Originally Posted by
KRSW
24 3TB drives? 72 TB? That's a lot of pr0n dude!
18 3TB and 6 2TB at present, and you miss redundancy -- it's 3 RAID 6s, and drive manufacturers and OSes measure TB differently, so:
Code:
/dev/md125 197G 57G 131G 31% /
/dev/mapper/vg_claudius-lv_home 22T 20T 1.4T 94% /home
/dev/mapper/vg_claudius-lv_video 17T 16T 171G 99% /video
/dev/md126 526G 207G 317G 40% /data
/dev/md123 is the 6x 2TB RAID that's being retired (errr, will probably move into a gaming desktop ... no sense in wasting good drives, even small dated ones.)
Code:
Disk /dev/md123: 7.3 TiB, 8001054310400 bytes, 15627059200 sectors
As for the relative content of pr0n vs. other videos vs. non-video content, I'll simply say that there is plenty
Originally Posted by
BigLar
I had initially gone that route, (old, cheap, slower cpu) but it does help to have fast drives, a nice chunk of memory, and some reasonable cpu horsepower (a lot less than an i7!) if you want to get anything close to full bandwidth out of Gb ethernet.
A modern very-low-end CPU like the J1900 can get full bandwidth out of Gb ethernet as long as you've got reasonable disk for it to come off of.
If all you needed was ordinary 100 mbs ethernet, pretty much anything can saturate that channel.
"Ordinary" 100Mbps Ethernet? What decade are we in now?
(I'll have 10GbE up and running at home as soon as my addition is done.)
Re power: Since I'm the only one using the server it spends a lot of time just waiting for me. I have it go to sleep after 20 minutes and it responds to wake-on-lan nicely, so that's how I roll with it. Depending on the rates in your area, and how much you actually use it, you could easily save yourself a hundred bucks a year in electricity costs and quite a lot of wear and tear on the drives.
There are 3 of us (and 4 when my son is a little older) using the server as a mega-DVR at home, not to mention a few remote friends, and it's running among other things my own main cloud storage (albeit totally manual via SCP/SFTP)
IF I let it sleep, I'd need another server (although it could be something tiny like an old router) to be able to do the wake-on-LAN remotely, and I'd have to explain wake-on-lan to my wife and the babysitter (any day now, to the daughter as well.)
Also, starting and stopping does a lot more wear on time than continuous running without spinning down. The oldest drive in my server has 45,382 hours (> 5 years) of run time, and under 200 start-stop cycles.