New Denverton Build - Looking for feedback

[tbmpilot]

Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

I have the new Supermicro A2SDi-H-TP4F board installed in a SilverStone DS380B case, with 450W SilverStone ST45SF-V3 SFX power supply.

I'm considering the following drives in one RaidZ3 pool:

4x Seagate IronWolf Pro ST6000NE0021 6TB
4x WD Red Pro 6TB NAS Hard Disk Drive
1x Intel Optane SSD 900P (280GB, AIC PCIe 3.0 x4, 20nm, 3D XPoint) SLOG

I have not purchased memory yet. It's very expensive but considering 4x Hynix HMA84GR7AFR4N-UH 32GB ECC Reg Memory (128gb total).

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this build. Planned uses are to migrate my business data storage from AWS/Dropbox, business and home device backups, home media server, and MineCraft server for the kids/virtual friends.

Thanks!!!

 

[Chris Moore]

4x Seagate IronWolf Pro ST6000NE0021 6TB
4x WD Red Pro 6TB NAS Hard Disk Drive

I don't know why you are mixing drives. My suggestion would be to buy the 8 you want to use and a couple spares for when you have a failure and run the pool in RAID-z2. Unless the system will not be monitored at all, there is no reason why a failed drive could not be replaced instead of having to have 3 parity drives.

 

[Chris Moore]

Then there is this
https://www.neweggbusiness.com/Prod...eh9qTvIt31nQFZpedD0SL8b2EQrUdPqBoCg20QAvD_BwE
Just pull the drive out of that housing and they are great.

 

[Chris Moore]

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this build.

PS. I have a 60 drive server at work filled with the WD Red Pro drives and I have had to replace three of them in the past 11 months. Just because you buy a costly drive, that doesn't mean it will be problem free.

 

[tbmpilot]

I don't know why you are mixing drives. My suggestion would be to buy the 8 you want to use and a couple spares for when you have a failure and run the pool in RAID-z2. Unless the system will not be monitored at all, there is no reason why a failed drive could not be replaced instead of having to have 3 parity drives.

Great. Thanks very much.

 

[Ericloewe]

With that workload, you do not need an SLOG.

 

[tbmpilot]

With that workload, you do not need an SLOG.

Thank you!

 

[johnp4]

You'll need to use FreeNAS 11.1 to get driver support for the networking chips. (Current release is RC3, so maybe stable enough depending on how foolhardy you are.)

128GB of RAM is probably overkill. You could get two stick and have room to expand later.

Why do you say that RAM is expensive? By my judgment, I'd say it's actually rather cheap. Only $11.25/GB for 2400MHz ECC.

 

[tbmpilot]

Why do you say that RAM is expensive? By my judgment, I'd say it's actually rather cheap. Only $11.25/GB for 2400MHz ECC.

True enuf. Thanks!