cship
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- Jan 20, 2018
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Hey everyone, finally made an account today but these forums have been a great resource while I was researching this build. I'm getting ready to pull the trigger on my first "real" NAS and wanted to make sure that there aren't any issues with my component selection in terms of compatibility or performance.
The machine this build is replacing is currently acting as a single-disk 4TB media server that hosts Plex, Sonarr, Couchpotato, SABnzbd, and qbittorrent as well as general network file storage. Unfortunately I've filled it up and it's 7 years old now, so I've decided to start fresh. I'd also like enough overhead to run some Dockerized containers for lightweight home automation/intranet webdev type usage.
Onto the specs:
Storage Disks: 4x Seagate IronWolf 8TB, 4x WD Red 8TB - I think I want to set this up as a RAIDZ2 array
Boot Disks: 2x SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB mirrored
Mobo: Supermicro MBD-X10SRI-F
CPU: Xeon E5-2630v4 (10 core HT, 2.2GHz) w/ Noctua i4 cooler
Memory: 1x 32GB Samsung DDR4-2133 - I plan to pick up another one of these in a few months, since RAM prices might finally be trending down this year
Case: Rosewill RSV-L4412 - I know this isn't the best option in terms of quality, but it needs to live in my office for a year until I move somewhere I can build a server closet, so I like the option of using quiet fans. I plan to replace the front fans with Noctua NF-P12s and rears with NF-A8s to keep things cool and quiet.
I already have a PSU and SSD laying around I can toss in here too.
Couple other miscellaneous questions/thoughts... I'm not sure I understand the benefit of splitting up a RAIDZ2 array into multiple vdevs. It seems like a single vdev with all 8 disks would give me about 48TB out of 64TB useable storage but if I split that in two 4 disk vdevs I only net 40TB. In the latter scenario, does each vdev have double parity?
Also wondering about backup strategies... Is anyone using cloud providers like Backblaze? Do I need to invest in some crazy tape drive setup?
In general... am I crazy, or does this look like a solid setup?
The machine this build is replacing is currently acting as a single-disk 4TB media server that hosts Plex, Sonarr, Couchpotato, SABnzbd, and qbittorrent as well as general network file storage. Unfortunately I've filled it up and it's 7 years old now, so I've decided to start fresh. I'd also like enough overhead to run some Dockerized containers for lightweight home automation/intranet webdev type usage.
Onto the specs:
Storage Disks: 4x Seagate IronWolf 8TB, 4x WD Red 8TB - I think I want to set this up as a RAIDZ2 array
Boot Disks: 2x SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB mirrored
Mobo: Supermicro MBD-X10SRI-F
CPU: Xeon E5-2630v4 (10 core HT, 2.2GHz) w/ Noctua i4 cooler
Memory: 1x 32GB Samsung DDR4-2133 - I plan to pick up another one of these in a few months, since RAM prices might finally be trending down this year
Case: Rosewill RSV-L4412 - I know this isn't the best option in terms of quality, but it needs to live in my office for a year until I move somewhere I can build a server closet, so I like the option of using quiet fans. I plan to replace the front fans with Noctua NF-P12s and rears with NF-A8s to keep things cool and quiet.
I already have a PSU and SSD laying around I can toss in here too.
Couple other miscellaneous questions/thoughts... I'm not sure I understand the benefit of splitting up a RAIDZ2 array into multiple vdevs. It seems like a single vdev with all 8 disks would give me about 48TB out of 64TB useable storage but if I split that in two 4 disk vdevs I only net 40TB. In the latter scenario, does each vdev have double parity?
Also wondering about backup strategies... Is anyone using cloud providers like Backblaze? Do I need to invest in some crazy tape drive setup?
In general... am I crazy, or does this look like a solid setup?