Home Server Ideas (..it's goint to get Nerdy in here...)

[Kevris]

So I've just pulled the trigger on pretty decent Supermicro server from EBay, 2x L5520 CPU's, 40GB RAM, decent LSI Raid controller, 12 drive bays. This will be upgrading my current (super old) Opteron 1214/8GB server. I'll have 2x 250GB 7.2k SATA drives mirrored with the server's onboard controller for my OS and 8x 1TB 7.2k SATA drives for data driven by the LSI controller, set in RAID-5 with an online spare.

As it stands I have a nice AD domain, roaming profiles, redirected folders. I've been using the old server as a data vault, media server, Minecraft server, WSUS server, WDS server and test platform for me to play around with new tech before I implement it at my office.

As I'm going from 2 cores/2 threads and 8GB of RAM to 8 cores/16 threads and 40GB RAM I'm going to have a TON more horsepower to play around with.

The backbone in the house is 1GB on some crappy unmanaged switches (I'll swap that for better ones when I find some on the cheap). The endpoints are used for gaming, media streaming, normal home computing stuff.

Give me some ideas to suck up some of this extra horsepower, my fellow nerds!

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Kevris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

set in RAID-5 with an online spare.

Is that controller capable of RAID-6? No spare required.

[Kevris]

Originally Posted by Samoht [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is that controller capable of RAID-6? No spare required.

It is, but I don't know that I want the performance hit from the second parity write.

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Kevris [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It is, but I don't know that I want the performance hit from the second parity write.

Try benchmarking some data writes and let me know if it's worth the added redundancy over the hot spare.

[Kevris]

Originally Posted by Samoht [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Try benchmarking some data writes and let me know if it's worth the added redundancy over the hot spare.

Yeah fair enough. The disks are 2ish years old so do I really care about a little more write speed? Not enough to risk it.

So what about uses. Any ideas?

[SamwiseRed]

I have no idea. I am guessing you can rent/sale server space though?

[Kevris]

Originally Posted by SamwiseRed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have no idea. I am guessing you can rent/sale server space though?

Nah, I'm not paying an extra $600 a month for "business class" internet that's the same speed as what I have now only with a public IP address from a different range.

[Laugher]

Make an eq server ofc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Mine bitcoins

[Kevris]

Originally Posted by Laugher [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Make an eq server ofc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I wanted to run around on a server with no population, I'd play red.


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