Crack-Ass fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 6, 2014 |
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I don't know whether this is the right place to post this, but I have a Nexentastor server that doesn't play well with Windows when it comes to SMB shares. I have to change some security settings in local security policy in order to be able to connect to the share. However, my new laptop comes with Win 8.1 Home, which doesn't include local security policy functionality. Is anyone aware of registry settings that equate to the following LSP options? Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) Clients -uncheck "Require NTLMv2 session security" -uncheck "Require 128-bit encryption" Network security: Minimum session security for NTLM SSP based (including secure RPC) Servers -uncheck "Require NTLMv2 session security" -uncheck "Require 128-bit encryption" Network security: LAN Manager authentication level -select from the pull down menu: "Send LM & NTLM use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated" Edit: Welp, I found this using google, and it seems like the registry keys I changed according to that page and the one linked to it equate to what I was looking for, but I still can't connect. Fuck. Quixzlizx fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Farmer Crack-Ass posted:If anyone else is looking to pack 12 3.5" drives into a cheap* full-size tower, Newegg's got a promo code going for the Lian Li PC-A76 that drops the price down to $133. Also free shipping. I was going to recommend the RSV-L4500 from the last page (it's a rackmount model holding 15 drives for ~same price) but it looks like they're sold out now; welp
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Hi all, I want to make a file-server for all my home storage needs (which are ... a lot). I have about ~8tb in music, ~4tb in videos, and ~6tb in work files and to also run a few web-based frontends to access some of it. Currently these are all redundantly stored on multiple external hard drives, so I have no pressing need to Do This Right Away. But it's tedious making sure that all my files are up to date and my backups are consistently performed and my files are transferred to the right drives etc. so I thought it's time to tidy it up. Given the sizes I'm dealing with (and the expected expansion in demand and the money I can afford moving into the future) I've elected to make a custom server. I don't know how to do it, though! Do I want Raidz2/ZFS and ZFS(guru?) on Linux (FreeBSD?), or a Windows Server with DrivePool? If I get something like the RSV-L4500 can I mod it so the hard-drives are hot-swappable? If I go with this option how bad is it of an idea to use an E6600 as a processor? Is it more cost-effective to buy a $100 1-year-old server blade off ebay so that it comes with the controllers/RAM/processor all ready? How would I add a gigantic array of hard drives to it in this option?
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Ernie. posted:I don't know how to do it, though! Do I want Raidz2/ZFS and ZFS(guru?) on Linux (FreeBSD?), or a Windows Server with DrivePool? If you want hot swap you're going to have to pay for it. Each of these three fans represents a module you can pull out to service, but the top of the case has to come off to remove the module (I think, it's been a while). Me personally, I'd rather save the $200 (that's a 4TB drive) and cold swap the drives once a year. Hot swap makes a lot of sense at an office, especially if multiple people are using it. I generally don't watch a movie while hot swapping drives at home. If you do keep the case for 10+ years then you could probably justify it. Edit now that I think about it, the fan comes off the front, then you can add/remove drives on the rails, but the rails have to be installed, and you're going to have to fish to the back for the power/data cables, which are going to have to be crazy long and screw with your air flow when you mash them back in. There's about 4" between the back of the drives and the front of the next row of fans where cables are likely to get bird-nested. Best to just take the top off and-redo the cable routing whenever you add/remove a drive. Front of the RSV-L4500, unlocked (NSFW) ![]() Double-edit: here's an exploded view of the drive cage (4 drive model, not 5), this one has handy cable management hoops on the rear, mine did not come with those http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16816132035 Hadlock fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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If I want to setup a network drive for a relative of mine who works with photography and video-editing professionally but does not know about NAS (for that matter I don't know much but I am tech savvy enough that I build my own PC's from scratch). How much and what would be the recommendation on what I should purchase? more than two drives would probably be a big plus. Am I being naive in that this requires knowledge of networking on a professional level to do or is this something that I could setup with a bit of reading and some $? The idea would be that she could just have access to all of her data wherever she travels and upload stuff instead of having to lug around 10 different hard drives that are always in danger of failing.
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There's Supermicro servers on EBay I saw a few days ago for $200 each that had 16 hotswap bays and redundant PSU setups on older Xeons that still do pretty alright, just at mediocre power savings for home setups. You could remove those guts and come out with similar damage as getting that Rosewill case. Then there's those SGI storage servers that while limited to 1.5 Gbps are maybe $150 or so if you have an external SAS connector setup possible. You'll have to do some work to silence rackmount cases though almost always.
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SoggyGravy posted:If I want to setup a network drive for a relative of mine who works with photography and video-editing professionally but does not know about NAS (for that matter I don't know much but I am tech savvy enough that I build my own PC's from scratch). How much and what would be the recommendation on what I should purchase? Almost all of the pre-built NASes have that functionality with cloud apps. Look at Synology or QNAP. Although that being said, are you sure cloud storage isn't the right choice here? Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive...
