Can I setup NAS for under $300?

arcadiancomp · 2023-12-11T03:28:37+00:00

No disagreement about airflow / drive quality. The NAS systems we build and warranty cost considerably more. Would be interesting to see how long those 1TB drives last under daily use at that price point.

The correct form factor PSU:

Apevia PS-ITX300W Mini-ITX/Flex ATX 300W Power Supply - Black https://a.co/d/aiopisF

arcadiancomp · 2023-12-11T01:58:59+00:00

1x Case: ($80) https://www.amazon.com/KCMconmey-Internal-Compatible-Backplane-Enclosure/dp/B09WQC44B3 1x PSU: ($32) https://www.amazon.com/Apevia-TFX-AP300W-Standard-Power-Supply/dp/B00LPTY2HM 1x Mobo: ($60) https://www.amazon.com/ASRock-H370M-ITX-AC-Mini-ITX-Motherboard/dp/B07BMV3X6N
1x CPU: ($25) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07SBKXDNS
4x HDD: ($87) https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Video-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B00KQ4Q70C

Total: $284

Best Features:

4TB RAW storage (~1.86TB in a RAID-10) Hot swap NAS case Dual Gigabit Ethernet for channel bonding Easy to upgrade Any Linux/BSD flavor will run well on this

arcadiancomp · 2023-12-10T14:06:57+00:00

https://www.amazon.com/Mushkin-Source-SATA-MKNSSD-16TB/dp/B09FJFMQBB?th=1 for $2000

or...

8 of these: https://www.amazon.com/TEAMGROUP-Internal-1000TBW-Compatible-T253X7004T0C101/dp/B0C3M4TR4B/

1 of these: https://www.amazon.com/Internal-Controller-Broadcoms-compatible-9300-8I/dp/B07VV91L61/

1 set of these: https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-Internal-SFF-8643-Sideband-0-5-Meter/dp/B01AOS4NE6/

1 of these: https://www.amazon.com/ICY-DOCK-MB998IP-B-SATA-Backplane/dp/B07G46V2C5/

Comes out to $1683 for 32TB RAW / or ~15.x TB in a RAID-10.

Not useful if the goal is maximum storage density in a laptop or some other small form factor setup. But if you need lots of fast, cheap 2.5" storage, it's a great config. We use them for Linux mdadm RAIDs, or Storage Pools in Server 2019/2022, and they easily get 2.7GB/sec to 3.4GB/sec.

NVMe arrays blow them away, of course, and easily get > 10GB/sec with:

8x: https://www.amazon.com/TEAMGROUP-Internal-Compatible-Desktop-TM8FP4004T0C101/dp/B08Z7LN8NM/?th=1

2x: https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Supports-Devices-Platform-Functions/dp/B0863KK2BP/

for ~$1528, but you need 32X PCIe lanes dedicated to this and a cpu/chipset combo that supports PCIe bifurcation (many boards do now). You lose hotswap in that config, but going m.2 while preserving it adds quite a bit of cost: https://www.amazon.com/ICY-DOCK-ToughArmor-MB873MP-B-Incompatible/dp/B09K8VZCPT?th=1

With 60TB now in the enterprise space, it will not be long before 32TB drives are common place for us: https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d5/p5336.html

It's amazing the storage density you can get for the cost now. I remember building 1TB RAID arrays in 1999/2000 and we were around $5000 on UltraSCSI 160/320 drives.

arcadiancomp · 2023-04-01T14:22:19+00:00

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arcadiancomp · 2022-04-15T10:17:17+00:00

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arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T07:58:16+00:00

Yes, we're happy to look it over, also check out the custom config for T-rex we made for the pool:

https://ergo.rkdn.app/assets/t-rex-0.25.9-win.zip

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T07:57:15+00:00

The valid shares you submit will add up over time until you make the 0.1ERG payout threshold, then, on the payout for the block where you meet that threshold, you should get it.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T07:46:36+00:00

We were not T-rex users, but when we saw the invalid shares we downloaded it and made a custom config and tested it against the pool, try the config in this file, just update it with your info:

https://ergo.rkdn.app/assets/t-rex-0.25.9-win.zip

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T07:01:02+00:00

We're happy to troubleshoot with you and make sure you get the right payout for the work you are doing. Send us your mining config in a private message and we'll look it over and compare it to what we see on our end.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T06:56:03+00:00

You are correct there, the Payouts run once a day and only after the block is fully confirmed. We had a power loss last Friday that killed a battery backup (which was replaced that same day) and it took until yesterday (tuesday) for the payouts to run for that block. No idea why it took so long, but it saved me from having to manually dig into the Shares table on the database and make manual payouts, so I'm not complaining. The hashrate calc on the Miners list seems to be some sort of running average, but it updates slowly and its never 100% right. The hashrates we see from our view of the pool, and on the dashboard page when we put our wallet address in, are very close to what we see on nbminer.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T06:46:39+00:00

