NAS/Storage Megathread: What is this "File Deletion" You Speak of

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w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

Stonefish posted:

A lot like that, yes. Except not in PCI-X flavour.
Let me see, 8 SATA2 ports would require 8x3Gbit/sec to avoid theoretical bottlenecks, right? 3GBytes/sec would be about 6 PCI-E 2.0 lanes, so I guess it would have to be a PCI-E 8x card.

The card linked above could only handle about a third of that. and yes, I know it's not easy to max out a single SATA lane with a 7200 disk.

Basically, I don't have any PCI-X slots, nor have I ever seen one anywhere.

Hell, I just want a PCI-E card with 4+ SATA2 ports that supports Vista 64 for a reasonable price.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2009 16:32

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 12:59

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

Did someone mention getting rtorrent for opensolaris? I'm really struggling to get it going.

# ¿ Feb 1, 2009 00:16

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

I just built a server that is maxing out my gigabit ethernet at around 100MB/s, what's the next step up networking wise?

# ¿ Feb 12, 2009 00:19

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

Dobermaniac posted:

Is this a server in your home?
If so, just wondering... what do you do to max this out enough that you're looking for a solution?

Just curious what my options are, I don't feel like spending a ton of money because I don't really need the speed, it'd just be nice. I move a lot of files around.

Edit: I should mention that just directly connecting two computers somehow would be perfectly acceptable.

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

I'm actually kind of impressed that he's getting full speed out of his gigabit network, I've heard that cheaper NICs and switches will only reach half to two-thirds that. I'm curious to know just what his configuration and setup is.

It was between a crappy netgear switch and two gigabyte brand motherboards. No jumbo frames. Server is an OpenSolaris box with a five disk raidz. It seems to be capable of 200MB/s, maybe more. That was during a scrub (CPU/IO intensive).

# ¿ Feb 13, 2009 01:10

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

xamphear posted:

200MB/s (where MB = MegaBytes) over Gigabit ethernet is physically impossible. http://web.forret.com/tools/bandwidth.asp?speed=200&unit=MB%2Fs

Do you mean 200mbps (where mb = megabits) which works out to 25MBps? That's a very typical speed over a crappy gigabit switch and onboard nics.

You misunderstood, scrubbing is like chkdsk /R for ZFS. No network involved.

# ¿ Feb 16, 2009 00:59

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

KennyG posted:

I rewrote the thing in .NET and modeled raid arrays from 2-64 disks 1000 times each. I just optimized the code and am working on a 1,000,000 rep sim to try and improve the reliability of some of the averages.

If you want to know about how long you can expect your raid array to last - check this out.

Any chance you could add a hot spare option? I'm wondering if raid 5 + hot spare would be as good/better than raid 6

# ¿ Aug 1, 2009 19:41

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

KennyG posted:

I'm currently running the 1m sim. Next up is the hotspare.

Excellent, I looked around your site and love what you're doing, but is modeling HUGE arrays realistic? I thought everyone knows to keep their pools around 10 drives or less.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2009 22:17

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

I'd love to hear about the rtorrent troubles. I eventually got an older version working but my scripts never worked correctly so I'm running XP on virtualbox for utorrent.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2009 14:35

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 12:59

w_hat: Jul 8, 2003

adorai posted:

did you try opensolaris, sxce, or solaris proper? I'd never touched solaris before and picked up opensolaris in about a day.

Seriously, if you're comfortable with linux opensolaris really isn't that bad. Once you wrap your head around smf it's great.

Edit: Documentation is really lacking though, the opensolaris bible is very good and very helpful.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2009 01:12

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