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univbee posted:I had a really annoying Windows Home Server not-booting-and-not-telling-me-why situation, and even booting from the Vista DVD or Home Server DVD never got me anywhere. Turns out one of my hard drives was royally hosed and not responding properly to I/O commands. Just putting this out there in case anyone else runs into the same sort of problem. And sorry Sasquatch for not noticing this thread earlier I was going to reply to that thread but I had the same type of situation. Turns out WHS uses your boot hard drive almost constantly and can kill drives if they are already going south. I had the exact same thing happen to a 500GB WD drive only a week after building my WHS box.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Holy poo poo, I can't believe I finally figured out what that goddamn annoying idle seek grinding was causing. Hey thanks, im going to try this because the GP 1.5TB i have is slow as snails.
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Listerine posted:Okay good, it seemed like the easiest thing for me to do, just didn't know if it was a poorly implemented feature that I should avoid. Thanks for the response. No, no no. Storage Spaces is loving horrible. Don't even bother. It works until you need to change anything and then good loving luck. Try Stablebit Drive Pool. It totally rocks and doesn't use any funky file system stuff. Plain ol NTFS. https://stablebit.com/ I don't understand why Microsoft cannot make software like this. Look at this discussion from Windows 10 storage spaces: http://stebet.net/microsoft-finally-adds-rebalancing-to-storage-spaces/ They can't even get re-balancing right without diving into powershell commands.. and even that doesn't work for some people apparently. Pathetic. redeyes fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 3, 2015 |
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seagate + 8TB scares the poo poo out of me.. good luck fellas!
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This is from this year: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 31.68% failure rate Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB 26.65% failure rate Those are by far the worst. Just get HGST!
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Don Lapre posted:Those were shucked drives right? At this point they shouldn't be but I don't know.
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Sep 26, 2015 23:52
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IOwnCalculus posted:FYI, Newegg has the 3TB Red for $100 after applying ESCKKAR23. That drive has really bad reviews. Lots of drives dieing. Great price but ugh.
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insularis posted:Well, I had ZFS save my rear end for the first major time at home. I have a 17mo old toddler, and set the keyboard down for just a few seconds. The window that had focus was our media center machine's access to ZFS media share. He deleted the entire TV folder (3TB, about 12000 files). I didn't even get mildly irritated. I just logged into FreeNAS, reverted to the daily snapshot for that folder, and went on with my day. Glorious. Thats awesome and makes me want to try ZFS. Having said that, make that share read only 
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Yeah I watched that Linus video and it made my teeth hurt. The guy has incredibly expensive hardware thrown at him like the wind and he does that. I was frankly waiting to the end when he lost all the data and was going to laugh manically. That RAID abomination is one of the stupidest builds I can even imagine.
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Every person that I personally know that use(d) raid-5 has lost their entire array. It's literally the dumbest thing someone can do without an entire set of backups.
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mayodreams posted:My approach is getting a 8TB internal/external drive to back things up to. Putting all of your eggs into a single cheap usb enclosure is very risky. I've seen a lot of them fail. I just got the 8TB Seagate 'archive' 5400RPM drive. It is only for backups, and I got the internal drive with the 3 year waranty. I don't trust Seagate for poo poo but for like $215 it is hard to beat at 8TB.
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my new 8TB drive shows up as 7.2TB.. this marketing poo poo is getting annoying
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Why more people don't use Stablebit Drivepool on a Windows machine is beyond me. It has the same features as Unraid but uses windows and home built stuffs. Never had any data loss, never had any issues. Its real loving good. https://stablebit.com/drivepool
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Same thing with the drat 8TB Seagates. Wrong screw holes.
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Just get one of these https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Arch...rds=8TB+seafate
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Moey posted:I snagged one for testing at work. My thoughts exactly.
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I use one of these to blow out my computers: https://www.amazon.com/Toro-51585-E...ric+leaf+blower
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insularis posted:Yes, the CIFS shares in FreeNAS expose the ZFS snapshots to Windows machines (if you so choose). There's no setup required, it just works ... if the Windows machine can see the ZFS share presented, and snapshots are on for that share, Windows will see it. They're read-only to the clients, and as many snapshots as you have are visible (into the thousands, even). This is actually pretty impressive. Surprising even.
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insularis posted:It's incredibly handy. I let the users see their own home folder and department folder snapshots to self-service restore small backups of files/folders for themselves, and with the master "high level" snapshots, I can just roll back the entire Windows share file system in case of a CryptoLocker event (and CryptoLocker has absolutely no write access to any level of ZFS snapshots by default). It's funny because that is exactly the scenario I was thinking of. 
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Um, probably not. The NAS controller probably wont be using Intel RAID and might not even be formatted as NTFS.
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WD MyCloud EX2 should fit that bill: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AWH05KK/ref=psdc_13436301_t2_B00I2P53NY
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Hambilderberglar posted:I think my constellations are going after 17k+ hours. I wont personally buy anything but Hitachi NAS 4TB or above.
