storage

Does anyone have a recommendation for a silent chassis with space for minimum 10 drives, but preferably 15+. (3.5 inch) m-atx would be perfect. -j

Hello, I have a pool on a general file server with 6 x 2TB drives configured in a three-group mirror that are very old. The system, for all intensive purposes, appears to be working normally. The pool does not report as degraded. However, I have been trying to move certain files using rsync...

Hi, i am in the process of scaling out my Storage Space. I figured out that i want to use a 2 Node HA Setup for a SAN Build. I already have 2 4U JBOD Chassis with drives which are connected to a single node atm. My Goal is to get two servers designed for being a Storage Controller. I have the...

Hello Gang, I'm implementing a new ESXi infrastructure at work, and I'm running into a little bit of a quandary with migrating VMs between different environments. I'll give you an overview of the environment to make this question easier to follow. Current Infrastructure: - 3 ESXi 5.1 hosts in...

I've the following for sale: Dell PowerEdge R510 €590 without disks: - Dual Socket Xeon E5620, 24GB DDR3 ECC RAM - 12 x 3.5" LFF bays with 2TB of Seagte SATA HDDs. You get a raw total of 44TB of storage. Add €200 to the price for disks. - PERC H700 Integrated with BBC - PERC H800 with BBC for...

Hey everbody, I‘ve come into the next round of Planing my personal NAS. As i Mentioned in previous threads i want to use FreeNAS with ZFS (RAID-Z2) for the storage of my movies and music and photos. Maybe i want to stream mkv files (movies) - but only for myself (which means that there a few...

Hallo again, I changed some of my components for my personal NAS due to some space problems in my room. I now have the follow Hardware-list for my FreeNAS device: RAM: 2x Samsung DIMM 32GB, DDR4-2400, CL17-17-17, reg ECC Cache-SSD: 2x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB HDD: 8x Seagate IronWolf NAS HDD...

Hello Everybody, Like I mentioned in a previous thread I want to use ZFS for my personal storage. I found a cheap deal for a Hard drive storage which supports JBOD. My question, Does this JBOD storage have to support ZFS or not. technically it should not matter, I think.

Micron closed lexar a few months ago and after announcing the purchase of the brand by longsys most lexar stock is being cleared out. I'd include prices but they're all over the board. I reveiwed some of their gear as a writer for a small technical website here Lexar Archives - Pocketables It's...

Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 i always enjoy reading these, dunno why.

I am in the process of building a storage server with the following components: Intel 2u chassis Intel S2600GL motherboard 2 x E5-2660 128gb ram 18 x 500gb dual port NetApp sm1625 Chelsio T580-CR connected to Cisco 3064 3 x Intel dual port backplane X x Hba's as I would like to avoid using the...

Hey guys, I'm trying to get rid of these SAS drives that have never been used for anything. I'm looking for about $400 each which would include shipping to the US.

Hi! I'm trying to come up with a design for a initially small-medium infrastructure that uses docker and shared multi-host storage, but I'm not entirely sure which option would suite best or be the most feasible... I apologise if this is not the right forum for this thread, and if it should...

So I'm speccing out an IT upgrade for the company I work at. We're a film production and we're thinking about making the move to 10G and part of that is figuring out kind of switch will actually work. One of the things I've been hammering home is that the connection from the Storage system to...

Well due to the Great deals section, I just got 4 x 8TB hard drives which is now making me think of how to set it up in my home environment. I don't have a lot of content to store. Most of my home files are stored in VM WS2012r2 Essentials server with two 6TB drives. One hdd is used for content...

I'm trying to figure out a cost effective solution to populating my dell r720 server with storage. I have esxi 6.5 installed on it, and I plan to move my developed VMs on it from my dev esxi node. Most times the VMs will sit unused. I plan to access the VMs on it to do testing, or demoing etc...

i try to change replace my avoton C2750 mainboard that work how proxmox 4.x hypervisor any suggestion? possibly mini-itx because my case are mini. i monitoring model /J1900/N3150/N3170 etc CPU because is interesting TDP but have less performance respect C2000. (cpu passmark comparison) I'm...

EMC² VNXe 3150, Dual SP, 6x 3,5" 600GB SAS, 6x 3,5" 2TB NL-SAS Datasheet: http://emc.sharedvue.net/Asset/Get/591/2224/h12943-vnxe3150-vnxe3300-ss?refferer=2563&group=2&url=http://emc.sharedvue.net/sharedvue/iframe/undefined/?sviresizer=www.longviewsystems.com Dual Storage Processors 6x 600GB...

I've been playing around with ESXi for almost a month now. My first hurdle was getting my GPU to successfully passthrough and while a bit bumpy, I managed to get that fully working which was exciting. Then, when working through setting up my VMs I started to notice that I had pretty mediocre...

Hey all, I'm currently working out a new build for a home workstation that I use to work with my racks and also for pleasure. My current rig is going to be sold and I want to avoid some of the issues I was having with my Samsung Pro NVMe. My Questions: What is the fastest storage device...