Recent content by kevindd992002

Yeah, I guess it's best to look for a barebones one. So I can at least have choices for the other internal components and use more up-to-date ones. Interesting. Can I also use Noctua fans with that fan wall?

I do need transcoding for my external clients. Anything with Quicksync should work, like how my NUC is. I do want a bit of headroom in case I need to provision more VMs in the future or something. I have no fixed budget, for now, but I also don't want to spend a ton for something that I won't...

My main purpose for the server is a NAS/file server. I have a NUC for plex/media server and a Dell Optiplex for opnsense. Can this be a full-fledged server that will act as a file server and maybe even act as a plex/media server? Perhaps go with Proxmox? I have another home NAS that has Debian...

Yeah, saw the 847 too and chatgpt told me it's significantly noisier. I would imagine the 846 is a lot noisier than my Synology NAS + extension bay so I'd like to keep the noise to a minimum. Assuming I'm able to get the 846 with the SAS3 backplane, what motherboard and CPU should I be looking for?

Gotcha. Are they readily available used in eBay? According to their site, I want either of these models, correct? SC846BE2C-R1K23B SC846BE1C-R1K23B SC846BE1C-R1K03JBOD SC846XE1C-R1K23B I mean these are the only ones that supports both SAS3 and SATA (which are the drives I have). I don't...

Thanks. Are those 846's too old now?

I am planning to upgrade my 2015 Synology NAS to a rackmounted NAS but I don't know which hardware to get. I'm open to using used Supermicro chassis but which one should I get from eBay and what other components should I get? Right now, I have a total of 14 SATA drives in my Synology setup and...

I completely udnerstand what you're saying. I think I missed out the part that I also configured opnsense's management interface to become a subinterface with vlan 1 (so tagged). So it is definitely expecting packets with tagged vlan 1. But it's still not working. Why do you need ti leave the...

In my small home network, I'm using an opnsense router/firewall using a router-on-a-stick model. I have the following interfaces/networks setup in opnsense: Untagged traffic (using parent interface, vtnet0) -> Management VLAN 20 (using sub-interface, vtnet0_vlan20) -> Main VLAN 21 (using...

Right, that makes sense. But enabling it in SAS drives doesn't have any difference in enabling it in SATA drives in terms of performance and risk, correct? I'm running badblocks against a used HGST SAS drive I got and was surprised that the write speed was just 25MBps. I used smartctl to enable...

So then why is write caching enabled by default on SATA drives? Does that mean SATA disks are designed to be volatile storage since they are targeted more for consumers?

So to confirm, it is not a thing these days? And you can't implement it?

I'm having a similar situation with an HGST drive that I just bought. Initially, I was trying to do a background long smartcl test but it was erroring out that it is an unsupported scsi command. So I tried running a foreground long (with the -c switch) test but I didn't know if it didn't have...

So what is the consensus here? Does SR-IOV make sense for HBA cards like the Dell PERC H310?

Gotcha. Here's all data I see in a `smartctl -a /dev/sdb` command: smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-21-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command...