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    The "well, it was free" 50 bay server

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

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    On 8/30/2019 at 9:52 PM, guiri said:

     

    So, where were you when I had to have my server rebuilt and went and bought 2TB drives as cheap as I could?

    I'm guessing you would have sold me a few cheaper...?

    Ha, I might have at the time! Now, not so much.. I've decided to roll back to 2TB drives for the sake of cost replacements. So I'm running 28+2 2TB drives for the main array, then 16 2TB drives in RAID 10 for the cache drive to be used as unprotected scratch space, etc. I have a separate host for playing around with virtualization, so SSD's just really aren't needed in my use case of unRAID. I'll roll through the stash of 2TB replacement spares and not feel so bad once I start having to spend on retail 2TB drives. At 56TB+16TB, I've got all the storage I really need and ultimately just purge content that doesn't get watched in a year or two.

    The "well, it was free" 50 bay server

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

    Posted

    17 minutes ago, Benson said:

    "well, it was free" ..... OP actually post all is free , 160 machine, 140 HDDs , cards , how about electricity cost ....

    Of course .... no need to paid.

     

    Does Unraud licence can be free ? I really want to know.

    What?

     

    Not 160 servers, just around 160 2TB drives, with about 140 2TB drives sitting as cold spares right now. I literally took all of the servers with the intent of only using one or two and keeping everything else as cold spares. Electricity cost hasn't been measured, but I've since stopped using several other virtualization hosts, so it should be about a wash (or less) compared to when all of that was running.

     

    No additional unraid licensing - I already had unraid running in a 16 bay server with the full pro license and just moved that OS, disks, and HBA's over into this larger chassis.

    The "well, it was free" 50 bay server

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

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    23 minutes ago, primeval_god said:

    One thing i would be worried about is the potential for the RAID card/hw you are using to fail. Unless of course you got a spare in that treasure trove of hardware. I dont know what a replacement would cost but i would fear a 12+ disk hardware raid card could be pricey.

    I have several 16 and 24 port cards as a result of this haul, but your concern is valid in "normal" scenarios.

    The "well, it was free" 50 bay server

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

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    2 hours ago, denishay said:

    I'd probably replace the "well it was free" with "well it was given". With that type of hardware and the huge number of drives, I can't imagine it has no impact on the electricity cost.

     

    While I understand it's nice to experiment with, I would certainly not rely on a huge number of drives driven by hardware RAID. I can't tell for others, but for me, going UNRAID was exactly to avoid such dependencies. If and when something happens on that one drive, then fine, just replace that one. With both a parity at high risk of failure (because it's a hardware raid, while it gets rebuilt you don't have parity, hence protection), I would certainly not put any data I value on such a server. But as I said, thjat is only my point of view. Others might have another.

     

    I'm not sure I'm following your logic. Losing parity is losing parity - so you're saying it's better to have a single 10tb with potentially a day or more of rebuild time (plus ordering, bc who's keeping a cold spare at that size/cost) than to have a raid10 backed vd made from 2tb drives with a dramatically shorter rebuild time? And I have 140+ cold spares. And I have to actually lose the entirety of one of the mirrored pairs before the vd actually becomes compromised, which means parity is actually more robust.

     

    I get the more disks = greater risk of failure argument, but that's why I've gone with smaller disks for faster rebuilds. I don't think I'm any more exposed than someone rolling a single 10tb drive as their parity drive.

     

    What am I missing?

     

    The "well, it was free" 50 bay server

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

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    Most of my unRAID gear has been free over the years, so while I'd love to spend thousands on a super dense micro server with 10TB disks, that's just not something I've ever been able to prioritize in the budget. But since I work in IT and datacenter environments, I do manage to get some fun stuff to play with.

     

    Most recently, it was a bunch of "Aberdeen" storage servers - a mix of 48+2, 24, and 16 bay servers all full with circa 2010 compute resources and RAID controllers. They also came populated with 2tb drives of varying ages, about 160 in total. 

     

    I've moved my current 16 drive unRAID build into one of the 48 bay enclosures - it's a mix of 6tb, 5tb, 4tb, 3tb, and 2tb, drives totalling 56TB of array space. I've decided to leave a bunch of bays empty since I'm only at 50% utilization, but I'd like to slowly move to 10TB disks and this will give me the space to either replace existing drives or add to the array without worrying about enclosure limits. I hate the thought of throwing a 10TB disk into the parity slot, however, so I've instead got 12x 2tb drives running in the bottom of the chassis in RAID10. This presents to unRAID as 12tb and gives me plenty of overhead for whatever sizes the 10TB drives happen to show up with. These 2tb disks are old, and they're going to fail.. but I have about 140 sitting and waiting as hot spares ready to pop in and automatically rebuild on the HW controller.

     

    This actually happened a couple of weeks ago - 2 drives failed. I replaced them and the RAID10 rebuild was completed in just a couple of hours. unRAID was none the wiser and so I didn't have to worry about a parity rebuild on the 12TB virtual disk, which is about 22 hours.

     

    I've seen some old threads about this, but most seem to be abandoned and full of people chiming in with how stupid it is. I could understand some arguments against going out and purchasing a bunch of hardware to make this setup, but when it's just sitting in my lap available for use? So far, it's been fairly solid. Anyone else doing anything remotely similar with hardware RAID and virtual disk presentations?

    Hosts file?

    in General Support

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    Will modifying the hosts file in this manner  impact docker traffic? I run plex as a docker and wish to redirect traffic from their stats collection in light of their upcoming EULA changes, but cannot easily do so at the firewall.

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