Horerczy Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 By the time they get here you'll have a completely new build in mind I'm sure. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 I've got a new computer build to keep me occupied in the mean time Link to comment
Horerczy Posted October 31, 2015 Share Posted October 31, 2015 You and your expensive hobbies. Then again I guess that's a case of pots and kettles what with my other hobby being a car. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted October 31, 2015 Author Share Posted October 31, 2015 I get most of my computer stuff either used or from surplus. I'm about to buy two Toshiba 6TB enterprise drives for $160 each Though it did take nearly a day's worth of research to figure out what kind of SAS controller card I'd need to get them to work, and how to update the firmware on those cards, etc etc. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 That's a lot of storage space. Server or just overkill? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 I have three Samsung F4 2TB drives in my home server right now and I am down to less than 300GB free. I was planning on buying a pair of 4TB HGST NAS drives to replace them, but at $165 each I kept putting it off, as I got the Samsung drives for $80 each a few years ago before the flooding in Taiwan skyrocketed HDD prices. I saw someone had a pair of Toshiba 6TB SAS drives, which are rated for 24/7 use, for $160 each, so I get another 4TB total storage for less money. Of course, II just bought a PCIe x1 to x16 riser for a SAS card, and Monday we will be checking our discarded servers at work for a SAS controller that is suitable for it. If we don't have one (we should, all the servers we have should all be Nehalem/Westmere Xeon based which is during the time when Dell was using LSI 9211 controllers, so hopefully that's what they'll have. Maybe there will be a bunch and I can sell them. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I didn't understand a single bit of that. XD Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Ben what do you do with all that storage space? I just have 3x120GB SSDs RAID 0 on my system. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Ben what do you do with all that storage space? I just have 3x120GB SSDs RAID 0 on my system.I store music, photos, and I have my entire movie collection ripped and encoded. That is the bulk of it, over a terabyte of documentaries alone. My desktop is also backed up to the server at least once daily. It has a Samsung 850 pro 128gb that holds Windows 10 and programs, an Intel SSD 730 480GB that holds my steam and lightroom libraries, and a Samsung 640GB that is used for downloads and anything else I don't want to use the solid state drives for, even though the NAND has so many P/E cycles that I will never wear through them lol. If I wrote 20GB per day to the Samsung SSD, it would take 21 years to reach the 150TB estimated life expectancy. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I wonder how that would stack up against my stores internal servers. Not counting the systems that let the stores share inventory data with each other and the .com division. Link to comment
Murphs_Reef Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I wonder how that would stack up against my stores internal servers. Not counting the systems that let the stores share inventory data with each other and the .com division.Your stores local machine won't be that big, the remote (depending on how big your companies comms appetite is) will be supported by either Central comms rack in you HQ or a Data centr (your supplier) either way they will more than likely run at 5% or less head room (cause we are all cheap) ... Best guess Bens will oversize your store significantly. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 My little server is actually really basic, as it is just used for storage. CPU is an Intel 10 watt quad core J1900, 8GB RAM. I did set up a Plex server on it, though, to stream the media to my Chromecasts, and the little CPU doesnt have enough horsepower to keep up with the higher quality media, so I may get a cheap H61/67 motherboard to use with my old i7 2600K. That thing is a beast, it would cut through encodes like butter Link to comment
Marc.The.Shark Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Ben what do you do with all that storage space? He's gonna run for Prez at some point & has to get the whole "Home Server" thing figured out first. Don't want to go thru that whole ordeal testifying before congress!! Lol Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Oh lawd. Lol Link to comment
Halo_003 Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 I only just recent picked up an Intel 240GB SSD for games exclusively, everything else including most of my games is on the 360GB RAID. I have about 50GB worth of music, but even so multiple TB of space is nuts lol. He's gonna run for Prez at some point & has to get the whole "Home Server" thing figured out first. Don't want to go thru that whole ordeal testifying before congress!! Lol LMAO Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 I only just recent picked up an Intel 240GB SSD for games exclusively, everything else including most of my games is on the 360GB RAID. I have about 50GB worth of music, but even so multiple TB of space is nuts lol. LMAO With a little one now and getting much more into photography, with each RAW file hitting 28-30MB each, it adds up super fast. And with games starting to (stupidly) weigh in at 20-60+GB each thanks to uncompressed audio, it begins to add up even faster. I have a feeling that my 480GB steam drive will very soon be insufficient. Even now I only have just a handful of games installed. Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Your stores local machine won't be that big, the remote (depending on how big your companies comms appetite is) will be supported by either Central comms rack in you HQ or a Data centr (your supplier) either way they will more than likely run at 5% or less head room (cause we are all cheap) ... Best guess Bens will oversize your store significantly. It's a Walmart so we have some big servers. Have to keep pharmacy records, sales records, all the systems to keep the subsystems and the slave server running. I doubt we have that much storage space though. We keep a lot of stuff in DOS or Windows CE (we also use XP and Vista still). Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 It's a Walmart so we have some big servers. Have to keep pharmacy records, sales records, all the systems to keep the subsystems and the slave server running. I doubt we have that much storage space though. We keep a lot of stuff in DOS or Windows CE (we also use XP and Vista still). The servers are probably several years old, so mine could probably keep up with them honestly, all 10 watts of it Link to comment
Murphs_Reef Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 The servers are probably several years old, so mine could probably keep up with them honestly, all 10 watts of it Indeed, large corporations are like big old ocean liners, they do turn, but very slowly..A very good example as stated above, XP is out of support and well vista...hmmm.. But being a Walmart I would say it's defo data centred so top of the pops in terms of hardware. Anyway.. No idea why I piped up in your thread? Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Cause it's a party? Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 It's a Ben thread. Everyone wants to know what he's up to. Always with the changes and the new cutting edge led technology. Link to comment
StinkyBunny Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 You could have written all that computer stuff in Chinese and I'd have gotten the same out of it. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 I got my new motherboard today, the damn CPU socket cover came off in shipping and bent some pins. Unfortunately my current motherboard is on eBay, set to end on Sunday, so I won't be able to get the new one going this weekend to replace it. FML Link to comment
Horerczy Posted November 6, 2015 Share Posted November 6, 2015 I hate bent pins especially when the tolerances are super tight. Link to comment
jedimasterben Posted November 6, 2015 Author Share Posted November 6, 2015 Ordered an Asus Z97I-Plus as a replacement, but not sure when it will arrive. Sigh. No fallout 4 on launch day for ben Link to comment
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