The Yamaha Digital Reverberator should be good through 10G, after which you'll need an upgrade.

I still use that with the whole-house music system for outdoor parties in the summer. The sound effects are cool.

 

I still use that with the whole-house music system for outdoor parties in the summer. The sound effects are cool.

Mine is a bit more modern:

 

Starting the network upgrade, backup server first.
Old school 4U for lots of future drive capacity.

The PCIe 8X 10G dual port NIC and a satcom card in a PCI slot.
https://www.10gtek.com/products/10Gb-s-Converged-Network-Adapter-CNA-NIC-322.html

#2 10G to the backup server.

 

Run bmon. Show the throughput.

 

Run bmon. Show the throughput.

Iperf server on the backup 10G server. Three 1G clients running network throughput iperf. The dropped packets/Errors were from me messing with the network before, not this test.

I need at least one more 10G server on the switch to check the disk end to end throughput between machines. I could use the other port for single machine loop testing but that's not a realistic workload test.

 

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Iperf server on the backup 10G server. Three 1G clients running network throughput iperf. The dropped packets/Errors were from me messing with the network before, not this test.

I need at least one more 10G server on the switch to check the disk end to end throughput between machines. I could use the other port for single machine loop testing but that's not a realistic workload test.

You're 30% there. Interested in seeing the final result

 

Just for fun. Backup host localhost speed.

 

I remember the days when 1 MB/s (local) was considered exceptional.

 

I remember the days when the digital machines had BATTLE SHORT switches.

We lock the circuit breakers and bolt the doors, and nobody can get in or out.

 

I remember the days when the digital machines had BATTLE SHORT switches.
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We lock the circuit breakers and bolt the doors, and nobody can get in or out.

Is that like keep firing even though the barrels are melting?

 

Is that like keep firing even though the barrels are melting?

On our stuff, battle-shorts were usually for over-temp and main power. If external power was maintained in short-mode the machine would run until something 'melted'. Never had something melt but the over-temp would try to trip when we lost cooling air at 110+F at the gulf in GONZO station.

 

Reformatting surplus enterprise SAS drives from 520 byte sectors to 512 bytes for use as external backup volumes.

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/sas-vs-sata
https://www.eurovps.com/blog/sas-vs-sata-storage-for-hosting-providers/


https://forum.level1techs.com/t/how-to-reformat-520-byte-drives-to-512-bytes-usually/133021

 

Using those newly formatted drives to build a replacement for a old DL-140 tool backup server.

Proliant DL380p G8 25 Bay Server


Update the video card to a low end NVIDIA for hdmi output.


OS load and disk space configuration.

Fully loaded example, I don't need this much storage but it is expandable.

 

The home firewall server get's the 10G upgrade.

X540-10G-2T-X8 with short frame installed.


Disable the internal 4 port NIC board. I only need two ports.


Some quick testing results. 10G firewall server to backup 10G server speed.

 

What's your power bill look like?

 

What's your power bill look like?

Power bill? I have an electric heater computer rack (less peak power than a conventional electric heater) for the 2 car garage. It get's cold here. In the summer I use solar power to keep the critical system UPS charged. The computer rack is the primary load for my solar energy bank.

 

Bulk file transfer numbers, server to server.

 

Completed the 10G hone networking upgrade from the fiber ONT 10G port provisioned for 2G internet to the 10G firewall and 10G internal machines.


Typical workstation speedtest. You get 2G internet speeds but lots of sites quickly throttle that down to ~1G max.

 

Completed the 10G hone networking upgrade from the fiber ONT 10G port provisioned for 2G internet to the 10G firewall and 10G internal machines.

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Typical workstation speedtest. You get 2G internet speeds but lots of sites quickly throttle that down to ~1G max.

What do you pay for the fiber?

 

What do you pay for the fiber?

$80 per month.