Schwarznavy
Cadet
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2016
- Messages
- 7
Hi,
I've been stalking the forums for almost two years. I actually bought a good amount of hardware a year ago but still haven't gotten around to building the box.
Here is what I have:
Motherboard
Supermicro MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX
CPU
Intel Core i3-6300 Skylake Dual-Core 3.8 GHz
RAM
2 x Samsung M391A1G43DB0-CPB 8GB DDR4-2133 ECC Un-Buffer
Case
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Black Window High-Airflow ATX Midtower
Hard Drives
2 x SanDisk SSD PLUS 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDA-120G-G26
2 x WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EFRX
2 x WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD30EFRX
2 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-032G-B35
Power
1 x SeaSonic SSR-450RM 450W ATX12V
1 x APC Back-UPS Pro 700VA UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector (BR700G)
I still haven't fully digested the vdev, pool, raid terminology of ZFS.
1. I'm thinking of using the 1TB pair of Hard Disks for ripped videos to serve up via Plex. Don't have a huge collection. Some kind of mirroring with the Hard Disks?
2. I'm thinking of using the 3TB pair of Hard Disks for storing and serving up family VMs, possibly to a separate ESXi tower I have. Would basically hold a few browsing VMs for each person in the family. Nothing incredibly high usage. Homework for kids kind of thing. Some kind of mirroring for this two? And possibly purchase a 3rd exact kind Hard Drive for a hot spare?
3. The ESXi tower has dual NICs and can therefore be directly connected to the FreeNAS box. Is it rather straightforward to connect 1 NIC on a FreeNAS server to my switch and the other directly to a separate ESXi tower?
4. FreeNAS itself would be installed on the pair of SanDisk Cruzer Fits. Sound good?
5. I think I originally bought the SanDisk SSD MLC drives for logging or caching, but I don't believe my use cases above warrant them. Would they be better suited for jail instances of Plex and other services I might run?
Really appreciate your thoughts as I start to get off my butt and actually implement this.
I've been stalking the forums for almost two years. I actually bought a good amount of hardware a year ago but still haven't gotten around to building the box.
Here is what I have:
Motherboard
Supermicro MBD-X11SSM-F-O Micro ATX
CPU
Intel Core i3-6300 Skylake Dual-Core 3.8 GHz
RAM
2 x Samsung M391A1G43DB0-CPB 8GB DDR4-2133 ECC Un-Buffer
Case
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 Black Window High-Airflow ATX Midtower
Hard Drives
2 x SanDisk SSD PLUS 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SDSSDA-120G-G26
2 x WD Red 1TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD10EFRX
2 x WD Red 3TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD30EFRX
2 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit CZ33 32GB USB 2.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive- SDCZ33-032G-B35
Power
1 x SeaSonic SSR-450RM 450W ATX12V
1 x APC Back-UPS Pro 700VA UPS Battery Backup & Surge Protector (BR700G)
I still haven't fully digested the vdev, pool, raid terminology of ZFS.
1. I'm thinking of using the 1TB pair of Hard Disks for ripped videos to serve up via Plex. Don't have a huge collection. Some kind of mirroring with the Hard Disks?
2. I'm thinking of using the 3TB pair of Hard Disks for storing and serving up family VMs, possibly to a separate ESXi tower I have. Would basically hold a few browsing VMs for each person in the family. Nothing incredibly high usage. Homework for kids kind of thing. Some kind of mirroring for this two? And possibly purchase a 3rd exact kind Hard Drive for a hot spare?
3. The ESXi tower has dual NICs and can therefore be directly connected to the FreeNAS box. Is it rather straightforward to connect 1 NIC on a FreeNAS server to my switch and the other directly to a separate ESXi tower?
4. FreeNAS itself would be installed on the pair of SanDisk Cruzer Fits. Sound good?
5. I think I originally bought the SanDisk SSD MLC drives for logging or caching, but I don't believe my use cases above warrant them. Would they be better suited for jail instances of Plex and other services I might run?
Really appreciate your thoughts as I start to get off my butt and actually implement this.