FreeNAS Hardware

[Sadain]

Hi,

I am quiet new to FreeNAS, need your help in building up a new hardware for my new FreeNAS project. We are creating our NAS hardware using FreeNAS for about 10TB SAS storage for video streaming. we need to maintain very good performance for disk reads specially. In these regards I need your suggestions regarding the hardware what should I use, means considering 10TB initially (which will expand later) how RAM I should have Storage Controller and everything else..please reply me fast as we have to complete this project.

 

[cyberjock]

Well, start with checking out the FreeNAS manual, read the noobie guide(link in my sig) and check out the stickied threads in the forum. That's a good place to start to get you on your way to a FreeNAS system.

 

[Sadain]

Well, start with checking out the FreeNAS manual, read the noobie guide(link in my sig) and check out the stickied threads in the forum. That's a good place to start to get you on your way to a FreeNAS system.

Thanks for reply cyber, actually we are going to recommend just the hardware for our clients. I have gone through these hardware requirement portion of FreeNAS manual, based on that, we have to recommend them Storage Controller, RAM, HDDs and other specific hardware. Like if we recommend HP proliant G8, would be sufficient for them? then what else will we need?

 

[cyberjock]

That depends onalot of factors. My advice is to read the manual and stickies and search the forums so you understand what hardware is to be recommended and when.

 

[ewhac]

That depends onalot of factors. My advice is to read the manual and stickies and search the forums so you understand what hardware is to be recommended and when.

What he said. FreeNAS is powerful. One of the prices for that power is constant awareness of its requirements (I could make an exceptionally tactless allusion to the Porsche Carrera GT here). There's no getting around reading a ton of stuff and considering your install carefully.

Like if we recommend HP proliant G8, would be sufficient for them?

This by itself doesn't really tell anybody anything, since the ProLiant G8 line is very broad. Your storage and reliability/redundancy requirements will dictate the number hard drives to get (and the number of drive bays you'll need, and the size of the power supply to spin them up). The number of hard drives you get will dictate how much ECC RAM you need (1GiB minimum per TB of disk). And the amount of ECC RAM you need will inform your motherboard selection. Once you've sized all those requirements out, a ProLiant G8 box meeting those requirements should work fine.

 

[cyberjock]

Something tells me Sadain works for a company trying to sell a FreeNAS machine pre-built to someone and make a huge profit. They don't want to know the specifics. They just want me to dump a list of components so they can buy that list and charge the customer $5000 for it. It's not that simple and if this situation is true we'll find out later they've boned over their customer. That's okay, we keep a list of those companies around just to bash them for being dishonest and untrustworthy. :)

 

[russnas]

dont need to jump that fast even though i got the same idea, he didnt provide enough information to get a good answer, like how many clients, if these people will know how to manage the network/freenas, video streaming and editing ?
and what he wants in the future since this will dictate what he should buy now, as stated above.

if they are a company then they have all the info they need online just like us end users,