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I just received mine (ordered ~20 hours ago). I am installing it now via KVM
Haven't deplayed mine yet. I forgot to ask for extra Yeti, darn. I should open a ticket and ask for it.
I am sure you know this, but based on benchmark it should handle one transcode without any issues. Any plans on partitioning? I was thinking of raid 1 and raid 10 for the 750gb disks. Another thing I was thinking would be JBOD, but older disks might be risky.
Mine arrived sometime in the early hours of this morning, not actually done anything with it yet.
Raid 10/f2 for the 2x2tb and probably raid 5 for the 4x750g disks is what Im planning. Still struggling with actually using raid 5 for any kind of data though. Might just go with raid 10 for both.
If you mention Yeti, you will wait for a week and your server will never get deployed
True story.
I believe you CAN use the "network" IP as well. This might be breaking some standards or best practices, but it should work. Provider-wise, this does not create any issue for them (don't be afraid to experiment). I would also try using the broadcast IP btw, although this has much less chances of working compared to the network one.
A major ISP once assigned the broadcast IP for us to use, it worked with zero issues, but we still tore the shit out of them once we realised.
What are the hours on those HDDs?
Anyone else got CentOS 7 installed on their Opteron box?
Yeah mine was ordered 20:30h ago, but no update yet.
I've been painting my bedroom so no rush here tbh.
It looks like they're following a queue, I ordered mine before you I think :P, doesn't matter too much, I still need to plan what I'll be doing with it, being Plex the first choice, and backups, then maybe will move our email servers from Rackspace to Plesk (I always end up confusing Plex with Plesk, while typing it, but it's actually correct now :P).
Well, I DID ask for extra Yeti... Not sure if they're aware, and this is not DbD hehehe, we'll see what they come up with. The price is damn good for the hw anyway.
Yeah I'm thinking of running RAID 10 in the 750GB HDD's, and RAID 1 for the 2x2TB HDD's to run Plex there.
I only transcode one at a time as well, 1080p with portuguese subtitles.
I have... Looks like I'll be crying the whole week! :P
I'll let you know when I do something with it, likely tomorrow evening now as I'm starting work at 3am tomorrow :-0
@MikePT my order was paid at 20:23 BST yesterday.
Hmhm I see, GMT +1 here, paid at 22:42 (GMT +1), so yours was first.
I did select IP KVM so maybe that has influence here.
I'll just wait.
Likely it's the KVM, I didn't pay attention and ordered with CentOS 6.
I ordered with Ubuntu 14, and haven't been delivered either. They must be wondering how to partition the darn things... And how to add the extra yeti for @MikePT
Ah ok those may be faster, they might be using PXE installs.
Lets pray for extra Yeti! I'm honestly planning to keep this server for a long time.
Peering could be better to Portugal but I think it will be enough for my needs.
I appear to be missing a 750GB disk...
Wont show at all? Might just be ruined?
Yup, definitely nothing showing, I'll ticket it. I want it reinstalling to Debian anyway (why that's an option in the panel but not on the order form is beyond me).
If any of you people end up not using it, let me know and I'd like to take over billing etc for it from you.
Yeah its missing or not working at all.
They probably run PXE installs and they havent updated their order forms to reflect all available OS.
Whilst I'm at it, disk ages:
5,8 year old hdd's (750GB), that's old but ok if they're working fine.
The rest seems to be just fine... That's not bad.
Network tests pls?
Also, to EU would be great.
At least one of the 2TBs is almost new
1.5 years ain't bad either. Had low expectations for the 750GB drives, so no loss.
What do people use for benchmarking network these days, still good ol' bench.sh? If so:
Response already, support are on the case, didn't expect that on a Sunday.
Yeah I always use that one... But there seem to be many around and I need to self-host one of those to add some mirrors.
Network speed to Leaseweb's NL location is pretty impressive.
Edit: First thing I do, is disable CPU Governator, I hate the automatic throttle.
I'm able to achieve 20Mbps to Portugal only, fiber FTTH.
Yeah, I forgot about that, no point doing anything now as Dacentec are putting the server rescue mode to see what went wrong and I'm going to Debian anyway.
@Nekki wasnt kidding.
They have quite a lot more available to install than during buying: (also Centos 7 and newer Debian/Ubuntus)
This not NL, if it's the same script I remember, it dowlnoads from leaseweb CDN which can be WDC US East.