Recent content by Silver565

Never mind... case closed! :)

I think I've just had a long day and I'm clearly missing something. However, I've setup a new v3700. The problem is that I can't get two hosts to use the same volumes(two ESXi 5.1 hosts). They can both see the volumes, but only one can mount them at a time. Is there some sort of tick box I...

Hi Everyone, I'm after recommendations for a motherboard. Basically, all it needs is the following: 2 x PCI-E 3.0 8x lanes Onboard video Onboard NIC (2 would be good) Socket 2011 Hex core support(Doesn't have to be too powerful) Basically, this new server will run 4 VMs which act as...

Ah perfect. Thank you. I was going to go for the red disks(WD or Seagate) as they have ERC/TLER which should be a benefit in a raid controller setup

Okay, I've decided to go for a 4 disk raid 6 as my requirements have dropped. 8TB will be more than enough. I was looking at WD red 4TB disks as they're designed to be on 24/7. What I don't like about them is that they can change their RPM rate. How does a raid controller deal with that...

I'd love to do raid 60, but I'm trying to keep this box low power. Dreams nice though haha

Yep, if two disks in the same mirror fail, then you're screwed. I think I'll stick with R6, it seems like it should be fine for a small array

Cheers :)

ah bugger Well spotted

I have also found that WD have put out 4TB disks that are 10^15 URE http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/library/SpecSheet/ENG/2879-771475.pdf I think these in a raid 6 would make me feel a lot better for a small array :)

Thanks, I'm basically after a 9+ TB array that I can map to a single VM. I have an ESXi 5.5 host with an LSI 9260-8i raid controller. I would like to create an array that I can use for this VM as a backup location for other computers. I was going to(due to my lack of understanding) create...

Thank you I understand the basic raid concepts. It was the URE that threw me off everything as I had been unaware of it before. I was about to create a 4 disk R5 with one hot spare (4 x 4TB) until I read the dangers about it

Thanks, Would a raid 10 not be safer? Especially if I were to run a hot spare? I plan on having an old server that I turn on once a month running storage spaces as the backup(I won't need the performance etc for that one)

Hi Everyone I was hoping to get opinions on the drive capacity vs Raid 5/6 issue. My understanding is that a URE will occur on a standard disk for around 12TB in a R5. (source: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-2019/805) Has anyone found issues with this...

Hi Everyone I was wondering if anyone has/had found a chipset on a mini-itx board that works well with Debian based distros? The only real requirement is that the PC can play 1080P streams from youtube and a plex server(where the transcoding is all done on the server) I was leaning...