[Scottish] Storage servers

2013-09-08 Thread Graeme Thomson 
Hey folks,
before committing to anything, i thought i'd get some additional input. I
need more storage on my home network, mostly media files, HD TV and movies
eat up disk space very quickly.
I currently have an HP microserver with a bunch of disks in, set up as
RAID5, sharing files across the LAN with SMB and NFS, but i'm running low
on space.  I just bought another microserver, since they are again on £100
cash back offer. I plan to fil that with disks also.

Should i just set it up the same as the first, and point mount points etc
to the new server from clients, or from the original server, making it
relatively seamless to clients at the expense of some performance, or is
there a better way of setting it up?

Anyone got any pointers?

Thanks

G
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Re: [Scottish] Storage servers

2013-09-08 Thread Colin Shorts 

On 08/09/13 13:03, Graeme Thomson wrote:

Hey folks,
Should i just set it up the same as the first, and point mount points etc
to the new server from clients, or from the original server, making it
relatively seamless to clients at the expense of some performance, or is
there a better way of setting it up?
I'm not sure that you can re-export nfs mounts, but can't say that I've 
tried the same with CIFS/SMB.


I'd be more inclined to set it up as a separate server myself.

As for the HP Microserver, you can squeeze 6 3.5 drives in it and just 
set it to boot from a USB stick (like I did after forgetting to setup a 
small partition on each drive for /boot, RAID 1 over 5 drives + spare). 
I used the Nexus Double Twin to get two drives in the 5.25 bay at the 
top. With 6x 3TB drives in there in raid 5 with a single spare, that's 
12TB. caveat: you need to use a modified BIOS to get the full 
performance and use an esata - sata cable passed back from outside for 
the 6th drive. An other option would be adding 6x 2.5 drives in the 
5.25 bay, but that starts to get silly, and the HD sizes are a bit 
limiting for now.


If you're really running out of space that quickly then perhaps you need 
to look at some enterprise grade storage stuff - you can probably pick 
up some old kit that will still handle SATA drives ok and give you 12 
disk bays. Of course noise then might become an issue, not to mention 
the electricity to power them, and the heat that they'd produce.


-Colin



Anyone got any pointers?

Thanks

G



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