mjt5282
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Hi. I am hoping to build my first freenas server and have read the docs and most of the hardware critiques. Here is mine. Feel free to make suggestions.
The Server will be used to stream flac audio to Sonos endpoints on my LAN using SMB, also used to stream HD MKV files to DUNE media players using SMB or NFS. It will also sure as a rsync server and possible Time Machine for my Mac clients (though this remains to be seen...)
I will probably install VMWare server virtualization (but not for freenas but I have some learnin' to do there). I might eventually be running plex so I guess I need some processing headroom there.
1) SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O - the Haswell SM board with the built-in LSI 2308
2) Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz CPU
3) 16 Gb of ECC Samsung M391B1G73BH0-CK0 RAM , with 32 Gb later
4) 11 3Tb WD Red and Green drives (already purchased and configured to be NAS friendly)
5) 1 or 2 M1015 passthrough RAID card (already purchased, need to flash to IT firmware)
6) 4 Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Norco cables (would handle 16 drives)
7) Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-836BA-R920B 3U with 16 hot swap bays or the SUPERMICRO SuperChassis CSE-846A-R1200B Black 4U with 24 hot swap bays. Both come with high quality PSU's and fans. The 3U seems more appropriate to a garage/basement environment (the 3U has the smaller more efficient PSU).
my intent is to create a 11 -wide ZFS raid3z (33 Tb raw, 21.8 usable approx) and a smaller mirrored dataset for Vmware Fusion (either a simple mirror or a smallish 5wide raid2z). I am currently running 8-wide raid2z using OpenZFS on Mac OS X (pool version 28). I would like to migrate to something with more storage headroom and better ZFS stability.
The Server will be used to stream flac audio to Sonos endpoints on my LAN using SMB, also used to stream HD MKV files to DUNE media players using SMB or NFS. It will also sure as a rsync server and possible Time Machine for my Mac clients (though this remains to be seen...)
I will probably install VMWare server virtualization (but not for freenas but I have some learnin' to do there). I might eventually be running plex so I guess I need some processing headroom there.
1) SUPERMICRO MBD-X10SL7-F-O - the Haswell SM board with the built-in LSI 2308
2) Intel Xeon E3-1230V3 Haswell 3.3GHz CPU
3) 16 Gb of ECC Samsung M391B1G73BH0-CK0 RAM , with 32 Gb later
4) 11 3Tb WD Red and Green drives (already purchased and configured to be NAS friendly)
5) 1 or 2 M1015 passthrough RAID card (already purchased, need to flash to IT firmware)
6) 4 Discrete to SFF-8087 (Reverse breakout) Norco cables (would handle 16 drives)
7) Supermicro SuperChassis CSE-836BA-R920B 3U with 16 hot swap bays or the SUPERMICRO SuperChassis CSE-846A-R1200B Black 4U with 24 hot swap bays. Both come with high quality PSU's and fans. The 3U seems more appropriate to a garage/basement environment (the 3U has the smaller more efficient PSU).
my intent is to create a 11 -wide ZFS raid3z (33 Tb raw, 21.8 usable approx) and a smaller mirrored dataset for Vmware Fusion (either a simple mirror or a smallish 5wide raid2z). I am currently running 8-wide raid2z using OpenZFS on Mac OS X (pool version 28). I would like to migrate to something with more storage headroom and better ZFS stability.