Decided to replace my aging FreeNAS server.
Motherboard: Supermicro A2SDI-H-TF (8 core Atom, 25W TDP, dual 10GBase-T)
Hard Drives: 6x WD Red 4TB (RAIDZ2)
Chassis: U-NAS NSC-810 (8-bay hot-swap; Appliance look-alike.)
RAM: 2x Crucial CT16G4WFD824A (2 x 16GB DDR4 ECC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic SS-350M1U (80 Plus Gold, semi-passive)
Boot: SanDisk 32GB Ultra Fit
Total budget was around 2,000 USD.
I'm debating expanding to an 8 drive array, though it might require some trickery to shuffle my data around. Is RAIDZ2 considered reasonable for 8 drives? (I know it's not the ideal number for performance and data efficiency; I'm primarily concerned about safety.)
I have all the parts except for the RAM, which is supposed to come Saturday. I gutted my normal desktop temporarily and have the 6 drives spinning in it currently. Loaded FreeNAS 11.1 onto the thumb drive and got the pool configured. rsync'd 4TB of data over, which took about 3 days due to the fact the current server is seriously underpowered and at least one of the drives is failing. I spent quite a while futzing around trying to get it to go faster. The fastest I could get it to go was by running an rsync server on the old server. Even with flags to weaken the crypto, the overhead of ssh was taxing it. Once everything was copied over, did a scrub to try and stress the drives. All 6 drives are running great.
I was hoping I could just pull the drives and thumb drive out and put it into the new server, but I think that's going to fail due to a requirement that I use UEFI boot. Might try to export my settings and due a fresh install.
If I stick with 6 drives, I have an extra I could use as a hot spare. Might have an m2 drive I can use for l2arc as well.
Motherboard: Supermicro A2SDI-H-TF (8 core Atom, 25W TDP, dual 10GBase-T)
Hard Drives: 6x WD Red 4TB (RAIDZ2)
Chassis: U-NAS NSC-810 (8-bay hot-swap; Appliance look-alike.)
RAM: 2x Crucial CT16G4WFD824A (2 x 16GB DDR4 ECC)
Power Supply: SeaSonic SS-350M1U (80 Plus Gold, semi-passive)
Boot: SanDisk 32GB Ultra Fit
Total budget was around 2,000 USD.
I'm debating expanding to an 8 drive array, though it might require some trickery to shuffle my data around. Is RAIDZ2 considered reasonable for 8 drives? (I know it's not the ideal number for performance and data efficiency; I'm primarily concerned about safety.)
I have all the parts except for the RAM, which is supposed to come Saturday. I gutted my normal desktop temporarily and have the 6 drives spinning in it currently. Loaded FreeNAS 11.1 onto the thumb drive and got the pool configured. rsync'd 4TB of data over, which took about 3 days due to the fact the current server is seriously underpowered and at least one of the drives is failing. I spent quite a while futzing around trying to get it to go faster. The fastest I could get it to go was by running an rsync server on the old server. Even with flags to weaken the crypto, the overhead of ssh was taxing it. Once everything was copied over, did a scrub to try and stress the drives. All 6 drives are running great.
I was hoping I could just pull the drives and thumb drive out and put it into the new server, but I think that's going to fail due to a requirement that I use UEFI boot. Might try to export my settings and due a fresh install.
If I stick with 6 drives, I have an extra I could use as a hot spare. Might have an m2 drive I can use for l2arc as well.