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trønderen wrote: If everything is USB2 and not USB3 Most stuff here is.
trønderen wrote: I am not familiar with Heroes of the Storm A modern game, like Warcraft in terms of size.
trønderen wrote: it is not the fault of the physical USB2, but rather those processes using the USB interface. Did I mention it not a real PC but a router?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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My router has a built in storage (backed up to the cloud)... almost empty...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I have a Windows 2012R2 headless server here with 4 x 4TB drives (SATA) and 4 x 3TB drives (SAS - cheap as chips on e-bay). Drives are on a Dell PERC H700 (needs a small physical mod to work in non-Dell machines) with battery backup.
This server is fast and (apparently) highly reliable, the only failure I have had was one of the WD Red SATA drives that crapped out after about 1 year - the MegaRaid software sent me an alert and I did a cold-swap and it rebuilt nicely. The s/h SAS drives seem to be bullet-proof (they should be, they are enterprise quality IBM/Seagate).
This is my first line of defense: All our important files are stored directly to the server plus all our media files (having a fast server is great when you are copying 50GB at a time). My workstations do a Macrium GFS backup to this server. There is also a NextCloud VM which shares folders and workspace with other (remote) family members.
Additional to this server I have 2x4TB NAS (Netgear) which does a 'pull' backup of data from 3 workstations (documents, mail folder etc.) plus backups of the really important folders on the Windows 2012 server including 350GB of photos). This data is mirrored to Amazon Cloud Drive via a Netgear plug-in.
The Windows server also host a few VMs, mainly old Windows builds and temporary Linux projects.
The NAS is also used for backups of various Linux and Android devices via NFS shares.
Overkill? Maybe, maybe not - but life would be a lot more complicated without the server.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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I have two old machines running on my home network serving up ~110TB of disk between them. I ripped all my DVD collection (600+) onto these disks (multiple copies across multiple disks) and can access them from any machine on my network (kitchen, one in each bedroom plus my office and the TV room). I also download recipes and how-tos from YouTube and scan all my documents onto other disks. Important documents I encrypt and store them additionally in multiple clouds. Finally, all the software I develop at home, games, graphics and other fun stuff go on there as well. I have had to replace about 7 drives so far over the last ten years or so ranging from 2TB to 8TB. I have decided 8TB is the maximum size I will use as it takes a long time to duplicate to two or three copies and there is too much to lose in one failure.
NAS? What's that?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: NAS? What's that?
A file server, but cheap.
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I have a (retired) Dell Precision workstation running TrueNAS with mirrored disks. Very flexible and configurable. FWIIW: The data on my system is kept in a RAID mirror (hardware addon not built in). Protects from hardware fails but not idiots (me) or malware.
Of course, there is always the cloud. D&R.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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I have a Synology 1621 with 4x6TB drives in RAID5ish configuration as a backup/etc storage host. In most ways it's serious overkill for my needs, but is about the minimum spec level that supports a PCIe slot that I can stuff a 10GB network card into in a year or so when I build my new PC and upgrade my lan.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Yes, a small Synology NAS (DS220j) with 2 4tb drives.
Accessible from PC and Mac at home.
Worth it ? depends on your usage.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Franc Morales wrote: Do any of you have a file server in your home LAN?
One of my company's servers (our only remaining physical server) resides here in my home office. The current h/w (excluding SSDs) is around 13 years old and still works great.
Roles:
0: File Server - All development projects/files/documents are kept here.
1: Web/FTP Server - This server hosts one of the main company web sites as well as a half-dozen web company use web apps, a few customer web apps, and a dozen or so demonstration web apps.
2: Database Server - SQL Server/MySQL including SSRS
3: Mail Server
Franc Morales wrote: If so, is it worth it?
In recent years, we have moved most of the customer web apps to an Azure VM. At this point, I'm weighing the options of replacing the aging on-premise server or moving it all to the cloud.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Small Synology NAS (DS213j) configured with mirrored (RAID 1?) 4TB WD drives.
Worth it for me - for now. It's setup as a Plex server for media plus storage of quite a bit of data.
The data is slowly being migrated to cloud storage where possible.
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I might add that one might want to be aware of SMR (slower write times) versus CMR drives when it comes to NAS or server drives, if you are going to be writing large amounts of data. Some vendors are using SMR which is slower. I use the plus drives from one of the manufacturers, supposed to be CMR. I think most, if not all, drives 6TB+ are CMR. There was much ado about this on truenas, it seems the zfs file system does not get along well with SMR drives. Don't know what file system Synology uses, never looked. We have a large one at a clients site, been running for 4 or 5 years without problems. I get an email from it every month, telling me it is happy.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Synology also does not like SMR drives, slows down writing a lot.
It doesn't help that some vendors were selling SMR drives as 'For use in NAS'.
I found all this out when trying to repopulate a donated Synology NAS with drives from my spares, and finding most of them were SMR.
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SMR never should have been marketed to consumers at all. For datacenter scale write once archival storage it's limitations don't matter. Anywhere else they can be crippling at times.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Throwing a different hat into the ring, I have a custom built mini-ITX with 2x 8TB hard-drives installed. It runs on Ubuntu and uses mergerfs to create a custom mount point which Ubuntu reads as one drive. Planning on buying 2 more at some point, creating a second merged mount and use rsync to keep everything backed up!
Love the little thing, running Docker containers and has a GTX 1050 Ti for transcoding my media files
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Yes. we have a windows 7 desktop that sit there at a static lan ip and is the central store for many things.
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Yes. we have a windows 7 desktop that sit there at a static lan ip and is the central store for many things. Including hosing a Home Automation stack that bridges some old x10 devices I have into the "alexa" pool of IOT devices scattered about.
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Ron Anders wrote: Including hosing a Home Automation stack that bridges... Sorry to hear.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes. I have an old Windows 10 box loaded with several drives and using "storage spaces" to provide data duplication. I use it as a file server and backup device for several laptops and the wife's desktop. One advantage storage spaces has over RAID is that the drives don't have to be the same size. I think that Synology have a similar system on their latest 4 drive NAS's.
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Me too - Win10 box with Storage Spaces. Around 3TB total with main folders for "official files" (an "office drive"), music, videos, software, sw dev projects. Been working just fine for years. The server gets backed up to an external drive daily. I do periodic ZIPs of the folders and copy them to DropBox for an offsite backup but I will probably look for a more automated solution soon.
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