Part of my new build has me running 5x Samsung 840 Pro 512GB SSD’s as a RAIDZ array (stripes with one drive worth of redundancy), which I’ll be using as a pool for iSCSI targets off which will hang multiple VM’s as their boot drives. Overkill? Yes, certainly for a home server. Having just installed…
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So I’m looking at hardware prices again, and my wallet is burning holes in my pants (or maybe I just don’t like shopping, and my pants are old and full of holes? sshhh, don’t tell anyone!). The recent release of AMD’s Threadripper (best. cpu. name. ever.), has me lusting after new hardware, but of course,…
So I’m back, and this time to blog about my updates to my home network. Looking through my history here, its been 2.5 years since I set up my current incarnation of my home server, which is a neat little mATX case and motherboard, with an aging Lynnfield X3450 Xeon cpu, a supermicro motherboard, and…
So I picked up a few 256GB solid state drives on a whim. Its time to upgrade some of the older drives around the house in the PC’s which need the capacity. This time, I decided to just buy msata drives, and use more mSATA to 2.5″ adapters to fit them into desktops and laptops. …
So after a couple of comments from readers (what? you mean I’m not just screaming into the void?), I decided to investigate building the latest version of FreeNAS with Xen support. Since my original post about building FreeNAS 9.2 for Xen, the FreeNAS developers released 9.2.1 which added some cool stuff like Samba 4, newer…
Ok, I posted a review the other day of a Vantec EZ Swap F4 (model MRK-425ST-BK) in which I noted that the thing screams like a banshee. Well ok, so maybe that’s a bit overly dramatic, but I don’t like noise, and prefer my technology to be unobtrusive, and the fan in the EZ swap…
Update 2/10/2014: A new build updating the files to FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 which includes a bunch of samba updates, and importantly, the fixes for the bash shellshock vulnerability. Update 17/5/2014: I’ve replaced the links on this page to a newer version, FreeNAS 9.2.1.5, and added the Upgrade file. Note for the upgrade through the FreeNAS UI,…
My current off-site backup is a couple of hard drives in external (usb2) enclosures, which are rotated to a family member’s house. I’m now pondering adding a cloud-based backup to my environment. The problem with cloud backups is security – I want to encrypt the data locally, and then be able to rsync it to…
I specifically chose the case for my new home server for its internal bays (7x 3.5″) and its external dimensions, as it has to fit on the same closet shelf as my old Microserver N36L. I ended up choosing the Lian-Li PC-V354b Case which is working out great for me. More on that in another…