Supermicro X10SL7-F with 14 SATA ports flashed to IT mode
Intel Pentium G3220, should be fast enough for CIFS only use
32GB ECC RAM
Originally I was going to use 11(2^3 +3) 4TB Seagate NAS drives in Z3. I'll say the nominal capacity of this config is 32TB.
Then I decided that the twelfth slot in my 4U chassis was sad because it didn't have a drive in it.
So I bought another drive. 12 drives, 36TB.
Now I'm leaning towards getting another 2 drives to fill up SATA ports, 44TB. I wonder if 14 drives is pushing it for Z3.
Performance is secondary to reliability in this application which will be used to store media files, backups, etc.
What about two vdevs each with 7 drives Z2? 40TB
I assume performance would be better since data would be striped across the two vdevs but I'm not sure about reliability.
Z3 could handle the loss of any 3 drives but in the two vdev config data would be lost if 3 drives failed in a particular vdev. Not sure what the probability of this is.
Any thoughts?
Intel Pentium G3220, should be fast enough for CIFS only use
32GB ECC RAM
Originally I was going to use 11(2^3 +3) 4TB Seagate NAS drives in Z3. I'll say the nominal capacity of this config is 32TB.
Then I decided that the twelfth slot in my 4U chassis was sad because it didn't have a drive in it.
So I bought another drive. 12 drives, 36TB.
Now I'm leaning towards getting another 2 drives to fill up SATA ports, 44TB. I wonder if 14 drives is pushing it for Z3.
Performance is secondary to reliability in this application which will be used to store media files, backups, etc.
What about two vdevs each with 7 drives Z2? 40TB
I assume performance would be better since data would be striped across the two vdevs but I'm not sure about reliability.
Z3 could handle the loss of any 3 drives but in the two vdev config data would be lost if 3 drives failed in a particular vdev. Not sure what the probability of this is.
Any thoughts?
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