ufcfc Posted August 5 Share Posted August 5 Long story short, I'm looking to move away from Windows as my server software. For my new server I plan to use two mini-PCs in a Proxmox cluster. Because I love DrivePool so much (and have 100's of TB of data there), I am wanting to keep it on a dedicated Windows PC as a network share (basically turn it into a NAS appliance) - but I'm wondering/concerned how nice it will play with what will likely be Ubuntu server VMs needing to read/write to it... I would have the new Proxmox server & the DrivePool NAS connected via at least 5gbps (possibly 10gpbs) network links. All I would need on the "NAS" would be Drivepool & Backblaze. The biggest read draw would be serving Plex content, and the write draw would be some automated downloads. Is this feasible to do? If so, Any suggestion on what would be the most live, robust, & Linux share compatible Windows version to use to just run DrivePool & Backblaze, let me RDP in (locally) to check on things, and nothing else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanillaXtract Posted August 10 Share Posted August 10 I haven't had quite the same setup, but one very similar for awhile. I have a dedicated Windows machine that had various media servers like Sonic, kodi, Plex, etc. I have assigned a drive letter to the pool and then share that on my network. I mapped the drive to my Pi XBMC/Kodi devices and stored the credentials to access it. Never had a problem with connecting. Eventually switched to AppleTVs and it kept on rocking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufcfc Posted August 10 Author Share Posted August 10 Gotcha, so you run your media server applications from the same device as your file storage server w/ Drivepool on it? Do you have any Linux devices writing to it? If so, what protocol are you using? My initial concern was about stability and data integrity of transfers to a Windows network share being primarily from reads/writes of Linux clients. From my research, it seems like the best way to accomplish what I want is an SMB share from the Windows side accessed by Linux using SMB (w/ CIFS "enabled," even though they seem like the same protocol, apparently it's a technicality that matters Linux side for speed/stability improvements, idk, I'll just follow the FAQs on that). NFS was another option, but seems not ideal for me (requires 3rd party Windows app or full version Windows Server software - plus SMB seems to be better suited for larger file sizes like I will be using). Anyway, it seems like SMB will probably work. So I grabbed a very cheap old Dell T130. The plan is to throw in a PCIe 10gbps NIC + a PCIe USB 3.2 - 20gbps card with 4 ports (so my 3x Syba USB 3.0 5gbps JBOD enclosures will each get full bandwidth). I'll try to remember to follow-up with details on how it goes for me since I know a few other people on here want to get away from Windows as much as possible (and there's no nix version of Drivepool). Fair warning, though, it will probably be awhile before the follow-up - I haven't even started the process of building the little server closet I plan to put all of this in... And once that's done I'll still want to give it a few months of real-world use before reporting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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