Hardware Compatability List / Tell us what you have

[Mohave_steve]

• FreeNAS 8.0.1-BETA3 (AMD64) booting from 2GB USB Verbatim memory stick
• HP N36L Proliant Microserver, AMD Neo CPU, 4GB non-ECC RAM, 200W PSU
• LSI 9211-8i SATAIII/SAS 8-port HBA (IT Firmware, PCIe 8x in PCIe 16x slot)
• Intel GigE CT NIC (PCIe 1x)
• 4x 2TB Samsung 3.5" HD204UI, RAIDz1 (vdev #1)
• 4x 500GB Samsung 2.5" HM500JI, RAIDz1 (vdev #2)
• IcyDock MB994SP-4S 4-in-1 2.5" backplane

All is working fine, apart from disk spin-down as I don't think this is supported by the FreeBSD mps0 driver.

Millhouse,

Do the Samsung drives fit the internal bays in the HP? I thought that box required SFF drives??

Thanks

Steve

 

[Milhouse]

Millhouse,

Do the Samsung drives fit the internal bays in the HP? I thought that box required SFF drives??

Thanks

Steve

The 3.5" (LFF) Samsung drives fit the internal bays as the N36L by default takes LFF drives. However I've also installed 4x2.5" (SFF) drives in the 5.25" optical drive slot using an IcyDock drive cage.

 

[hoongern]

Hi guys, my first post here!

I just finished my FreeNAS build today, going to be testing and perhaps trying out other NAS options as well, but since everything seems to be working well, I thought I'd list my hardware here:

FreeNAS-8.0.1-RC1-amd64 on an old 4GB USB2.0 flash drive

Intel Pentium G620 (Socket 1155, 3M Cache, 2.60 GHz)
Intel DH67BL mATX Motherboard
2x4GB Kingston DDR3-1333MHz RAM (Total 8GB)
3xWestern Digital 2TB WD20EARX in RAID-Z1, formatted for 4k

Installed with no issues - all hardware working well.
- iperf reports 112MB/s (~900Mbps) through my HP Procurve 1410-8G switch (to another computer with Realtek Gigabit NIC)
- CIFS/SMB 10GB file copy @ 112MB/s (25% CPU utilization)
- Haven't tested AFP properly yet, but copying from my Mac Mini's (limited speed) FW800 drive ~80MB/s. I'm sure it'll have no issues hitting full gigabit speeds
- using dd to test internal speeds, writing ~200MB/s, reading ~220MB/s
- smartctl reports high head unload/load counts (at 130 ~2hrs after building it!), so I'll have to run wdidle to fix it

The G620 seems more than powerful enough to handle whatever I've thrown at it so far. (Originally I was going to go with an E350 system but they're not available where I stay)

 

[cpotter638]

Working without problems:

OS: FreeNAS 8.0.2
Case: Norco RPC-4220
PSU: Seasonic M12II
MOBO: Supermicro X9SCM-F
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220
RAM: Crucial 8Gb ECC DDR3
USB: Patriot Xporter 4Gb
HD: 6x Seagate 2.0Tb Barracuda Green

 

[dvicci]

OS: FreeNAS-8.3.0-RELEASE-x64 (r12701M)
Medium: Kingston DataTraveler G3 4GB USB drive
CASE: Fractal Design Define Mini
PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 500
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-880GMA-USB3
CPU: AMD Athlon II X2 250 Dual Core
RAM: Kingston HyperX Blue 4GB DDR3-1333 X 4 (16GB Total)
HDD: Seagate ST500DM002 X 6 (2TB in RAIDZ2)
NIC: Intel EXPI9301CTBLK (on advice to forego the onboard REALTEK Eth chipset)

BACKUPS: I have a 2TB 3.5" drive connected to a rear I/O USB 3.0 port for backups via rsync, which has also been working without issue since 2/16/2013.

INTERFACE: I share a 14" VGA LCD monitor and USB keyboard with a FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE server via a Trendnet 4-Port USB KVM Switch. As long as I wait until the KVM is fully recognized (easily witnessed on the console) before I start typing, there have not been any issues with this, either.

