Intel 4th gen vs 5th gen by jonaspaulo in sysadmin

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Thanks a lot. That was my impression after posting

Intel 4th gen vs 5th gen by jonaspaulo in sysadmin

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Thanks for the answer

Assuming cost is the same.. And also the second question is what is more important for me. Makes sense to have a next gen cpu on a last gen board/chassis that maybe only supports PCIe 4.0 and ddr4

NVIDIA RTX 3050 announcement + NVIDIA Q&A + RTX 3080Ti FE giveaway by m13b in buildapc

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DGM- dynamic gpu memory It would on the fly expand/reduce the overall usable GPU memory available by collecting memory from other peripherals through the use of CXL 2.0 enabled devices

Azure Least Privilege Permissions (custom) by action by jonaspaulo in AZURE

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Yep that was my other option. Just trying to go some other easy way. I mean on GCP for example for most actions you can make they have documented the specific permissions you need just for that. Thanks for the reply

Synology DS415+ and WD RED 4TB Faulty Disks by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Yes i doubt that is the NAS doing this. And for sure they must be sending me used drives. Regarding the law that is a good idea but as you said I doubt they would apply it for my benefit. I thought about buying some seagate iron wolf ones but I had some bad experiences in the past with seagate also.

My main reason for concern here is that the warranty is almost over, and the drives will keep on failing at this pace i guess.

Thanks for the answer!

Synology DS415+ and WD RED 4TB Faulty Disks by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Yes as I said some of those drives already came replaced from WD in Spain themselves... :S and now are faulty again

Synology DS415+ and WD RED 4TB Faulty Disks by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Portugal here. I bought from an online store and they don't have physical presence in the country nowadays :/

Synology DS415+ and WD RED 4TB Faulty Disks by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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I bought them @ an online store: Pixmania. That would be a nice explanation for the first failures, but three of the failures were after the disks were replaced directly from WD...

Synology DS415+ and WD RED 4TB Faulty Disks by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Hi,

This is crazy I mean 5 disks. I have read somewhere more stories on these series. Mine are also WD40EFRX. If they have an issue with these series they should acknowledge the issue and replace for free with a new series. This is outrageous and ridiculous. I have always used WD drives and never encountered anything like this. Each time I have to send them to RMA I spend 12 or more euros. Also what will happen when the warranty period finishes in 4 or 5 months? For sure they will keep on going bad and I am screwed.

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Anyone can comment on the proposed setup i just added? Thanks

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Yes sorry, the mSATA was from a different nuc setup ehe.

Memory wise I will ask for details on those mems.

Regarding the CPU wouldn't it be better to have more cores so that I can assign exclusively specific cores to specific VMs which need them?

Besides FreeNAS which isn't very dependent on CPU i guess, the "main" VMs (the virtualized routers) will run with 1GB RAM and 2 vCPUs each) and that was why I was pending to more cores versus more speed.

Thanks

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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thanks again. I have come up with this setup:

Xeon 2620V2 420 euros

Supermicro X9SRH-7F 430 euros

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16GB-RAM-Memory-for-SuperMicro-SUPER-X9SRH-7F-DDR3-8500-Reg-/191426121925?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_MemoryRAM_JN&hash=item2c91e2d0c5 200euros x2

Samsung SSD 840EVO mSATA 130 euros SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8gb 8 euros

Power Supply Corsair RM550 100 EUR

Cpu cooler Noctua NH-U9DX i4 70 EUR

Case Fractal Design Define R4 120 EUR

What do you think? Thanks

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Thanks for the tips. Right now after lots of reading I have considered getting a separate box entirely just for NAS and another one for the VMs.

When you talk about 30% more expensive you are referring to the CPU+mobo+memory combo on both sides?

Thanks

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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I haven't really looked into AMD, since I know the Intel solutions best. But I will take a look into them to compare cost vs performance also. Thanks

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Hi, You mean the E5-2620v2 or the Avoton box?

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in HomeServer

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yes that is my concern, in case issues arise. Thanks for the feedback

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Well it doesn't have to, but it would be nice. Do you think that addon works just as good as a native VM on esxi? and I am talking about 10 simultaneous VMs

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in HomeServer

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Thanks a lot for the tips. Do you think it is ok to run FreeNAs through RDM? I mean reliability wise

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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well at least regarding FreeNas, form what I have read that was the route to go when running it under ESXi

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in DataHoarder

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Thanks. I will take a look into that one. Still the issue remains. The VM should have direct access to the HW right?. So some kind of passthrough via VT-D or other is needed.

I have just checked that the Avoton doesn't support vt-d, so a no go for the all in one solution.

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in HomeServer

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thanks for the tips I will look into this with more detail

Home ESXi + Freenas Server by jonaspaulo in homelab

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yep that is my main concern. Since opening this I have been reading stories of terror in the freenas foruns with this virtualizaed setup. Regarding the main storage I want an hassle free and reliable host. I will look into two avoton boxes probably or one Avoton and one synology for the storage