was curious about what happens if one had to many dust particles in the air… and had some demo work to do… gave it a round of concrete dust from a demo saw.
so far “only” two disks randomly spat out 150 errors and got disconnected from the raidz
not sure if that was from electrical disruptions due to me using big power tools or the dust…
does seems rather interesting that two disks would randomly start having issues, first one was within 24 hours and second one was while trying to scrub after resilvering…
both disks worked fine again afterwards, tho did have to reseat the first one…
slowly ramping up my gear, so want to understand the does and don’t…
really starting to understand the main priorities of datacenters lol
Rosewill RSV-L4500 Chassis with (3) 5 HDD hot-swap Bays (15 HDDs), The 2nd Chassis is acting as a JBOD with a HP SAS Expander & GPU Riser Card for Power, its connected to the server to a SAS HBA Card. The Server Motherboard is an old gaming computer, one of the first gaming PCs I built. It would of been sold or sent to the trash. Running Windows Server. If anyone knows where I can find a high density top-loader chassis, let me know. Also a modernized version of the HP SAS Expander.
e(lectronical) Bay will be your best friend
Be mindful, that the HP SAS expander with 12G are still rather expensive and likely not worth the upgrade if you straight just run storagenodes off of the drives.
Thanks, at least I now know there is a 12G Version. I wonder if any other manufacture has made similar cards. I setup windows server and running a single node. I created a software raid for the storage node. I use the server to store my own stuff as well, so I have 2 storage pools on it. I’ve been debating if I should archive the stuff I don’t access all the time to a offline hard drive or pool.
3 internal HDDs (3x8 TiB) shucked from WD external disks - they are inside the Microserver
3 external HDDs (2x10TiB, 1x8TiB)
As for the connection, I’m currently on a 1Gb symmetric FTTH connection from Telefónica/Movistar - the biggest ISP on Spain.
I personally found Storj a project that does not give you as much rewards as another uses for the disks - mainly for the slow process of filling the nodes - but very rewarding. Once you understand the software and have a basic IT administration skills, it’s just plug it and leave it alone.
1Gbps on Movistar is, for now, only for the clients with the full package (mobile phones, TV, telephone and internet) - around 80 EUR/month.
You can find similar connections on other ISPs (without TV service) for 50-60 EUR/month.
I don’t know how much is that compared to other countries, but here in Spain there is an price and speed war between ISPs - which of course benefits customers
Unfortunately our federal government did not pursue their digital agenda and therefore fiber lines are not broadly available it really depends on where you live in Germany. If you are lucky and live in an area where fiber is available or is about to get build cost are similar. I just checked Deutsche Telekom, they charge €80 for 1 Gb connection but it comes only with 200 Mbit upload. But I think when there is enough competition, then upload speeds will increase too.
This was an experiment, you could say I took one for the team
Funny thing about my SMR experience is that I bought the drive used, RMA’d it when it started throwing SMART warnings and sold off the replacement drive without losing a single cent in the process.
While we’re comparing, here are the numbers about France:
The consumer offers are fairly good: most fibre offers start at about 30 EUR/month (300Mbps down/200Mbps up), and up to 50 EUR/month (8Gbps down, 700Mbps up), often with unlimited “worldwide” (110 or so countries) fixed line telephone, unlimited mobile telephone in France, and a load of television channels. First year of service can be as low as 10 EUR/month.
Pro offers, often using the same infrastructure and the same routers, but with another hotline, normally cost at least 3 times more.
Some regions are actively pushing fibre deployment, while others (mostly the rural ones) are trailing behind.
DT and it’s sister companies are very expensive in all countries.
I live in Hungary/Budapest in a family house.
I can have 100/5 Mbit for around 20 EUR from them, if I combine it with TV and oldschool phone service, then 200/15Mbit for about the same price. They also offer 1000/50Mbit for around 30 EUR monthly fee.
On the other hand, we have DIGI which is a company from Romania, they started with 100/100 Mbit in more dense areas (block of flats type) for 8-10 EUR. They expanded their service and coverage in the past years. My connection is 1000/300 on fiber for 7 EUR monthly. For TTL 12 EUR per month I have the 1000/300 + 150 TV channels.
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