kayot
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I've been working on a replacement build for a while now. I plan to replace 12 2TB Green drives with 8 3TB Green Drives.
Parts I have now:
IBM ServeRaid M1015 PCI-E 8-port SAS-SATA Controller Card SAS9220-8i 46C8933
Rosewill RSV-L4411 4U Rackmount Server Chassis 12 SATA Hot-Swap Drives
The rest are being given away to my sister to use as a desktop since my research shows that it was a bad idea to use desktop components in a file server.
Parts I Need:
8 3TB (or 4TB if the prices comes down a bit) Drives (Either Red or Green with WDIDLE3) <- Shopping around to get non-batch drives
2 SAS to 4 Sata splitter cables (Highpoint or Rosewill?)
2 8GB Sticks of Ram -> Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L 1600MT/s (PC3-12800) DR x8 ECC UDIMM 240-Pin Server Memory CT2KIT102472BD160B
- I think this is the right ram for both MB listed below.
1 Motherboard
1 CPU
I'm divided on either a ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR3 1600/1333/1066 (Total $279.99) or SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SLL-F-O uATX Server Motherboard LGA 1150 DDR3 1600 + Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 Haswell 3.1GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150 80W Server Processor BX80646E31220V3 (Total $359.98)
I'm not sure what would be better since this is my first REAL file server. I don't plan on doing much with the file server other than serving files and possibly Universal Media Server. I plan to put the drives into a ZFS RAID-Z2 and I want to test out Deduplication with a SSD (80,000 IOPS, SATA III) I already have, but it's not a deal breaker if it doesn't work out.
I also need a way to use the 12 2TB drives as removable backup.
So my question is, since both motherboard + cpu come to about the same cost, which one would be the better buy given my usage?
Second question, I noticed a USB port directly on the MBD-X10SLL-F-O MB, could I put FreeNAS on a USB drive and put the drive in that port?
Parts I have now:
IBM ServeRaid M1015 PCI-E 8-port SAS-SATA Controller Card SAS9220-8i 46C8933
Rosewill RSV-L4411 4U Rackmount Server Chassis 12 SATA Hot-Swap Drives
The rest are being given away to my sister to use as a desktop since my research shows that it was a bad idea to use desktop components in a file server.
Parts I Need:
8 3TB (or 4TB if the prices comes down a bit) Drives (Either Red or Green with WDIDLE3) <- Shopping around to get non-batch drives
2 SAS to 4 Sata splitter cables (Highpoint or Rosewill?)
2 8GB Sticks of Ram -> Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3L 1600MT/s (PC3-12800) DR x8 ECC UDIMM 240-Pin Server Memory CT2KIT102472BD160B
- I think this is the right ram for both MB listed below.
1 Motherboard
1 CPU
I'm divided on either a ASRock C2550D4I Mini ITX Server Motherboard DDR3 1600/1333/1066 (Total $279.99) or SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SLL-F-O uATX Server Motherboard LGA 1150 DDR3 1600 + Intel Xeon E3-1220V3 Haswell 3.1GHz 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1150 80W Server Processor BX80646E31220V3 (Total $359.98)
I'm not sure what would be better since this is my first REAL file server. I don't plan on doing much with the file server other than serving files and possibly Universal Media Server. I plan to put the drives into a ZFS RAID-Z2 and I want to test out Deduplication with a SSD (80,000 IOPS, SATA III) I already have, but it's not a deal breaker if it doesn't work out.
I also need a way to use the 12 2TB drives as removable backup.
So my question is, since both motherboard + cpu come to about the same cost, which one would be the better buy given my usage?
Second question, I noticed a USB port directly on the MBD-X10SLL-F-O MB, could I put FreeNAS on a USB drive and put the drive in that port?