10.11.2017
Basically I wanted a server running in my apartment because I am not nerd enough yet... 24 hours later bought used Dell Edgepower R410 without actually checking anything. Another 24 hours later realise onboard PERC 6/i supports only up to 2TB drives only. Another 24 hours later try 8TB drive on motherboard sata port and it is recoqnized! Another 24 hours later try install OMV 3.0... realise no server hardware nic drivers because Debian about 12 hours later when somebody asked was your NIC broadcom... Installed Debian 9.20 with ton of non-free-firmwares, success! another 6 hours later realise you should not encrypt your drives because it is inconvenient and takes a lot time... 1 hour later try link bonding and break your network connection (way to go!). About 1 hour later you're on this forum posting your mysterious adventure into Linux distros and OMV!
So hi, I am engineer student and decided that finally I need a proper NAS and give a whack of hammer to my old 1TB nas drive that was connected to my router. And so as you might read earlier I bought a server rack.
Planned Target Server:
- Dell Edgepower R410
- 2x Xeon L5640 (6C/12T, 60W)
- 4-128GB RAM? No idea so far how much ram I need... probably going to settle for 16GB...
- OS on 30-120GB SSD
- NAS storage should be at least 8TB, might go for RAID 5/6/10 + 8TB external storage
- 500W reduntant PSU
- 2Gbit bonded NIC
- Debian 8.9 + OMV 3
- many other services will be also running on that server later, hopefully NAS survives
Current Server:
- Dell Edgepower R410
- 1x Xeon E5504 (4C/4T, 80W)
- 4GB RAM
- OS on 3x146GB RAID 5 array
- NAS Storage: USB drive
- 500W reduntant PSU
- 1Gbit nic, other NIC not found after OS install
- Debian 9.20