Well, I thought, especially that with the bios turned on, this pentium heats up, and unfortunately there is no option to lower the clock at all, only one thing that this motherboard has are two gigabit ports, but there would probably be a problem with using two hosts at full speed .
And I am currently testing a NAS based on Odroid XU4 and in general I am pleasantly surprised by the performance of this board. USB3.0 bay drive, EXT4 file system, smiga is on average 96-105MB / s in samba. And it cuts about 10W
In order not to open a new topic, I will write my server configuration to us and I am asking you for help if everything is ok.
It is to be used for backup of photos and videos, Windows 10, TeamSpeak 3 server for a few people, movies and possibly something more for the future, but you will probably need to upgrade. Generally 2-3 people can use at the same time.
System : unRAID Processor: Intel Pentium Gold G5400 with the possibility of upgrading to i5-9400T or stronger with the designation T. Motherboard : Gigabyte B365M D3H RAM: 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz or more PUSKILL brand (Chinese good ram) Disk: Seagate SkyHawk 2TB 3.5 5900 (ST2000VX008) 2 pcs. Power Supply: SilentiumPC Elementum E2 SI 350W (SPC19) Cooling: SilentiumPC Fera 3 HE1224 v2 (SPC144)
Recently, I bought an FSP300-60EGA, i.e. a power supply with 80+ Gold. According to the test from the 80+ certification site, the efficiency for 115V is about 89%, so for 230V it will be 90 +%. A new one with a guarantee costs PLN 60.
Relative to the previous power supply, a real improvement of some 12-13% was measured.
The time will come to modernize the processor and the board in order to cut the power consumption more neatly. And then maybe you will look for some "civil" RAID controller, which is not so annoying.
At the very end, there will be hard drives where there will be a replacement of all 2TB to 4TB or a change to 4x8TB in RAID10.
How do you share files over the internet? I am currently trying to play with Nextcloud, but in conjunction with Letsencrypt unfortunately I cannot connect to the service locally only from outside the lan network. Probably Funbox's fault.
Hello colleagues And I took a different route - I tried earlier, I made a small 1-disk nasa from an HP terminal with a 2.5 "SATA disk inserted. It has proven itself over several years of work.
Later I got my hands on the disposal Netgear ReadyNAS NVX - a 4-disk solid mechanical construction. The investigation showed that the power supply is faulty. The original Netgear power supply available on Amazon costs half a fortune, and I wasn't sure if only this was damaged. After a short search, it turned out to be an ordinary PC power supply with the usual 20-pin motherboard connector, but the witty designers swapped a few pins in places. So I put a 24pin to 20pin power adapter into the housing with appropriately crossed cables:
The whole thing is not impressive, but it works and allows you to use a regular PC power supply:
I didn't like the original Netgear soft very much, so I built my own. I don't need the GUI and the gimmicks, I hate it when the device does something out of control and I don't know what's going on underneath, I prefer to have full control. The main task is backup, the rest are add-ons. My soft is not very friendly - the whole configuration has to be done from the console manually (vi or nano ), but I know what's squeaking in the grass. I lost XRaid (Netgear's own idea) but replaced it with unionfs, which has pretty much the same effect - except manual configuration. Services available: ssh ftp / sftp www with CGI appletalk samba And of course, access via serial console Nothing prevents you from adding whatever your heart desires. The whole system boots to RAM, no element of it is placed on the matrix disks (unless expressly requested). To synchronize files with the computer I used the open source SyncThing program - amazing, it allows local and WAN synchronization, everything happens in the background. System boot screenshot below:
SYSLINUX 3.31 2006-09-25 Copyright (C) 1994-2005 H. Peter Anvin
Loading kernel..................................................
Loading rootfs.gz...............................................................................
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Ready.
�ahci 0000:03:00.0: masking port_map 0x7 -> 0x3
ln: /dev/log: Fidevpts: called with bogus options
le exists
Starting syslogd OK
Starting acpid OK
Starting klogd OK
Starting mdev dynamic device management OK
Loading Kernel modules for LCD
nvxgpio: OK
Waiting for USB drive(s) to become ready..