 

[Nipomo]

New build for home LAN:
FreeNAS-8.0.2-RELEASE-amd64.iso
JetWay JNF99FL-525-LF Atom D525 (1.8GHz, Dual-Core) Mini ITX
Crucial 2GB 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Model CT25664BC1067
FSP Group AURUM GOLD 400W (AU-400) ATX12V /EPS 12V 80PLUS GOLD Certified
LIAN LI PC-Q08B Mini-ITX Tower Case
Patriot Xporter XT Boost 8GB Flash Drive Model PEF8GUSB
4 - Western Digital Caviar Green WD20EARX 2TB SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal HDD
i-rocks KR-6260-BK Black USB or PS/2 Wired Standard 24 Keys Anti Ghosting Keyboard

USB flash drive was bigger than I needed but it's getting hard to find reliable USB flash drives in smaller sizes.
Could not get 8.0.3 to boot. Rolled back to 8.0.2 and system works great.
The LIAN LI case ain't pretty, but it'll hold 7 drives plus an optical.
Mobo has ports for 6 SATA II drives.
The manufacturer's data for the mobo says it'll only do 4 gig of memory but reviews indicate 64bit OS will access more. I've ordered 8 gig and will update once installed.
ZFS, RaidZ2, CIFS share on a windows LAN. I haven't done any speed tests, I've seen upwards of 300Mbits so far.

Update: increased to 8GB ram (2 4GB DDR3). Jetway says the board will only see 4GB but 64bit FreeNAS is using all 8GB.
2/17/12: NAS crashed today, appears the USB flash drive became corrupted. Had to reload the flash drive. Tip - save a copy of your configuration, it saved my install.

 

[FireWire2]

Scale-able and low power

Here is what I have:
Here is what I built.
Parts:
1x SuperMicro ITX Mobo X7SPA-O
1x Chasis http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail....delno=RPC-4220
4x SPM394 http://www.datoptic.com/esata-hardwa...er-spm394.html
1x 1GB USB
20x WD Green 2.0TB
1x 430W PSU

Here are picture of my system.
http://www.mpcclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22898&page=4

This can scale up to seventy (70) HDDs if I want to, because each SATA port has five drives RAID 5
miniTX has 6x SATAII port, this can handle 30drives
Additional PCIe you can have another eight SATA ports or additional 40x drives

Due to these SPM394 - (You can use SPM393 also) as a hardware raid, there is NO resource tax on main board CPU, my ATOM CPU is hovering at 30~50% no matter what I do
I'm able to stream several BD.ISO at the same time

 

[PrincePaul]

Intel Celeron G540
ASRock H77 Pro4-M
16 GB DDR3 1333 RAM
8 GB USB Stick for OS

Raid z1:
2x 2 TB WD Green WD20EARX
3x 2 TB WD Red WD20EFRX

Selfbuild Case for 6 HDD´s
(Pictures in my Blog)

FreeNAS 8.3.1 Release p2

 

[leenux_tux]

Case - Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Home Server/NAS Chassis 120W
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Dual Core D525 Atom Mini-ITX
RAM - 2 X 4GB DDR3 1333 PC3 10600, "Crucial".
Hard Drives - 4 X 2TB RAIDZ1 (3 X SAMSUNG HD204UI + 1 X WD AV-GP)
FreeNAS installed to 4GB SanDisk Cruzer Edge 1.20

Use for....

• Backing up 4 Windows based laptops via rsync (cygwin) and two Linux systems (again, rsync)
• Storage of movie and music data
• Storage of software and iso images
• iSCSI storage for VMWare ESXi server.
• Clonezilla image storage

 

[crat20804]

Hi leenux_tux,
I have read your post. One question, could you, please send me the reference of your RAM and the amount of memory seen by the system?
Many thanks

My conf :

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-D525TUD Dual Core D525 Atom Mini-ITX
Case - Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Home Server/NAS Chassis 120W
RAM - 2 X Kingston ValueRAM DDR3 2 Go PC10600
Hard Drives - 3 X 1,5TB WDC WD15EARS + 1 WDC WD20EFRX RAIDZ1
FreeNAS installed to 40GB USB disk 2,5"

 

[Whatts]

My first build a few weeks ago, mainly to test FreeNAS and see if it was for me:


FreeNAS - FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64.img.xz
Motherboard - Gigabyte ga-F2A85XM-D3H rev 1.0
NIC - 2x Intel Desktop CT Gigabit (82574L) & onboard Realtek NIC
CPU - AMD A8-5600K
RAM - 4x4GB Crucial Ballistix Tactical 1666MHz CL9
case - Fractal Design ARC Mini
PSU - Corsair CX430M
OS USB - Sandisk Cruzer Fit 16GB
HDD 1 - WD Caviar Green 2TB

This worked without problem with CIFS write speeds around 55 to 60MB/s (onboard NIC as well as the Intel NICs in LACP).
That board has 8xSATA III, so it can make a cheap solution for 8-disk setups.
Just 2 days ago I received the items for my new permanent setup and swapped out some parts:

