I am trying to put together a file server and trying to get as many SATA
ports as I can. I found a motherboard I like but it only has 6 SATA ports.
It also has PCI-Ex8 and PCI-Ex16 slots. I want to add a SATA card.
Supermicro makes an 8 port SATA card that is PCI-Ex4.
Can I use a PCI-Ex4 cards in
On 2012-03-25 8:52 AM, Royce Souther wrote:
I am trying to put together a file server and trying to get as many
SATA ports as I can. I found a motherboard I like but it only has 6
SATA ports. It also has PCI-Ex8 and PCI-Ex16 slots. I want to add a
SATA card. Supermicro makes an 8 port SATA card
Hi Royce,
I recently acquired one of these: It has dual gig Ethernet (Intel) an IPMI
port for remote headless access, etc. For $179 it is just amazing. I put a
Sandy Bridge quad core Xeon on it for $240 and run a number of KVM VMs on
it and it just flies. CPU power consumption maxes out at 80 Watt
Oh and I forgot the coolest part. It has a USB port integrated right on the
main board which is where I install the boot/root filesystem. It lets me
use all the sata ports for /home. ... :)
Cya, Dan
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Dan Graham wrote:
> Hi Royce,
>
> I recently acquired one of th
I love IPMI. Supermicro also makes a IPMI card that you can add to MB that
did not come with it.
Thanks for the links.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Dan Graham wrote:
> Hi Royce,
>
> I recently acquired one of these: It has dual gig Ethernet (Intel) an IPMI
> port for remote headless access,
Is it any different then a normal USB port out the back? Other then a port
out the back is in danger of having someone pull the stick out.
Can you make that USB port a read-only drive and have the system use RAM
for a read-write / root like a unisonfs? I would not want the memory stick
to die from
I have a few file servers that I am using Western Digiatl Green HDD's with
LVM. I am not using RAID1 because that would burn out a Green drive very
quickly. My servers are identical clones of each other and I like that
better then RAID1 because if a power supply dies the other server keeps the
work
You have peaked my interest. Can you RAID1 a set of bootable USB
thumbdrives?
I am think I would like to try this with a RAID1 pare of 4GB SDHC cards in
USB SD readers. As a file server the OS / root drive does not need to be
super fast.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Dan Graham wrote:
> Oh a
It's just like an external usb port on the back of the mainboard but its
located near the sata ports. I use a cheap usb stick for boot root and have
not bothered to worry about /sys /proc /var/log etc. I used to symlink
/var/log etc to a physical disk. Last couple of times I just got lazy and
did n
Insofar as raid on usb I could not say as I've never tried it. But as you
say speed for boot/root is not a factor for a server box. IO on your
storage array is. Despite the use of usb it still boots pretty quick as it
has a minimal Debian build.
If you decide to try it feel free to contact me if yo
On March 25, 2012, Royce Souther wrote:
> I have a few file servers that I am using Western Digiatl Green HDD's with
> LVM. I am not using RAID1 because that would burn out a Green drive very
> quickly. My servers are identical clones of each other and I like that
> better then RAID1 because if a p
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Royce Souther wrote:
> I have a few file servers that I am using Western Digiatl Green HDD's with
> LVM. I am not using RAID1 because that would burn out a Green drive very
> quickly. My servers are identical clones of each other and I like that
> better then RAID
The feature that they removed is not that big of a problem if you are using
mdadm to create the array (which is what I do).
See here for more info on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote:
> On March 25, 2012, Royce S
On March 25, 2012, Gustin Johnson wrote:
> The feature that they removed is not that big of a problem if you are using
> mdadm to create the array (which is what I do).
>
> See here for more info on this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_recovery_control
>
Right. I did think about mentioni
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