Lorin Zahra-Newman
Cadet
- Joined
- Feb 16, 2014
- Messages
- 1
I've been using FreeNAS for over a year now on two different machine builds I jimmied together and cannibalized from some spare machines I had lying around. It's a really nice system and i've enjoyed poking around with it over the previous months. One of my builds has been working like a dream running a 9TB pool with only 6GB of RAM but the other build has been giving me headaches with its phantom shutdown and reboots. Anyways, im not surprised as I threw these machines together and virtually broke every recommendation in Cyberjock's hardware guide in the process.
I'm now ready to outlay some serious cash on a proper build and would like the communities advice on my selection of hardware and scope for expansion further down the track.
I currently have ~24TB of data to store and expect it to grow to 50-60TB in the next five years. This is primarily media files that have been either downloaded or digitized from our hard copies. My father is an audiofile so compressing media is a big sin when it comes to listening to it on his fancy HiFi System... I think there's about 3000 CDs still left to rip down lol
Backup is not a big issue but I do plan to build a few smaller scaled versions to this one and keep them offsite at my own and siblings place and use something like btsync to split the data amongst them kind of like a poor mans parity with related data we use. It's media so no big cry if it gets lost.
Intended configuration is as follows:
Lian Li PC-D8000 20 Bay Chassis
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275W 80Plus GOLD PSU
Supermicro X9SRH-7F ATX Motherboard
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1620 v2
Kingston 32GB Module - DDR3 1600MHz ValueRAM x2 =64GB
Intel® RAID SAS Expander RES2SV240
I haven't made a decision as to hard disks yet but am probably looking at an array of WD 6TB Red's. My main concern is to get the main backbone of the system up and transfer my existing HD's (4TB WD Reds) into it while I wait around and see what happens with these 10TB disks that are meant to be around the corner.
I'm pretty happy with my choices made but the only thing I wasn't sure about was the PSU and calculating my power consumption, so I elected to just put a whopper of a PSU in.
Thanks for your advice guys.
I'm now ready to outlay some serious cash on a proper build and would like the communities advice on my selection of hardware and scope for expansion further down the track.
I currently have ~24TB of data to store and expect it to grow to 50-60TB in the next five years. This is primarily media files that have been either downloaded or digitized from our hard copies. My father is an audiofile so compressing media is a big sin when it comes to listening to it on his fancy HiFi System... I think there's about 3000 CDs still left to rip down lol
Backup is not a big issue but I do plan to build a few smaller scaled versions to this one and keep them offsite at my own and siblings place and use something like btsync to split the data amongst them kind of like a poor mans parity with related data we use. It's media so no big cry if it gets lost.
Intended configuration is as follows:
Lian Li PC-D8000 20 Bay Chassis
Thermaltake Toughpower XT 1275W 80Plus GOLD PSU
Supermicro X9SRH-7F ATX Motherboard
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1620 v2
Kingston 32GB Module - DDR3 1600MHz ValueRAM x2 =64GB
Intel® RAID SAS Expander RES2SV240
I haven't made a decision as to hard disks yet but am probably looking at an array of WD 6TB Red's. My main concern is to get the main backbone of the system up and transfer my existing HD's (4TB WD Reds) into it while I wait around and see what happens with these 10TB disks that are meant to be around the corner.
I'm pretty happy with my choices made but the only thing I wasn't sure about was the PSU and calculating my power consumption, so I elected to just put a whopper of a PSU in.
Thanks for your advice guys.