FreeNAS - FreeNAS-9.1.0-RELEASE-x64.img.xz
Motherboard - SuperMicro X9SCM-F
CPU - Intel Xeon E3-1230v2
RAM - 2x8GB Kingston ECC ValueRAm KVR1333D3E9SK2/16G
case - Fractal Design ARC Mini
PSU - Corsair CX430M
OS USB - Sandisk Cruzer Fit 8GB
HDD 1 - WD Caviar Green 2TB
HDD 2 - WD Red 3TB

This is widely used stuff, so no issues. The disks are in 2 separate single-disk pools (ZFS stripe).
Write speeds speeds over CIFS to the WD Green are >90MB/s, to the WD Red 110MB/s (from the SSD in my laptop, the 2.5 inch HDD bottlenecks at 100MB/s).

 

[Yatti420]

GA-H77M-D3H rev 1.0 works great.. Rev 1.1 needs a driver update.. Different lan chip..

 

[ndboost]

Here is my current setup... Running latest FreeNAS. Plan to upgrade to a SuperMicro X9SCM-F and a Intel Xeon E3-1230V2 cpu in a few weeks. Once the board and CPU come in ill be able to bump memory up to 24gb since thats what i have layin around.

ASUS Mini ITX P8H77 LGA115 Motherboard - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131841
Intel Celeron 847 1.1Ghz CPU
8GB DDR3 1666 Corsair Memory
NORCO 2U 8 hot swap bay rackmount case RPC-2008 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BQY37HM/?tag=ozlp-20
Zippy/Emacs 2U twin hot swap 500w PSU - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DS0MDG/?tag=ozlp-20
4x1.5TB WD Black HDDs
IBM M1015 flashed to JBOD mode.

I have no issues and currently on these older WD drives i get 150-200 meg/sec using xdd tests.

 

[Whattteva]

The guy 3 posts above is my relative.... or he tried to jack my trademarked name!!!!

 

[Whatts]

The guy 3 posts above is my relative.... or he tried to jack my trademarked name!!!!

Shouldn't it be " Whattteva ™ " then? :)

 

[Arturo Sanchez]

This is my first NAS build and first post. Everything seems to be working fine with the following hardware installed:

FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (a752d35) on Kingston Data Traveler SE9 8GB
Fractal Design Node 304 w/Fractal Design Integra R2 500w PSU
NZXT IU01 Internal USB 2.0 Expansion Header
Gigabyte GA-H77N-WiFi Rev (1.0) Bios F2 w/Intel Celeron G1610 @ 2.60GHz
2x Curcial Balistic Sport 8GB
3x Seagate NAS HDD St4000VN000 4tb 64MB (RaidZ1)
1x Seagate NAS HDD St3000VN000 3tb 64MB

Intel NIC is on order for better CIFS transfer speeds, current speed is around 14 mb/s on various windows 7 & 8 machines on my network both wired and wireless. AFP speeds seem pretty quick but im not sure how to check just going by what I see when uploading and downloading movies to it. Im also going to install another Kingston Data Traveler 16GB for jails, not sure how it will work since im new to this OS and setup but i like it so far and am happy with it.:)

 

[ndboost]

hey Arturo that nzxt internal expansion header is slick. I just found out about them thanks to your post, just ordered one. Whats the purpose of two 8gb flash drives though?

 

[Arturo Sanchez]

Well I was going to use the other one for jails but I haven't received it yet hopefully it gets here next week so I can try it out.

 

[gpsguy]

@ndboost, some user's have an extra flash drive, for a backup (spare) boot device. other's might use an extra one for scripts, so they don't have to power up their hard disks to execute a script.

 

[Xiche]

FreeNAS-9.1.1-RELEASE-x64 (a752d35) on a SanDisk Extreme 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SLM-F-O uATX Server Motherboard LGA
Intel Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz LGA 1150 80W Quad-Core
2 x Kingston 8GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 ECC Unbuffered
4 x Western Digital Red NAS Hard Drive WD20EFRX 2TB IntelliPower 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive
Antec P182 Gun Metal Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case
Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU

The case and PSU were from a cannibalized desktop, and the drives were from my previous file server. The only issue I ran into was having to disable XHCI mode so that the USB flash drive could be used on the motherboard's internal USB 3.0 port. Without that change, FreeNAS would fail to mount its root partition on the majority of boots. For those who were still curious, I had no issues with either of the built-in NICs, one of which uses the igb driver:

em0@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x153a15d9 chip=0x153a8086 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

igb0@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x153315d9 chip=0x15338086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = network
subclass = ethernet