BulgarianHealer
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- Jul 16, 2022
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Hello,
I have been using my personal PC for storage, but with the allocation of the HDD, I had to build something more serious. After looking for a user-friendly OS, I stopped on Truenas. So I started searching for MB, CPU, etc., after buying the components. I had to build a custom server case because buying a second-hand or new one for 24bays HDD is a F* nightmare because of the price.
What I bought for the system is:
So the HDD are a mix of 6/12Gb/s and i don't think that's gonna be a problem.
For boot, I'm using 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 256GB, I have created two pools:
Pool 1: 12x4TB Seagate ST4000NM0023 and 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB for LOG in mirror
Pool 2: 12x6TB Seagate ST6000NM0014 and 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB for LOG in mirror
Both pools are in raidz3 in order to have time to fix possible single/multiple HDD failures in a short/long period of time.
Also in the feature, i think to buy one more HBA (with 8e/16e) and EXPANDER(maybe same intel) to create a new server case with custom HDD cages with SuperMicro bpn-sas826a backplane and another PSU.
My main question is the configuration good enough for video storage(+PLEX(transcoding with the cpu)) and VM's(small web projects) and do you think that there will be any bottleneck aside from the network card(i have plans to get 3x10gbps)?
Thanks.
I have been using my personal PC for storage, but with the allocation of the HDD, I had to build something more serious. After looking for a user-friendly OS, I stopped on Truenas. So I started searching for MB, CPU, etc., after buying the components. I had to build a custom server case because buying a second-hand or new one for 24bays HDD is a F* nightmare because of the price.
What I bought for the system is:
- MB: Huananzhi x99 f8
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2699v3
- RAM: 8x8GB DDR4 2666MHz ECC
- PSU: Seasonic FOCUS GX-850
- HBA: LSI 9217-8i
- BACKPLANE: 2xSuperMicro bpn-sas826a
- EXPANDER: INTEL RES2SV240
- COOLER: NH-U12S redux
- FANS: 3x NF-A14 iPPC-3000 PWM
So the HDD are a mix of 6/12Gb/s and i don't think that's gonna be a problem.
For boot, I'm using 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 256GB, I have created two pools:
Pool 1: 12x4TB Seagate ST4000NM0023 and 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB for LOG in mirror
Pool 2: 12x6TB Seagate ST6000NM0014 and 2x PC401 NVMe SK hynix 512GB for LOG in mirror
Both pools are in raidz3 in order to have time to fix possible single/multiple HDD failures in a short/long period of time.
Also in the feature, i think to buy one more HBA (with 8e/16e) and EXPANDER(maybe same intel) to create a new server case with custom HDD cages with SuperMicro bpn-sas826a backplane and another PSU.
My main question is the configuration good enough for video storage(+PLEX(transcoding with the cpu)) and VM's(small web projects) and do you think that there will be any bottleneck aside from the network card(i have plans to get 3x10gbps)?
Thanks.