RobiWahn
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- Apr 18, 2016
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First of all, hello and thanks to you all for all the resources I already found!
As I have built some FreeNAS servers at work already (but always in a hurry, so no time to ask here first), I already could make use of many of your ideas and recommendations for those - and the servers at work run exellent, so again, thank you!
Now I'm in the process of wanting to switch the single drives with stuff (bluray backups, music library etc) in my desktop (Windows 10) at home over to a RAIDz2 on a file server to be built. As this is nothing where I have my boss sitting in my neck, I have time and thought I could Do It Right(tm) this time ;)
What I want (listed by priority):
(I found the idea of a PCpartPicker List in another thread very useful, so here is mine)
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v5 4x3.4GHz
MoBo: Supermicro X11SSH-TF (DP 10GbE Intel X550 on board)
Memory: 4x Samsung 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC (M393A2G40DB0-CPB)
Storage (Boot): 2x Supermicro SSD-DM032-PHI (mirrored)
Storage (Data): 8x WD Red WD80EFZX 8TB 5400rpm 128MB Cache
Case: LianLi PC-343B (already have it)
HDD Cages: 4x LianLi EX-H34B (already have them)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 760 (SS-760XP2)
HBA: LSI SAS9200-8e (have it already, in use in desktop with 2 SFF-8088 to SATA cables)
HBA: LSI SAS9260-8i (have it already, atm unused, also have 2 SFF-8087 to SATA cables)
My questions:
RobiWahn
As I have built some FreeNAS servers at work already (but always in a hurry, so no time to ask here first), I already could make use of many of your ideas and recommendations for those - and the servers at work run exellent, so again, thank you!
Now I'm in the process of wanting to switch the single drives with stuff (bluray backups, music library etc) in my desktop (Windows 10) at home over to a RAIDz2 on a file server to be built. As this is nothing where I have my boss sitting in my neck, I have time and thought I could Do It Right(tm) this time ;)
What I want (listed by priority):
- Have the data safe and secure (At least photos and videos of family, the backups i could make again any day, but I want to get the big drives out of my desktop anyway and FreeNAS is perfect for that)
- Have all the storage available via 10GbE for my desktop to quickly offload data and bluray backups to (DP 10GbE Intel X540 in desktop already, would use extra direct connection for that)
- Have all the storage available via 1GbE (or what the ports/wireless makes) via switch/wireless router for my other machines (Raspberry Pi with Kodi as MediaCenter, windows desktop of GF, windows/linux laptops, e-reader and so on)
- Be able to add my desktop's 4 Seagate ST8000AS0002 8TB drives as soon as burn-in testing and copy to RAIDz2 pool is complete (as another RAIDz2 vdev i guess, or is expansion of the first RAIDz2 possible/useful?)
(I found the idea of a PCpartPicker List in another thread very useful, so here is mine)
CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1230v5 4x3.4GHz
MoBo: Supermicro X11SSH-TF (DP 10GbE Intel X550 on board)
Memory: 4x Samsung 16GB DDR4-2133 ECC (M393A2G40DB0-CPB)
Storage (Boot): 2x Supermicro SSD-DM032-PHI (mirrored)
Storage (Data): 8x WD Red WD80EFZX 8TB 5400rpm 128MB Cache
Case: LianLi PC-343B (already have it)
HDD Cages: 4x LianLi EX-H34B (already have them)
Power Supply: SeaSonic Platinum 760 (SS-760XP2)
HBA: LSI SAS9200-8e (have it already, in use in desktop with 2 SFF-8088 to SATA cables)
HBA: LSI SAS9260-8i (have it already, atm unused, also have 2 SFF-8087 to SATA cables)
My questions:
- Would this work well with FreeNAS 9 and likely with 10 as soon as it's ready?
- Would you recommend something else anywhere instead to ensure safety of the data (or to avoid any bottlenecks)?
- How would you go with setting up the RAIDz2 over those disks (single RAIDz2 vdev of the new 8TB WDs or anything else)?
- What about adding the now still filled 8TB Seagates, just copy over to the new WDs as soon as they are ready and insert them as new RAIDz2 vdev or is there a good way to use those to expand the original vdev (or do something totally different I didn't come up with yet)?
- Having future expansion in mind, would you first fill up the LSI's ports or use the internal SATA ports of the Motherboard?
- What firmware would I need to flash those LSIs to to make them the best possible match for FreeNAS?
RobiWahn