/hsg/ is about learning and expanding your horizons. Know all about NAS? Learn virtualization. Spun up some VMs? Learn about networking by standing up a OPNsense/pfsense box and configuring some VLANs. There's always more to learn and chances to grow. Think you’re god-tier already? Setup OpenStack and report back.
>What software should I run? Install Gentoo. Or whatever flavor of *nix is best for the job or most comfy for you. Jellyfin to replace Netflix, nextcloud to replace Googlel, ampache to replace spotify, the list goes on and on. Look at the awesome self-hosted list and ask.
>Why should I have a home server? Learn something new. De-botnet your life. Serving applications to yourself, your family, and your frens feels good. Put your Any Forums skills to good use for yourself and those close to you. Store their data with proper availability redundancy and backups and serve it back to them with a /comfy/ easy to use interface.
Do you guys use smartmontools's daemon? How do you keep on top of drive health?
Brody Flores
i do. i schedule regular smart tests in smartd. however i find smartctls output a bit overwhelming so i use hdsentinel because it presents the smart values in a much easier to read format, at least i find it more readable
Jonathan Young
>work on Computer all day >work on Computer as hobby why am i retarded bros?
Ayden Lewis
does anybody here run their primary desktop entirely off of iSCSI or Fibre Channel?
i'm wondering if i would do well to have different kinds of devices presented for different parts of the file system. like, there's no reason for rarely-changing stuff like /etc/ to use the same type of disk geometry as whatever LUN is used for /var/, right?
Xavier Brooks
does the wiki have any guides on how to rice /etc/nsswitch.conf?
Parker Price
If you’re looking for a small server case with hotswap bays and you just realized that NAS case wiki is completely useless since all of the cases there are either overpriced pieces of chink shit or straight up impossible to buy you might want to consider getting literally any case with 3 or more 5.25 bays and installing Supermicro CSE-M35TQB or CSE-M35T-1B in it. This gives you more flexibility when it comes to case choice (different sizes, shapes, form factors, quality, prices, used, new etc.) and it gives you the main feature of these extremely overpriced server cases (hotswap bays and cool blinking leds) at a lower price. Personally I recommend searching for old, used Lian Li cases as they are all super high quality with copious amounts of 5.25 bays. Somebody scrap that shitty wiki and just put links to these hotswap bays there instead. Don’t waste everyone’s time with unicorn shit like that Chenbro case or shit that went EOL in 2008 like that Lian Li case. Literally the only viable pick from that list is that ugly, overpriced Silverstone case that reeks of chink plastic that will snap after first use. They don’t even fucking make their own parts. You can find their hotswap bays on AliExpress sold under different names and ironically according to amazon reviews at higher quality as well.
What's the cheapest SBC that is able to run an IPTV broadcast 24/7? Arm is preferable for low consumption, the software will be OBS for maximum Lazyness
Robert Cruz
you're not wrong, this is often used on database servers to trick the OS because then you get separate io queues for the different devices to maximize performance as the back-end storage system often has far more io than a single "drive" can saturate. however for you running a home server i really don't see the point
Nolan James
I wouldn't even bother with these, when you can buy 12 of those Simplecom hotswap bays for the same price. The one thing I'll give you is that (obviously) your overpriced bay fits 5 drives into 3 bays, whereas my method (equally obviously) will take 12 bays.
Jose Nelson
That’s fine. Use whatever you want as long as it’s not complete garbage (Silverstone). The main points of my post were: 1. Case guide sucks ass. 2. 5.25 hotswap bays + old case are cheaper and better than any dedicated server/NAS option on the market (excluding proper rack cases).
Isaiah Stewart
Hey /hsg/, I want to buy an SBC, but I'm new in this kind of stuffs. I'm planning to make a simple NAS server, jellyfin server, and host some websites locally. Here are some of my choices: - Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8G (around $200) - Orange Pi 4 LTS (around $120) - Odroid N2+ (around $150)
Price is based on where I live. Which one should I get? Feedbacks are welcome, thanks in advance.
Jack Murphy
or just go on fb marketplace and score somebodys windows vista gaming pc for forty bucks and thatll probably have at least 3 bays i was just thinking that since the LUN is stored on a copy-on-write file system, tons of writes to /var/ and the such will over time slow down access to other parts of my FHS.
Robert Gomez
( cont...) yeah i just started looking up some stuff with ZFS performance tuning and i'm not the first with concerns about this kind of performance degradation. maybe i could get around this by having twin arrays and just juggling the block volumes back and forth every week or month or so since i am, after all, but a humble home user.
Easton Parker
well no because the backend system is not aware of what is happening inside the file system, the LUN is just a big ass file according to the backend system.
Jordan Wilson
yeah but with a copy-on-write file system hosting the block device, a change to something inside the file system on the LUN doesnt result in an edit to the existing block but a write of a new block with the intended changes and then relinking that reference.
Henry Garcia
bump Also I'd like to repurpose my laptop into a mini server, however the thing is that I'd get rid of LibreELEC since I want to use a laptop as an IPTV. What do?
Kayden Wright
>your home server case starts making an annoying rattle sound from HDD vibration
Sign of a shit case. I recently upgraded from a cheap case to a premium retro Lian Li case and even tho my drive is not even mounted properly (yet) it’s still significantly quieter than when it was installed in my old case with rubber grommets. You want thick and heavy for mechanical HDDs.
Grayson Flores
I do use it. I don't care about my drives until zpool status or cat /proc/mdstat starts complaining. I really should automate the scrubs. >have some joy from work just because you enjoy the same thing in your free time yeah 100% certified retard Check if your country has cheap used tinyminimicros for sale. 5 watts more power in idle, performance increase is tenfold. Since SBCs got expensive in the kurwa country, tinyminimicros really are a sweet spot now. Why not both? Run server shit in containers, run IPTV (I assume client) on host using the HDMI output. Fuck, I should buy another case. However I don't know whether I'll need more than 8 drives - current 32 TB on 4+2 drives is pretty much enough since I download less stuff now. And if I was to upgrade, should I buy six more 8 TB drives or replace current set with 16 TB?
Jaxson White
What's your go to media type for off-site offline backup storage? 2.5" HDDs get expensive past 1 TB, and I would rather have backup of my backup on one drive than multiple. Tape is cheap but streamers are not.
John Parker
Is a FX6300 without a GPU good for a home server or too much tdp?
