Home server questions

[dustin_ds3000]

I know the parts are overkill for what I will be using it for, to serve media to TV, phones, and pc's. it will also back up my pc's weekly, file server, and ftp sync to an offsite location. I will be testing things like active directory and VMware because I use these are work but I cant really mess around with them to much there. The server is will be running Windows Server 2008 R2 or 2012 R2, I haven't made up my mind yet. I want to be able to leave the server on 24/7 but have it go into a sleep mode until something is requesting data from the server over my lan or internet, I know how to do this but I don't know if its good to do with RAID 6. these are the parts I'm using. If you have any questions please ask me anything

Fractal Design Define Mini
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352011

Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive WD30EFRX 3TB x4 in RAID 6
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236344

Rosewill TACHYON-550 550W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182271

Mushkin Enhanced Blackline 8GB (2 x 4GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226184

ASUS GRYPHON Z87 LGA 1150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131977

Intel Core i5-4430 Haswell 3.0GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

Adaptec RAID 6405T
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103223

SAMSUNG 840 EVO 120GB
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247

 

[St1ckM4n]

Have you got a UPS? What's your question.

Also can you please tell me how you do the sleep mode? WOL when something requests access?

 

[dustin_ds3000]

With Server 2012 R2 you have to make sure all of your drivers are whql and not the generic driver to enable S3 sleep in the power settings. WOL will be enabled. I have an older UPS but it might be replaced soon.

 

[St1ckM4n]

I was under the impression that attempting to access an offline file share will not send a WOL packet. Unless there's some other tool you're using, or a functionality I don't know about.

 

[DelJo63]

Ask explained here

Wake-on-LAN (WOL) is an Ethernet computer networking standard that allows a computer to be turned on or awakened by a network message.

The message is usually sent by a program executed on another computer on the same local area network. It is also possible to initiate the message from another network by using subnet directed broadcasts or a WOL gateway service. Equivalent terms include wake on WAN, remote wake-up, power on by LAN, power up by LAN, resume by LAN, resume on LAN and wake up on LAN. In case the computer being awakened is communicating via Wi-Fi, a supplementary standard called Wake on Wireless LAN (WoWLAN) must be employed.[1]

The WOL and WoWLAN standards are often supplemented by vendors to provide protocol-transparent on-demand services, for example in the Apple Bonjour wake-on-demand (Sleep Proxy) feature.[2]

 

[St1ckM4n]

What I'm saying is, that I wasn't aware that explorer.exe sends WOL packets if the file share is offline.

Or, is that the case - that it doesn't?

If yes, then OP needs to use some gateway service that sends the WOL packet, not explorer.exe. This is what I'm curious about, because I haven't seen such an install myself before.

 

[DelJo63]

From my experience with company infrastructures (my guess is) I think not. If it were true, then MAPPED DRIVES
could be brought online by any client with a mapping.

 

[dustin_ds3000]

Explorer.exe does not send WOL packets so I will be using an android app on my phone over wifi to send out the WOL packet. now im just searching for a raid 6 card that works with S3 sleep

 

[St1ckM4n]

I see, that's what I was asking. So there isn't any automation in the process at all.

Just wondering.

 

[dustin_ds3000]

Here is an update for anybody who is interested. I used these parts.

Fractal Design Define R4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811352020
Rosewill TACHYON-550 550W
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182271

Noctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm Case Fan X4
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835608044

Intel Core i5-4430 Haswell 3.0GHz
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116895

HGST Deskstar NAS 3TB X5 for RAID 6
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145911
WD Black 500 GB for OS
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4T01GS2831

ASUS SABERTOOTH Z87 LGA 1150
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131976

G.SKILL Sniper Series 16GB DDR3 1866
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231627
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231627
Adaptec 2274200-R 7805Kit RAID Card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103237

Adaptec Flash Module 700
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103236

I installed server 2012 R2 without any problems, but post install I had to use some unofficial Intel drivers for the Intel i217 NIC
http://nearlydeaf.com/?p=1145

After that I got everything updated normally. To get WOL to work I had to make sure Fast boot was turned off in the UEFI.

Next step is to do some scripting in DD_WRT on my router so that if my server isnt pingable when an ip within my network sends any packet to the server the router will automatically send the WOL packet as well.