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 6:0:0:0: [sdf] Assuming drive cache: write through
Found 4 SATA drives and 2 USB drives: sde sdf
Using external USB drive sdf
Mounting /dev/sdf1 on /mnt OK
Creating temporary config dir on tmp OK
Copying config files to temporary dir OK
Copying config files to /etc OK
Initializing random number generator... OK
Starting Auto assemble RAID
Waiting for /etc/mdadm.conf to be restored
Waiting for /etc/mdadm.conf to be restored
/etc/mdadm.conf not found. Trying to auto-assemble
Config updated
Scanning Auto assemble RAID OK
Starting network:
Bringing up interface lo OK
Bringing up interface eth0 OK
Bringing up interface eth1 OK
Bringing up interface bond0 OK
Setting time zone to Europe/Warsaw
Starting Network time protocol daemon OK
Activating swap OK
Starting Mount all storage devices
Check if /dev/disk/by-label/BIGDATA exists OK
Creating mountpoint /home: OK
Mounting BIGDATA (/dev/md1p1) on /home OK
Setting options for /home:
WARNING: Skiping option defaults
Check if /dev/disk/by-label/DATA0 exists OK
Mountpoint /var/www exists
Mounting DATA0 (/dev/sda3) on /var/www OK
Setting options for /var/www:
WARNING: Skiping option defaults
Check if /dev/disk/by-label/SMALLDATA exists OK
Creating mountpoint /var/backup: OK
Mounting SMALLDATA (/dev/md0p1) on /var/backup OK
Setting options for /var/backup:
WARNING: Skiping option defaults
Changing mode to 0770 OK
Changing group to 102 OK
Starting Dropbear ssh server OK
Netatalk service - MacIntosh connectivity disabled in config
Syncing hardware clock with system clock: OK
Cron scheduler daemon disabled in config
Starting Smartd monitoring daemon OK
Hiawatha web server disabled in config
Pure-ftpd sever disabled in config
Starting SMB service OK
Starting NMB service OK
Running all Local scripts (rc.local functionality)
Absolutely useless front panel demo ;-) disabled in config
Starting Syncthing - continuous sync program OK
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bond0: 192.168.101.5
eth0:
eth1:
MicroNAS login: root
Password:
# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 2072440 135868 1351004 0 585568 0
-/+ buffers/cache: 135868 1936572
Swap: 4194296 0 4194296
As you can see, the system is 135MB with 2GB in RAM. At the moment www, ftp and netatalk services are disabled in the configuration, but enabling them does not change the memory usage. The whole thing has been running for several months, but it is still "Work In Progress" - recently I added a menu that allows you to view important system status items on the LCD display - disk status and occupancy, RAID status, etc.
I offer all kinds of assistance to those who are interested best regards
Buddy gimbus, great job, I admire and envy the abilities !!!
Gentlemen, has anyone worked on xpenology and the Intel D2500CC boards? I have been tired for two days and I can not bet on this newer version than DSM 5.2, on any of the loaders from version 1.01 and above, I do not search for a server to install the PAT file, I replaced the files in the img image, etc. and nothing, on three other motherboards ( normal?) everything works flawlessly, but I also fail to start with the latest loader 1.03b.
I found only one on the internet entry in Russian :
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I can't speak Russian, so the translator explains:
"There are no problems with the installation, just turn on the UEFI bootloader and disable the second LAN, register another Mac LAN in the rake."
I understand everything, except the last words, change another MAC address, I do not know if this is the fault of the translator? But I tried different configurations with the MAC address of the card and random, but it did not work. Of course, I turned UEFI on (and off), and the second power cable also, no improvement; /
There is Dual Gigabit 82574L on this Intel D2500CC motherboard
So even without knowing the language, write down the MAC address in the rake.
Sometimes it makes sense to use regular transliteration arrays instead of using a translator. Concepts related to computers are, like in Polish, taken straight from English, the translator will only confuse here.
The computer starts up perfectly without a graphics card, the operating system is reporting after SSH and I have not noticed any problems with its operation. Following the readings of the wattmeter, it can be concluded that the work of the graphics card is performed by the processor due to the lack of hardware acceleration on the part of the card. If the GUI is active, the power consumption drop is quite small. However, if we also switch to text mode (typical for Linux and other systems, not Windows), the decrease in energy consumption is more noticeable.
In the case of the Ati X600 card, the difference between having and not having a graphics card in the system is approximately 5W in text mode and 2-3W in GUI mode. The difference between text mode and GUI is another few watts (regardless of card or no card).
It is worth remembering about this patent not only for energy consumption, but also for the release of an additional PCIE port, which is sometimes important for mATX or ITX boards.
Interestingly, some uefi motherboards can also move without any graphics card. It all depends on what the producer of the album came up with. However, it would be interesting to look for a similar permanent and relatively universal workaround for the uefi.
Thanks for the translation, I have a small request if someone explained to me in a simple way what I should do to start xpenalogy on my intel D2500CC, lan 82574L motherboard. I should install from the loader 1.02b (DS315), but from what I understand the drivers for my power cable are in the e1000e set, which, I'm not mistaken, are in the loader 1.03b from DS315, somewhere I read that I also changed the name to e1000 to make some Intel cards they worked, but I do not understand it, only as I wrote earlier there are entries that someone did it without any modifications on the same disc as mine, or on the same power cable.
On loader 1.04 under DS918, LAN reports, gives an IP address and ping goes, but does not search for me in the synology program. In the 1.03b / 1.02b loaders, you can't see the card / disc at all.
Anyone overwhelmed will help? I do not hide in these linux matters I am thin; / Below links to what bothers me.
Energy-saving, but is it economically viable and adequate in terms of performance? It is a little forgotten that Samba and many processes are single-threaded and many ARM cores do not need to have adequate performance for these tasks.
But does Samba need computing power? It all depends on what you want to have on such a server. My OMV works as a NAS, backup, FTP server for cameras, a website server (including https), a smart home server (it manages quite a lot of ESP). As you can see, the cores will be useful. The problem may be installing the system on the SD card. Personally, I advise against it if it is to work reliably and for a long time. I suggest you do a BOOT right away from the drive connected to USB3.
Samba needs it to transfer files at the right speed. You can verify it very easily, put a friend samba server on some weaker computer and regulate the processor clock. The faster the processor, the faster the transfers.
A celeron or pentium has two high-performance cores, while the Raspberry Pi has a few weaker cores.
There are still IO issues. Rpi does not have a Sata connector in any version, and also does not have PCIE connectors so that IO can be supplemented with solid IO hardware.
