spg900ny
Dabbler
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- Feb 10, 2012
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Hi,
I currently have a FreeNAS 11.2-U8 system running on a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H with an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 3.0Mhz with 12GB non-ECC RAM. I'm running four pools - two mirrored 4TB pools (old drives), a mirrored 8TB pool (new drives), and a single 4TB pool/disk (old drive) for stuff I don't worry about losing.
The system has been upgraded and kind of scraped together over the years and is definitely not optimized. I'm maxed out of SATA ports and memory in particular, and as I've gotten more and more into Plex, the box is pretty much mostly a Plex server these days with some file serving on the side. To that end, I'd like to build a new FreeNAS box with the following goals, migrating all the data from one to the other:
I currently have a FreeNAS 11.2-U8 system running on a Gigabyte GA-890GPA-UD3H with an AMD Phenom II X6 1055T 3.0Mhz with 12GB non-ECC RAM. I'm running four pools - two mirrored 4TB pools (old drives), a mirrored 8TB pool (new drives), and a single 4TB pool/disk (old drive) for stuff I don't worry about losing.
The system has been upgraded and kind of scraped together over the years and is definitely not optimized. I'm maxed out of SATA ports and memory in particular, and as I've gotten more and more into Plex, the box is pretty much mostly a Plex server these days with some file serving on the side. To that end, I'd like to build a new FreeNAS box with the following goals, migrating all the data from one to the other:
- Consolidate/organize storage to three pools - a 10TB mirror, an 8TB mirror, and a 4TB throwaway - allowing free SATA ports for inevitable drive replacements - can I import the drives in a fresh FreeNAS and then migrate the data off of them into another pool?
- Upgrade to 32GB ECC memory
- Start with new, clean FreeNAS
- Start with new, clean Plex
- Get more Plex transcoding horsepower with the Xeon
- Intel Xeon E3-1285L V4 3.4Ghz SR2B1 LGA1150 65W (~$139)
- Crucial CT102472BD160B DDR3-1600 ECC 32GB (~$150)
- Supermicro X10SAE (~$70)
- Phanteks AMP Series 650W 80PLUS Gold ATX (Seasonic Focus Plus Gold PSU) ~$100
- Some ATX case