Hi everybody,
I just finished building and configuring my new server. It replaced my old QNAP TS-419 PII. I was running out of space and had a RAID 5 in place. Also no Backup. I looked at new NASes from QNAP, but the one I fancied was about 900 € without HDDs, only 4 GB of RAM and also without ECC. The CPU wasn't the fastest, too. I looked what I can build with about 900 € myself.
Plan was to replace the hole thing with something with more space, with more potent hardware to run VMs and with ECC-RAM. The old NAS was then going to be the backup (Haven't finished this yet).
An old Tower, Antec P180, was still lying around. It has a dedicated HDD-cage for four HDDs and ventilation. So I thought I could put it to good use again.
The new hardware:
- Motherboard: Asus P10S-4/L with Asus ASMB8-iKVM Server Remote Management
- CPU: Xeon E3-1240v6
- RAM: 16 GB DDR4-2400 with ECC from Kingston
- SSD: Samsung 850 Evo 500 GB for omv and VMs
- HDD: 4x 6 TB WD Red Pro
- Fan: 2x Noctua NF-F12
I am very pleased with omv. It runs fast and very stable. I'm using MySQL for a LibreELEC-Database, UrBackup, SnapRAID, UnionFileSystem and VirtualBox.
In regards of energy-consumption, I was positively surprised. Server on, HDDs in spin-down, system idling, around 30 Watt. Server on, HDDs spun-up, system idling, aroung 60 Watt. I was expecting more in idle.
Thanks for the good work Awesome community
I'm happy to answer any questions or take advice.
BTW: I'm getting an error per mail from Cron: "/usr/sbin/omv-snapraid-diff: Zeile 372: [: -eq: Einstelliger (unärer) Operator erwartet." Looking at the Script in that particular row:
# set pre-hash option
if [ $(omv_config_get "/config/services/snapraid/prehash") -eq 1 ]; then
prehash=" --pre-hash"
else
prehash=""
fi
if $DEBUG; then
_log "DEBUG: Pre-Hash option: $prehash"
fi
I can't spot the error, but a mail followed this one said that the diff-script was successful.