Greetings from Michigan

[curtis8523]

So I have been using FreeNAS for a while now and have finally got a set-up I am proud of. What do you think?

Home Network
Cisco SG-500X 48P setup as standalone
Supermicro A1SRi-2758F in a 1U case and a mellanox connect-x 2 10G
Direct attach copper cables running to all 10G NIC's

FreeNAS System
Mobo: Supermicro x9srl-f
CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2606 v2
RAM: 96 GB ECC DDR3
RAID Controller: LSI 9211-8
HDD's
Spinners: 14x 4 TB WD Red Pro drives
SSD: 240 GB Kingston SSD Now
FreeNAS os: 32 GB thumb drive
Network: Mellanox connect-x 2


Workstation
CPU: Intel Core i7 5820k
Mobo: AsRock Fatality x99 Killer
RAM: 64GB DDR4
EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 SSC
HDD's
Spinners: 2x 4TB WD Black
SSD RAID: 2x 240 GB kingston SSD Now in RAID0
Main SSD: Samsung Evo 850 M.2
Network: mellanox connect-x 2

attached is the performance I am getting with my systems.

 

[Jailer]

That's some serious hardware you have there. Whereabouts from Michigan are you from?

 

[curtis8523]

I am in the middle Michigan area between Flint, Lansing, and Brighton MI

 

[jgreco]

I am in the middle Michigan are between Flint, Lansing, and Brighton MI

You realize he's asking so he can case the joint, yeah?

Jailer
Location: Ithaca, Michigan

I actually didn't know where Brighton was and had to look, but I'm guessing you're maybe an hour and a half driving away from him.

 

[Jailer]

Yup, sounds about right. :D

Always curious when a local is on the board. Living in a rural area is like being on a virtual island for a techno nerd.

 

[curtis8523]

yeah it is. Charter comes to 2 houses down from me. and they said it would cost upwards of 12K to pull it down to me...

Luckily I have awesome neighbors and they let me start an account at their house in my name and put in a pair of Nanostation M5's, on there house and one at mine and can get the 60 meg connection.

Frontier only supplies max 3 meg down 768 up in my area. I got 2 lines installed and bonded them in my pfsense and could use all 6. but got bogged down in no time.

 

[Jailer]

Same situation here only there is nothing out my way and no chance of it ever happening. I'm on a wireless connection from a local ISP with 6Mbit down and 1.2Mbit up and that was after begging them for more bandwidth.

 

[curtis8523]

That was going to be my alternate was a WISP. They wanted $140/mo for 14 down 3 up....

at least work has 1gig pipe

 

[Jailer]

Mine is $60/month with a static IP. I just wish I had other options.......