kirkdickinson
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I have a FreeNAS server that I built 5 years ago. (thread) It has been running very well for 5 years. It is still running 9.10. The current server has 6 4TB WD Reds in ZFS2.
I store 100's of thousands of high resolution photographs, videos, all the documents, spreadsheets, file-based database, for a small company with 6 computers. I also push daily email and user data backups to the server every night. With a lot of snapshots enabled, I keep running over the 80% safe storage space.
This thing has been running fairly troublefree for 5 years and is probably the most reliable piece of computer equipment on the place. But these drives are running at capacity and after 5 years of use, I don't trust these drives like I used to.
I am contemplating 3 options....
1. In place upgrade. One option I see is to replace one 4TB drive at a time with a 8TB and increase the size of my pool.
2. Rebuild. I have a 10TB and an 8TB drive on another computer here that I could copy all my server files to, update to the newest FreeNAS with new 8TBs.
3. Replace. I have a FreeNAS wishlist on Newegg.com that I pop in and update every now and then. I am thinking about pulling the trigger and building a new server. These parts in my list are not "new" but does that matter? https://secure.newegg.com/wishlist/pd/20397949
Should I be looking at newer CPU or Mobo?
Thanks.
Kirk
I store 100's of thousands of high resolution photographs, videos, all the documents, spreadsheets, file-based database, for a small company with 6 computers. I also push daily email and user data backups to the server every night. With a lot of snapshots enabled, I keep running over the 80% safe storage space.
This thing has been running fairly troublefree for 5 years and is probably the most reliable piece of computer equipment on the place. But these drives are running at capacity and after 5 years of use, I don't trust these drives like I used to.
I am contemplating 3 options....
1. In place upgrade. One option I see is to replace one 4TB drive at a time with a 8TB and increase the size of my pool.
2. Rebuild. I have a 10TB and an 8TB drive on another computer here that I could copy all my server files to, update to the newest FreeNAS with new 8TBs.
3. Replace. I have a FreeNAS wishlist on Newegg.com that I pop in and update every now and then. I am thinking about pulling the trigger and building a new server. These parts in my list are not "new" but does that matter? https://secure.newegg.com/wishlist/pd/20397949
Should I be looking at newer CPU or Mobo?
Thanks.
Kirk