Hey guys,
I'm on my way to build a TrueNAS with huge capacity and very cost effective. It's main job gonna be to provide iSCSI LUN (probably with multipath) to some hyper-v for versatile VM like storj, user data, computer backup from family and such others things.
I would like to show you which component I want to buy, and to know if there is a few things I should know, based on your experience that I don't have
Case : Inter-Tech 4U-4724
Motherboard : Supermicro X10SRL-F (refurbished but 600€ from aliexpress)
CPU : between Xeon E5-2640 v3 (90w/35€) and Xeon E5-2690 v3 (135w/80€) (refurbished from aliexpress)
RAM : samsung 8x32GB DDR4 REG ECC 2133 MHz (refurbished from aliexpress), these CPU doesn't support higher speed
SSD : 2 SSD for boot drive, I don't chose yet, but something simple like sata, connected to the motherboard sata port
HBA + HDD : LSI 9305-24i for 24 toshiba 16 TB drive MG/Enterprise, used into 3 different RAIDZ2
NIC : 10Gtek X520-DA1 (1x SFP+) or X520-DA2 (2x SFP+), I don't think keeping 1Gbps is a good idea for such storage size
GC : doesn't seem required as the motherboard has a graphic chipset
PSU : Inter-Tech ASPOWER R2A-MV0700 (redundant and capable of 30A on 5V and 58A on 12V)
I gonna see physically the server, something like once a month as I work far away. So it's important to me that in case of trouble the server can run several weeks. That's why RAIDZ2, redundant PSU and a motherboard with IPMI
I had a look on Storinator components (thanks LTT) but the less expensive CPU is Xeon Bronze 3204, which I find at 220$ but performance is quite of a joke (4843 on passmark vs 11326 for E5-2640 v3 with nearly same TDP). Like others components, I'm open to any other CPU/motherboard as long as it has IPMI and is Intel based. I plan to use as much common component as possible with my hyper-v to simplify maintenance
Regards,
Celizior
I'm on my way to build a TrueNAS with huge capacity and very cost effective. It's main job gonna be to provide iSCSI LUN (probably with multipath) to some hyper-v for versatile VM like storj, user data, computer backup from family and such others things.
I would like to show you which component I want to buy, and to know if there is a few things I should know, based on your experience that I don't have
Case : Inter-Tech 4U-4724
Motherboard : Supermicro X10SRL-F (refurbished but 600€ from aliexpress)
CPU : between Xeon E5-2640 v3 (90w/35€) and Xeon E5-2690 v3 (135w/80€) (refurbished from aliexpress)
RAM : samsung 8x32GB DDR4 REG ECC 2133 MHz (refurbished from aliexpress), these CPU doesn't support higher speed
SSD : 2 SSD for boot drive, I don't chose yet, but something simple like sata, connected to the motherboard sata port
HBA + HDD : LSI 9305-24i for 24 toshiba 16 TB drive MG/Enterprise, used into 3 different RAIDZ2
NIC : 10Gtek X520-DA1 (1x SFP+) or X520-DA2 (2x SFP+), I don't think keeping 1Gbps is a good idea for such storage size
GC : doesn't seem required as the motherboard has a graphic chipset
PSU : Inter-Tech ASPOWER R2A-MV0700 (redundant and capable of 30A on 5V and 58A on 12V)
I gonna see physically the server, something like once a month as I work far away. So it's important to me that in case of trouble the server can run several weeks. That's why RAIDZ2, redundant PSU and a motherboard with IPMI
I had a look on Storinator components (thanks LTT) but the less expensive CPU is Xeon Bronze 3204, which I find at 220$ but performance is quite of a joke (4843 on passmark vs 11326 for E5-2640 v3 with nearly same TDP). Like others components, I'm open to any other CPU/motherboard as long as it has IPMI and is Intel based. I plan to use as much common component as possible with my hyper-v to simplify maintenance
Regards,
Celizior