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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm a noob to all this, and love this server. I've recently set up Proxmox and Portainer, got Home Assistant transferred onto my new computer and set up an Arr stack on Windows VM.

I kept adding storage to that stack until it was talking half my internal storage so I bought a usb3 cable and hooked up an old 1tb HDD I had lying around.

I decided I wanted NAS storage with the HDD. I had already set up OMV but it was being a bit funny. Whenever I logged in to it I had no options, so I couldn't add the HDD to it.

So I did some looking around and found TrueNAS. Installed it and started fiddling. Jesus it's hard work to just add an SMB share from it!

After literally hours of tinkering I still was no closer so I gave up and went for a bath.

In the bath it occurred to me that maybe I was logging in to OMV wrong. I fired up the browser on my phone in the bath and instead of logging in with my name, I tried "admin" and lo and behold there is all the options I couldn't see before.

5 minutes later I had half a tb in an SMB share, and then it was a simple case of making network shared folders on all my windows machines.

Thought you guys may be amused by the noob error of logging in as Admin.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Now I just need to work out why I'm only getting 6MBps transfer speeds. All my research has gained me a whole 2MBps which is a 50% increase, but all things online say they're getting over 100...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You've got a single, old HDD attached via USB. There's plenty of places that could be the bottleneck here, but that's among the first I'd check. Can you actually read from that HDD significantly faster than your network transfer speed? Check that locally first. No use in optimizing anything network-related when your underlying disk IO is slow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I have transferred a file from another container on the same computer to it and get 40+MBps. So there's something going on on the network.

That said, "The Network" is an old powerline adapter running up a floor through a wired router, so it's probably something to do with that. Not a big deal, it still works and tbh I don't see myself moving too many big files between the server and my PC so I can live with 40MBps between my containers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you want to rule out most everything software, you can use dd and nc to benchmark file transfers with minimal overhead. iperf also your friend of course :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I will have to have a research about what all of those things mean lol. Thanks.

This is why I love this community, really helpful but speak in a language I'm not fluent in yet.

It's like when I learned guitar, I had no clue what people were talking about half the time on /R/learnguitar, same in /R/homeassistant, but I lurked enough that I learned loads and ended up contributing to both communities after a spell of time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to share my experience. I was part of r/HomeAssistant for a year or so and I had no effing clue what it was or what it does. One day I was scrolling through YouTube and there was a guy talking about HomeAssistant. Only then I realised this is not some "Alexa/Siri" kinda home assistant. This is a home automation kinda thing.

Haha, I still laugh at my self for being an idiot for the whole 1 1.5 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah I get it, I started home automation using Google Assistant and Tasker on my phone to make everything work. I spent HOURS writing Tasker automations because the Wifey hated it all because it all worked based on my phone.

Whenever I couldn't get something working I'd see Home Assistant as the solution. Maybe for a year or more...

COVID happened and I bought a Pi to play with. Did some shit with it and eventually gave Home Assistant a go and never looked back.

My home automation has come along leaps and bounds since then. I had a friend on the weekend comment that I'll finally know I'm living in the future when I walk through the door and my house welcomes me home. It's been doing that for over a year already...