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Hambilderberglar posted:I known n=1 doesnt count, but how long have you had yours? Letsee, about 2.5 years. No bad sectors and no errors and I do surface scans every few months. I am using 8 of them but I have sold another 10ish and no failures as of yet. But really I recommended those drives because of Backblaze's stats: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-stats-q1-2016/
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Krailor posted:If you've been happy with how everything has been running on your windows box and you just need some parity then instead of storage spaces take a look at DrivePool. It's pretty intuitive and will even let you set up different parity levels for different folders, only limited by the number of drives you have. I've been using it for about a year and it's been rock solid. Totally agree. DrivePool f'n rocks. I think the main dev used to be on Microsoft's HomeServer team.
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That's an odd drive. Toshiba has typically not made a ton of desktop 3.5" models. No idea on the reliability nor have I read anything.
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necrobobsledder posted:I have a bunch of Toshiba 4 TB desktop drives in my NAS and have no problem but as we've seen with Seagate before, different capacity drives can have different reliability rates and there can be variance among model years as well - sounds like cars, right? As of now, Xpoint is not even close enough to ram Bandwidth to be used as that. It's more like NVMe SSDs with less latency from what I remember reading. So who knows, maybe the price wont be stupid.
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Forget Drobo. They are not appropriate to your situation. I don't even really have a recommendation except NOT Drobo, ever. Synology seems pretty good. Plenty of models to choose from that do not use a drobo type proprietary file system.
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Shachi posted:Am I correct in my understanding that drobo store data in a proprietary format their "beyond raid bullshit"? There fore a failure of the device means buying another to read the data? Yeah you would have to buy another Drobo to recover anything if the main one died. I don't think recovery software understands their RAID system though I could be wrong. Synology uses industry standard file systems so you should be good to go.
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Of course you want the HGST drives. They are badass. Low RMA rates
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emocrat posted:So, the OP hasn't been updated in a while and I haven't seen it come up in conversation going back a number of pages, so I will just ask. What is this threads opinion of Windows Storage Spaces? There is a lot wrong with storage spaces. I really highly recommend you use Stablebit Drive Pool. Just spend the 30 bux and enjoy it. You can span your shares/folders among any amount and sized hard drives. All files are stored as standard NTFS.. and easily recoverable.
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I've built a few ASROCK Rack server/workstations and I really like em. Good prices, solid performance, stability. What's not to love?
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priznat posted:My only complaint is not to do with them but the fact that very few sellers (in Canada anyway) seem to have any of their boards listed. Most (like NCIX) will order them though! Yes for servers their BIOSs are very good. Way way more features than your average dell.
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So you are saying that by the fact that ZFS is so i/o intensive doing background bookeeping it has a much greater chance of having data corrupted by bit flips? Is there any data to back this up? It's kind of interesting.
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I've got a PowerEdge t410 and it does this really odd thing, maybe someone knows why. It lays on its side on a storage rack. If lays with its side which opens facing up, the fan spins at like 6000RPM and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. If I flip it 180 deg so the side which opens faces down the fans chill at normalish 1000-2000rpm... WTF?!
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priznat posted:Having the side open mucks up the airflow perhaps? Can you try just keeping it with the open side up and put the case side back on? Sorry, in both orientations the case is totally closed. This is why it confuses me. You are probably right about the case switch somehow being opened or whatever. I will see if I can figure it out.
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Greatest Living Man posted:So Amazon sent me two 6 TB drives instead of the 3 TBs I ordered. If I'm starting fresh and formatting my existing pool, can I mirror them all in freeNAS without any problems due to the inconsistent sizes? Just sayin, they tend to notice.. at some point.
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Yeah in that case enjoy. Ive had cases where they asked if I got something they did in fact send in error. But it was not mislabeled.
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ElehemEare posted:I built a home server/ NAS combo last year and I was a dumb dumb; now Stablebit Scanner is flipping out because the load cycle count on the 2x2TB WD Greens I meant to replace are now at twice the threshold limit. I'm going to pick up an 8TB Red on Black Friday sale, but I'm also out of SATA ports. I want to throw a four-port SATA controller in so that I can actually hit full capacity of my case eventually, but I'm unsure on what to pick up. No, it makes absolutely no difference which controllers you use. I use these because what the hell, cheap as poo poo. Work perfectly over years. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005B0A6ZS/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (ASM106) I got 3 of them for 6 extra ports. Probably not the best solution but very cheap.
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Counterpoint, I see approx 4x seagates fail over other brands. I go through about 30 drives a month give or take a few. Most are from 500-1000GB
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Toshimo posted:Moving my array out of my box and into the new QNAP, one of the drives is starting to throw a SMART abnormality. Any lines on a cheapish 6tb drive with 3yr warranty? Ebay has really cheap license copies, probably OEM but whatever.
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