OMV on a dell 1900

Hi I have a dell 1900 which has been running windows 2008. It has twin quad core, 32gigs ram and 8 2tb harddrives. I can add another drive as there are two spare sata on board.

Would I ignore raid set up here and instead set it up within OMV?
How would you set up 8 drives assuming I had a 9th for OMV? I like stripped because of speed. but would be happy to consider something else. I don't need tonnes of space, I am using abut 3tb currently.

Would OMV 3 be preferable in this application?

Hi.

Getting a lot of conflicting info on the hardware raid and BTRFS. Would I be better just using ext4 in this application?

I think in the new year I shall start again with a sas controller rather than raid but for right now I have a perc and set up 4 disks as raid 0. This has been picked up fine by OMV, just wonder what file system to put on it.

For now at least no mission critical stuff will be on this nas, that being said I would rather it didnt go belly up real quick!

Sorry I meant a sata card to do away with the raid card. I'll use ext4, known and loved.

Cheers

Hi, I got my dell model wrong its a 2900 and the perc includes raid 0-1-5-6 and 10

I went with 0 over 4 disks as I have a need for speed! I am aware of the risks of raid hence everything is backed up to another pc.

However now that its all set up, speeds are very disappointing. With copy speed not exceeding 40MB/s on the same set up but with windows 2008 it comfortably sat around 110MB/s

So not really sure what to make of that, but its all slower, PLEX scanning for instance is very slow, I can tell this because I installed PLEX temporarily on my back up server this week ( an old optiplex something or other running 2008) my tv shows scanned in around 10 minutes, I don't have many, on OMV its been going for 40 minutes with plenty to go.

Looking in the networking graphic on OMV it says its connected at gigabit. So I can only think some sort of unhappiness with the raid?

I set up raid in the perc interface, and set it all toe ext4 as discussed above.

I also note that the cpu is being utilised at around 80%, is OMV able to use multi cores? This one has 8 cores at 3ghz and 32gigs of ram.

I have only every ran OMV on lower level hardware such as proliant n54l where the CPU never seemed to be stressed.

Hi, yea AMD64. Its really strange. I am in no rush here so will try different network ports etc, but the performance is really bad, I gave up with the TVShow scan last night it was still going 2 hours later for 12 shows.

I cannot break 50MB/s download from it.

Sorry to clarify I started with version 3. Well anyhow I installed Windows 2008 on the same hardware, same nics same everything and easily hitting 100MB/s from my main PC, would not go above 45 on OMV. So I have given up on OMV in this application. I have used OMV in one guise or another for years including on this very server under a virtual so not sure if its version 3, the Perc card, or some unfortunate event, but what ever it is, the combination is not happy.

However I am trying to install on another PC an old Dell OptiPlex 755. It simply will not have it here. At 'partitions formatting' it hits 33% and goes no further. I have tried three different harddrives and burning the image to two DVDs and CDR and USB stick, in all cases cannot get beyond 33% formatting.

Sigh.

Sorry I don't really understand, I downloaded the OMV v3 installer and ran that?

Ah ok, yea I understand about omv extras as thats where I get plex from.

Still I am now at a stage where it wont install at all. I had the original install on a harddrive so stuck that in a HP proliant and whilst its booted fine it does not appear on my network. I am sure OMV used to tell you on the connected screen what its IP was but thats not longer showing either.