Recent content by choucove

Do you have the ability to set up PAT (Port Address Translation)? I know this isn't always possible, but I've seen in other situations (such as needing to allow through multiple RDP sessions to different internal IP addresses) being able to use non-standard available ports and then use your...

Two things that I will mention here. First, on the Sonicwall, just pick up a TZ105 and you should be fine. They are very cheap anymore even brand new. The management interface of the lower end models are very similar to the higher end models. I've mainly worked with the TZ 100/105 up to to...

Depending upon the size and setup of your surveillance system, this could be accommodated on your new server system without the need for a separate system. Yes, sometimes they often suggest doing a separate physical unit for IP camera systems, but this is largely depending upon the size of your...

I would highly recommend you separating your workloads here. You are looking at using this system as an all-in-one solution, and while it can do it, it's definitely not recommended! Your regular usage for standard daily tasks on the computer system opens it up to unecessary risks that could...

Why build a gaming computer to do a server task? These two computers are not the same thing. Yes, they consist of the same type of technologies (a CPU, a power supply, motherboard, memory, etc.) but the way that these components are designed and their intended usage between a desktop and a...

What is your need for RAID? Are you looking for redundancy? Performance? Backup? If it comes to redundancy, then RAID could be a solution, but keep in mind that RAID 5 is almost never recommended anymore. Because of the high capacity of modern hard drives, when a hard drive is dropped from...

I also would not recommend that you put a massive RAID 5 array together using twelve 2 TB hard drives. The chance that you will have an unexpected read error or another drive failure occur during a rebuild process is greatly increased, causing a total loss of data. RAID 5 is almost never...

Yep very good point Popatim. If you go the hardware RAID route, you have to get the right kind of card to support RAID 6, and to have any decent performance with that type of array you need to have a pretty decent performer with onboard cache, which makes it more expensive. My Adaptec 6805...

There are a ton of options out there for nice quality pre-built NAS systems, but just like you have found, when you start getting into the bigger and more robust systems, you are looking at the cost of a new full server at least, sometimes even more. Just today I was comparing pricing on a...

I was able to do some quick testing yesterday on the system to get a couple performance comparisons. Unfortunately I don't have any screenshots for you, but I'll try and detail my results here. The server we are using here is a DL360p G8 just set up. A single Xeon E5-2620 v2 processor with 32...

I will try and get some benchmark information together when I can on the Velociraptor drives we just set up. And yes, the ones I got were the 2.5" drives and mounted just fine in the normal SFF drive caddies for HP Gen8 servers.

We just put in a couple 1 TB VelociRaptor enterprise 10k SATA 2.5" hard drives in a new HP DL360p G8 alongside a couple HP 300 GB 10k SAS hard drives. I haven't done any firm benchmarking yet but so far the throughput between them seems very similar. The SAS drives, just by the technology, is...

You can setup and run multiple hard drives from a single RAID controller utilizing a SAS expander. However, while this sounds like a cheap and simple method to accomplish what you are wanting to do at first, it actually can be quite complex to ensure it is working properly. Certain SAS...

The big question that I have is how many hard drives are you needing to run in a SINGLE array? You said that you just want to use one of your existing available cases, but haven't stated the type of hard drive configuration or intended usage that you are wanting to have for this system. A...