Home Data Center - Drobo Pro

[MrACOO]

YOU BUY DROBO PRO FÖR OVER 1000$ AND YOU HAVE GB HDD IN IT?!?!?!?!?!?!

[Darksidethreefour]

Well it doesn't really matter that eSATA isn't as fast as gigabit ethernet. Your platters (even all of the drives put together) aren't going to spin fast enough to saturate gigabit Ethernet anyway, none the less eSATA. That is, if your network is laid out in a logical and smart fashion.....which to your credit it appears to be.

My question is; does the drobopro include services to sync your data offsite? I imagine for 5tb that would take a while and use a ton of bandwith, but still.

[chaosfactor333]

Are you presenting any LUNs from the Drobo via iSCSI to y our ESXi host?

[adamsb33]

nice, practical setup! very cool. mines a lot like this minus the switches cause im hooked up all centrally.

[TheIndustrialphreak]

My heart is palpitating over this setup except for the green technology switch. I had a problem with one of those switchs a few monthes ago about it not ccoming up fast enough for my cluster.

[psmoczynski]

buying originals would be cheaper...

[daveolso]

I got a Drobo Pro for work and we love it. I made it 16tb and we just added in the Hard drives are needed. It's full now so we are looking at adding in another drobo. It's alot cheaper than our IBM SAN but we only use it to archive our older projects. I do still back it up once ever 4 months with LTO5 tapes. Great product!

[kciaccio]

Bluray 16 gigs? What lame Blurays are only 16Gigs? Movies are more like 25 to 40 gigs. 

[bradbeckett]

If I were you I'd move your wireless router antenna down horizontally so it radiates to the upper floor(s) better.

[hulkhatepunybanner]

Would you consider placing your movies separately on another NAS or storage server? Since movies aren't viewed regularly a separate box could sleep until call upon. Plus if you have the original DVDs duplication on the box would be unnecessary - more room for movies!

[crapfig]

tcp connections for porn and torrents.... i mean "content" :trollface:

[solstice666]

Uhmmm .. wiring wise .. not a good idea to run data cables next to power cables .. big no no in the wiring industry

[DanNixon2007]

I love the Drobo Pro for reliability even when a drive does fail it can rebuild a new one in a few hours.

[scraplife]

What the heck do you need that Packetshaper for? lol

[eggomiego]

Very nice setup for a home data center. I would eventually organize it a little more, maybe get a rack. Do you mind listing all your devices and the order they're connected in?

[jle0311]

You should never run electrical lines right beside data cables.....causes EMI!

[Dennis5587]

@jle0311 That's why networks have data correction, for this guy's small network the couple of flipped bits won't cause too much of a slow down. 

[fl0r1svdk]

bd are 50 gb max

[carl313313]

I have an Netscreen firewall too ..

But the only prob is i dont know how to configure the DHCP Server of it .

( I need that it would use my other DHCP Server ( Relay ) or something .. )

[TECHBUGTv]

Very nice. I have a lot to learn about networking!

[Lasareath]

Nice System!, Please get your VMware server off the floor!, Water happens in a basement.

I like the pop-up with the smiley face! LOL

[janX9]

You spent probably $1500 on a drobo pro, and you only have 5 TB of in it? Dude a little part of me just died :(

You are a lucky man, I envy the drobo pro you have

I was going to pick one up tonight but X-mas and all, I figured more should go to the family, maybe next year. Instead I just got myself a 3 bay hotswapper and PCI to Sata adaptor... I guess I could have used my extra 4 sata ports on my motherboard, but they are for RAID and I wasn't prepared to figure that all out LOL RAID noob here

[killyoulikeapig]

great setup!! can you add domain name from no-ip or TZO?

[Gamer08ful]

Whats a drobo? Is that a case or a whole server or what?

[kkeithan]

@Gamer08ful

Go to Drobo.com Great raid enclosure with management.

[PL3NTY]

@kkeithan Cat5e isn't gbit. You need Cat6.

Still nice set up!

[kkeithan]

@PL3NTY

According to my speeds Cat5e will do gig.

[Lasareath]

@PL3NTY Properly terminated cat5e will give you gbit.

[SuperOwnJK]

Where do you download your Movies from?

[LostTheGameXD]

dont you mean 40% capacity being used, not 1/4th

[kkeithan]

@LostTheGameXD

Good catch, yes 40%

[1tokeover]

I have a Watchgaurd Firebox firewall. I cannot get any packets to be sent from the external. I don't think it's a blocked site problem. Any suggestions?

[PatrickSocha]

Very nice setup! You ever consider flooding? Since some of your servers are on the floor, if there were to be a leak then it looks like the servers/hardware on the floor would be ruined :(

Good to know your using it to store 'content' ;P

[cer5061]

Did you have any trouble getting the Virtual Server to see the Drobo drives?

[alexedit1]

downloading....uh..."content"  awesome. that's a kick azs set up

[kkeithan]

@alexedit1

Thanks!

[RickyTomatoes]

Isn't all this equipment overkill for a home?

[alexedit1]

@RickyTomatoes there is no such thing as overkill

[kkeithan]

@alexedit1

Tell my wife that :)

[JP2Wyte]

Ummmm, why is my dream sitting in your basement?

[AnThOnYrox8]

whats the vmware server for, im thinking of building a server for home use, for a file server, print server, thats all i can think of atm lol

[jwd0808]

Nice setup - love the Drobo...

[monkeylens]

Why proxies and packet shaper for home network? What am I missing? I'm impressed with your whitebox vmware server.

[zomgbbqwth]

i have the same monitor as you~

[XtR0pX]

Very nice. I like to see a simple home setup like this that is practical, instead of a huge mess of expensive humming servers that cause people to ask "WHAT ARE YOU USING ALL THIS FOR" (the response usually being to the effect of "uuuhhhh...."). This seems to be exactly what you need for what you are doing. Props.

[GeneralDelta]

Wow. I'm impressed. I especially like your SSG5! ;) A very nice firewall.

[kkeithan]

Thanks! I spent countless hours setting this up and the work never ends :)

[harshwbajpai]

Contentorrents ;)