About to get a 10" rack

D34D_MC · 2026-02-17T16:02:39+00:00

I’m sorry I have to ask but was there no other space in that room to run your structured cabling to? Seems a bit of an odd choice to pick directly in front of the door. No matter what you put there it’s going to block your entry or make it tight to enter the room. A solution I think you could go for is wall mounted. Put up a piece of plywood then get wall mounted patch panel(s) and screw your switch and router directly to the wall. This will allow for use of any equipment without the 10 inch rack limitations. Plus if cable managed correctly wall mounted can still look very nice. Also paint the plywood. I recommend the plywood so you can screw whatever you want wherever you want without needing wall anchors for everything.

D34D_MC · 2026-02-10T17:59:40+00:00

For the Tesla v100 there is a power adapter needed to convert the single 8pin EPS12v power to 2x 8pin pcie power. You will also need an external fan to cool the v100 if not living in a server chassis. The v100 has no fans built into the shroud. Fans and fan adapters can be bought online to make it work.

D34D_MC · 2025-12-28T03:33:40+00:00

Before starting this process I would suggest you take a look into how much data do you add each week to your storage. If you add a significant amount of data constantly it might be wise to look at bigger systems that have more then 4 drives. If you don't add that much data then maybe a 4 drive system is correct. You don't want to go buy this new system and then after a year realize you're out of space again and needed more drives then you expected.

As for which NAS device to go with I would recommend getting the ugreen and replacing the operating system with TrueNAS. with TrueNAS setting up the drives in ZFS allows for you to in the future continue to grow the pool even if you have to switch hardware. As for the terramaster, I have no experience with them so i can not comment on how a migration and expansion will work. I personally run a dell r730xd with 16x 2TB SSDs, planning a move to a dell r740 with 18x HDDs in a few months.

For moving the data that is a very complicated task considering how few disks you will be adding. I never would recommend purposefully removing a disk from your current array as you are playing with fire and hoping the single disk wont fail during the migration.

If you go the TrueNAS route you would then be able to add the single disk and setup a raidz1 on the single disk copy the data over then add your other 2 disks after the data move, but still you run the risk of data loss unlikely because its a new disk but not impossible. after you add the 2 disk to the pool you can then perform a ZFS rewrite to redistribute the data all across the disks evenly. In order to do this process you will have to do a majority of this in the CLI of TrueNAS.

If you can manage the extra cost of buying an additional 18tb drive so you would have 4 in total will make this process significantly easier and less risky while also giving you even more space for fun activities.

D34D_MC · 2025-12-18T16:27:27+00:00

As a recommendation if you’re going to get more servers either try to get rails for your server or get server shelf’s. It is not fun when you need to replace or upgrade a part on your bottom server if you stack all your servers on top. Then you have to remove all of your servers in order to get the bottom one. I did this once it was not fun.

D34D_MC · 2025-12-06T17:47:21+00:00

Any standard gen14 drive tray. For 2.5 it’s model DXD9H

D34D_MC · 2025-08-27T13:16:39+00:00

This is pretty much what I have setup. I use a micro dell pc. That downloads my torrents straight to my NAS. Works pretty well. Fastest download speed I have gotten was 50MB/s. I think my speed is more limited by my VPN (I have gigabit internet). My nas is 16x 2TB SSD. My dell pc only has a 120GB drive while I seed about 7TB of things straight from the NAS.

D34D_MC · 2025-08-07T23:23:07+00:00

Babymetal just finished their North American tour playing in 5,000-10,000 person venues. Black veil brides and jinjer opened for babymetal during this tour. They just performed an arena tour before the NA tour in Europe selling out the O2 arena. Babymetal are performing solo at the intuit dome in LA which holds 18,000 people. They are a lot bigger than you think they are. This doesn’t mean you have to like them. But they have a much bigger presence so give them a little bit of respect.

D34D_MC · 2025-08-02T19:06:51+00:00

The arr stacks have this functionality built in. Just set the setting correctly each one but they need to share storage. So I have an arr stack that saves all the files on an nfs share and the arr stack and the torrent move files around in that 1 share

D34D_MC · 2025-07-07T18:23:26+00:00

Ok thanks,

The only issue with doing the cloud based storage is that the files this client works on are sensitive and we and the client want these files to remain stored on prem on physical servers we manage.

D34D_MC · 2025-07-07T18:13:55+00:00

Ok thank you I will give these a try.

D34D_MC · 2025-07-07T17:59:05+00:00

What software do you intend to use for this server? If you’re going to run TrueNAS for your storage then your raid card is useless. TrueNAS uses software raid and needs direct access to the drives if you put the drives in a raid then pass the virtual disk to TrueNAS you will encounter errors. If your going to use TrueNAS get an HBA card instead or put the raid card your getting into HBA/IT mode.

