Should be the next API node (for HA)

in YouAreTheHost2 months ago

I have been scavenging parts here and there for this for a while...

16GB DDR4 + Intel 6-core old stuff.

Haven't yet ordered some cables for the SAS controller, but the aim is that, after I am comfortable with cooling this thing without too much case cooling. Ideally, without a case.

The IO is the most important part. And that's the focus, obviously. Will be all SSDs...

Would love to do a ALL passive node, but I think this will not yet meet the standards. Maybe when I get the ARM mobo I want, that might be the opportunity.

This was to test @rishi556 project on https://youarethe.host (looks like going on the right direction).

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Better view! @rishi556 and testing your upload image...

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Pretty! What you think of the image uploading?

Was competitive with any other solutions. So I would say at par... but I am far as ff..... so I can never compare very precisely.

But smooth, zero problems.

:) Should be a simple thing. S3 can take a lot!

Curious, I wonder if uploaded via IPv6 or IPv4? Are you able to check?

You to my backend should be whatever you have(v4 or v6), I'm not able to check that right now, but try uploading again with the requests tab open and see what it shows? My backend to S3 is v6.

The upload was indeed on IPv6, but then a bunch of communications or checks were on IPv4. And I don't know why, but this time it was like sub'second. Mega fast...

Only 24.4kB, really quick.

Hehe, greetings and blessings. Honestly, I don't know what you're talking about, but it sounds great and seems like a good team. Good luck with that!

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Looks pretty! What drives you using?

Old (but still punchy) 400GB enterprise SSDs SAS3 - i have plenty to wear out.

Then eventually will move to the larger ones, like 1.6TB and 4TB ones.

The 400G isn't enough for a seed node, how do you plan on having a whole API node on it? My node status has seed nodes taking ~577 GB rn(run the HTML here to figure out the current status of disk usage by my nodes: https://codeberg.org/rishi556/RandomHiveStuff/src/branch/main/HiveNodeStats/index.html).

I mean several of them. This SAS controller can have up to 16.

Ah yeah that'll do the trick for sure!

4 of these can do >20k iops sustained easy, with small block sizes. They are still only 20% used some of them, perfect for these things..

I wish I had spare drives these days. Need so much room, yet have none.

The scrappy builds are always the most satisfying. No case AND passive cooling,that's really living on the edge. I am curious to see how the thermals are going to hold up

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Scrappy you say?

Is that a custom BMC module? :D LOL very fancy!

It's FDC's OLD servers lol. They have much improved since then.

Its actually very easy to cool down a PC without case, much easier than people think. Mostly because of the "infinite" amount of air source to cool down things. Obviously this should not be 30C, but even at that level it will be easier than with a case.

Note that this is only CPU, RAM dimms that don't need any active cooling, SAS card that NEEDS active cooling, hence the fan, and then the SAS SSD disks that don't need any active cooling probably, but I am going to do it anyway, to keep their wearing off lower (yes SSDs and NVMes wear off faster the hotter they are operating at, resulting on sooner breakdowns).

Once I get some numbers, I will share around here.

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