hello To All

[zapman2000]

hello all im zap

new here (duh!)

was wondering if anyone knew anything about servers im trying to get some specs on some that other people own or specs to make a good one so i can host the terabite worth of hentai, anime and other interesting goodies.

also if you tell me were i should start a thread about it so people can reply plz let me know.

 

[Denamic]

If you want to host files, you'll want to set up a RAID array if you've got a 50Mbit pipe or more.
If you've got any less than 50Mbit, forget about hosting a fileserver.

Bottom line is that you'll want high speed HDDs and a high speed connection, preferrably 100Mbit or more if you want to have a fileserver.

Edit: Hi.

 

[zapman2000]

T3

It will Be Hosted on a T3 Connection With unlimited bandwidth usage so im not worried about the connections and i do want to set up raid but ive seen so many of them fail that it keeps me away from them

 

[Denamic]

You sort of have to.
Your HDDs would never be able to keep up otherwise.
Also, T3 is a very vague term. I usually speak in Mbit.
T3 is 40 to 50-ish, right? I'd think that's the bare minimum.

 

[zapman2000]

i think my bosses T3 maxes out a 10gb a sec but its hard to reach that unless you have a fast computer

the most ive ever gotten it to was 3.5gbs

 

[chompy]

I always thought T3 was closer to 40Mbit. You could carry google with 3-10Gb/s. Large datacentres don't have that kind of bandwidth.

You sure you don't mean "the most ive ever gotten it to was 3.5MiB/s"?
because that's more likely.

As for RAID, that's what there to stop stuff from failing.

 

[Denamic]

I single HDD have a read speed of ~7.5MB/s.
That means you couldn't possibly upload stuff faster than ~7.5MB/s from your fileserver.
That's barely enough for max 15 simultaneous connections, and that would not justify your connection.
You'll need at least a RAID 1 for a fileserver. I think RAID 5 is best for fileservers though.
100% redundancy over at least 2 drives or your fileserver will never be as much of a server as it will be just another peer.

 

[akuma2002]

Welcome here zapman !

 

[zapman2000]

its a fiber optic connection and no Google use at least 5 times as much speed as the max this one does

 

[Denamic]

I don't doubt that, but I do doubt you'd reach 3.5gb/s and much less 10gb/s.
Do you realize that 10Gbit/s (10 gigabit per second) is 1310720 Kb/s?
Or that 10Gb/s (10 gigabyte per second) is 10485760 Kb/s?
Both of those are more than google has, or at least uses.
That's way more than any HDD can handle.
Hell, even a RAM memory would have problems with that.
So since you've got a 'T3' connection, I'm gonna assume you've got ~40Mbit, in which case you should max out at somewhere below ~5Mb/s.
That's a very good connection to have on DC or to seed torrents, but it's still sort of meak for a fileserver..
But I suppose it could be done if you limited the amount of simultaneous downloads or make it private.

 

[Holzy]

Hello zapman