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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 4:59 PM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > I may do some mobo hunting shortly. See what little thing I can buy |
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> > that is powerful enough. I don't think a Raspberry Pi is enough. It |
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> > gets close tho. Biggest thing, I'd need a lot of SATA ports. LOTS of |
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> > them. |
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> Granted, I had a couple of old cases which lowered the cost but |
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> I went to a local computer store and bought used motherboards |
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> that came with processors and memory. They were both Core i7 |
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> but I paid only about $75 each. I needed power supplies and hard drives |
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> so each machine ended up around $350 or so by the time I was done. |
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> Each has 2 4TB drives for storage and a 1TB drive for the OS. A lot |
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> of used motherboards have on-board VGA and Gb/S networking. |
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> These are TrueNAS machines, FreeBSD not Linux, but they have |
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> a Linux version now if that makes you more comfortable. |
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> I'd stick with AMD64 as it's better tested and I don't think you'll |
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> get the network throughput you need to be fast with a Raspberry Pi |
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I looked into the Raspberry and the newest version, about $150 now, |
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doesn't even have SATA ports. I can add a thing called a "hat" I think |
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that adds a couple but thing is, that costs more and still isn't |
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enough. I really don't like USB and hard drive mixing. Every time I do |
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that, the hard drive turns into a door stop. Currently, I have three |
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Rosewill external enclosures and they have USB and eSATA ports. I use |
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the eSATA connections and no problems. It's also really fast. So, I |
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plan to stick with SATA connections. |
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I have a old computer that I might could use. It is 4 core something |
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and I think it has 4GBs of memory, maxed out. I think it will perform |
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well enough but wish it had a little more horses in it. |
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I looked at something called ITX but they have only one PCIe slot |
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usually. That's not enough. I'd like to have two 6 or 8 port SATA |
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cards. Then balance the drives on each. I think some of the through |
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put is shared so the more drives on it, the slower it can be. I'd like |
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to have two such cards. 12 or 16 drives should be enough to last a |
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while. Part of me wants to do RAID but not sure about that. Yet. I |
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think I'm just going to go with ATX since it has several PCIe slots. |
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While I don't think I need a super powerful machine, I do want enough |
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that it will perform well. I may use actual NAS software too. I'm sure |
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Gentoo would work to with proper tweaking but then I need to deal with |
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compiling things. Of course, no libreoffice or anything big so it may |
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not be to bad. Thing is, the NAS software will likely be more efficient |
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since it is designed for the purpose. |
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I just know I need a proper machine for the task. I'm getting lots of |
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data fast now. I hit the 80% mark overnight. At 90%, I consider it |
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critical. Something must be done soon. |
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Keep those ideas coming. I'll put them in the blender and see what |
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comes out. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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