Comments on: My home server is dying, possibly dead http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:16:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Crispy Critter http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-30178 Crispy Critter Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:15:10 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-30178 Regarding energy efficiency, don't count out the power supply. When my home server's original Antec 300w power supply went blooey after years of 24/7 operation, I picked up an OCZ 700-watt unit - and noticed that the server's load on my UPS had dropped 50%. I picked up another big reduction in power consumption when I switched from my old 17" CRT to a 22" widescreen LCD. I wouldn't mind going to a C3 or similar low-power setup, if I could find one that had lots of SATA ports. Regarding energy efficiency, don’t count out the power supply. When my home server’s original Antec 300w power supply went blooey after years of 24/7 operation, I picked up an OCZ 700-watt unit - and noticed that the server’s load on my UPS had dropped 50%.

I picked up another big reduction in power consumption when I switched from my old 17″ CRT to a 22″ widescreen LCD.

I wouldn’t mind going to a C3 or similar low-power setup, if I could find one that had lots of SATA ports.

]]> By: David Parsons http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-30052 David Parsons Sun, 17 Jun 2007 05:41:44 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-30052 If you're looking for something lower power, the little VIA C3/C7 boxes are pretty frugal (my current server setup is a pair of them; one is the main server, the other just holds off-machine backups. Total consumption is just shy of 2.4kw/day. I'm planning on replacing them with a single machine that holds a stack of 2.5" drives, and I think that will drop the power consumption to about 700 w/day.) The more-reliable server scheme I'm implementing is to put the root filesystem onto a flash disk, then wedge in a pack of immutable symlinks to put transient volatile things off on one of the data disks. I am planning to mount root r/o (toggled to r/w when I have to edit /etc/passwd and the like) so that ifwhen one of the data disks explodes I can reboot, hand-mount one of the other disks, and limp along until I can purchase a replacement disk. If you’re looking for something lower power, the little VIA C3/C7 boxes are pretty frugal (my current server setup is a pair of them; one is the main server, the other just holds off-machine backups. Total consumption is just shy of 2.4kw/day. I’m planning on replacing them with a single machine that holds a stack of 2.5″ drives, and I think that will drop the power consumption to about 700 w/day.)

The more-reliable server scheme I’m implementing is to put the root filesystem onto a flash disk, then wedge in a pack of immutable symlinks to put transient volatile things off on one of the data disks. I am planning to mount root r/o (toggled to r/w when I have to edit /etc/passwd and the like) so that ifwhen one of the data disks explodes I can reboot, hand-mount one of the other disks, and limp along until I can purchase a replacement disk.

]]> By: Stephen Harris http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-29990 Stephen Harris Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:09:24 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/06/17/my-home-server-is-dying-possibly-dead#comment-29990 Sounds like a hard disk failure to me. You might might might be lucky when the drive cools down. But replace it ASAP. Indeed, after a failure like this run "badblocks" on every single disk and see if any others have failures. Sounds like a hard disk failure to me. You might might might be lucky when the drive cools down. But replace it ASAP.

Indeed, after a failure like this run “badblocks” on every single disk and see if any others have failures.

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