Migrate a bunch of drives to a FreeNAS server

[Highlife1911]

Hi,
currently I have only a bunch of hard drives to organize my files. It is a mess to use and backup all of them so I decided to build a FreeNAS server. This server should consist of at least 10 drives used in a Raid z2. The following image illustrates the desired archtitecture:

The 6tb drives are from the WD Red series and the 3 tb drives are from the Seagate Barracuda series.

I thought about the hardware and got this:

• Supermicro X9SRL-F retail
• Intel Xeon E5-2609 v2, 4x 2.50GHz, Sockel 2011-0
• IBM ServeRaid M1015

I've got SK Hynix DIMM 8GB, DDR3L-1333, CL9, reg ECC from the tested RAM list, but i am unsure about the quantity to install. The possibilities are probably 32Gb, 48Gb or 64Gb. I preffer 48gb, but what do you think about it?

Also I'm precarious about the power supply. Which one should I take:

1. Seasonic X-Series X-850 850W ATX 2.3
2. Seasonic Platinum Series 1050W ATX 2.3

I currently plan to use encryption so I picked a CPU with AES-NI instruction set. I might want to install additional ssd's and a 10GBit network connection in the fututre if the performance is not sufficient.

Are there any bad points with this configuration?

 

[Fuganater]

I don't think you can strip 2 drives together and then add them to a RAIDZ2 volume.

 

[Bidule0hm]

Yep, you can't do that (well, in theory you can but it's very hacky and a bad idea).

I recommend you to make a 6x 6 TB RAID-Z2 and another 4x 3 TB RAID-Z2 based on what drives you have ;)

For the PSU look at the PSU sizing sticky: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/proper-power-supply-sizing-guidance.38811/ :)

 

[Fuganater]

I recommend you to make a 6x 6 TB RAID-Z2 and another 4x 3 TB raid-Z2 based on what drives you have ;)

+1

 

[Highlife1911]

Okay, then I will replace the 3tb drives with 6tb ones. This configuration has less drives so I guess I can safely take the 850W power supply.