thin_hell

I had two hp microserver gen 8 with combined storage space of 14 Tb. So it's small for this sub. First i had wd 3tb in raid5. When that run out space i bought 4x4tb for raid10.

I used glusterfs to combine these to one smb share for my main computer. There was no problem. But i wanted to streamline my server. I bought 8 bay SST-DS380B to migrate both raid volumes to one server.

Whole project cost me 350 € with pretty lackluster motherboard and secondhand lsi raid controller. But i can saturate 1gb line with this server. Changed from glusterfs to mergerfs in this migration.

TLDR: combine two server to one. Not so much space. Builded cheap nas.