Hello, and thanks in advance for any advice!
This post came out very long, so I'm splitting it - First post is an intro, with my specific hardware/situation, and the second post is true to the subject: Looking for advice on specific storage hardware. Thanks for reading!
I tried FreeNAS out a few months back on some leftover hardware, and I liked it a lot. FreeNAS didn't like the hardware, though, so I purchased a base platform to meet the recommendations. After bouncing ideas around in another thread, here's what I ended up building:
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F
Processor: Xeon E5-1620 v3
Memory: 32gb ECC/RDIMM: Hynix HMA84GR7MFR4N-UH
Due to the expense, I decided to split up the upgrade into manageable chunks - Start with the above listed components and use my old drives until I can afford to upgrade. If it's relevant, My current (dying) pool is 4x Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD154UI HDDs, with 2x Adata ASP600S3-32GM-C SSDs as a mirrored SLOG. Long story short, the HDDs aren't holding up as well as I had hoped, so I'm now looking into replacing them. I've been doing some research, but still having a hard time determining what would be most cost-effective, so I'm hoping some of the awesome people here can weigh in.
Here's the rundown of my workload: Currently only one user, but I run a number of somewhat demanding applications:
I have a bittorrent server running on this pool, since I find that the best way to obtain Ubuntu/Other OS installers. I like to contribute to the open source community where I can, so I let those transfers seed, which generates a nearly constant flow of small reads.
I'm also heavy into cryptocurrency, and currently have about 10 different altcoin wallets running. This, similar to the torrent server, generates a pretty constant flow of small-file storage IO.
Particularly the cryptocurrency work, but also just in general, I plan to continue scaling this out, so I want to make sure I have reasonable room to grow with the pool I setup. Scalability is the main reason I started looking into enterprise grade storage solutions in the first place.
Beyond that, it's basic home use applications: simple streaming movies/music, offloading storage from workstations/laptops, etc.
This post came out very long, so I'm splitting it - First post is an intro, with my specific hardware/situation, and the second post is true to the subject: Looking for advice on specific storage hardware. Thanks for reading!
I tried FreeNAS out a few months back on some leftover hardware, and I liked it a lot. FreeNAS didn't like the hardware, though, so I purchased a base platform to meet the recommendations. After bouncing ideas around in another thread, here's what I ended up building:
Motherboard: Supermicro X10SRi-F
Processor: Xeon E5-1620 v3
Memory: 32gb ECC/RDIMM: Hynix HMA84GR7MFR4N-UH
Due to the expense, I decided to split up the upgrade into manageable chunks - Start with the above listed components and use my old drives until I can afford to upgrade. If it's relevant, My current (dying) pool is 4x Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD154UI HDDs, with 2x Adata ASP600S3-32GM-C SSDs as a mirrored SLOG. Long story short, the HDDs aren't holding up as well as I had hoped, so I'm now looking into replacing them. I've been doing some research, but still having a hard time determining what would be most cost-effective, so I'm hoping some of the awesome people here can weigh in.
Here's the rundown of my workload: Currently only one user, but I run a number of somewhat demanding applications:
I have a bittorrent server running on this pool, since I find that the best way to obtain Ubuntu/Other OS installers. I like to contribute to the open source community where I can, so I let those transfers seed, which generates a nearly constant flow of small reads.
I'm also heavy into cryptocurrency, and currently have about 10 different altcoin wallets running. This, similar to the torrent server, generates a pretty constant flow of small-file storage IO.
Particularly the cryptocurrency work, but also just in general, I plan to continue scaling this out, so I want to make sure I have reasonable room to grow with the pool I setup. Scalability is the main reason I started looking into enterprise grade storage solutions in the first place.
Beyond that, it's basic home use applications: simple streaming movies/music, offloading storage from workstations/laptops, etc.