trionic
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Back in 2014 I built this FreeNAS box:
www.truenas.com
And then I added another 4U chassis and more RAM:
www.truenas.com
It's been a great system and I remain grateful for the advice from the community here. The problem is that the thing's too damn loud and takes up too much space. I also have a 4U server chassis. So in my office I have 12U of chassis and I want to replace the lot with a single box that has at least ten 3.5-inch hotswap bays on a backplane and two 5.25 bays, ample processor power and memory for TrueNAS, VMs and whatever else I need to put on it. Oh and it needs to be quiet.
I have struggled to find a suitable empty tower chassis in which to build a new system. The closest is a Supermicro 743TQ-1200B-SQ but they're expensive and old and unavailable here in the UK. Desktop tower cases are not usually suitable because they do not have externally accessible hotswap bays on a backplane.
I was close to buying a 16-bay QNAP TVS h1288x (even though there are no external 5.25 bays) but their security is horrible and over the years I have come to really like and respect FreeNAS.
So I came across the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10, which look well made and have all the features I want, even though they're a bit larger than I wanted. Compatibility is the main concern.
I did search for an answer but couldn't find anything specifically relating to the ML350 Gen10.
- Is the ML350 Gen10 backplace compatible with FreeBSD? Can it be switched to a passive mode?
- Is there other proprietary hardware in these things which would make them incompatible?
- Is this a stupid idea and if so what other suggestions do you have? NAS chassis, tower chassis or pre-build servers.
Thank you for your help.
BUILD - Advice and comment welcome on my proposed FreeNAS build
Build’s Name: TBD Operating System/Storage Platform: FreeNAS CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 BX80646E31230V3 3.30GHz Motherboard: Supermicro X10SLL-F Socket 1150 Chassis: X-Case RM 424 Pro with SAS Expander & SGPIO Backplane Drives: 12x Western Digital 3TB WD30EFRX Red (already have these) + 12x...
www.truenas.com
And then I added another 4U chassis and more RAM:
RAM requirements and compatibility for 72TB JBOD extension to 96TB Supermicro X9SRH-7F based server
Feel free to skip the waffle and go straight to this post's key question! For those with time or interest, here's the waffle: A couple of years ago I built the following ZFS server: Build’s Name: None! Operating System/Storage Platform: FreeNAS-9.2.1.7-RELEASE-x64 (fdbe9a0) CPU: Intel Xeon...
www.truenas.com
It's been a great system and I remain grateful for the advice from the community here. The problem is that the thing's too damn loud and takes up too much space. I also have a 4U server chassis. So in my office I have 12U of chassis and I want to replace the lot with a single box that has at least ten 3.5-inch hotswap bays on a backplane and two 5.25 bays, ample processor power and memory for TrueNAS, VMs and whatever else I need to put on it. Oh and it needs to be quiet.
I have struggled to find a suitable empty tower chassis in which to build a new system. The closest is a Supermicro 743TQ-1200B-SQ but they're expensive and old and unavailable here in the UK. Desktop tower cases are not usually suitable because they do not have externally accessible hotswap bays on a backplane.
I was close to buying a 16-bay QNAP TVS h1288x (even though there are no external 5.25 bays) but their security is horrible and over the years I have come to really like and respect FreeNAS.
So I came across the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10, which look well made and have all the features I want, even though they're a bit larger than I wanted. Compatibility is the main concern.
I did search for an answer but couldn't find anything specifically relating to the ML350 Gen10.
- Is the ML350 Gen10 backplace compatible with FreeBSD? Can it be switched to a passive mode?
- Is there other proprietary hardware in these things which would make them incompatible?
- Is this a stupid idea and if so what other suggestions do you have? NAS chassis, tower chassis or pre-build servers.
Thank you for your help.
All is working perfectly so far.
