Best File server OS away from WinBlows - Page 2

Hive · 19th May 2012, 10:07 PM

Another vote for Solaris 11 express, seems rock solid enough.

MoultoMan · 19th May 2012, 11:30 PM

I had FreeNAS going for a while and it worked great, no problems except for a few USB booting issues. I've since moved to Ubuntu with ZFS and it has worked perfectly ever since, much more versatile too.

LostBenji · 20th May 2012, 8:04 AM

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aza2001 · 20th May 2012, 8:11 AM

I'm still using mdadm under Debian... Been using it before the norco too... pretty rock solid IMHO only problem I had was upgrading from 5 to 6 and one of the arrays wouldn't mount on startup...

This mixed with webmin, has been a saving grace as I have had some pretty hinky hardware raid card problems in the past.

Best part I love is if something goes screwy you can mount the array dirty and try and copy some data off it...

Try doing that with hardware raid cards...

Aetherone · 20th May 2012, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by aokman

Being that he is using a Norco 4224 and looking at server hardware, i get the impression its not your "average" home user.

Well, "average" for around here

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Originally Posted by LostBenji

The biggest issue is the aging 9550SX RAID card and it's bitching at the Seagate Green drives.

I know the WD Greens can be made more raid friendly by increasing the head park timeout, is there a similar option on the Seagate greens?

As far as I can remember from my 3ware days, you make single drives by setting up single drive raid-0 (or 1) arrays on them all. Without any real striping going on, the drives are still individually readable/recoverable on regular SATA ports.

elvis · 20th May 2012, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by aza2001

Try doing that with hardware raid cards...

I haven't used hardware RAID in a very long time. It's utterly inflexible, and if you're using anything outside of basic mirroring you're leaving yourself at huge risk should your RAID hardware die, and you don't have an identical card/controller/hba to replace it with.

I've been told for years by "experts" that hardware RAID is faster, yet when I put hardware and software RAID devices side by side under real world workloads, the variances are negligible (and sometimes even favour software RAID!).

It's even gotten to the point for me where I've disabled hardware RAID on enterprise kit, falling back to single drive mode so that I can set them up with software RAID and know in a pinch I can restore the working system on entirely different hardware if I absolutely have to.

Aetherone · 20th May 2012, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by elvis

I've been told for years by "experts" that hardware RAID is faster

This used to be correct ... back when you had to have eight sockets on your motherboard to fit in eight CPUs and ram was rarely measured in units bigger than "mega".

7nothing · 20th May 2012, 11:41 AM

I went with Freenas on ESXi, using the local disk RDM hack, pretty happy with it in general.

LostBenji · 21st May 2012, 6:53 AM

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Soarer GT · 21st May 2012, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by LostBenji

Cheers to all so far.

The average seems to bloody HP mini servers... LOL

Unfortunately, I haven't had any luck sourcing any such tool or software. The choice of ZFS should eliminate any issue anyway.

You little ripper, time to test it out, I have some spare drives to test on the card.

I have both =) a Norco 4224 with dual 10gigE ports for the serious stuff and some Microservers for basic storage.

I've left a copy of the WD tools here if you want it :

http://www.kiiku.com/ocau/WD_GREEN_IDLE_FIX/

Hive · 21st May 2012, 1:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Soarer GT

I have both =) a Norco 4224 with dual 10gigE ports for the serious stuff and some Microservers for basic storage.

I've left a copy of the WD tools here if you want it :

http://www.kiiku.com/ocau/WD_GREEN_IDLE_FIX/

10g over copper?

Awww, me want.

LostBenji · 21st May 2012, 7:43 PM

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Herballizard · 21st May 2012, 9:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Hive

10g over copper?

Awww, me want.

mellanox are doing 40GbE non copper though :-(

I have been looking at adding a couple of the intel X520's to some of my home kits

Also if you are committing to getting a norco then yeah I agree not your average home storage user. Myself I am after a thumper if I can get it but I would prefer a X4540

trackhappy · 21st May 2012, 9:26 PM

FreeNAS would be wonderful if it worked. Every time I tried to install it, it would fuck up somewhere different. So I just gave up on it.

LostBenji · 21st May 2012, 9:26 PM

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