wielkaberta
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Hello,
I've started second week of grooming and here are my results so far.
Apologies for long post.
Background:
- Long time ago, I made naive implementation of RAID on my "multimedia" workstation, which is HW RAID-5 with 8 TB working space (AsRock Z97, Hitachi disks).
-- I'd still keep it as offline backup later on.
- Got couple of workstations in my house.
- I'm from Poland, the hardware availability and prices might vary from newegg / amazon.
- I've got some admin experiences as former Wintel (moderate) and Linux (less), so I'd like to make some jails.
- Already had a lecture with wonderful FreeNAS Community Hardware Guide 2016-10 Rev 1e)
NAS purpose:
Case - NZXT H440 - 122$ - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146217 (bought it)
Reason: A very cheap case, which has pretty good fan setup (already 3x front included). Two slots for SSD just on top of PSU and 10 HDD slots.
CPU: G4600 - 73$ (eventually i3-6300)
Question for G4600. Is it enough to handle things mentioned above? Or should jump to i3? G4600 is ~$73, while i3-6300 is twice as much.
Mobo: SuperMicro X11SSM-F (MBD-X11SSM-F-O) - 242$
Nuff said, is just everywhere on this forum and is pretty cheap.
RAM: Crucial UDIMM DDR4, 16GB 2400MHz, CL17 ECC (CT16G4WFD824A) - $224
- I don't like it costs as much as motherboard, but I don't think I can go cheaper.
HDD "archive": 5 x 6TB WD Red / HGST (depends which are cheaper) in RAIDZ-2 mode. - each one oscillate around 220$
- AFAIK, the RAIDZ-1/RAID5, so better to buy extra than be sorry.
HDD "working directory": I just take any Seagate(s) for that role, which I have in spare.
SSD: Any Intel5xx should do - each around for 110$ for 120GB.
Either one or two, as I see here that some users' configurations use second one for jail instances.
PSU: Thermaltake Paris 650W (W0493RE) - for 125$
- It has 12 SATA connectors, so whenever I fill like to expand to maximum (w/ adapter card), I don't have to replace it.
-- Therefore I don't have to meddle with molex to sata.
- https://www.amazon.de/Thermaltake-Paris-Plus-PC-Netzteil-ATX23/dp/B00IJERM8M
I've started second week of grooming and here are my results so far.
Apologies for long post.
Background:
- Long time ago, I made naive implementation of RAID on my "multimedia" workstation, which is HW RAID-5 with 8 TB working space (AsRock Z97, Hitachi disks).
-- I'd still keep it as offline backup later on.
- Got couple of workstations in my house.
- I'm from Poland, the hardware availability and prices might vary from newegg / amazon.
- I've got some admin experiences as former Wintel (moderate) and Linux (less), so I'd like to make some jails.
- Already had a lecture with wonderful FreeNAS Community Hardware Guide 2016-10 Rev 1e)
NAS purpose:
- Storage w/ SMB, NFS functionalities entirely. I would like to have two "pools", where one is for "archive" purpose and second would serve as working directory between workstations.
- To develop some extra jails serving as DNS and DHCP server (to substitute them instead of home router)
- To place PBX (Asterisk/FreePBX(edit/correction)) server (but for extremely low usage - max 2 concurrent calls) for development/testing purposes.
Case - NZXT H440 - 122$ - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146217 (bought it)
Reason: A very cheap case, which has pretty good fan setup (already 3x front included). Two slots for SSD just on top of PSU and 10 HDD slots.
CPU: G4600 - 73$ (eventually i3-6300)
Question for G4600. Is it enough to handle things mentioned above? Or should jump to i3? G4600 is ~$73, while i3-6300 is twice as much.
Mobo: SuperMicro X11SSM-F (MBD-X11SSM-F-O) - 242$
Nuff said, is just everywhere on this forum and is pretty cheap.
RAM: Crucial UDIMM DDR4, 16GB 2400MHz, CL17 ECC (CT16G4WFD824A) - $224
- I don't like it costs as much as motherboard, but I don't think I can go cheaper.
HDD "archive": 5 x 6TB WD Red / HGST (depends which are cheaper) in RAIDZ-2 mode. - each one oscillate around 220$
- AFAIK, the RAIDZ-1/RAID5, so better to buy extra than be sorry.
HDD "working directory": I just take any Seagate(s) for that role, which I have in spare.
SSD: Any Intel5xx should do - each around for 110$ for 120GB.
Either one or two, as I see here that some users' configurations use second one for jail instances.
PSU: Thermaltake Paris 650W (W0493RE) - for 125$
- It has 12 SATA connectors, so whenever I fill like to expand to maximum (w/ adapter card), I don't have to replace it.
-- Therefore I don't have to meddle with molex to sata.
- https://www.amazon.de/Thermaltake-Paris-Plus-PC-Netzteil-ATX23/dp/B00IJERM8M
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