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150w max but usually less as it spins down the drives that are not needed in the poolOriginally Posted by Stanman
been looking at building a PC based NAS system with my spare motherboard
looks like i got alot more reading to do as i never knew about flex raid
cheers for the info max
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Maxwell (15-01-12)
Your welcome mate, if you google flexraid you will find it and the wiki but if you want the support forums you need to google specifically for Flexraid forum
mcquaim (15-01-12),silverfox0786 (15-01-12)
remember though, RAID isn't backup! IMO you would be best doing 1:1 backup for anything you value and forgetting about RAID in a multimedia environment! (of course you could do both for the best security but its all ££ and HDD's aren't exactly cheap these days)
depending on what is my best option and OS i wanna setup redundencies so hopefully should be a little saferemember though, RAID isn't backup! IMO you would be best doing 1:1 backup for anything you value and forgetting about RAID in a multimedia environment! (of course you could do both for the best security but its all ££ and HDD's aren't exactly cheap these days
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You are right, RAID is no substitute for a proper backup regime, I have a couple of 1Tb USB drives that I use as backup as well as having the snapshot raid setup.remember though, RAID isn't backup! IMO you would be best doing 1:1 backup for anything you value and forgetting about RAID in a multimedia environment! (of course you could do both for the best security but its all ££ and HDD's aren't exactly cheap these days
One of the things I really like about flexraid is that any data on any drive within the pool is retained in its existing format.
this means that you can use drives already containing data and as the file system is retained as is, any drive can be removed at any time and the data read on a normal PC.
The rule I have used is that the OS (WHS 2011) which automatically partitions the OS drive as C: and D: is not part of the Raid or drive pool, which means that if I have an OS system catastrophic failure it will not destroy any other data, so nothing precious goes on the D: drive and is used for general downloaded crap such as program installation files.
mcquaim (15-01-12)
Thanks lads, lots and lots of detail there
I think I need to do some hardcore reading to get my head around some of it though. Any good websites explaining good home network setups?
An interesting point you made maxwell was that your tests were run on an old laptop that bottlenecked because of slow HDD speed. How did you check this?
The speeds you are getting are still brilliant..
Crystal Disk Mark allows you to test individual disks on either the local machine or mapped network drives, the link to it is included in my speed test results, Oh and its freeThanks lads, lots and lots of detail there
I think I need to do some hardcore reading to get my head around some of it though. Any good websites explaining good home network setups?
An interesting point you made maxwell was that your tests were run on an old laptop that bottlenecked because of slow HDD speed. How did you check this?
The speeds you are getting are still brilliant..
mcquaim (15-01-12)
Top stuff maxwell, I must run this to check if this might be a factor for my slow speeds..
Any suggestions for good reading for all this network setup stuff?
there is some good stuff in the networking section of AV forums, the trouble is that if you go to the more specialist sites they tend to assume that you have a good basic knowledge to start with and tend to be more in depth and technical than you need at the moment.
Some things to consider.
Which OS type would be easiest for you to get started ? - Windows/Linux, each has their merits and disadvantages.
What will I be using the server for ? - This will dictate the best OS to use for your purposes. Some OS's for you to look at : FreeNAS, OpenMediavault, UnRaid, Windows Home Server 1 and Windows Home Server 2011. The reason for saying WHS 1 is that this has drivepooling built in, a feature that was removed from WHS 2011
Raid or not ? - Quite a lot of people dont bother with Raid in homeserver environments as long as you have a proper backup regime it really doesnt matter IMHO.
Drive-Pooling - Not essential but highly recommended again IMHO
for the last 2 take a look at Flexraid.
mcquaim (15-01-12)
Cheers maxwell, great stuff. I will look at AV forums in a bit.
I am using windows and the purpose is to feed music, photo & movies around my network. I have 2 Duo's, ps3 and a screenplay. Everything currently works fine when I get data onto my Iomega NAS but that is my problem. It is chronic slow to do so..
I guess I need to understand why it is so slow before I fork out more dosh on a new NAS when that might not be my main problem!
Thanks again, greatly appreciated
Just remember with a 100mbs ethernet your Maximum transfer rate would be 12.5Mb/s, and slower using wireless.
mcquaim (15-01-12)
Yeah, I had read that. My setup should be Gigabit though (Router, switch, NAS all wired with CAT6 cable) so I would have hoped that speeds would be higher. Currently only get around 7-8Mb/s, I would have hoped for much better that this...
Don't know how you are connected up but I would connect everything to the switch (assuming its a Gigabit switch) so the router is only used for net access, this means that any devices that need to talk to each other can do so directly and a maximum speeds.
Also make sure any NIC cards are using the latest drivers.
The speeds you are getting are definitely 10/100 and not 1000 so something is wrong somewhere.
List all your kit and what you are transferring from/to I will see if i can spot something.
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