This will be my second FreeNAS build, which is a great deal larger than my first build. The goal of this build is to start off with ~20TB of storage and slowly expand to ~100TB of storage (over the period of 5 years). Transfer speeds is not a major concern, as long as the Ethernet ports on the motherboard are fully saturated (2x1Gb). Storage space and reliability is the major concern I am trying to address. Lets get started!
Hardware
128 GB RAM 8x(MEM-DR416L-SL02-ER21)
Motherboard Supermicro X10SRL-F
CPU E5-1620 v3
Case + PSU SC847E16-R1K28LPB
RAID Card 2x(LSI SAS9211-8i)
HDD 8x(Seagate NAS 6TB)
UPS APC BR1500G
Boot Media Not yet decided.
At first only 8/36 drive bays will be occupied. I plan on setting up a RAID 10 array, mostly because expanding it would require a smaller payout than using RAID-Z2. I'm hoping to have two SSD's in raid 1 host the FreeNAS OS, however I am unsure if using consumer grade drives would be a good idea (EVO 850). I might end up swapping the RAM sticks from 16GB to 32GB in case more ram is needed to correctly run ZFS with the amount of data I will be storing in the future.
Please let me know what you think of this build and what your suggestions are.
Hardware
128 GB RAM 8x(MEM-DR416L-SL02-ER21)
Motherboard Supermicro X10SRL-F
CPU E5-1620 v3
Case + PSU SC847E16-R1K28LPB
RAID Card 2x(LSI SAS9211-8i)
HDD 8x(Seagate NAS 6TB)
UPS APC BR1500G
Boot Media Not yet decided.
At first only 8/36 drive bays will be occupied. I plan on setting up a RAID 10 array, mostly because expanding it would require a smaller payout than using RAID-Z2. I'm hoping to have two SSD's in raid 1 host the FreeNAS OS, however I am unsure if using consumer grade drives would be a good idea (EVO 850). I might end up swapping the RAM sticks from 16GB to 32GB in case more ram is needed to correctly run ZFS with the amount of data I will be storing in the future.
Please let me know what you think of this build and what your suggestions are.