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I can give you my ceph buildout excel sheet, with parts and all, you just have to change the number of chassis. i have the systems priced down to 10k for 144TB raw.

some good notes are these

>move /var to ssd on monitors

>kernel.pid_max = 4194303 on OSD's

here is a nice prep script for CEPH systems on debian

#/bin/bash echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 | tee /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base ufw disable wget -q -O- 'https://ceph.com/git/?p=ceph.git;a=blob_plain;f=keys/release.asc' | apt-key add - echo deb http://ceph.com/debian-hammer/ $(lsb_release -sc) main | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ceph.list useradd -d /home/ceph -s /bin/bash -m ceph echo "ceph ALL = (root) NOPASSWD:ALL" | tee /etc/sudoers.d/ceph echo "ceph:CHANGeME123!!!" | chpasswd apt-get update sysctl -w kernel.pid_max=4194303

If you're willing to run a front-end server, Minio can provide you with an S3 interface and use B2 on the back-end. I don't have it deployed myself, but I'm staying aware for the day when we'll have use for it at my work.

Why RAID 5 stops working...

If the stats are to be believed your chance of data loss during rebuild with 1TB drives could be up to 50%... SSDs will rebuild fairly quick however..

It is really going to depend on the value of the data RAID 6 isn't perfect and you still need backups.

If you have good backups and the down time to restore isn't horrible I would say it is reasonable to use RAID 5 with up to 1TB drives... However I wouldn't push my luck past 1TB drives no matter how fast they are.

AWS?

$1280.00 for S3-IA, where you pay for retrieval. If you get 1000GB per month it rises to 1382.11 (Based on US-WEST-2 pricing)

$3087 for regular S3+1000GB out where retrievals are free, but data transfer out is not (just like with S3-IA)

https://aws.amazon.com/activate/benefits/ might be something as well to look at

I've owned QNAP and Synology. Here's my take: Synology is a better option as a whole compared to QNAP.

Synology's support (which is only fair) is better than QNAP (which is poor).

Synology's software (DSM) is much more refined, better maintained, more frequently updated, and better QC/QA processed than QNAP's software (QTS)

The PS3 can access content directly on the Synology via the built in Media Server feature (DLNA). The model of Synology NAS you has will determine what happens to certain video content. Additionally, the source video content format factors in, as the PS3 can play some content natively and others it cannot.

Here is some basic info from Synology: http://www.synology.com/en-us/support/faq/577

From what I can find online, PS3 can't playback MKV's natively so they need to be remixed or transcoded. If your source content will be MKV, then you are best going with a "play" model as it has a dedicated hardware transcoder. However, the catch here is that this transcoding in hardware is only done by the Synology Media Server. If you want to use Plex, then Plex cannot use the hardware transcoder. So keep that in mind.

If you really want to use Plex, then you have some challenges. You would want a Synology with the fasterst dual core processor available (which is currently an Atom 2.13ghz I believe) because Plex has to rely on the NAS CPU to transcode. However, even then, Atom CPU's are fairly poor for real-time transcoding, and even with the dual core Atom in the NAS, you will likely have problems with lag due to transcoding performance being poor. So if you really want Plex, you would want to transcode video ahead of time on your main computer and put that on your NAS.

We use Active Directory as the main info store, and all the Linux servers look to it for authentication and permissions. Basically Samba+winbind+PAM.

You may also look at the Services for Network File System role in Server 2003 R2 and above, which is an implementation of NFS on Windows Server.

This serverfault thread may also be instructive.

TrendNet TEG-7124WS $817 cheapest in the recognized brand class I could find with all 10G with fallback capabilities and discrete 10G SFP+ ports. going to be handling a 3 host vmware cluster with a San.

https://www.trendnet.com/products/10gb-managed-switch/12-port-10g-web-smart-poeplus-switch-TEG-7124WS

https://www.amazon.com/TRENDnet-Management-Mountable-Protection-TEG-7124WS/dp/B0BLQPPXL3

i was looking to get the crucial p2. i was just trying to figure out how much data it could download in an hour to see how long it would go for me to transfer a terabyte of data onto it. thanks for replying makes more sense

I just punted and went ahead and ordered another Oyen Digital Mobius 5-bay enclosure. Like I said, it has more features (and cost) than I need - and is getting pretty old as a product now (I'm suprised they are still sold) - but I know it works well and I know it checks off all the boxes I require.

I just buy these and throw 5x 18TB drives in them:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B083JQHYBL

It gives 81TB of usable space, and when you stripe them, throughput is amazing.

You'd better have backups though, since one failure will b0rK the whole filesystem.

Here you go.

Ide to Sata is OK like the last guy said. However there is a IDE to USB option which might be easier for you. Such as https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01NAUIA6G/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_ASJZRPTTGEXTFFA8E8T5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

I have some compellent disk trays in use this will work.I will say this you don't need to use a HBA with external ports. You can use a adapter with some cables to connect to a cheaper HBA.

