eliland
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- Jan 28, 2016
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Greetings good people!
I've been lurking this forum and planning my build for some time now and even briefly fiddled with the interface in a VirtualBox installation, so it's soon time to invest in some hardware. The server will be used to stream video and music files to my Windows HTPC (running Kodi) and potentially other devices via CIFS/Samba (no transcoding needed), back up my own photos and videos, and in the near-ish future run a jail with a LAMP-style web server for my own use.
I really want this to last and do the job for a long time, so I'm thinking future proofing, FreeNAS 10 (when it's stable), latest generation of hardware (X11, Skylake) instead of the tried and tested (X10, Haswell), and so on. Within reason, ofc.
Case: Fractal Design R5
Mobo: Supermicro X11SSH-F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V5
PSU: Seasonic G-550
RAM: 2x Samsung ECC DDR4 16GB 2133 MHz (the ones tested by Supermicro to match the X11)
HDDs: 2x Western Digital Red 5TB NAS (mirrored)
EDIT: Oh, and FreeNAS will be running off a USB-stick now that it apparently is working with XHCI and 9.10/10.
These are all things I've often seen recommended, so I'm fairly confident it's a good set of hardware, but there are two things I'm not 100% sure about:
- I've had to reduce the number of drives to two due to cost (I'm in Europe and a lot of these parts are rare and expensive). I would love to have 4-5 drives in a RAIDZ2 setup, but just two mirrored with ~5TB total available storage should be plenty for at least a year or two. Ease of setup, maintenance, performance, and recovery from a disk failure is an additional bonus. I can always make another pool with a RAIDZ2 vdev when I run out of space. Correct?
- No UPS yet. I know. Not brilliant. But again it's a cost issue... How likely is it I will lose a pool if a power outage occurs? Also, there hasn't been a single unplanned power outage in six years where I live, so that's also something to consider. All important data (own photos and videos) will also be backed up to the cloud, btw.
I've been lurking this forum and planning my build for some time now and even briefly fiddled with the interface in a VirtualBox installation, so it's soon time to invest in some hardware. The server will be used to stream video and music files to my Windows HTPC (running Kodi) and potentially other devices via CIFS/Samba (no transcoding needed), back up my own photos and videos, and in the near-ish future run a jail with a LAMP-style web server for my own use.
I really want this to last and do the job for a long time, so I'm thinking future proofing, FreeNAS 10 (when it's stable), latest generation of hardware (X11, Skylake) instead of the tried and tested (X10, Haswell), and so on. Within reason, ofc.
Case: Fractal Design R5
Mobo: Supermicro X11SSH-F-O
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220 V5
PSU: Seasonic G-550
RAM: 2x Samsung ECC DDR4 16GB 2133 MHz (the ones tested by Supermicro to match the X11)
HDDs: 2x Western Digital Red 5TB NAS (mirrored)
EDIT: Oh, and FreeNAS will be running off a USB-stick now that it apparently is working with XHCI and 9.10/10.
These are all things I've often seen recommended, so I'm fairly confident it's a good set of hardware, but there are two things I'm not 100% sure about:
- I've had to reduce the number of drives to two due to cost (I'm in Europe and a lot of these parts are rare and expensive). I would love to have 4-5 drives in a RAIDZ2 setup, but just two mirrored with ~5TB total available storage should be plenty for at least a year or two. Ease of setup, maintenance, performance, and recovery from a disk failure is an additional bonus. I can always make another pool with a RAIDZ2 vdev when I run out of space. Correct?
- No UPS yet. I know. Not brilliant. But again it's a cost issue... How likely is it I will lose a pool if a power outage occurs? Also, there hasn't been a single unplanned power outage in six years where I live, so that's also something to consider. All important data (own photos and videos) will also be backed up to the cloud, btw.
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