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necrobobsledder posted:There's Supermicro servers on EBay I saw a few days ago for $200 each that had 16 hotswap bays and redundant PSU setups on older Xeons that still do pretty alright,...You'll have to do some work to silence rackmount cases though almost always. Yeah and there's the catch; you save some money on a hot-swap case, but now you have a 2U case with tiny 40mm fans running at 12,000 RPM so it sounds like your sister is blowdrying her hair in the next room over... forever. Sure the 4U case with the 6x 120mm fans and 2x 80mm fans makes some noise, but if you put a closed door between you and it, you will never hear it again. 2U chassis is a lot more sensitive to a failed fan, turning off your AC in the summer while you're on vacation for two weeks, or any other airflow issues. I may be sliiiightly biased, however.
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Don't buy rackmount servers for home unless you have a really good place to put them *and* really need something they do that you can't get in a normal case full of 120 or 140 mm fans.
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What's a decent Linux based NAS distro or web frontend to install, to replace FreeNAS? I'd like to put OpenHAB on my NAS, but for some USB dongle I need to work, a Linux jail doesn't cut it. I made the pool manually to bypass the GEOM encryption stuff, that won't be a problem.
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FreeNAS 9.3 is out.
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I've been running the betas without trouble. Just take note that they've updated pool version and it'll ask you to update.
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phosdex posted:I've been running the betas without trouble. Just take note that they've updated pool version and it'll ask you to update. I just updated my USB stick-based N54L FreeNAS server. I'm curious to see how it handles the new ZFS install. I've got a brand new flash drive that I hope actually has quality flash in it (this guy). If ZFS kills it, I'll let you guys know. I can't imagine it'll actually be doing that much writing, but I'm not sure. Do any of you guys know?
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Fangs404 posted:I just updated my USB stick-based N54L FreeNAS server. I'm curious to see how it handles the new ZFS install. I've got a brand new flash drive that I hope actually has quality flash in it (this guy). If ZFS kills it, I'll let you guys know. I can't imagine it'll actually be doing that much writing, but I'm not sure. Do any of you guys know? What would ZFS do to it? I am guessing you're going use it to install your OS on and not use it as a ARC2, Zil device?
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:What would ZFS do to it? I am guessing you're going use it to install your OS on and not use it as a ARC2, Zil device? I have no idea. Some guy in this thread a few days ago suggested that it might kill USB sticks quicker than the old format. I don't see why it would do anything different, but I don't know. [edit] Combat Pretzel posted:With FreeNAS 9.3, it'll probably be necessary anyway. I'm not sure whether the ZFS system pool is going to be kept in readonly mode or not. If not, I see USB sticks dying like flies. That was the post.
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Ah, Freenas does things differently I guess.
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Just check if it's read-only. If so, it should work just like before. If it's in read-write, any write (including stupid access time updates) will cause it to update large parts of the metadata tree, and that'll net you some considerable amount of writes each time.
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I thought FreeNAS copied everything to a ram disc, have they given up on that?
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Should I think about migrating from Xpenology to FreeNAS ![]()
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FreeNAS 9.2 certainly uses a RAMdisk, only configuration is written to the boot drive. But because ZFS may not work as a RAMdisk and because of all these features about snapshotting and such, it makes me think that 9.3 will have a lot more potential disk activity than before.
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The upgrade notes recommend "at least a pair of USB sticks for reliability". Sounds there's going to be wear on them.
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On one hand, adding a second dirt cheap USB stick to a NAS really doesn't impact anything in the grand scheme of things. On the other, I'm still not convinced it's a good direction to take to reduce the base system reliability (and I don't think it's one that NAS4Free is following).
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Who the hell is still using AFP and even developing new features for it?
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I've been meaning to put together a N54L/FreeNas server forever, and am going to pull the trigger soon. Can anyone confirm or deny that the 6TB WD Red drives work in this unit? For some reason I can't find any reports of people having used them. Also, am I paranoid in thinking that if I want 5 or 6 drivers, I should just spend $30 on a controller rather than messing around with a hacked bios? It's such an insignificant cost given the total budget of the project. EDIT: Wow I'm glad I glanced at this thread. FreeNAS introduces disk i/o on the boot disk now? Guess I need to add a very reliable SSD to the budget.
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Unless someone can point me to something it seems like everyone is overreacting. The boot file system has moved from UFS to ZFS for reliability and the ability to rollback broken updates through snapshots, nothing mentioned about dropping their existing setup of copying everything to a ram disk. This also allows for mirrored USB drives so when one goes toast you can pop in another and resilver instead of having to do actual work. NAPP-IT has been doing that for some time. edit: vvv I don't think its so much paranoia as ixSystems wanting bullet points on the feature list of TrueNAS appliances. thebigcow fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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The FreeNAS engineers tend to side on paranoia almost so that makes sense.MrMoo posted:Who the hell is still using AFP and even developing new features for it?
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I run freenas in a vm so boot disk activity doesn't concern me. Based off esxi and the built-in graph, disk I/o hasn't changed. Average cpu usage did go from like 3 to 5%. I forgot, I do have a problem. Time machine backups aren't working but I've been too busy to look into it. phosdex fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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thebigcow posted:Unless someone can point me to something it seems like everyone is overreacting. The boot file system has moved from UFS to ZFS for reliability and the ability to rollback broken updates through snapshots, nothing mentioned about dropping their existing setup of copying everything to a ram disk. This also allows for mirrored USB drives so when one goes toast you can pop in another and resilver instead of having to do actual work. NAPP-IT has been doing that for some time. This is my intuition as well. I haven't read anything to indicate that this will destroy USB stick boot drives any faster than UFS.
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I got FreeNAS up and running, yay. I'm trying to get port forwarding working correctly now with jails, and having trouble (I don't have any experience with ipfw or FreeBSD jails. is ipfw even running by default on FreeNAS? I notice pf is here too) I created a jail without the VIMAGE or NAT options selected. I manually specified IPv4 address, 10.1.1.1 (my FreeNAS box is on a 192.168.0.0/24 subnet) and installed SABNZBD to the jail. Now I can ssh to the FreeNAS server and access the 10.1.1.1:8080 to view SABNZBD: code:
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Since you're running your FreeNAS box on a LAN (meaning you have plenty of IP addresses available, and therefore don't need NAT), just add a jail and let it use VIMAGE (FreeBSDs very robust network virtualization). FreeNAS will, once you add the jail, try and statically configure an IP for your jail (by pinging the IP it wants to use, and then using it if it doesn't get any response). Once your jail is up and running, you just use whatever IP the jail has on port 80, instead of the FreeNAS installs own IP on port 8080. Afterwards you need to nullmount your directories in your jail, but that's covered in the FreeNAS documentation.
D. Ebdrup fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Dec 10, 2014 |
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D. Ebdrup posted:Since you're running your FreeNAS box on a LAN (meaning you have plenty of IP addresses available, and therefore don't need NAT), just add a jail and let it use VIMAGE (FreeBSDs very robust network virtualization). FreeNAS will, once you add the jail, try and statically configure an IP for your jail (by pinging the IP it wants to use, and then using it if it doesn't get any response). Once your jail is up and running, you just use whatever IP the jail has on port 80, instead of the FreeNAS installs own IP on port 8080. Afterwards you need to nullmount your directories in your jail, but that's covered in the FreeNAS documentation. I don't really want to pollute my network with additional IPs though, isn't there a way with reverse proxying/firewall rules I could accomplish this?
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Really? That's your problem?
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Are you by any chance the guy I replaced at work? I think we have more VLANs than we have employees.
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Broadcast traffic is the silent killer.
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Is there a reason what I'm trying to do isn't a good idea...? It seems reasonable to me.
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ashgromnies posted:Is there a reason what I'm trying to do isn't a good idea...? It seems reasonable to me. Non-VIMAGE jails don't allow daemons to bind to 127.0.0.1 for security reasons since it's shared with the host. You could try creating a secondary loopback address (e.g. 127.0.0.2/32) and passing it to the jail for "localhost" access within the jail. You may need to modify daemons on the host to not bind to it in case there's a port number overlap. VIMAGE is probably easier though, since the jail then behaves exactly like a separate machine, localhost and all.
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You would then have to configure both source and destination NAT rules, port forwarding (probably via pf, while avoiding split horizon dns issues and a host of other pitfalls), and possibly do some troubleshooting which you won't find much documentation on since almost everone uses network virtualization when running jails. Unless you're running a /30 block for your computer, your server and the routers gateway in an effort to avoid using too big of an ip block for your network, you got plenty of addresses and might as well use them. All because you "don't want to pollute your network" - speaking of which, what does that even mean? With a local dns resolver, you could even do like I have, and make it so you just have to remember hostnames like sabnzbd.yournet.local (or just the short hostname if you setup dns suffix/search domains for the statically configured clients and add it to your dhcp options) to access the various services (replace sabnzbd with couchpotato, sickbeard, transmission and whatever other tools you use to automatically fetch linux isos onto your fileserver, where appropriate). D. Ebdrup fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Dec 11, 2014 |
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So I pulled the trigger to buy the components for a NAS box, but I'm still undecided on the OS I will use. I'm going to have a quad-core AMD processor, 8GB of RAM, and 3x1TB WD Reds, plus a dual NIC card so I can play around with NIC teaming. I've been leaning towards FreeNAS and using it as a resource for my VCP5 studying, but I'm sort of wondering if anyone feels that a different OS would be a better choice in regards to storage for an ESXi lab.
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