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Been extended til 31st Jan.shame the £100 cashback ends tomorrow here in UK
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Been extended til 31st Jan.shame the £100 cashback ends tomorrow here in UK
Been extended til 31st Jan.
Just search for the best price on the Kingston part KVR1333D3E9S/4G (get two for 8GB) or the KVR1333D3E9S/2G (get two for 4GB).Would anyone have a good link to ram that is a good price in either 4gig or 8gigs?
Probably a very simple question, but without one of these units in hand to look at... for those of you who moved the included 160GB HDD up to the optical disk bay: any pictures and/or description of how you mounted & connected things?
Somewhere I'd seen a reference to putting in one of those trays that can hold four 2.5" drives in one 5.25" slot... not sure where you'd get the extra SATA connections from though?
it says it's RAID compatible with appropriate card, so I guess it's
do-able, I wonder if all drives can share the single available SATA cable?
This looks pretty cool, but I would rather just build my server. Look at this sick Home Server case:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112316
Room for 7 3.5inch drives. 140mm fans in the front with a 120mm in the back.
on a Win 2008 server using SMB 2 it can do 115MB/sec, I've tested already.
I've been running mine of about 2 months.
Been real happy with it.
8 GB of non-ECC corsair memory
4 - 2TB HD204UI (with the latest firmware)
2GB USB stick (FreeNAS)
Bought another Low Profile Broadcom NIC from e-bay.
According the the Passmark benchmarks the N36L is faster than the D525 :
AMD N36L Benchmark
Intel D525 Benchmark
With some tuning (Kernel/ZFS(RAID-Z)/Samba), I was getting with my Gig link around 650 - 700Mbps read/write. (Without Jumbo Frames). Testing via my Laptop with a Corsair F120 transferring CentOS 5.5 DVDs. According to the Web interface, the CPU will drop down to 800Mhz when I enable power saving.
Going to have to read up on EON and Nexenta. I'm leaning towards EON when it releases it Luminous port.
I recommend the latest stable release at this time: 0.7.2.5543I just got mine today and am in the process of setting up FreeNAS 0.7.2.5739..
after successfully installing the embedded OS onto a 1 GB usb stick, I boot up the N36L and the FreeNAS bootup freezes at "trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0"
any ideas on how I can fix this?
I did a quick search and looks like it could be a USB issue...just hoping that someone has remedied this problem in the past...
Mind sharing some of your tweaks? I'm running pretty much exactly the same set up, but my throughput is pretty crappy at the moment.
I recommend the latest stable release at this time: 0.7.2.5543
I've had issues with latest test releases when using the embedded installs.
I've kinda gone a different way with my server.
Specs...
Boot/OS drive is a 2.5", 250 gig, 5,200rpm.
Data/Storage = Four 2TB Samsung 5,200rpm drives set as two 2TB mirrors
4 gigs mem.
I originally had Server 2008 R2 on it and everything ran great. But the more I used the system in conjunction with my other computers I knew I needed to change. I decided that I wanted *everything* served from this machine including TV. As most of you probably know getting a tuner to work with Server 2008 is not a plug-and-play setup. After fiddling with it for a couple days with minimal luck and even trying to get it to work the way I wanted in a VM with a USB tuner I still wasn't happy. So I said screw it and threw Win7 Ultimate on it along with my Hauppauge 2250 dual tuner. Everything loaded perfectly and the system is surprisingly snappy. Now I can record all my shows and share them out to my other computers with no hassle. By the way, I never really paid any attention to the onboard video and was very surprised when Win7 found it as ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200. I still have my VPN, FTP server, Orb and a few other do-dads I need, so I feel I'm not really missing much. I wasn't really using 2008 for anything I can't do with Win7 except for setting up various streams with Windows Media Service, but to be quite honest WMS is VERY limited and if I decide to get serious with any streaming I'm going to have to look for something better.
I know putting Win7 on this box may seem like sacrilege to many of you and you're probably thinking "He should have just used an old computer for that", and I could have, I have one in the closet that would do this. But I wanted this box because it's small, quiet, cool running, attractive and very low on power.
Interesting setup. I had planned to build an HTPC that would do what you're doing...But...
Would it be possible to run W7Ultimate AND FreeNAS(via VMWare)? I'm not even sure if it's worth building and maintaining the FreeNAS server if W7Ultimate is on the machine.
I am planning to get at least one 4GB RAM module, a Zotac ION GPU 512MB PCIe Video Card, and the Hauppauge 2250 dual tuner.
I would expect that the machine would be on 24/7.
FreeNas is neat and all, but I don't see the purpose of putting it a system that already has Win7 Ultimate and hardware RAID. Unless of course you have a special need for it. I'm sure someone can fill me in on what I may be missing and why you may want both. For now, I don't see it though.
Oh, and to answer your question, I don't see why you couldn't have both if you wanted.
I installed freenas for a test on my box and the array lasted all of 4 days before it started playing up, doing weird thigns and then just gave up the ghost. That was a test for a friends box who wanted something easy. In the end, I gave up on software raid completely and bought a p400 raid controller off ebay for 70$ and found a company that makes SFF8087(f) to SFF8484(f) converters.
Im just waiting for the test unit to arrive but if all is good, Il be able to easily have a decent raid controller in my box and not have to worry about sleeping at night, knowing that the software raid on both freebsd and linux were giving me issues on this server.
If anyone wants one of the adapters, then Ill send on the details of the place in the US that makes them to order.
Spot on!For me the ProLiant is perfect as a NAS and appears to give me enough 'room' to geek out.
Does anybody managed to have the HP Microserver working with the HW RAID 1 and OpenSuse.
All the installation process (from an USB stick) worked, but at the reboot, it says 'No operating system'
I read that the /boot partition should be on a non-raid disk. Is it possible to reduce the RAID partition to leave a small space (100MB) for the boot partition ? (I did not see any option to do that in the BIOS RAID configuration menu)
Are there any other options to make it work ?
Thanks a lot in advance
Christopher