WOW Storage Server COMPLETE i3 530 12TB Raid 6 Server 2008 R2 Adaptec 5805 StarTech Gigabit

Hayleys server is finally complete!

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• WOW
• Storage
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• COMPLETE
• i3
• 530
• 12TB
• Raid
• 2008
• R2
• Adaptec
• 5805
• StarTech
• Gigabit

[ghelyar]

When you say 100 meg a second, do you mean megabits per second (bits per second being the standard unit for bandwidth) or megabytes per second (what Windows probably shows)? The expected performance of NAS seems to vary depending on the expertise of the user e.g. Drobo users think 100mbps is fast for a USB DAS, while my own NAS reads at about 2.8gbps locally (dd read to /dev/null), bottlenecked by 2x gigabit NICs in LAGG.

[TimeToLiveCustoms]

@ghelyar Im getting 109MB/s (bytes) both ways minimum over a single gigabit line with 2 paired off and set to share both cables for up and down not just one in one out I can get 190MB/s both ways.

[ghelyar]

@TimeToLiveCustoms this is roughly the limit for gigabit and is what I would expect from a functioning RAID card. I was asking about the "100 meg" of the onboard RAID from the start of the video, to see just how bad it was to start with.

Link aggregation (lagg) is fun but has some limits and different modes are useful in different situations. In general one TCP stream will only go through one link, for example, even if the other is unused.

[TimeToLiveCustoms]

@ghelyar ahhh it was MB. with the raid card it was over 1GB/s but that could have been cache, I should really have overloaded it but Ive never felt any slow down in day to day use

[Sole4sho]

Hi Tom, so im thinking of somthing like this for my home too but having trouble with how its all setup... I mean, do this replace the router?? do I plug all pc's directly into this thing or does it still need to go through the router?? oh and why 4 ports on network card?? sorry if im being noob... if anyone else can help it would be much apreciated... again sorry for the noobness

[TimeToLiveCustoms]

@Sole4sho if you want to spend this much money on a server you deffo need to read up on some basic networking dude. Like network switches for example ;)

[Snake1979xfire]

I love that Knight Rider light in the case also xD

But 12 TB of hdd space wholy beeb, what u gonna store tom ?

OC3D Porn-TV xD

[sadrfasdfasdf]

StarTech NIC for a server? At least get an Intel Pro

[savaspar]

Can you connect the 4 gigabit ports of the card onto a router or switch, and have increased transfer speed??

[joshruehlig]

If this is a File Server I really recommend FreeNAS, you definitely will get great performance, especially if you used that SSD with ZFS (As l2arc).

Otherwise that SSD is essentially only being used when booting (where Random IO access isn't as important, and this is where an SSD shines). honestly you aren't fully utilizing your hardware by using windows. Not hating just wanted to bring that to your attention.

[TheDonnier]

thanks so much for the info on the raid controller! some of us in the heartland of America really love your videos, so keep up the good work!

[Sole4sho]

@ghelyar thanks for the advise, very very helpful and clear explination... thankyou

[ghelyar]

@Sole4sho get 2 gigabit network ports, either both on the motherboard, one onboard and one on its own card, or both on their own card. Intel cards are good. Using Cat6 cable, plug your cable modem or adsl gateway into one port and your gigabit switch into another, and boot it into pfsense, smoothwall or something similar. You could also get a wireless adapter for it and put that in its own zone to manage wireless users separately, but that's optional.