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The thing about ZFS (ProxMox and FreeNAS) is it hates RAID. You use
a dumbed down RAID card called a Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) that simply
presents the drives as just a bunch of drives. <br>
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ZFS, the billion dollar file system, is both the RAID, volume
manager and file system. It's not as quick as a RAID card and XFS
but then again it is if your CPU is powerful.<br>
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ZFS uses a very smart way of writing data, it does not overwrite it
simply writes a new block and if successful unlinks the old block.
If not successful then it's as if nothing was written. Nothing is
part written. Copy On Write or COW.<br>
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The other thing is the volumes or DATASETS report the full size of
your drive even if they are actually taking up a much smaller space.
Ideal for VMs because you can give the VM a huge C: drive without
wasting space. Yeah I know VHDs achieve this but this is the OS
providing this feature so it's better. A snapshot is not a duplicate
of the data but more of a book mark. Remember it does not overwrite
with new data.<br>
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DDR3 ECC RAM is very cheap now, especially on AliExpress. Probably
worth bumping that machine up top 64GB. Since you have so many
memory channels the slow RAM is fine. I bet that machine can take an
8 core Xeon which are also pretty cheap on AliExpress.<br>
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Let us know how it goes. RAID 10 is probably the best one for both
speed and safety.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm hoping it will be fast. The new raid cards got
delivered today so i can actually make it work now. I'm using
the Dell Perc H700 card. It's going to be running on Bare Metal
on debian 10 (my favorite distro and has been for years)
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<div>Ive never messed about with Proxmox ive always usd VMware
Esxi. I have a little server here at home its one of the HP
Microservers g8 with a quad core Xeon 16Gb of ram. I use this
for PI-Hole Dns server / Home assistant server (Debian 11) and
my Reef fish tank monitoring device. </div>
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<div> Happy New Year Stuart,<br>
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That sounds like fun. That should be fast with the mirrored
striped SSD RAID. Remember to tune your server configs to
take advantage of the massive RAM and cores I expect you
have. Have you figured out iSCSI yet? I gave it a go, quite
cool but a bit slow on a 1gig network.<br>
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I've built a Proxmox based on ZFS of 8 2.7GB SAS drives. I
had a couple of drives left over so I built a FreeNAS on
ZFS. In terms of storage FreeNAS is loads better but ProxMox
is great for VMs.<br>
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I've also tinkered with GamerOS, this is basically what
SteamOS was supposed to be. It turns a PC into a gaming
console and you use your Steam account. It requires a Vulkan
GPU which is either an HD 7000 series or later or the
integrated GPU in an i5 etc.<br>
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It did even get it going on my ProxMox as a VM but my GPU is
only an HD 5000 series.<br>
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Regards.<br>
<br>
Wayland.<br>
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<div>On 11/01/2021 00:05, Stewart Larner via Colchester
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<div dir="ltr">Happy New year everyone! if we can call it
a happy start to the year!
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<div>Has anyone been tinkering with anymore Linux
Projects while being stuck at home? if you are. </div>
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<div>I'm in the process of building a RAID 10 SSD
powered MYSQL server with 10G Uplink for a Zabbix
monitoring system.</div>
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<div>I won an ebay bid a couple of months ago and won
many servers for £300. Works out they came with 14TB
of storage between them all! </div>
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<div>Ended up with a couple of Dell r610's</div>
<div>Dell R410 - This is what im using for the SQL
Server</div>
<div>3 HP SAN's full of 450Gb drives</div>
<div>Couple of HP servers too. </div>
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<div>All good fun</div>
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<div>Hope you are all keeping well</div>
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<div>Stewart</div>
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up a monthly $10 donation.<br>
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On 01/01/2021 13:33, Martyn via Colchester wrote:<br>
> I wonder if Manjaro will ever sort out its nvidia
dependencies? Pamac <br>
> has issues at almost every update.<br>
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> Mint on the other hand is always sweet as a nut.<br>
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> Have a great New Year all.<br>
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> Martyn.<br>
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> On 01/01/2021 10:57, Wayland Sothcott via
Colchester wrote:<br>
>> With another year of lockdowns even more time
to tinker with Linux, <br>
>> yeah!<br>
>> Playing with GamerOS right now.<br>
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