2 NAS servers both with 802.3ad bonded gigE nics based on the Realtek 8169 chip. The highest MTU I could set was 7000 even though the D-Link DGS-1210-24 Rev. A switch can support up to 10k. Below is just a single sample, but all tests stayed within 57x Mbits for […]
http://www.seagate.com/files/staticfiles/support/docs/manual/desktop/Barracuda%20Green/100649225c.pdf Reformatted a bit to fit on page. I have 6 of these (2TB) in each NAS Raid5 setup plus motherboard, AMD cpus, RAM etc. This page is for researching a replacement PSU. — 2.8.1 Power consumption Power requirements for the drives are listed in Table 2 on page 15. […]
A lot of ST32000542AS drives come with the CC34 firmware. Apparently it has various known problems, one of which is an annoying click (click of death). The first thing you’ll want to do is upgrade the firmware to CC35. A Link to the instructions is in the references section below. […]
Since Debian squeeze doesn’t appear to include pre-built iscsitarget kernel modules, the iscsitartget-dkms must be installed. This is a source package and will install gcc etc to compile. It should compile automatically. apt-get install iscsitarget-dkms Here is a list of iscsi related packages I installed on my secondary NAS: iscsitarget […]
I wanted a centralized home storage system that could feed all my other toys. Data stored on this will include MySQL datafiles, our MP3 collection, website directories and all our receipts printed out in PDF format (Yay! CutePDF) among other things. And so the fun began… I did some test […]