Hard Disk Storage...wha

[Coligny]

Simple solution that is both safe (probably) and easy to transfer.

1: Get a 2nd HD for your machine. Preferably as big as you can find. Mine is 3TB.
2: CrashPlan+ account. Unlimited cloud storage for pretty cheap -- no need to have a RAID setup at home
3: When the disk fills up, get a bigger one. You can either buy a device to mount your old drive after putting in the new one or you could, in theory, resync from your cloud but that will take ages.



/rant

GET OFF MY LAWN YOUNG PUNK...

I have 20TB on the server waiting to be filled (well... to be honest... 13TB free only... but I have SATA port expander cards and external box waiting for the prices to go back to their pre floude levelz))

[cstaylor]

How does one enable jumbo frames?

On Linux it's the MTU setting
On Windows it's in the network adapter's driver settings. Not all adapters support Jumbo frames, and your network switch also has to support it.

[gaijinpunch]

If you can swing it, and your NICs and switch support it, go wired ethernet with jumbo frames enabled.

Back when I was in the market (a few years ago) I could not find one that had ethernet ports & supported NFS. Anything other than NFS gave me really turd performance. My 50G or so of music in Amarok would simply "not work". Sucked.

I have 20TB on the server waiting to be filled (well... to be honest... 13TB free only... but I have SATA port expander cards and external box waiting for the prices to go back to their pre floude levelz))

What actually do you have... need... save? Most TV-related stuff I have I don't keep, as I'll never rewatch it. I do have some photoshop files that get rather big at about 300-400MB each. They will, eventually, become a problem but at this rate the disks will get cheaper.

[Coligny]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

[Coligny]

So my full server locking problem seems to narrow down to an excessively buggy driver for Realtek network chipset. moved aroud 1.3TB (of pr0n) without a single crash while using an IBM-Intel twinport server grade network card. Using CentOS 6.2 now, hope I won't see new troubles.

[cstaylor]

So my full server locking problem seems to narrow down to an excessively buggy driver for Realtek network chipset. moved aroud 1.3TB (of pr0n) without a single crash while using an IBM-Intel twinport server grade network card. Using CentOS 6.2 now, hope I won't see new troubles.

Sounds like your MB could be having trouble with too many interrupts.

I've always used Intel NICs for data ports. If you're building an iSCSI NAS with OpenFiler or FreeNAS, Intel is the way to go. In a pinch, maybe Broadcom, but never Realtek.

[Coligny]

Sounds like your MB could be having trouble with too many interrupts.

I've always used Intel NICs for data ports. If you're building an iSCSI NAS with OpenFiler or FreeNAS, Intel is the way to go. In a pinch, maybe Broadcom, but never Realtek.

From your link

GA-P55-UD3

derpity derp... I think mine is zee UD3R... but Gigabyte+realtek=le sux...

[FranciscoDeXavier]

The dream machine is nice but the synology ds211j as saved me a ton of time I now use reading your comments

[Coligny]

In other news... another masheen with inboard realtek and Win7 was unable to see the netwrok neighbourghood... Switch to intel... all works...

Seriously... they should stick to sound codecs...