#1 Wrong sub

#2 It's now $210.99

#3 Here's a non referral link https://smile.amazon.com/12TB-Elements-Desktop-Drive-WDBWLG0120HBK-NESN/dp/B07X4V2M3B/?th=1

#4 It's actually been $175 before so $211 is far from the lowest price. https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07X4V2M3B

I see! Thanks for your insights! So, you think these cables won't work at all then?

• https://www.amazon.co.uk/perfk-External-Supply-Adapter-CD-ROM/dp/B07FP9YJHD/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1WDDOAC9AI7UL&keywords=ide+power+supply&qid=1649349486&sprefix=ide+power+supply%2Caps%2C53&sr=8-4
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/Molex-Power-Supply-Cable-Splitter/dp/B09TW749FC/ref=sr_1_15?crid=152GU7RCBZ458&keywords=sata+power+cable+4+pin&qid=1649349596&sprefix=sata+power+cable+%2Caps%2C61&sr=8-15

We use the 8GB SanDisk Cruzer SDCZ33-008G-B35 keys with great success in replacements. Don't go larger or stray too much.

The original USB keys are fragile.

The reimaging process can be done headless with a Null modem cable, but the cable helps to monitor the process.

> their ipo in october at 16 dollars, its still at 16 dollars! you dont have to argue with me on this. the market has decided.

That's a completely asinine statement. You can't make a claim that "the market" has decided that a technology is a failure based on the 4th quarter stock price of a single company that's supporting said technology. Stop being obtuse and conflating stock performance with technological viability.

Pure's sales went from $6.1 million in FY 2013 to $158.7 million in Q1-Q2 of FY 2015. If you want to make a claim that the market has spoken, it seems to be saying the exact opposite of what you're claiming.

Edit: http://seekingalpha.com/news/2987776-pure-storage-higher-after-jmp-starts-at-outperform. I'm sure a random guy on reddit talking out of his ass is right though.

As you're designing those storage networks, don't forget backup! :). O'Reilly's Modern Data Protection was published in May of this year.

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Data-Protection-Recoverability-Workloads/dp/1492094056

Disclaimer: I'm the author. This book covers the entire data protection industry as it stands today: what needs to be backed up, where things can be backed up to, how they can be backed up, and what products and services can make it happen. We also cover archive & disaster recovery.

>I'm aware of how CRUSH works, and also aware how it's not suggested to be used as a georeplication mechanism unless you want to deal with poorly performing synchronous writes, and poor recovery performance. That or you have dedicated, low latency links and are willing to deal with that. http://docs.ceph.com/docs/master/radosgw/multisite/

That's radosgw you idiot... It's for object storage like s3...

http://ceph.com/geen-categorie/manage-a-multi-datacenter-crush-map-with-the-command-line/

Wow just wow.

>FLOSS is self-supported

http://ceph.com/help/professional/ - non free

irc://irc.oftc.net/#ceph - FREE!

next!

im going to say this one. support for emc... its there but all i ever hear was "you need to upgrade firmware" then comes cost.

EVERY

SINGLE

DAMN

FEATURE

COSTS SOOOOOOO MUCH MONEY! thanks but no thanks. id rather pay 2 devops guys $150,000 a year to keep up ceph than pay emc 1.2 mil for my 1.1PB cluster licensing and then pay for hardware. incidentally the ceph hardware costs 80k... 1.1PB for 80k.

for the amount of money it would take to true up my ScaleIO licensing, i can could purchase enough equipment to double the speed and quintuple the space. i would laugh but i actually find EMC to be tragic. when SDX breaks out like virtualization did, you will get left behind.

So it sounds like you just want your 128gb SD card to show up as it’s correct size? Have you tried the SD Card Formatter software from the SD Card association? It has always been my go to for correctly formatting an SD card.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/

With only 16k size, you could look at an object storage approach like: https://www.exoscale.com/syslog/object-storage-cassandra-pithos/

Or potentially at stuff like Elassandra (to take care of the metadata at the same time).

This approach could leave you with less worry for the actual underlying hardware. But I could also be way off here - input welcome. =]

I am positive it is not a null modem serial cable.

This is what I have: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06WLP4LTP?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

I am starting to look for a null modem to 3.5mm cable or a null modem adapter for the serial end of the connector I have.

You could try one of these:
HDD Docking Station

I've used a couple myself and they work well enough (just keep your coffee mug away LoL).

HTH ;)

Hello!!

Thank you for your detailed and thorough reply, I really appreciate it.

I checked Synology and QNAP and they’re all 400+$. I found this one on amazon, what do you think?

https://www.amazon.com/TerraMaster-D5-300C-Enclosure-Exclusive-Diskless/dp/B06ZY6DK8N/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=TERRAMASTER+D5-300C&qid=1608126503&sr=8-1

I could pair it with Seagate HDD or WD reds and that’d be a good build right? Got some speed in there and the option to have some disks under RAID 1.

