Hello. I'm new to the forum and new to FreeNAS. I've been reading some of the stickies, forum posts and the ZFS Powerpoint presentation for the past couple weeks. I'm now ready to start building my system and I would like some of your more experienced members to let me know if there are some issues with my hardware configuration.
My use case for FreeNAS is a Time Machine backup server, plex, sabnzbd, couch potato and plex. I'll also use FreeNAS as an iSCSI target for an ESXi machine that I have. I'm an Systems Engineer so I use the ESXi machine in a limited fashion to mock up integration projects. I'm not so concerned with IOPS performance since my VMs will not be used for production purposes.
I currently have two Macs that I'll use Time Machine for and I would plan to have an additional two machines in the future. I also plan use AFP shares for additional centralized storage for my macs (ISO's, etc..).
As far as plex and the other home theater components I plan to store 1080p movie files. I'll probably move to 4k in the next couple years as the media becomes more readily available.
Here is my proposed build.
Case: Fractal Node 804
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 SkyLake 3.5 GHz
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSM-F-O
RAM: 2X Crucial CT16G4RFD4213 16GB DDR4 2133 (32 GB Total)
Power Supply: Sea Sonic G550
Disks: 6X WD Red 4TB (RAID-Z2)
UPS: ???
Bootdisks: 2 SanDisk Cruiser low profile 32gb USB sticks.
USB Expansion Card: This will be used for the two USB stick boot disks since FreeNAS does support onboard USB Port boot disks with Skylake. If anyone has some suggestions on a specific compatible USB 2.0 PCIe expansion card I would appreciate some input.
Network Infrastructure: 24 port gigabit switch
My case has room for a total of 8 3.5 inch disks. So I'm contemplating adding the other two disks now. I actually thought I could just add the additional disks in the future but after reading the ZFS Powerpoint posted on the forum, I found out that your unable to add additional disks to a video I've been really surprised how much I've learned about ZFS by reading this forum. This is coming from someone who was a consultant for Sun and has been using S10 and ZFS since it was released. There is really some great technical information on here. So back to the disk configuration that's one question I'm still pondering on now. I'm not sure if 24TB RAW / 14 TB usable is going to overkill or should I just max out the case now because of the way the vdev is configured.
If I also could get some advice on a UPS I would appreciate it. I would plan to run this box and a SUX X4150 (single power supply) off it. If you see anything else that I should change just let me know. I chose the more powerful CPU and motherboard with 4K transcoding (1 stream) in mind for the future. I chose that mother board so that I could add more RAM for additional jails or ZFS in the future. I plan on starting at 32GB now and upgrading as I need more.
Thanks for your help and it's nice to meet all of you.
My use case for FreeNAS is a Time Machine backup server, plex, sabnzbd, couch potato and plex. I'll also use FreeNAS as an iSCSI target for an ESXi machine that I have. I'm an Systems Engineer so I use the ESXi machine in a limited fashion to mock up integration projects. I'm not so concerned with IOPS performance since my VMs will not be used for production purposes.
I currently have two Macs that I'll use Time Machine for and I would plan to have an additional two machines in the future. I also plan use AFP shares for additional centralized storage for my macs (ISO's, etc..).
As far as plex and the other home theater components I plan to store 1080p movie files. I'll probably move to 4k in the next couple years as the media becomes more readily available.
Here is my proposed build.
Case: Fractal Node 804
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 SkyLake 3.5 GHz
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSM-F-O
RAM: 2X Crucial CT16G4RFD4213 16GB DDR4 2133 (32 GB Total)
Power Supply: Sea Sonic G550
Disks: 6X WD Red 4TB (RAID-Z2)
UPS: ???
Bootdisks: 2 SanDisk Cruiser low profile 32gb USB sticks.
USB Expansion Card: This will be used for the two USB stick boot disks since FreeNAS does support onboard USB Port boot disks with Skylake. If anyone has some suggestions on a specific compatible USB 2.0 PCIe expansion card I would appreciate some input.
Network Infrastructure: 24 port gigabit switch
My case has room for a total of 8 3.5 inch disks. So I'm contemplating adding the other two disks now. I actually thought I could just add the additional disks in the future but after reading the ZFS Powerpoint posted on the forum, I found out that your unable to add additional disks to a video I've been really surprised how much I've learned about ZFS by reading this forum. This is coming from someone who was a consultant for Sun and has been using S10 and ZFS since it was released. There is really some great technical information on here. So back to the disk configuration that's one question I'm still pondering on now. I'm not sure if 24TB RAW / 14 TB usable is going to overkill or should I just max out the case now because of the way the vdev is configured.
If I also could get some advice on a UPS I would appreciate it. I would plan to run this box and a SUX X4150 (single power supply) off it. If you see anything else that I should change just let me know. I chose the more powerful CPU and motherboard with 4K transcoding (1 stream) in mind for the future. I chose that mother board so that I could add more RAM for additional jails or ZFS in the future. I plan on starting at 32GB now and upgrading as I need more.
Thanks for your help and it's nice to meet all of you.
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