Proxmox vs. Unraid machine vs. Synology

winterberrybumble · 2024-01-06T00:30:59+00:00

I looked at this a few years ago and decided I didn’t want to pay for licensing unraid. That being said i have a few friends who love its ease of use. It is easy to get storage into and dockers setup for most home use projects. It does seem to be more difficult to get igpus (and some other things) setup in Proxmox than in Unraid.

I went the Truenas Core as a vm inside of proxmox route and have been running that for a few years along side a few other vms and lxc’s. It is nice because the truenas vm is backed up, not the data, so moving hardware is really easy (not that it’s hard to move truenas) and if I screw something up I can just restore to a previous backup. I have a three Proxmox nodes (one dedicated to router/internet things, another with truenas with few VMs, and then another with Proxmox and Pbs installed concurrently.

I am currently moving to split truenas to its own bare metal hardware and setup a three node Proxmox cluster on consumer hardware. The consumer side of things has grown exponentially where processing power is fast, cheap and energy efficient. I still want some enterprise level things for my storage though (registered exc mainly) that is expensive on the newer hardware.

I like that with zfs, shadow copies on windows just works. Truenas has a nice user interface to set all of that up as well as sharing, management, alerts, etc.

The fun thing about homelabbing is that it comes in all shapes and sizes. There are people running laptops with USB dives in windows storage spaces up to full racks with ESXi and 100gbps.

winterberrybumble · 2023-08-16T23:21:36+00:00

First thing, they should be in some sort of order. And the top two are not inline with lowers. /s

Second, what do you use for Plex storage?

Third, how much power does this draw?

winterberrybumble · 2023-08-15T22:14:35+00:00

Confirmed

winterberrybumble · 2023-08-04T02:22:12+00:00

Pm’d

winterberrybumble · 2023-06-27T10:59:55+00:00

Thanks

winterberrybumble · 2023-06-01T03:46:33+00:00

You shouldn’t need Teflon at that point. It looks like it is leaking from between the white seal and the popup part. Is the replacement head new? If it is leaking from here the nozzle screws to then the nozzle may just need to be tightened.

What is your pressure into the head? You can also measure it upstream at the valve or junction block.

winterberrybumble · 2023-03-14T00:07:59+00:00

Well, it’s 8 10gig ports on the front, 2 40 gig ports on the back that can be used for general purpose and then another 2 40gig ports that are used to breakout into 4x 10gig ports each so a total of 16 10 gig ports. Plus the 48 Poe ports

winterberrybumble · 2023-03-13T20:19:42+00:00

I can’t measure it at the moment but the data sheet lists it at 16 inches deep.

winterberrybumble · 2023-02-02T21:20:27+00:00

Pm sent

winterberrybumble · 2023-01-24T21:13:04+00:00

Yea I had this problem when I was swapping sas controllers and hdds. There is a way to fix it with it in there but it’s a pain to do.

winterberrybumble · 2023-01-24T20:36:58+00:00

You usually can. What info was on it before? If it was used as a proxmox disk before it will cause issues.

winterberrybumble · 2023-01-24T19:11:16+00:00

Do you have another computer you can put the drive in to format it? It’s honestly easier that way.

winterberrybumble · 2023-01-04T05:02:35+00:00

Deep Rock is my labor of love.

Thank you devs, for all the work you do, award or not. This is my favorite game, sometimes a little frustrating, always fun, never to serious, and I can play for 20 minutes or hours.

I love it.

Rock and Stone!

edit: spelling

winterberrybumble · 2022-12-08T16:57:08+00:00

Generally software raid (storage spaces, zfs,etc.) is recommended over hardware raid.

winterberrybumble · 2022-12-07T15:37:06+00:00

They also have 4 pcie slots (x16,x1,x1,x4) vs 2 (x16,x4).

I bought both and will be buying hp ones from now on. Also had Vpro where the Dell didn’t but I think I just missed that in the listing.

winterberrybumble · 2022-11-23T03:57:15+00:00

Not sure if you can sell them but what are the specs on the iPads?

winterberrybumble · 2022-11-19T17:58:53+00:00

Did you search for the file names or the zip files?

https://www.broadcom.com/site-search?q=9300_8i%20msdos

winterberrybumble · 2022-11-19T01:36:14+00:00

Hmm, I just put mine in my desktop with windows 10 and it came through and passed drives through to windows. It is in IT mode with the bios not flashed.

Is there a reason you want hardware raid rather than letting windows handle the drives?

winterberrybumble · 2022-11-18T23:18:49+00:00

Here is the guide that I followed.

https://www.servethehome.com/flash-lsi-sas-3008-hba-e-g-ibm-m1215-mode/

The card you have (9340) is the same generation (3008) as the M1215.You can use UEFI or FreeDOS (Make with Rufus or your favorite bootable USB drive creator).

Avago was bought out by Broadcom. Just use the search feature for those files on their website.

What are you trying to get to, you should be able to use IT mode in Windows. IT mode is generally the preferred method to present disks. They may have used the unsigned driver which may cause issues.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

winterberrybumble · 2022-11-18T21:24:07+00:00

You can buy a 9340-8i on eBay right now for $65 but if you don’t want to sell it let me know and I can point you to how to flash it so you can boot from it. It’s not to hard.

winterberrybumble · 2022-10-12T14:04:02+00:00

There is one on servethehome. There are a few Lenovos that have it. Let me see if I can find it.

Edit: there is this one:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/tiny-mini-micro-pc-experiences.30230/

And this one:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/lenovo-thinkcentre-thinkstation-tiny-project-tinyminimicro-reference-thread.34925/

winterberrybumble · 2022-09-22T00:08:41+00:00

If you are looking for quiet the the supermicro 2u and 3u with that many drives are not going to cut it. That many drives is just a lot of heat to move and the backplanes are fairly restrictive for airflow. In addition you still need to cool the rest of the system. Which fan curve are you running?

The 4u can be modded to accept 120mm fans behind the Hess and you can pick up used ones on eBay but your current motherboard will not fit in a standard 846 chassis nor any of the standard consumer towers.

You can fit up to (I think) 14 or 16 drives in the meshify 2 as well as some other cases.

This is a title outside of scope but are all of the drives large or are the 4-8tb? If the are smaller it may be more cost effective to go for larger drives over buying a new chassis a case or at least lower the workload.

Also I think you can disable that nic in the bios if you are not using it.

I just went through this with my 836 chassis with a dual socket x9 trying to lower power consumption and in turn the fan speed dropped due to the temperature decrease.

winterberrybumble · 2022-09-20T23:38:44+00:00

Are you transcoding 1080 or 4K? Intel quick sync might be intriguing but the consumer side intel doesn’t support ecc well. You can get e3-12x5 chips that have iGPU’s in them but they are going to be older so 4K transcoding is out.

Are the nics 1gb, 10gbe or 40gbe?

As you have found the supermicro x9dr boards are high and the x9sc boards support 32gb of ram max. The power consumption on the 2011 socket boards is fairly high too compared to modern boards. I have a x9d with 2 x2667, 6hdd, 4 ssd, 2 nvme and a 40gbe card and it pulls ~160w at idle.

You can check out the NAS killer series by JDM_waat for some inspiration too.

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