BUILD Building new FreeNAS with replication

[stefanb]

Hi,

I'm planning a new storage system and want to setup a FreeNAS storage with new hardware and a second system for replication.

We work in CGI/Video editing, 3-4 machines, big files (video), or many files (image sequences, TGA/PNG-files) and orga with 4 machines working with office documents. No dedup, no compressing.

Maybe you can have a look at the hardware I selected and the existing hardware I want to use:

Main Storage:
- SUPERMICRO X10SL7-F
- Intel Core i3-4370 3800 1150 Box
- 2x Crucial DIMM 8 GB ECC DDR3-1600, CT102472BD160B
- 6x 4TB HDD (mixed vendors), 1 vdev, RAIDZ2
- Fractal Design Define R4 - Tower - ATX
- Seasonic G-450 Power supply, 80+gold

Existing Hardware to use as replication target:
- Supermicro X7DB8 Mainbaord, 16GB DB-ECC
- Intel Xeon E5405, 4 Core, 2GHz
using 6x 4TB HDD (mixed vendors), 1 vdev, RAIDZ2

What do you think? Good choice, old hardware strong enough to work as replication target?

Thanks for your opinion.
Stefan

 

[Ericloewe]

Sounds good. Performance may suffer on the old system, but you'll have to check for yourself.

 

[stefanb]

Hi Eric,

thank you for your answer. The Xeon may be suffering the system, right?

Can you recommend a switch? Mixed with 1gbe/10gbe Ports with 4-5 10gbe ports required.

Regards
S.

 

[marbus90]

The best you can do in the affordable segment would be the DLink DGS-1510-28X w/ 4x SFP+ and 24x 1000Base-T ports.The Netgears w/ 8-12 10Gbe ports have security issues.

 

[Ericloewe]

I don't have personal experience, but the D-Links are very interesting switches at somewhat reasonable prices.

 

[L]

I have recently been doing alot of video editing platforms. I really prefer a ssd pool. Especially if you want to drive 4-5 10gbe. 1 raidz won't be able to drive that kind of workload. I would up the ram also.

 

[stefanb]

The best you can do in the affordable segment would be the DLink DGS-1510-28X w/ 4x SFP+ and 24x 1000Base-T ports.The Netgears w/ 8-12 10Gbe ports have security issues.

Hi Marbus, i cant find any informations about a security issus. Can you give me more informations?
Regards
Stefan