Morning (where I am) folks.
I've been itching to make some changes to my home setup, specifically the storage side of things. One of the main drivers of the change, is that I'm running out of storage and need more...
as is usual.
I've a single Supermicro 847 36 bay chassis (1620w platinum PSU) holding my storage for now, totaling about 40TB right now (mix of drives). I don't do ZFS or tiered storage or anything like that for this setup. This is strictly media storage, with disk pooling (I use Stablebit Drivepool).
I spin down drives when not in use, but even with that, this server idles at ~ 70w with all drives spun down. This is the MB/CPU/RAM/HBA/Backplanes/Expanders all combined. While this is not bad, I've been rethinking how we consume this. Since we had twin boys last Sep (yay!) we've been watching a lot less media, and the server probably sees <2 hours of use a day, and idles for the rest 22 hours.
I've been experimenting with S3 sleep on the storage server, so that it sleeps most of the time, and only wakes up on a magic packet, when needed. (Kodi front ends, which can easily do this). This works really nice now, and the server is sleeping 22 hours, consuming ~3-4 watts.
I want to improve this further. One of the downsides of the current setup is that once you select a media to play, the entire server (and all 36 disks) wake up, even if all you want to do is play a single movie.
What I wanna do is, "slice" this into multiple systems, each holding 4-6 drives at max, and all of them set for S3 sleep, so that when you play media, only "one" of these servers is gonna wake up (and consequently only 4-6 drives, not everything). I have a whole bunch of hardware and chassis' to play with, I'm just trying to think this through to see if it makes sense.
Thoughts?
I've been itching to make some changes to my home setup, specifically the storage side of things. One of the main drivers of the change, is that I'm running out of storage and need more...
as is usual.I've a single Supermicro 847 36 bay chassis (1620w platinum PSU) holding my storage for now, totaling about 40TB right now (mix of drives). I don't do ZFS or tiered storage or anything like that for this setup. This is strictly media storage, with disk pooling (I use Stablebit Drivepool).
I spin down drives when not in use, but even with that, this server idles at ~ 70w with all drives spun down. This is the MB/CPU/RAM/HBA/Backplanes/Expanders all combined. While this is not bad, I've been rethinking how we consume this. Since we had twin boys last Sep (yay!) we've been watching a lot less media, and the server probably sees <2 hours of use a day, and idles for the rest 22 hours.
I've been experimenting with S3 sleep on the storage server, so that it sleeps most of the time, and only wakes up on a magic packet, when needed. (Kodi front ends, which can easily do this). This works really nice now, and the server is sleeping 22 hours, consuming ~3-4 watts.
I want to improve this further. One of the downsides of the current setup is that once you select a media to play, the entire server (and all 36 disks) wake up, even if all you want to do is play a single movie.
What I wanna do is, "slice" this into multiple systems, each holding 4-6 drives at max, and all of them set for S3 sleep, so that when you play media, only "one" of these servers is gonna wake up (and consequently only 4-6 drives, not everything). I have a whole bunch of hardware and chassis' to play with, I'm just trying to think this through to see if it makes sense.
Thoughts?
