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I went the mikrotik route, you can't really beat the hEX given it's size, price and a max power consumption of 3W along with things just working out of the box. It runs perfect, no issues so far - Stable and provides the performance I need while still being consistent.

Thought I would update this, I ended up buying a Mikrotik RB750GR3 or "New hEX" as it is called.. Works wonders, 80% cpu usage at full duplex 1Gbit with a few firewall rules and portforwards, massively faster than my previous ERL.

I have been thinking about doing that, but I wanna be sure that it can actually handle the throughput before committing and I cannot really find any proper benchmarks or details on it. It seems to be hard to find proper documentation on what kind of cpu power pfsense requires in a "bare config"...

mrwizardno2 - I am actually in the process of putting together a basic "home server" for basic NAS duties, going to run it off an i3-7100 so I might try and spinup a VM on that one and see how it goes but I would really prefer having a static device just for routing so that the internet is not...

I have a pretty long and detailed thread on this on the ubnt forums, there's basically a number of things that are going wrong here on their newer firmwares which are causing loads of problems. I can pretty easily benchmark 1/1Gbit full duplex on it if it is a simply iper between two hosts on...

Hi guys, So, I just got an upgrade on my network side and im now on 1/1Gbit internet, it does test 98x in both directions on my Edgerouter Lite, but it appears that it cannot handle full duplex 1Gbit, when stressing the network I appear to max out at around a total of 1.2-1.3Gbit connectivity...

They do this to limit any kind of issues in case there's a software problem. They have messed up in the past, this gives them the chance to spot issues before it hits too many users for them to handle, in my eyes it is a pretty decent compromise.

Hi guys, Im having some issues that you guys might be able to help me with! I have a few Supermicro servers running in this chassis: Supermicro | Products | Chassis |4U | SC846BE1C-R1K28B <- with the single expander unit The servers run one of these two controllers: AOC-S3008L-L8e or...

For the price, i cannot find anything better.. 30 day limit? You cannot upload stuff, and delete them, i don't use it as storage but only to replicate live data.. I will however look into SOS Online Backup, as they seem to have a datacenter closer to my location for better performance!

Hi, All of the users have been configured by me personally as they have no knowledge about this. Cobian is configured to run a full backup, then run 5 incrementals, then a full backup including a wipe of the previous full backup... However it appears to not do that, it does not delete any...

Hi guys.. Im looking for some advice here, i have a home server, which is currently running Win10 (to get backblaze backups).. This server sees some traffic from almost my entire family backing up their data, while i live with my GF all of the data is backed up via the internet. The amount of...

Sorry for not getting back to you guys about this. In the meantime, we have decided to go for Iperiusbackup, which supports backup of files to lots of different storage options. Over WAN is simply a storage server in our own server room, with clients sending backups weekly to this server. We...

sorry guys, i kindda forgot about this as i had a week off work. There's no more than 2 VMs per host, in some rare cases there's 3 VMs.. I did manage to get a budget for each host which is around &#8364;50-75 for software.. All i needs to do is be able to backup to a remote location.

The idea with a VPN tunnel might actually be a working solution. I will have to look into that, i know our customers have firewalls that support things like this.

Hi, I have been given the task to find a working backup solution for some of our hyper-v clients. Basically, which is quite easy at first, i need a software to install on 2012 R2 which can backup individual VM's to an offsite location.. The offsite location is hosted in our own rack...

Im not actually that annoyed by the "noise" from the machine, if all harddrives are off i can not hear it in any way. The case i already have has dampening in it. The main issue here, is the vibrations from the harddrives that make the sucker load as hell, and its actaully possible to feel the...

Hi guys, Im on the hunt for a new chassis for my home server, im currently running it in a Fractal Design Define R4, however im having lots of issues with ressonance (spelling?) and i cannot seem to get a handle on it! Pretty basic requirements, i need it to be sturdy, as little shaking as...

Im going to test it, as i might get the task to handle stuff like that at work (lucky to have gotten the chance to work with stuff like this). Im not going to run WIFI through it for now, that will be handled by my former router which is an Asus RT-N66u which i will simply set to AP mode.

I guess this is all about preference :P I can get and use hyper-v for free since i can get the licenses from work at no charge, basically that's also valid for esxi, however i might just pull the trigger on a hyper-v machine.. No idea if i should go full core installation or i should atleast...

