Pvdbogaard
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- Dec 9, 2012
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Planning to build a NAS based on FreeNAS. Thinking of 6 2TB disks: 2 vdevs of each 2+1 (RAIDZ1). This would give me some IOPS capacity, storage capacity and redundancy.
Usage will be:
backup for Mac laptops and Hackintosh (I7 based)
storage for music, photo's and videos.
iSCSI volumes for Solaris 11 zones with Oracle database(s)
music and video will be streaming (of course); however the iSCSI is for database usage OLTPish (random read/writes of 8K blocks) Rest is file IO based.
No windows systems will be connected, only Macs and iPADs
Connection through 1Gig ethernet, two interfaces.
Probably eSATA connectivity too.
Motherboard will be equiped with 16GByte internal memory.
The two interface need to be able to give 250M/sec in the ideal situation.
Question(s):
I am thinking of 1155 Ivy Bridge CPU: either I3 322x or I5 3570. Would this be overkill? There is a small chance I will add 10Gbit networking interface (p2p to Hackintosh)
I prefer to run as noiseless as possible. System will be running 7x24. Would like lowest possible noise and power consumption while system needs to be able to handle above described load.
For IOPS I always preferred 7200RPM disks (10K and up are too expensive). Using a few Seagate 7200.12, and very happy with them.
Is this still the way to go when disks are in a NAS, or should I focus on price, powerconsumption, noise production etc since perhaps disks will not be my bottleneck given the above description?
Any recommendation on CPU, motherboard, disks, powersupply, case etc are very welcome!
BTW some day in the future I might buy a jail broken Apple TV3. Could be I need/would like some NAS CPU power for transcoding/etc of movies to play HDMI movies.
Usage will be:
backup for Mac laptops and Hackintosh (I7 based)
storage for music, photo's and videos.
iSCSI volumes for Solaris 11 zones with Oracle database(s)
music and video will be streaming (of course); however the iSCSI is for database usage OLTPish (random read/writes of 8K blocks) Rest is file IO based.
No windows systems will be connected, only Macs and iPADs
Connection through 1Gig ethernet, two interfaces.
Probably eSATA connectivity too.
Motherboard will be equiped with 16GByte internal memory.
The two interface need to be able to give 250M/sec in the ideal situation.
Question(s):
I am thinking of 1155 Ivy Bridge CPU: either I3 322x or I5 3570. Would this be overkill? There is a small chance I will add 10Gbit networking interface (p2p to Hackintosh)
I prefer to run as noiseless as possible. System will be running 7x24. Would like lowest possible noise and power consumption while system needs to be able to handle above described load.
For IOPS I always preferred 7200RPM disks (10K and up are too expensive). Using a few Seagate 7200.12, and very happy with them.
Is this still the way to go when disks are in a NAS, or should I focus on price, powerconsumption, noise production etc since perhaps disks will not be my bottleneck given the above description?
Any recommendation on CPU, motherboard, disks, powersupply, case etc are very welcome!
BTW some day in the future I might buy a jail broken Apple TV3. Could be I need/would like some NAS CPU power for transcoding/etc of movies to play HDMI movies.