actually, right now i'm waiting on a pair of pci-e 1x gigabit nic's. hopefully they come soon.Originally Posted by Gogeta
just installed my new cisco slm2008 switch. works great so far. i have my PC connected to it via LACP (using both mobo NIC's), and the FreeNAS box will be connected via LACP also once the new NIC cards come.
The two PCie 1x Gigabit NIC's came. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they are some sort of Hong Kong knock-off of this Rosewill adapter. The two NIC's I bought came off eBay, and were under $15 each, shipped.
Turns out these things are plug & play with FreeNAS - no extra drivers to load or configure.
Currently using both NIC's with LACP teaming.
All I'm waiting for now is my cable crimper so I can replace all my cat-5 network cable with custom-made cat-6.
Heres a shot of the box with the new eBay PCIe 1x Gigabit NIC's + the new fanless video card that I installed a few weeks ago. You can also see the CF card + CF --> IDE adapter (mounted on floor of the case):
Last edited by theorie; 02-15-2009 at 07:48 AM.
try getting an intel card that uses the e1000 driver (fxp) on BSD systems they work very well with the 6.4 kernel and the 7+ kernels.
drag & drop transfer speeds between the PC & the FreeNAS box:
not bad!
what the processor utilization like? you should be getting more than that. Try and get about 100Mbyte/sec
Very nice FreeNAS project! I am a privately contracted computer engineer and I often get to bring home some really nice goodies as well (when the job is done, of course). I recently acquired a single shelf NetAPP FAS2020 with 300GB SAS drives and I love it. Having your own NAS to play with is so nice isn't it?
yes but i think the SATA-II controllers are somewhat of a bottleneck.
on the reviews for the controllers, i read that someone else was getting 75MB/s transferring to a single drive, so i would imagine that the software RAID would slow it down as well.
...actually, now that i'm looking at it, i'm noticing that the MTU is set to 1500. i believe it should be set to about 9014. i think i need to do some tweaking...
Last edited by theorie; 02-17-2009 at 09:33 AM.
Ya... I got 75Megs/sec from Raptor 74x2 Raid 0 through a Sweex (lol) gigabit switch. I ask it to copy 1 large files to 3 other machines on the switch simultaneously. So basically you should be getting a lot moar. My MTU was set 576 , but that was for other reasons.
one reason why living in manhattan is awesome:
it's really easy to come across free computer hardware just sitting on the street.
i don't know why, but people throw out perfectly good computer hardware all the time! full desktops, monitors, server equipment, etc.
today while biking home i saw an awesome 19" rack server cabinet just sitting on the curb. it's about 5' tall and in good shape, except it's missing one of the side panels (no big deal).
i didn't have any way to get it home today, but on saturday i have rented a truck (moving from nyc to brooklyn) so i'll be able to pick it up...if it's still there. i locked it to a light pole using my massive kryptonite bike lock, and left a sign on it asking nyc sanitation that i would be picking it up, so i think it should still be there by saturday.
this thing will be perfect for storing all my computer stuff. i plan on using it to house my modem/router/switch, freenas server tower, an additional workstation tower, plus a rack-mounted untangle firewall. i guess i'll make new side panels for it, and perhaps some sort of mesh or glass door for the front. either way, this saves me about $150 - $300 that i would have spent on a similar used cabinet (shipping is a !*@#$% on these things).
well, fingers crossed that it's still there!
BTW with teaming, i think your switch has to support 802.3ad to create an equivalent 2 Gbit/sec connection. Otherwise, it's load balancing.
yes, my switch supports 802.3ad - check out the specs here:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30226/51/
When I lived in Milwaukee we found all kinds of goodies like that. Of course I'm sure not as kick ass as Manhattan. One time we found a tower walking home from the bar that had a bad video card on it, so I dug up my old ti 4200 and stuck in there, and dude had a s--t ton of itunes tracks and all kinds of stuff I wouldn't want others to see... Honestly, I formatted it on the spot and my friends are still using to this day. It's crazy what people throw away.one reason why living in manhattan is awesome:
it's really easy to come across free computer hardware just sitting on the street.
i don't know why, but people throw out perfectly good computer hardware all the time! full desktops, monitors, server equipment, etc.
today while biking home i saw an awesome 19" rack server cabinet just sitting on the curb. it's about 5' tall and in good shape, except it's missing one of the side panels (no big deal).
i didn't have any way to get it home today, but on saturday i have rented a truck (moving from nyc to brooklyn) so i'll be able to pick it up...if it's still there. i locked it to a light pole using my massive kryptonite bike lock, and left a sign on it asking nyc sanitation that i would be picking it up, so i think it should still be there by saturday.
this thing will be perfect for storing all my computer stuff. i plan on using it to house my modem/router/switch, freenas server tower, an additional workstation tower, plus a rack-mounted untangle firewall. i guess i'll make new side panels for it, and perhaps some sort of mesh or glass door for the front. either way, this saves me about $150 - $300 that i would have spent on a similar used cabinet (shipping is a !*@#$% on these things).
well, fingers crossed that it's still there!
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well...i finally got a third Lian-LI EX-34NB.
apparently there are two versions of the unit, which i found out the hard way. the only way to tell them apart (without opening the box) is to check the UPC label. here is the difference:
as you can see, the two that i already had were the "old style". i ordered another unit and the one that came was a "new style" so i had to return it, then search around for a reseller that still carried the old style. i finally found one "old style" unit at sundialmicro.com (they said it was their last one!).
here's the setup now with all three EX-34NB's installed, plus some pics of the pcie 1x gigabit cards.
oh, and still unpacking at my new apt, so i haven't had a chance to setup anything in the 19" rack cabinet yet.
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