belcboo
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Hello, this will be my first "big" FreeNAS build and I'm looking for advice just to make sure that the pieces that I have chosen are the best for my needs. This server will be used to back up all the information that we have sparced in all the building, as well as storage of ESXi using a NFS share.
SERVER:
I'm planning to buy a refurbished server including the following:
Chassis: CSE-847E16-R1K28LPB
Backplanes: BPN-SAS2-826EL1 and BPN-SAS2-846EL1
Motherboard: X9DRi-LN4F+
CPU: 2 x E5-2650 [8C@2.00Ghz]
RAM: 192GB [24x8GB]
NIC: 4 x Intel i350 and planning to add 2 x Chelsio T420-BT.
RAID Card: LSI 9211-8I
PSU: Dual 1400w Gold.
*I'll probably add an SSD as a boot drive, I don't know if that one needs to be in mirror mode, or if you recommend that only for USB thumbs. [I also learned that it is very important to do periodical backups of the config file so you can restore your setup in case of disaster]
**It also include the Rails.
DISKS:
I was planning to buy 20 WD Red 8TB drives (I like more the HGST drives, but there's a huge gap in the price), I was planning to use mirror setup, but after reading the "FreeNAS noobs guide" I think that RAIDZ3 offers me more fail drive tolerance, I'm trying to decide if I should go with 21 or 22 (I'm still in doubts about 3 vDevs of 7 drives or 2 vDevs or 11 drives, both in RaidZ3). I plan to buy a 36 bay super micro server, so if we need more space I can add another 11 or 14 drives to create another vDev and add it to the Zpool (again, 1 vDev of 11 to have a total of 33 drives, having 3 bays without use, or 2 vdev of 7 drives to have a total of 35 drives, all will depend on the initial vdev config that I choose). Personally, I think that the 7 drives per vDev is the best choice in my case, but I don't know if I'm missing something.
CONCERNS:
- I haven't seen many posts about the T420-BT, only other versions of this card, I'm not sure if its will work.
- Yesterday I had a lot of concerns, but after reading the "FreeNAS for noobs" guide most of them were solved lol.
So basically that's all, any comment or advice will be helpful.
Thank you!
SERVER:
I'm planning to buy a refurbished server including the following:
Chassis: CSE-847E16-R1K28LPB
Backplanes: BPN-SAS2-826EL1 and BPN-SAS2-846EL1
Motherboard: X9DRi-LN4F+
CPU: 2 x E5-2650 [8C@2.00Ghz]
RAM: 192GB [24x8GB]
NIC: 4 x Intel i350 and planning to add 2 x Chelsio T420-BT.
RAID Card: LSI 9211-8I
PSU: Dual 1400w Gold.
*I'll probably add an SSD as a boot drive, I don't know if that one needs to be in mirror mode, or if you recommend that only for USB thumbs. [I also learned that it is very important to do periodical backups of the config file so you can restore your setup in case of disaster]
**It also include the Rails.
DISKS:
I was planning to buy 20 WD Red 8TB drives (I like more the HGST drives, but there's a huge gap in the price), I was planning to use mirror setup, but after reading the "FreeNAS noobs guide" I think that RAIDZ3 offers me more fail drive tolerance, I'm trying to decide if I should go with 21 or 22 (I'm still in doubts about 3 vDevs of 7 drives or 2 vDevs or 11 drives, both in RaidZ3). I plan to buy a 36 bay super micro server, so if we need more space I can add another 11 or 14 drives to create another vDev and add it to the Zpool (again, 1 vDev of 11 to have a total of 33 drives, having 3 bays without use, or 2 vdev of 7 drives to have a total of 35 drives, all will depend on the initial vdev config that I choose). Personally, I think that the 7 drives per vDev is the best choice in my case, but I don't know if I'm missing something.
CONCERNS:
- I haven't seen many posts about the T420-BT, only other versions of this card, I'm not sure if its will work.
- Yesterday I had a lot of concerns, but after reading the "FreeNAS for noobs" guide most of them were solved lol.
So basically that's all, any comment or advice will be helpful.
Thank you!
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