As you may or may not have understood, greetings from down under. Dodging a few large spiders as I am writing this so excuse any typos :p
Just completed my first FreeNAS build.
Specs:
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1225 v3 (8M Cache, 3.20 GHz) (4-Core)
ASUS P9D-WS ATX Workstation MB (Socket 1150) (4 x DDR3 1600MHz) (Intel C226 Chipset) (6 x SATA 6GB/s) (2 x Intel NiCs)
Kingston 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC ( 4 x 8 GB)
Hitachi 4TB Deskstar 64M 7200rpm HDD x 11 (in RAID-Z3)
Fractal Design Newton R3 600W PSU 80+ Platinum Smart Modular
Fractal Design Define XLR2 Full Tower Black
Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SATA 6GB/s SSD ( L2ARC & ZIL)
LSI 9211-8i HBA SAS SATA 8-port PCI-E 6Gb/s RAID Controller Card (Got this cheap off ebay, seems to be working fine till now but I am still a bit suspicious if its genuine. HDDs seem to burst write every second instead of continuous operation)
Here is a pic of the final build. Its not the cleanest but it does the job. The stack on left is running a bit hot cause I think the front intake fans arent blowing in as much air. So I have ordered an extra couple of high airflow fans to help cool things a bit.
The whole setup cost about $5000 ( I know, Australia) and has put a big dent in my savings (as I still am a uni student). Anywho, it seems to coping fine till now. In terms of speed, I havent really had the chance to test it fully as I still have to get some cat6 cable. I did transfer about 3TB data over WiFi (phew!) and scrub ran at about 750MB/s so that okay I think.
Just completed my first FreeNAS build.
Specs:
Intel® Xeon® Processor E3-1225 v3 (8M Cache, 3.20 GHz) (4-Core)
ASUS P9D-WS ATX Workstation MB (Socket 1150) (4 x DDR3 1600MHz) (Intel C226 Chipset) (6 x SATA 6GB/s) (2 x Intel NiCs)
Kingston 32GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC ( 4 x 8 GB)
Hitachi 4TB Deskstar 64M 7200rpm HDD x 11 (in RAID-Z3)
Fractal Design Newton R3 600W PSU 80+ Platinum Smart Modular
Fractal Design Define XLR2 Full Tower Black
Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SATA 6GB/s SSD ( L2ARC & ZIL)
LSI 9211-8i HBA SAS SATA 8-port PCI-E 6Gb/s RAID Controller Card (Got this cheap off ebay, seems to be working fine till now but I am still a bit suspicious if its genuine. HDDs seem to burst write every second instead of continuous operation)
Here is a pic of the final build. Its not the cleanest but it does the job. The stack on left is running a bit hot cause I think the front intake fans arent blowing in as much air. So I have ordered an extra couple of high airflow fans to help cool things a bit.
The whole setup cost about $5000 ( I know, Australia) and has put a big dent in my savings (as I still am a uni student). Anywho, it seems to coping fine till now. In terms of speed, I havent really had the chance to test it fully as I still have to get some cat6 cable. I did transfer about 3TB data over WiFi (phew!) and scrub ran at about 750MB/s so that okay I think.