New to FreeNAS here. Upgrading from my old hardware, i7 920 / 6GB Ram / SAS controller RAID 5.
So far I've purchased:
CPU: Xeon E3-1230V5
Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C236D4U
RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) Kingston ECC RAM
Chassis: SuperMicro SC213LT-563LPB with redundant power supplies
I know Kingston isn't the best choice for compatibility, but the RAM passed multiple 4 pass sessions in memtest.
My dilemma now is that I'm choosing drive size. I'm buying WD Red Pro's to slowly replace my ageing 2TB drives. With 6TB option being affordable compared to 4TB I was thinking of building either of the following scenarios:
- 7x6TB WD Red Pro RaidZ3 + hot spare
- 4x6TB WD Red Pro RadZ2 -> x2 in a zpool
I've maxed out my motherboard at 64GB, however with either option using 6TB drives I'm at 42/48GB ram just for ZFS performance. This leaves me with 22/16GB left for services, etc.
Being new to FreeNAS, is that sufficient to run the following services:
- Plex
- SABnzbd
- Sonarr
- Couch Potato
- OwnCloud
- CrashPlan
- OpenVPN
- VirtualBox (with the possibility of several VMs on a need to use basis)
- mySQL
- Apache
- nginx
Should I just stick with the 4TB drives and leave myself with 36/32GB free RAM?
So far I've purchased:
CPU: Xeon E3-1230V5
Motherboard: ASRock Rack E3C236D4U
RAM: 64GB (4x16GB) Kingston ECC RAM
Chassis: SuperMicro SC213LT-563LPB with redundant power supplies
I know Kingston isn't the best choice for compatibility, but the RAM passed multiple 4 pass sessions in memtest.
My dilemma now is that I'm choosing drive size. I'm buying WD Red Pro's to slowly replace my ageing 2TB drives. With 6TB option being affordable compared to 4TB I was thinking of building either of the following scenarios:
- 7x6TB WD Red Pro RaidZ3 + hot spare
- 4x6TB WD Red Pro RadZ2 -> x2 in a zpool
I've maxed out my motherboard at 64GB, however with either option using 6TB drives I'm at 42/48GB ram just for ZFS performance. This leaves me with 22/16GB left for services, etc.
Being new to FreeNAS, is that sufficient to run the following services:
- Plex
- SABnzbd
- Sonarr
- Couch Potato
- OwnCloud
- CrashPlan
- OpenVPN
- VirtualBox (with the possibility of several VMs on a need to use basis)
- mySQL
- Apache
- nginx
Should I just stick with the 4TB drives and leave myself with 36/32GB free RAM?
Last edited: