You must be a glutton for punishment or have the storage controlled. Listening to 12 Hitachi NASDrives for hours at a time would be brutal. I have just one 6TB Hitachi and it's annoying enough.
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You must be a glutton for punishment or have the storage controlled. Listening to 12 Hitachi NASDrives for hours at a time would be brutal. I have just one 6TB Hitachi and it's annoying enough.
You must be a glutton for punishment or have the storage controlled. Listening to 12 Hitachi NASDrives for hours at a time would be brutal. I have just one 6TB Hitachi and it's annoying enough.
It's in my basement so I only hear it when I'm down there on the treadmill or doing laundry. It's actually not that bad the 4TB drives don't have the same sound as the 6TB drives.
I was thinking about 8 x 6TB drives at minimum since the 8TB 7200 RPM versions are pricey. How much difference does 5400 RPM make compared to 7200 RPM or is the number of drives more important than the speed?
I downloaded the FreeNAS, but it is an ISO file. Would I need to buy a blank CD and an external USB drive to boot from?
I could probably hang an internal optical drive somewhere temporarily, but this is not a good start and it's been years since I worked with the discs.
I could probably hang an internal optical drive somewhere temporarily, but this is not a good start and it's been years since I worked with the discs.
ddrueding
Fixture
You don't need a disk, just download the program called Rufus, it will take the ISO and make a bootable USB out of it.
https://rufus.akeo.ie/
https://rufus.akeo.ie/
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
Newer Windows versions should be able to open an ISO as if it was in a DVD drive.
What do you think of the http://www.adorama.com/QNTVSEC10808.html NASs?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I think it's a very well formed question mark. What's wrong with it?
Regarding FreeNAS, you have to manage it from the web interface. Use the user "root" at first, with the password you gave it during installation. Then create another user and use it to access it afterward. You should see the IP address on the screen with the 14 options.
Regarding FreeNAS, you have to manage it from the web interface. Use the user "root" at first, with the password you gave it during installation. Then create another user and use it to access it afterward. You should see the IP address on the screen with the 14 options.
I don't know why the link doesn't show up since I saw it during the post. Now the code is visible if I quote the post, but messed up. It's very strange.
Do I need to access it from another computer on the network?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Yes. It is the purpose of a NAS.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Regarding the QNAP NAS you've linked, it's very good for the price, but unless you plan to use it for a mid-size office or use it to run VMs, it is probably overkill. It is the kind of unit I'd use for my companie's need and we have more than 200 employees.
That's what I thought before SD's comment. I will try again.
I was thinking that 10 bays would be nice and the ECc RAM, PCIe, etc.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
The QNAP TS-831X-16G would be plenty fast and includes 2 10G SFP+ ports. It's half the price of the TVS-EC1080-E3-8G. 8 bays instead of 10, but with 8TB and 10TB drives available, you shouldn't fall short on storage space.
Thanks. It must be a new model.
I can't find any transfer rate specs, but isn't that Armenian CPU too slow for RAID 6 and 10GbE, or does a weak CPU mainly affect IOPs?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Annapurma is in Nepal, not Armenia.
It won't saturate a 10G port and it certainly won't equal an i7 for sustained iops in random access workloads. However, unless I'm mistaken, you plan to put mecanical drives into your NAS, so those will be the bottleneck, not the NAS processor. If you'd fill the NAS with SSD, then it would be another conclusion.
It won't saturate a 10G port and it certainly won't equal an i7 for sustained iops in random access workloads. However, unless I'm mistaken, you plan to put mecanical drives into your NAS, so those will be the bottleneck, not the NAS processor. If you'd fill the NAS with SSD, then it would be another conclusion.
ddrueding
Fixture
Did the Annapurna Circuit from Pokara when I was younger, including a detour to base camp. Probably won't do another 30+ day hike again.
I will put a few drives in the one computers to use as NAS and then get two 10GbE adapters to see if the performance is reasonable from that to the main computer. 520 DA2 is ok?
ddrueding
Fixture
Yup, that is the one I've been buying. Not the cheapest, but I haven't had any issues.
If you are planning on using FreeNAS, just do some searching to make sure that adapter is supported under their platform. I believe FreeNAS is based off FreeBSD and it seems like Intel adapters are well-supported but I haven't confirmed if the 520 DA2 is or is not.
I don't see the X520 listed, but it's an older adapter that seems to be in the compatibility list of several other NAS units so I can still use it if the FreeNAS does not work out.
Does it work on Windows 10? It's not listed on the Intel site.
ddrueding
Fixture
Works fine.
By the way, I now have a QNAP TS-831X sitting on my workbench. I'll be populating it later today if anyone here wants tests or screenshots of config screens.
By the way, I now have a QNAP TS-831X sitting on my workbench. I'll be populating it later today if anyone here wants tests or screenshots of config screens.
Is this an LC to LC fiber optic cable or a twinax? There should be a clip that you compress in order to disconnect it from the SFP+ transceiver (assuming it's optical).
Is there a plastic/nylon pull tab on your DAC? That should release the clip when you try to remove it. The SFP+ connector should be part of the cable in this setup. Does it look similar to one of these?
D'OH! I tried that but obviously did not pull enough. I should probably install the card first.
D'OH! I tried that but obviously did not pull enough. I should probably install the card first.
The bits fly so fast they need to lock down the ports so they don't wall out. :-D
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
You're like Lucky Luke: you pull the trigger faster than your shadow (regarding purchasing stuff).
You spotted it before or after I linked it in this thread?
I'm curious how much data it can read/write in sequential transfers thru the 10G ports. Even fully populated, it won't saturate the link because the processor isn't quick enough, but how much can you expect to gain over another unit limited to gigabit links is what I'm curious about.
ddrueding
Fixture
I purchased it as soon as you linked it. I've been looking for something in this configuration (10-gig, 8-drive) for a while and it was not a hard decision. I'll be populating it with 8TB HDDs and a direct-connect cable to a high-end machine with SSDs in RAID0. We'll see how it performs. Might be Monday before I can get it done, though.
There's not enough information to understand this performance marketing data. You're still looking at using less than half the 10Gb link's potential for writes in whatever way they chose to write this data...be it monolithic files or random and for what duration. Sure, maybe you can see short bursts of speed while onboard RAM is used to stage and buffer but run this test for 20 minutes and let's see what the numbers are like.