Hello everyone, longtime lurker here finally going to do a build.
Looking on some suggestions for my new build. I have the same chassis build (different drives but mostly the same) running unraid great - for media only. I'm in process of replacing my Synology 1817+ with a Freenas build which will be used for general NAS, VMware, backups, offsite cloud storage, etc. Media will stick on unraid (I just don't trust unraid for critical data storage). Synology is going to my Camera system
Chasis: SUPERMICRO 846 (has the 2x SSD hotswap in the rear and a 2x SSD cage on the side of the PSU)
Motherboard: supermicro x9dri-ln4f+
Backpane: BPN-SAS2-845EL1
CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2697 v2
CPU Heatsink: Dual Noctua u9dx-i4
RAM: 8x 16GB 1866 Samsung DDR3
HBA: HP H220 flashed to IT mode
Network: 40g HP-649281-B21-Infiniband flashed to Mellanox
Fans: 3x Noctua 3000 Industrial, 2x 80mm Noctua for rear
Drives (here is where I need help)
I have a slew of different drives laying around from different builds (or ones currently used that can be repurposed) - not all of these have to be used.
I'm thinking
Any suggestions?
Looking on some suggestions for my new build. I have the same chassis build (different drives but mostly the same) running unraid great - for media only. I'm in process of replacing my Synology 1817+ with a Freenas build which will be used for general NAS, VMware, backups, offsite cloud storage, etc. Media will stick on unraid (I just don't trust unraid for critical data storage). Synology is going to my Camera system
Chasis: SUPERMICRO 846 (has the 2x SSD hotswap in the rear and a 2x SSD cage on the side of the PSU)
Motherboard: supermicro x9dri-ln4f+
Backpane: BPN-SAS2-845EL1
CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2697 v2
CPU Heatsink: Dual Noctua u9dx-i4
RAM: 8x 16GB 1866 Samsung DDR3
HBA: HP H220 flashed to IT mode
Network: 40g HP-649281-B21-Infiniband flashed to Mellanox
Fans: 3x Noctua 3000 Industrial, 2x 80mm Noctua for rear
Drives (here is where I need help)
I have a slew of different drives laying around from different builds (or ones currently used that can be repurposed) - not all of these have to be used.
- 4x 12TB Seagate ironwolfs (soon to be 6x)
- 4x Cruicial 1TB MX500's
- 2x Samsung 840 Pro 256
- 2x Samsung 850 Pro 256
- 1x Samsung 1TB SSD 840 Evo
- 1x Samsung 1TB SSD 850 Evo
- Optane 900p - don't really want to use this right now but an option
I'm thinking
- Pool1 (General storage) - Mirrored vdevs for the 6x ironwolfs (and expanding from there might get 12tb toshiba drives next)
- I'm assuming at 12tb a pop, I'm assuming Z2 is not the best due to rebuild time/risk of it going down during that time
- Pool2 (vms) - MIrrored vdev for the 4x Crucial MX500's for vmware images
- ESXI Boot:
- 850 Pro 256 hanging off regular sata or the HBA containing ESXI boot and Freenas VM
- 2nd 850 Pro 256 that has the Freenas VM mirrored/copied to it for bare-metal booting
- 4. Slog - I do want a syslog but am not sure which direction to go
- DC3700 from ebay but I'm unsure of what size - and may only get one due to cost/size
- m.2 PCIE card (motherboard supports bifurcation) with either:
- optane 128gb m.2's or
- 2x evo m.2's 1tb
- I also have an optane 900p but it's being used (I could part with it for this) but I'm worried about the power outage protection
- Could use a pair of the 256 Pros, but not sure if those are fast enough for SLOG
Any suggestions?
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