I'm about to build a home FreeNAS server and I'd appreciate any suggestions on my plans. The server will need to store about 3 TB of data at first, and will probably grow slowly. I'm planning to run the Plex plugin, a few other lighter plugins, and one potentially interesting challenge is to run a MythTV backend (in an Ubuntu Server VM using the phpVirtualbox plugin). I "borrowed" my non-ECC workstation (Core i7, 16GB) for the weekend to confirm that MythTV does in fact work (very well!) as a backend in a VM configured like this.
Here are my hardware plans:
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 - plenty of ventilation and space for drives
Supermicro X11SSL-O - Cheapest X11.. I know it doesn't have IPMI and I'm ok with that.
Xeon E3-1220 v5 - This is admittedly overpowered for a fileserver, but I expect the plex transcoding and mythtv operations will be fairly processor intensive and I want to be safe here
Seasonic S12G-550 power supply
1 x 16 GB Samsung D416GE21S - on the compatibility list and only $93. Yes, ECC. I feel like 16 GB is enough, but not sure. I think the VM will get 6-8 GB. Can always buy another 16 later if needed.
Cyberpower CP1000AVRLCD - does anyone know if this one works easily with upsd? I suspect it will.
3 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB for boot devices (three-way ZFS mirror). This one I'm not sure about. I see a lot of people using small SSDs as boot devices recently, but to me it seems better to have redundancy than speed in the boot device. Am I missing something here?
And for hard drives, I'm planning kind of a weird strategy. I have two Samsung 2TB drives that are a few years old but check out fine in smart. I think I want to buy 3 x 3TB WD Blue drives, and make a 5-disk RAIDZ2 out of them. I know that the 3TB drives will only be used as 2TB, giving me a total usable space of about 4.8 TB up front. If I decide to upgrade those 2TB drives to 3TB (or if they fail) then I will have 7.2 TB usable. It would only save me $60 to buy 3 x 2TB instead, and to me it's worth the money for the future potential storage.
This build will cost about $1070.
Does anyone have thoughts on this build? Has anyone been running a MythTV backend in a VM for longer than a weekend? Is Skylake ready for primetime, assuming I'll install 9.10? Thanks for any help.
p.s. the box in my signature is a server I built for file storage at my workplace. I love it to pieces.
Here are my hardware plans:
Fractal Design Arc Midi R2 - plenty of ventilation and space for drives
Supermicro X11SSL-O - Cheapest X11.. I know it doesn't have IPMI and I'm ok with that.
Xeon E3-1220 v5 - This is admittedly overpowered for a fileserver, but I expect the plex transcoding and mythtv operations will be fairly processor intensive and I want to be safe here
Seasonic S12G-550 power supply
1 x 16 GB Samsung D416GE21S - on the compatibility list and only $93. Yes, ECC. I feel like 16 GB is enough, but not sure. I think the VM will get 6-8 GB. Can always buy another 16 later if needed.
Cyberpower CP1000AVRLCD - does anyone know if this one works easily with upsd? I suspect it will.
3 x SanDisk Cruzer Fit 16GB for boot devices (three-way ZFS mirror). This one I'm not sure about. I see a lot of people using small SSDs as boot devices recently, but to me it seems better to have redundancy than speed in the boot device. Am I missing something here?
And for hard drives, I'm planning kind of a weird strategy. I have two Samsung 2TB drives that are a few years old but check out fine in smart. I think I want to buy 3 x 3TB WD Blue drives, and make a 5-disk RAIDZ2 out of them. I know that the 3TB drives will only be used as 2TB, giving me a total usable space of about 4.8 TB up front. If I decide to upgrade those 2TB drives to 3TB (or if they fail) then I will have 7.2 TB usable. It would only save me $60 to buy 3 x 2TB instead, and to me it's worth the money for the future potential storage.
This build will cost about $1070.
Does anyone have thoughts on this build? Has anyone been running a MythTV backend in a VM for longer than a weekend? Is Skylake ready for primetime, assuming I'll install 9.10? Thanks for any help.
p.s. the box in my signature is a server I built for file storage at my workplace. I love it to pieces.