Subj : Re: Homelab echo
To   : Michael Borthwick
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Apr 20 2023 08:54 am

-=> Michael Borthwick wrote to Warpslide <=-

 MB> 2) You could use a PCI NVME adapter but you might run into problems
 MB> with PCIEx slots on your motherboard. You must have your 10G card in a
 MB> x8 slot for full speed, with a video card in your x16 slot you might
 MB> run out of fast slots for your NVME adapter.

 I only have a 1x PCIe adapter free, the 16x adapter is used for my
 video card. From what I surmised, 1x wouldn't be much faster (if at
 all) than SATA?

My homelab requirements are pretty small - I'm running most of my
workload on an old laptop, and am just now starting to move them over to
a desktop 4 core i7 with 32 GB of RAM and a 1tb NVMe "drive". I'm
running 2x 1GB NICs on the desktop and 2x 1gb NICs on my NAS.

If that doesn't suffice, I'd better be making money with the tech to
offset the cost of upgrading!

 MB> I put two samsung SSD's in each of my machines that don't have NVME
 MB> drives in a striped raid array and my network runs mostly at 600MB/s.

 MB> I do have a use for the speed as I back up my main server to a backup
 MB> server every night so the extra speed is a blessing. I do transfer
 MB> large files to and from my main pc and server and what took hours takes
 MB> no time at all.

The good news is that I back up my desktop to my Synology NAS over a GB
link. The bad news is that I was backing them up to a USB external drive
connected to the NAS. I moved things around so I back up the desktop to
the SHR array on the NAS, and then back the NAS up to the external - I
don't care how long that takes, as it's virtually invisible to me.

What I really want to do is then sync the NAS to the cloud for offsite
backup, but on cable I only get 20 mbps upload speeds, and the bandwidth
fees would be $100 on top of my regular charges. I'll need to wait until
I move to fiber.




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