Hi everyone,
Been a lurker for awhile but decided to register and to get a little insight. I live in Texas near the Houston area and have been building a home lab to not only learn on but to store all my media and other files as well.
Here is the quick questions I have....
I have two Supermicro 4U SC846 chassis that have been sitting idle for awhile. One of them used to be an unRAID server and the other was a Windows server, but haven't been used for some time and both have been decommissioned. I was considering turning one of them into a FreeNAS server to test out for pure data storage.
For the most part, I know its best to use server grade hardware. I have a couple Dell R710's that I am running as a two-node Hyper-V cluster with Starwind VSAN so all I will be using FreeNAS for is just purely a fileserver.
Here is some of the hardware that may make a contender for this Freenas build:
Supermicro Computer X8SIL-F LGA 1156 Socket motherboard
Intel Xeon X3440 Quad Core CPU
16GB of DDR3 RDIMM ECC RAM
The server chassis has the BPN-SAS-EL2 backplane which of course will only support up to 2TB drives. I also have an LSI-9211-8i HBA to use as well, since only one cable connection is needed to the backplane.
I know the above is older hardware, and I have no problem upping the RAM to 32GB for more ZFS efficiency. However, if newer hardware is suggested then I can look into that too, and re-purpose the above hardware for something else. Though I do have an idea on how the pools work I am going to read more info on it on how its set up. I know that adding drives is not as easy as it would be for unRAID, but this would be a system I plan to use for long term storage.
Look to be a part of the community!
Been a lurker for awhile but decided to register and to get a little insight. I live in Texas near the Houston area and have been building a home lab to not only learn on but to store all my media and other files as well.
Here is the quick questions I have....
I have two Supermicro 4U SC846 chassis that have been sitting idle for awhile. One of them used to be an unRAID server and the other was a Windows server, but haven't been used for some time and both have been decommissioned. I was considering turning one of them into a FreeNAS server to test out for pure data storage.
For the most part, I know its best to use server grade hardware. I have a couple Dell R710's that I am running as a two-node Hyper-V cluster with Starwind VSAN so all I will be using FreeNAS for is just purely a fileserver.
Here is some of the hardware that may make a contender for this Freenas build:
Supermicro Computer X8SIL-F LGA 1156 Socket motherboard
Intel Xeon X3440 Quad Core CPU
16GB of DDR3 RDIMM ECC RAM
The server chassis has the BPN-SAS-EL2 backplane which of course will only support up to 2TB drives. I also have an LSI-9211-8i HBA to use as well, since only one cable connection is needed to the backplane.
I know the above is older hardware, and I have no problem upping the RAM to 32GB for more ZFS efficiency. However, if newer hardware is suggested then I can look into that too, and re-purpose the above hardware for something else. Though I do have an idea on how the pools work I am going to read more info on it on how its set up. I know that adding drives is not as easy as it would be for unRAID, but this would be a system I plan to use for long term storage.
Look to be a part of the community!