There’s this storage solution I have had on my list for a while and I get really mixed opinions about it. Do you mind sharing your thoughts about it?

https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/external-drives/wd-my-book-duo-usb-3-1-hdd#WDBFBE0200JBK-NESN

I think it could suit my needs; relatively cheap, a lot of storage and read/write speed goes up to 360 MB/s, meaning 1 TB of my SSD would take 45 min to transfer which would be ideal. I’ve been told it’s a great bang for my buck and the speed is really good, and I’ve also been told the opposite...

https://www.amazon.com/Yottamaster-Aluminum-External-Enclosure-SATA3-0/dp/B07WQX64SW?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1

Looks like they're about to release one with a built-in caching setup, so that would be the ticket! https://www.amazon.com/Synology-Bay-DiskStation-DS1520-Diskless/dp/B08FT1SFKY/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=nas+synology&qid=1597798773&sr=8-15

Should have looked harder. $2300:

https://www.amazon.com/15-36TB-2-5-Inch-Enterprise-Compatible-Servers/dp/B08FVR4YD4/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=15TB+SSD&qid=1598809809&refinements=p_n_feature_three_browse-bin%3A6797522011&rnid=6797515011&s=pc&sr=1-4

And the HDD you're talking about was $393. 400 / 2300 = ~ 5.7x the cost, for way more than 5.7x the performance/usability.

"Closer than you think." Roughly half as close as you think.

Thanks for, quite literally, proving my point. lol :)

Also, that was $2300 Amazon. Pretty sure if I tried slightly harder I could find a sub 2k SSD in the same capacity range somewhere else.

EDIT: I tried slightly harder: https://www.newegg.com/samsung-pm1643-15-36tb/p/2U3-0005-000H5?item=9SIA994BUF1182&source=region&nm_mc=knc-googlemkp-pc&cm_mmc=knc-googlemkp-pc-_-pla-server+part+deals-_-solid+state+disk+-+enterprise-_-9SIA994BUF1182&gclid=CjwKCAjw...

That is a very interesting topic, I do agree it depends on Budget, another option I can offer you is to get a dual HDD home NAS, that will offer you high redundancy in case one HDD fails, it will have Cloud Access for all your devices without paying a monthly / yearly fee.

Here is one sample from amazon, it has the option of using multiple types of HDD not tied to brand type HDDs only like other options.

This solution will allow all your devices to sync automatically whenever you have a WiFi connection, or you can choose using your mobile data as well.

https://www.amazon.com.mx/dp/B076G1G2ZT/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_K1dmFb81TCPHR

Talking about durability, the less mechanical parts used on the Drive the highest durability. Now a days I'm planning to create yearly private videos of all my pictures, videos that I took for an easy sharing, having that on HDD / SSD won't be releventant, especially for your family / kids, etc.

My 5 cents....

Really? I found a Pioneer SSD with 1TB around $90...Do u think this one is good?: https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-3D-NAND-Internal-SSD/dp/B07KWWFGRX

My main concern is keeping my music, videos & photos safe.

Sorry for the multiple replies...I found this: VectoTech Rapid 1TB External SSD USB-C Portable Solid State Drive (USB 3.1 Gen 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JKMZ8FA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_TTUFDbG2Z44XK

Would this be good for my Windows 8 Laptop?

Has anyone found a good USB3 drive that has a physical write-protect switch? Too many times I find myself wiping a smaller drive just so i can put a file on it for a machine that I can't trust. Kanguru has a few models (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008OGNM9I/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl), and they are fairly expensive. Has anyone run across other drives with this feature?

There's a few

https://www.amazon.com/Portable-External-Enclosure-Controller-Connector/dp/B01G51SATK/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1475084483&sr=1-1&keywords=2242+usb

https://www.amazon.com/MEITK-Portable-Enclosure-Controller-Connector/dp/B01J3KJ04E/ref=sr_1_11?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1475084483&sr=1-11&keywords=2242+usb

>Remove one of the drives and recover the data using a SCSI to USB or SCSI to SATA adapter connected to a different computer.

If you can point me to where I can find one of these, I'd greatly appreciate it because I can't seem to locate one. The drives are Ultra-Wide SCSI SCA80 I believe. These are the drives that were in the server: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000ATA4G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

>This will depend entirely on what operating system the server runs, so if you need help with that then let us know.

The OS is SCO UNIX Openserver 5.0

>so it should just be a matter of selecting one of the physical disks in your BIOS boot options

I will check this out. Thanks

We have been very happy with our Synology units. We don't have this particular model, but it meets your criteria.

http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Attached-DS1815/dp/B00P3RPMEO

$74 for 128gb, ships store to door in 2 days.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00K73NT0S/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687622&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B00AL1385C&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=12QYWNFYVXJZG9H3NGR6

Check out Data Storage Networking by Nigel Poulton. Goes over SAN/NAS/RAID fundamentals, also overviews the CompTia Storage + Exam. amazon