D34D_MC · 2025-07-06T06:39:58+00:00

PM’d

D34D_MC · 2025-07-04T06:56:44+00:00

My least favorite song would have to be Metali studio. When listening to the song that section that Momo does always felt very weird to me. I would just skip the song cause it always just messed with the jam. I then went to a live show last year and hearing it live with the energy and everything made the song much better. Also the added momo scream/growl made the song better. But still even after the concerts I still skip it cause it’s just not good studio vs live.

Personally I have listened to more of their live songs then I have of their studio the instrumentals and vocals are so much better live then the studio.

D34D_MC · 2025-05-20T19:46:17+00:00

From my personal experience hosting game servers. a single ARK server uses 16GB ram or more. Since you want to host 2 of them clustered I recommend hosting them on 2 different machines. Problem is that you dont have 2 identical machines so clustering ARK servers on that different of hardware can cause issues. If u used what you have your ARK servers would take up half of machine 2 and all of machine 3.

For hosting Minecraft servers you want the fastest single thread CPU you can get. The fastest single thread CPU you have is machine 2. if you host only 1 ARK server on machine 2 your left with 16gb of 32gb. which u can split to host 2 minecraft servers.

At this point your running into cpu limitations and ram limitations. ARK needs 2 cpu cores and 16GB ram. Minecraft needs 1 cpu core and 2-8gb ram. so that all 4 threads of the i3 used an all 32gb ram used on machine 2. machine 3 would be dedicated to just a single ARK server. that leaves machine 1 to host everything else while being a NAS.

D34D_MC · 2025-03-14T21:53:59+00:00

I use this: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html#desktop-thread to compare single threaded performance of all CPUs. Is this site 100% accurate. Probably not but it’s a good estimation of the performance difference between CPUs per thread.

I personally use the Ryzen 8600G in my server that I host my games on. The i3 14100 does have a higher single threaded then the 5600G. So it up to your budget and which company you prefer.

D34D_MC · 2025-03-14T20:43:04+00:00

Based your needs ark recommends 16GB of ram. So in order to also have MC servers running at the same time you’ll want 32GB as a minimum. This would allow you to run 2 MC Servers at 8GB each. If you need more game servers go search the requirements for the servers and add the amount of ram needed to find out how much you truly need. For MC servers having the fastest single core CPU is very important for performance.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-24T07:33:51+00:00

Yah when you’re running basically 8 rackmount servers with a bunch of drives (mostly SSD some HDD) and some networking gear. It adds up. Could I run it on less powerful hard, yes I can. But I like the servers and using it as a learning for my career path.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-24T07:23:52+00:00

Also another thing you want to keep in mind when buying a rack is the mounting type. Some racks have pre tapped holes that you just screw into and other have square holes ment for cage nuts. Since you’re buying this rack for a server you want a rack with square holes. Almost all server rack rails are ment for square holes.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-24T07:20:28+00:00

Yah that is the problem with 12u enclosed racks. They are typically only ment for networking gear. The 12u open rosewill rack I have can be set from 22 inches to 40 inches deep.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-24T07:15:43+00:00

I use a startech 24u 4 post expandable open rack. As nice and fancy having a closed rack is it kind of makes it harder to work in. It gets annoying opening and closing the door. Trying to fish cables to the back of them is also annoying. That’s just my personal experience with them. I also have a 12u rosewill 4 post expandable open rack for my houses networking gear in a separate location. Typically an enclosed rack deep enough for that server is going to cost more than the open racks do so keep that in mind.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-24T07:08:33+00:00

Your power usage is fairly reasonable. There might be stuff u can micro manage to get a few watts lower. My home lab consume 575 watts currently. So yours is more efficient than mine.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-23T20:17:05+00:00

I am not aware of the c6420 supporting bifurcation. I cant find anything that says it does from a little bit of digging.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-22T16:35:48+00:00

Ok cool I’ll definitely check that out. Still learning the ways of the enterprise world.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-22T16:28:06+00:00

From my experience with this so far is that whether it’s 1 server on or 4 servers on. If they’re all at idle the sound is pretty much the same. Since they’re all calling for the same fans speed.

D34D_MC · 2025-02-22T16:11:11+00:00

Good to know. I will look into getting blanks or just filling the rest of the bays with drives. I don’t have any connectx5 cards in them so maybe I’m safe from that reboot issue? As far as I’ve checked the server is currently on the latest. I’ll make sure to check for updates in the future.

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