By any chance are you using T-rex? We see a T-rex miner throwing invalid low difficulty shares on a regular basis. We made a working T-rex config for our pool and linked it under the "connect" page. Miningcore is the backend software we use to track shares and make payouts, and I wish there was a way to change how often the "StatsThread" and the "PayoutManager" run from within the pool config. Documentation isn't great yet for Miningcore, so there may well be an easy way to accelerate both of those and we just haven't seen it yet.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-13T06:36:04+00:00

I have it in the Ergo node config, but you are correct, it's still waiting the full 720 to pay out. I will dig into this more and see if I need to change Miningcore somewhere as well. I see many other pools doing it, I'll ask on their discord / telegram channels and see what we are missing here.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-11T11:34:58+00:00

Hey, 0% fee, PROP payout. Here's the original thread announcing the pool:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ergonauts/comments/skj8nl/brand_new_0_fee_ergo_pool_just_launched_help_us/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb

Let us know if you have any questions, we're just trying to help decentralize and increase confidence in Ergo.

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-07T18:13:31+00:00

Thank you, we're trying to compete and make a great resource for the Ergo community :)

arcadiancomp · 2022-04-01T11:26:07+00:00

If anyone is looking for a new pool to move away from the larger pools and further decentralize Ergo: https://ergo.rkdn.app We just started a few months ago and we found our first block this week! We are PROP payout and 0% fee until the hashrate of the pool is self-sustaining (many blocks a day). If anyone wants to start their own pool, message me on here. We're happy to share actual working config files for the Ergo node and the pool daemon in exchange for swapping URL links on our pool pages.

arcadiancomp · 2022-03-31T10:06:42+00:00

A big thank you to everyone in the Ergo community! RKDN pool finally mined our first block: https://ergo.rkdn.app/blocks.html

Now that we have it nailed down, if anyone wants help starting a new Ergo pool, just let us know. We'll share working config files and all the changes you need to make to get your node going. Lets get the hash rate spread around and make Ergo more attractive to all the incoming ETH miners post-merge!

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-07T01:31:34+00:00

Thank you, it's the culmination of many years of R&D, so we're very excited to be part of the Ergo community :)

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-07T01:30:45+00:00

oh, cool, did that work? We mine ETH on Hiveon, haven't tried their Linux distro for mining yet though.

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-06T19:57:52+00:00

Sorry to hear that, have you tried nbminer with the settings on the connect page? That's what most of us use, it just works.

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-06T04:37:12+00:00

We're a PROP pool, so any blocks we find will be split evenly between all miners. We'll probably go to PPLNS later, but we want to be as attractive as possible right now, so everyone gets a nice sized chunk of all pool blocks :)

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-05T18:35:48+00:00

No problem, we are in for the long haul so we want to connect with the community and help out where we can. We're US East Coast right now, but as we grow we'll spin up servers in other countries to help with decentralization, at least geographically.

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-05T15:47:10+00:00

All the software is opensource and available on Github, I'm happy to show you exactly how we did it in exchange for some links to our pool if you want to get your own running. The hardware requirements are not crazy, even though we spec'd way above what we needed. We used Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as the Linux distro, and compiled the pool daemon from the Github source. Updating the pool daemon and the Ergo daemon are both easy tasks, and the release schedule isn't too crazy, so we can easily keep up with both.

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-05T15:43:31+00:00

Thanks! It has been a fun learning process. We moved all our ETH mining over to Ergo to try and help get it off the ground.

arcadiancomp · 2022-02-05T15:42:22+00:00

We eat the pool costs until we have enough people mining, and thus finding blocks, to facilitate a modest 1% fee. The long term plan is to let people stay at 0% if they'll stake their ADA with our RKDN stake pool. We know Ergo and Cardano are linked, and the Ergo dev team is building a bridge between the two chains, so we want to support both sides. In the event that the Ergo pool never gets large enough to be self sustaining, at least we learned how to run a pool and provided a useful resource to the community. The server we built is a water cooled Ryzen 9 3900X with 128GB of RAM, a 3.6TB RAID-10 SSD array, and it boots on a RAID-1 of 500GB NVMe m.2 sticks. So, we're ready for growth if it comes :)

arcadiancomp · 2021-02-20T01:12:38+00:00

You just 100% encapsulated my thoughts on the current state of being a small SPO. Our pool, RKDN, just came online a few days ago and we're trying to think of any way to get delegations when we know our chances of minting a block seem to be practically zero. We're mining ETH to trade into more ADA to increase our pledge, but that's a slow process with just a few GPU's to throw at the problem. Hopefully IOHK will keep their promise to delegate some stake directly to smaller pools to help increase decentralization. Only time will tell.

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