20210816 Pulled original 2GB DDR3-1600 SODimm and put in an 8GB stick removed from the Dell XPS 2710 (Put a 4GB stick into the Dell so is 12GB (8GB + 4GB)
20210815 OOB installation
- Installed 2 x MX500 1TB Drive slot 1 + 2
- QFinder -> Downloaded and install latets FW 4.5.4.1741
- Windows shares only
- 192.168.2.7
- admin / usual for internal shared devices
- 2 x MX500 1TB configuration:
- Added Raid 1 (Mirrored) Storage Pool (922GB available) with 10% SSD over provisioning = ~750GB available
- Added first volume ‘SysDefault’ 250GB inode 8k
- 2 x Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 18TB (pp.co.nz ~$1050incl each)
- 202105 purchase to drive slot 3, 202107 purchase to drive slot 4
- Storage volume Raid 1 (mirrored) = ~16TB available
- Took about 21 hours to ‘synchronise’ the raid array..
- vCompanies 50GB
- vGenPop remaining 16TB
2021-08-05 Paradigm PCs pp.co.nz $760.35 incl
- 4 bay
- Will upgrade from 2GB to 8GB later. (Will dig through the old laptops as well as maybe have at least a 4G stick lying around)
- looking for a 5 year warrantied solution with ability to run containerised apps a la docker for say Node.js
Proposed Initial setup:
- SSDs for Drive slots 1+2
- On hand spare = 1 x MX500 500GB, MX500 1TB
- Samsung EVO 950 500GB
- Note MX500’s have 5yr warranty
- For mirrored then options:
- If 1 TB buy another MX500 1TB (Now or later) = DECIDED this option 202108 pp.co.nz $195incl
If 500GB, free up another MX500 500GB from elsewhere by swapping in the spare Samsung above
- Spinning rust drives for Drive slots 3+4
- mirrored 2 x 18th Seagate Iron Wolf Pro (remove these from TS-230)
- main storage