Astraea
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- Sep 7, 2019
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I decided with the news of FreeNAS becoming TrueNAS that I would finally find some hardware to start testing and learning the new TrueNAS 12. Here are the specs of what I have put together. This is just an experiment/lab machine so nothing critical will be saved on it, in fact, I am going to use it as storage for my transmission server.
Case: Carbide Series™ SPEC-01 Blue LED Mid-Tower Gaming Case
PSU: Generic PSU that came with a previous Memory Express case.
Motherboard: Asus P8H61-M LX PLUS R2.0
CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 2x 8 GB Kingston DDR 3 (Non-ECC)
OS SSDs: 2x Samsung 860 EVO 250 GB
Storage HDDs: 4 x Western Digital RED 2 TB
Misc:
Right now I have the 2 SSDs in a ZFS mirror and the RED drives in a ZFS Raid-Z2, and I have set it up so the two Intel NICs are in a LAGG and I have disabled the onboard NIC in the BIOS.
Eventually, I plan to replace my existing QNAP (TS-853A & 2 x TS-451) NAS devices with Free/TrueNAS boxes but for now, this will let me learn the software so that I can better decide on new hardware when the time comes. Longer-term I plan to replace my existing production servers (3 x HP Dl380 G5 & 1 x Dell 2950 ) as well with similar hardware (minus the multiple HDDs) and eventually upgrade my network by making the jump to a fully 10GB network infrastructure.
Case: Carbide Series™ SPEC-01 Blue LED Mid-Tower Gaming Case
PSU: Generic PSU that came with a previous Memory Express case.
Motherboard: Asus P8H61-M LX PLUS R2.0
CPU: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30GHz
Memory: 2x 8 GB Kingston DDR 3 (Non-ECC)
OS SSDs: 2x Samsung 860 EVO 250 GB
Storage HDDs: 4 x Western Digital RED 2 TB
Misc:
StarTech PEXSAT32 (2 Port SATA 6 Gbps PCI Express SATA Controller Card)
Network: 1 x Realtek onboard NIC
2 x Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter (PCI-E)
Right now I have the 2 SSDs in a ZFS mirror and the RED drives in a ZFS Raid-Z2, and I have set it up so the two Intel NICs are in a LAGG and I have disabled the onboard NIC in the BIOS.
Eventually, I plan to replace my existing QNAP (TS-853A & 2 x TS-451) NAS devices with Free/TrueNAS boxes but for now, this will let me learn the software so that I can better decide on new hardware when the time comes. Longer-term I plan to replace my existing production servers (3 x HP Dl380 G5 & 1 x Dell 2950 ) as well with similar hardware (minus the multiple HDDs) and eventually upgrade my network by making the jump to a fully 10GB network infrastructure.