The server is a headless machine standing in my basement, so im not really worried about only remote controlling as this is what i have done so far :) Im merely looking for something that will fit my setup, is it correct that you cannot passthrough harddrives without VT-D on Esxi?

Im looking for a way to run a few linux based machines, and also a sophos home appliance.. Im still looking at running a win 8.1 machine for my fileserving, basically which isn't entirely optimal but it will allow my backblaze backups to keep running smoothly. While the Win8.1 machine would be...

Hi guys, Im curious, any thoughts on this? Im looking for a new platform for my home server, and i might go for a 2012 R2 core as from what i can gather it can passthrough drives without VT-D supported by the CPU. Any pro's and cons? Im still a bit new to this kind of setup as i...

I can definately hold out a bit, especially if we are looking at the option for more RAM. I have thought about the E3 setup, but couldn't really decide, something like the TS440, while quite nice it doesn't really cover my needs as the filestorage im running is currently 11 drives, and i need...

Hey guys! Im looking for advice, and what better place to look than here? I currently run desktop hardware, i3 cpu, 16G memory and simply Windows 2012 R2 installed on it with all of my services. I would really like to upgrade this and go the VMWare route, or are server core with hyper-v...

Looks like Seagate stepped it up. Not that bad, when you compare them from their aggressive pricepoint.

The reason for this is quite simple. They need the storage, there's too much lost storage on raid10 for it to be a factor, im aware that raid10 is the fastest and the one that shuold be picked in a setup like this.. Does IOPS scale differently on mdadm compared to ZFS?

After some careful reading, im not fully convinced that i should go the ZFS route. The workload that the servers handle, where it's highly random reads, requires lots and lots of IOPS, in this case im not quite sure that ZFS is the right way to go. In a pure iops setup, looking away from...

Is it faster to run 4 x raidz2 (6 drives per vdev) in a single pool or to split it out in pools of 2 vdevs and then balancing the load between the two pools? Do I need to tinker with the caching strategies at all?

We would really love to avoid changing the backend system, so we really wan't to stay on linux, the entire system is build upon Debian stable.. Rebuilding everything for Solaris would be quite of a hazzle.

Lets try and look away from the SSD part, as thats not entirely possible without hacks. Whats the best option out there? Will ZFS tuned correctly with 128GB ram, we can allocate around 90GB RAM to caching if some sort be faster than mdadm? This is purely from a performance perspective, not...

Thanks. I will pass it on, are there any thing that i should be aware of to try and tune to setup as it is now? readhead, stripe_cache_size etc? Can someone shed some light on that, as i believe i have been hunting improvements for so long that im no longer able to find any new ideas.. It is...

I would, if it werent for the fact that the server is about 2000km from my location :D

Hi, Im afraid that the server is rented equipment, and i will have to get a confirmation from the provider, although im not sure how much of a difference this will give. As said, ZFS have been tested before with a read cache, but since it so highly random data, the cache isnt really that...

99% might be over the top, but it's highly highly random reads, also quite typical a combined read from a 24 drive server in raid50, is maxing out at around 250MB\s.. However, random reads and lots of clients hitting the drives, i know some servers have quite a few users the run torrent...

Hi guys! Sorry for the lack of information, this was written very late:( The servers are running with the following specs: E5-2650v2 128GB RAM 12 drives connected to a HP P420i controller which is in HBA mode 12 drives connected to a HP P220 controller, which is from an external enclose (HP...

Hi, Im currently trying to solve a few things, this setup is for a shared hosting provider, that requires lots and lots of IOPS, mostly reads but on some servers writes are fairly heavy. They wan't to try and find a working solution that works on all of their servers, and offer them the...

That really depends on the IO load, i dont have that fast a cpu and its clearly peaking a single core 100% before maxing out the raid in raw read performance. It would be great if this could be "hacked" somehow.

Hi, I just got a "new" H700 installed in a system im using, and are doing some testing on it right now, however i noticed that when anything reads from the drives it loads up alot more on a single core. I can see that the megasas driver only accesses a single core via msix, not like HP420...

I run flexraid pooling here, and it does exactly what you are describing..

There might be other things to think about in relation to this. About 2 years ago i ordered 14 x ST3000DM001 - 7 for myself and 7 for a friend of mine. To this date, i have 0 SMART errors and 0 issues with the 7 drives that i have, my friend however has replaced all of his due to a mix of...