Completed FreeNas Build - with component list.

[tunla]

Hi,

I successfully built the listed components together and installed FreeNAS 11.2 U5 on this machine.

Chassie: 1 Fractal design NODE 804
PSU 1 Fractal design Edison 650
Motherboard: 1 Supermicro X11SCH-LN4F
CPU 1 Xeon E-2134 4C/8T
Memory (ECC) 2 Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CTD 2x 16 GBytes.
HDD 8 Seagate IronWolf 6 TB SATA
SSD SIL 2 WD BLUE 3D NAND 250 GB
M.2 L2ARC 1 WD BLUE NvMe 500 GB
M.2 (Boot) 1 WD BLUE NvMe 500 GB
Slotload BlueR. Player 1 Panasonic UJ-267 9.5mm Internal SATA Slot Load Blu-Ray
SATA controller 1 SYBA 4 Port SATA III NON-RAID PCI-e 2.0 x1 Card – SI-PEX40064

Resulting ZFS Array is a 7 diskdrive RAID-Z2 VDEV with 1 additional SPARE Drive.
using 2 SSD disks as SIL writecache and one NvME device as L2ARC.
This yields a 25 TB DataPool of Usable storage.

Power draw of the system is about 85 Watts at Idle state.

At my location in Sweden the purchase price including VAT/TAX for these components was about $3500 USD:

 

[CraigD]

Your configuration needs a UPS, I've been told WD Blues have no power loss protection

Have Fun

 

[tunla]

Hi

Thank you for notifying me about the Power loss prevention issue.
This Intel drive seems to be a inexpensive unit with PLP, at about $80 cost at local dealers here.

Intel Solid-State Drive D3-S4610 Series - solid state drive - 240 GB

Will this be a suitable SSD for the SIL ?

Regards

 

[John Doe]

Chassie: 1 Fractal design NODE 804
PSU 1 Fractal design Edison 650
Motherboard: 1 Supermicro X11SCH-LN4F
CPU 1 Xeon E-2134 4C/8T
Memory (ECC) 2 Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CTD 2x 16 GBytes.
HDD 8 Seagate IronWolf 6 TB SATA
->maybe consider bigger drives but less drives (1)
SSD SIL 2 WD BLUE 3D NAND 250 GB
M.2 L2ARC 1 WD BLUE NvMe 500 GB
M.2 (Boot) 1 WD BLUE NvMe 500 GB
-> NVMe is waste of money for a boot medium. (2)
Slotload BlueR. Player 1 Panasonic UJ-267 9.5mm Internal SATA Slot Load Blu-Ray
SATA controller 1 SYBA 4 Port SATA III NON-RAID PCI-e 2.0 x1 Card – SI-PEX40064
-> check if it is suitable in terms of compatibility. never heard about that controller.

for Slog/Zil and L2arc there is a list of suitable ssds.

(1)
in case you want to have 8 discs for IOPS or whatever reason, go for it. my personal recommendation is to go with the larger disks. less power consumption and usually the larger discs are helium filled -> less heat, less noise

(2)
bootmedium should be SSD grade but sata is absolutely fine. Reaseon: Once freenas is booted up, everything runs in the memory. you might gain a minute faster booting but since freenas shall run 24/7 you wont have it too often. save the money.

do you really need a hot spare? in more than 4 years I haven't had a single issue with the discs. In case it is a high availability system, fair enough but consider using all disks and start replacing them after smart values are going bad.