Recent content by natelabo

r/DataHoarder/ ... Will have all the info and reading you need. You're being pretty vague in your questioning. Technologies you should read into and understand: JBOD NAS SAN RAID ZFS Storage Spaces Big storage is fun... $5K is enough to play with. But expect to spend 60% of that on drives...

Lenovo Quick Pick says that this is made for your machine: 4XB0K48501 Search on eBay. Available for $150.

Get more nodes... then Windows SOFS with S2D or Ceph if you're into Linux.

4 drives RAID 1? So you are going to have 4 copies of the data? That's a huge space penalty...be better to have a 2 drive mirror. And use the other 2 drives as a legitimate backup target, preferably off-site.

Power or heat... Combined with too many start/stop cycles...

Just wondering if anyone has played with S2D in Server 2016 TP5? I want to test but haven't had a chance to. I would like some real world information on performance. Can it even run if I'm limited to 1Gb links?

My concern was the application aware part. I have no doubt that it works fine when the VM's are all shutdown. Time to go a buy an external so I can test... Also I read a little about Veeam what is it and how does it work?

I'm just wondering if anyone else does this? Currently I have a FreeNAS box running a NFS share to a ESXi 5 box. I use ZFS snapshots to incremently backup my complete VM Datastore. I don't have another box to rsync to, to test functionality. Should this work in theory or I am jsut wasting my...