vibratingKWAX
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- Oct 28, 2016
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Hello FreeNAS-Community!
I've been playing around with Linux distributions and small just-for-fun servers out of old hardware for some time now. About 3 years ago I've got myself a 4-bay Synology NAS to get a bit more serious about storage and to consolidate all my data on one device. It's an DS413j with 3x2TB +1TB in SHR1. I chose Synology because of SHR (Software-RAID over different size HDDs) and the simplicity of using it.
But now it's time to up the game and I'm really stoked on FreeNAS and ZFS!
I read most of the doc of FreeNAS, read best-practise-guides, tried the current version of FreeNAS as well as the Beta of FreeNAS 10 in a Virtual Machine and watched a lot of youtube stuff for the last 2 months now. I want to do it right!
I plan on buying the following Hardware:
-> Intel Pentium G4400 (easily upgradeble if neccesary later)
-> Supermicro X11SAE-M
-> 1x 16GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR4-2133 ECC
-> Fractal Design Define R4
-> 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB in RaidZ1
-> 400W-BeQuiet PowerSupply lying around (just 1 year old)
-> Any quality 32GB-USB Stick for boot
-> Cost will be around 1.000 EUR
The workload will be just 2-3 users with smb-shares, long-time-storage of music, pics, video collection etc. The most resource-hungry application will be the PLEX-plugin, maybe a light minecraft server. I will wait for the 10 version because of the in my view very promising docker integration of FreeNAS. Also I might play with iSCSI for my Steam library an see how it goes... maybe not. I got enough old HDDs to put in my main PC for Steam and other easy replacable stuff.
I feel like having enough basic knowledge now to do that kind of configuration. I am also quite confident about my hardware config.
Feel free to give feedback on my hardware-choices if you find a huge oversight on my side.
Now...
I dont own and do not plan on owning a UPS in the near future, nor do I want to run RaidZ2 because of the cost. I know many people would suggest that sort of thing for additional safety. (Don't be a statistic! ;-))
I would rather like to "recycle" my current Synology DS413j or just a old PC with OpenMediaVault as a Linux-based offsite storage at my inlaws as a full backup solution for everything worth backing up. Both our internet connections do about 50Mbit down, 10Mbit up.
How would I do that best? What protokoll do you suggest for file transfer? Could I store Snapshots there? I am quite familiar with the Synolgy system. But wich build-in capabilities does FreeNAS have that are useful for that?
I am looking for some kind of best-practice-examples for that usecase or just some stuff to think about and consider beforehand!
Links and references to other places with useful information are also appreciated!
Many thanks!
KWAX
I've been playing around with Linux distributions and small just-for-fun servers out of old hardware for some time now. About 3 years ago I've got myself a 4-bay Synology NAS to get a bit more serious about storage and to consolidate all my data on one device. It's an DS413j with 3x2TB +1TB in SHR1. I chose Synology because of SHR (Software-RAID over different size HDDs) and the simplicity of using it.
But now it's time to up the game and I'm really stoked on FreeNAS and ZFS!
I read most of the doc of FreeNAS, read best-practise-guides, tried the current version of FreeNAS as well as the Beta of FreeNAS 10 in a Virtual Machine and watched a lot of youtube stuff for the last 2 months now. I want to do it right!
I plan on buying the following Hardware:
-> Intel Pentium G4400 (easily upgradeble if neccesary later)
-> Supermicro X11SAE-M
-> 1x 16GB Kingston ValueRAM DDR4-2133 ECC
-> Fractal Design Define R4
-> 4x HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB in RaidZ1
-> 400W-BeQuiet PowerSupply lying around (just 1 year old)
-> Any quality 32GB-USB Stick for boot
-> Cost will be around 1.000 EUR
The workload will be just 2-3 users with smb-shares, long-time-storage of music, pics, video collection etc. The most resource-hungry application will be the PLEX-plugin, maybe a light minecraft server. I will wait for the 10 version because of the in my view very promising docker integration of FreeNAS. Also I might play with iSCSI for my Steam library an see how it goes... maybe not. I got enough old HDDs to put in my main PC for Steam and other easy replacable stuff.
I feel like having enough basic knowledge now to do that kind of configuration. I am also quite confident about my hardware config.
Feel free to give feedback on my hardware-choices if you find a huge oversight on my side.
Now...
I dont own and do not plan on owning a UPS in the near future, nor do I want to run RaidZ2 because of the cost. I know many people would suggest that sort of thing for additional safety. (Don't be a statistic! ;-))
I would rather like to "recycle" my current Synology DS413j or just a old PC with OpenMediaVault as a Linux-based offsite storage at my inlaws as a full backup solution for everything worth backing up. Both our internet connections do about 50Mbit down, 10Mbit up.
How would I do that best? What protokoll do you suggest for file transfer? Could I store Snapshots there? I am quite familiar with the Synolgy system. But wich build-in capabilities does FreeNAS have that are useful for that?
I am looking for some kind of best-practice-examples for that usecase or just some stuff to think about and consider beforehand!
Links and references to other places with useful information are also appreciated!
Many thanks!
KWAX