I'm Waco, glad to meet'cha

[Waco]

Finally decided to sign up so I could troll the forums a bit better (viewing attachments) and inserting my little nuggets of wisdom when I do find the place to contribute.

My server, for basic backups (with a cold backup monthly):

Xeon e1230v3
8 GB ECC (single stick)
Asrock C226 WS
Dual Marvell 88SE9215 4 port cards, onboard Intel, and onboard 2x Marvell SE9172
12 2 TB SATA II drives, four sets of 3-drive mirrors, kinda evenly spread across the 5 controllers (8 TB usable)

Writes: ~400 MB/s (pretty consistently over multiple workloads)
Reads: ~1.5 GB/s (obviously best-case streaming large blocks)

Connected via a teensy little gigabit pipe (onboard Intel Gigabit) until I finish wiring the house with 10GE. Servers 90+ MB/s reads and 110 MB/s writes on a single client, maxes out gigabit at more than one client.


It's stupid overkill but I buy cheap drives and don't trust them one bit. I used to run a ZIL/L2ARC but for my workloads (backup and media serving) it didn't make any sense.

I manage multi-petabyte storage systems as my day job so this is just a way to play at home and never worry about my data availability. :)

 

[Jailer]

Nice rig. 10gb home network would be fun to play around with.....as long as someone else was footing the bill. :D

 

[Waco]

It's a few grand but with copper 10GE it's a lot cheaper than it used to be.

 

[Waco]

Update to this -

I snagged a pair of Dell H200 cards on Ebay for $140. I plan on flashing to the IT firmware when they get here. No real reason other than it gives me a LOT more ports (16 extra) to play with at full bandwidth. :)