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evening guys, just installed server 2012 on my new N54L and so far so good. Threw in another NIC card as well and im having a play with Hyper V. Just wondered if you might be able to lend me a hand. Im looking at setting up owncloud, just curious if i would be better off installing this in a windows 7 VM for example or if i should just install it direct on my host server 2012 setup?
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Hi all,
I've had my server about 3 years now and its been gathering dust for most of those 3 years being unused.
I am about to get cable internet and my interest in the microserver has picked up again.
I fitted a HD 5450, put the main HD in the cd tray and fitted 2 X 2TB hardrives in the bays.
I also bought a Hauppauge TV Tuner, but have since lost the arials which came with it.
The main jobs i wanted to server to do:
1. Record TV
2. Store Data / Act as media server
3. Backup Local devices
Now ive lost the arials for the tuner i dont really want to buy another card. Plus the TV i have now is wireless so i would rather stream things from the server than record the TV with a tuner card. So going to change point 1 to
Torrent server
I am possibly going to buy two more 2TB drives but not sure yet as my main PC only has 1TB of stuff on it currently. Not thinking of anything RAID wise and will probably just name the drives, Backup, Data etc. Tempted to see how it goes initially and add more drives later if i need to.
The main problem i had before was i didnt know which OS to choose from. I got Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for free.
I have done a little digging and see Server 2008 R2 no longer has support from Microsoft.
Windows Home Server is also discontinued, which leaves me with Win7 or something else.
Any ideas on where next with this server?
Sorry for long post.
I've had my server about 3 years now and its been gathering dust for most of those 3 years being unused.
I am about to get cable internet and my interest in the microserver has picked up again.
I fitted a HD 5450, put the main HD in the cd tray and fitted 2 X 2TB hardrives in the bays.
I also bought a Hauppauge TV Tuner, but have since lost the arials which came with it.
The main jobs i wanted to server to do:
1. Record TV
2. Store Data / Act as media server
3. Backup Local devices
Now ive lost the arials for the tuner i dont really want to buy another card. Plus the TV i have now is wireless so i would rather stream things from the server than record the TV with a tuner card. So going to change point 1 to
Torrent server
I am possibly going to buy two more 2TB drives but not sure yet as my main PC only has 1TB of stuff on it currently. Not thinking of anything RAID wise and will probably just name the drives, Backup, Data etc. Tempted to see how it goes initially and add more drives later if i need to.
The main problem i had before was i didnt know which OS to choose from. I got Win7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 for free.
I have done a little digging and see Server 2008 R2 no longer has support from Microsoft.
Windows Home Server is also discontinued, which leaves me with Win7 or something else.
Any ideas on where next with this server?
Sorry for long post.
Why owncloud when you can do this with server 2012
Owncloud has integration into smartphones, ipads etc doesn't it? Wasn't aware Server 2012 could do that.
Hi mate I wasn't aware server 2012 could do this. Will have a look into this for sure.
That's what I liked about it, I could link it with my iPad and iPhone while out and about.
Noticeably IMO
Went from N40L running 8.1 and pulled disks and stuck into an N54L and it feels much smoother.
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Are people using ZFS generally running RAIDZ1 or RAIDZ2 configurations? I'm inclined to go for the latter, using 4 2/3TB disks.
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RAIDZ2 seems like way overkill for a home setup... you're giving up 50% of your disks just in case 2 of them happen to fail simultaneously... Up to you of course but given that you should certainly still have a separate or better still off-site backup of anything very important RAIDZ1 ought to be plenty good enough for your needs
RAIDZ1 - only lose one disk worth of capacity.
Mine is a media and general file server. Anything vital is backed up elsewhere as well.
RAIDZ2 is a bit overkill for 4 disks as you'll lost 50% capacity. If you had say 6+ disks then it makes more sense.
Mine is a media and general file server. Anything vital is backed up elsewhere as well.
RAIDZ2 is a bit overkill for 4 disks as you'll lost 50% capacity. If you had say 6+ disks then it makes more sense.
RAIDZ1 here (4x 2TB) which is backed up to a 4TB external daily using rsync & my unrecoverable files (photos, documents, etc.) are backed up using CrashPlan as well. No need for anything more at home.
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RAIDZ2 over 4 disks is no different to a mirror.
Currently using a JBOD pool but will expand to 8 disks. Which will consist of two RAID5 vdevs in a single pool and a separate mirror for more important files. Would prefer to run a single 8 drive RAID6 but that means shelling out nearly £700 on drives in one hit so may opt for using MDADM as it's a lot more flexible in the way it grows
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In the home environment What advantage is to using Raid over something like Macrium/Acronis Imaging software, for backing up?
Im using Raid 1 at the mo, but im contemplating, just imaging my data onto an external drive and onto another drive elsewhere. That way if my server goes down i can easily get at the data instead of waiting for a new server to arrive etc.
Im using Raid 1 at the mo, but im contemplating, just imaging my data onto an external drive and onto another drive elsewhere. That way if my server goes down i can easily get at the data instead of waiting for a new server to arrive etc.
Absolutely.
or with an offsite backup, "Oh crap my house just burned down" or "Oh crap a power surge just blew up everything in my house".
Evening all, just a couple of things i was wondering if someone might be able to answer for me. Anyone use a pico psu in there N54L?If so is it easy to install?
I just installed Ubuntu on my Hyper V host and i found it really slow, i gave it 1vcpu and 1024mb of ram which i thought was more than enough. I installed win 7 with the same setup and it seems so much quicker. I wanted to use a Linux VM to be used as my Plex server as it would be less resource hungry than a windows install.
I just installed Ubuntu on my Hyper V host and i found it really slow, i gave it 1vcpu and 1024mb of ram which i thought was more than enough. I installed win 7 with the same setup and it seems so much quicker. I wanted to use a Linux VM to be used as my Plex server as it would be less resource hungry than a windows install.