taney
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- Dec 5, 2012
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Hi! My name is Taney.
I just recently picked up these parts:
Lian Li PC-Q25 Case
Intel S1200KPR motherboard
Intel G1610 CPU (Ivy Bridge Celeron) *temporary with plans to replace with Xeon E3-1265Lv2 (low power)
LSI 9211-8i HBA SATA/SAS Controller
2x Kingston KVR16E11/8I (2x 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Unbuffered CL11 DIMM w/TS Intel)
Prolimatech PRO-SAM17 Samuel 17 CPU Cooler *quiet cooling
Koutech USB 2.0 Header-Pin to Dual Type-A adapter Model IO-UU220 *internal USB ports for USB flash
Also, adding to the list in the near future: SeaSonic X-460 Fanless PSU
I'm very excited to get started and excited to play with FreeNAS. I've heard many great things about it and I believe in *BSD based systems more than anything else for server-related operations. The next step is getting the drives for it. Initially, I want to start with a RAIDZ2 array with 4 drives and eventually add another RAIDZ2 array with 4 drives to the same pool. Let me know what you guys think.
I know people will say I should stray away from virtualization and maybe I will initially, but my hopes down the road for this box is a box hosting my files and VMs and also running VMs through NFS. Basically, an all-in-one box that handles my NAS and basic simple daemons.
I hope to get acquainted with you all. =)
EDIT: I'll add pictures as soon as I get all my hardware.
EDIT 2: Going on a new approach. Probably going to order the Portwell WADE-8011. The fact that the S1200KPR doesn't support VT-d is really bothering me. I want to be able to utilize the benefits of having a LSI HBA card via FreeNAS. I will probably build another machine with the S1200KPR and let it handle load-balancing ;)
I just recently picked up these parts:
Lian Li PC-Q25 Case
Intel S1200KPR motherboard
Intel G1610 CPU (Ivy Bridge Celeron) *temporary with plans to replace with Xeon E3-1265Lv2 (low power)
LSI 9211-8i HBA SATA/SAS Controller
2x Kingston KVR16E11/8I (2x 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 ECC Unbuffered CL11 DIMM w/TS Intel)
Prolimatech PRO-SAM17 Samuel 17 CPU Cooler *quiet cooling
Koutech USB 2.0 Header-Pin to Dual Type-A adapter Model IO-UU220 *internal USB ports for USB flash
Also, adding to the list in the near future: SeaSonic X-460 Fanless PSU
I'm very excited to get started and excited to play with FreeNAS. I've heard many great things about it and I believe in *BSD based systems more than anything else for server-related operations. The next step is getting the drives for it. Initially, I want to start with a RAIDZ2 array with 4 drives and eventually add another RAIDZ2 array with 4 drives to the same pool. Let me know what you guys think.
I know people will say I should stray away from virtualization and maybe I will initially, but my hopes down the road for this box is a box hosting my files and VMs and also running VMs through NFS. Basically, an all-in-one box that handles my NAS and basic simple daemons.
I hope to get acquainted with you all. =)
EDIT: I'll add pictures as soon as I get all my hardware.
EDIT 2: Going on a new approach. Probably going to order the Portwell WADE-8011. The fact that the S1200KPR doesn't support VT-d is really bothering me. I want to be able to utilize the benefits of having a LSI HBA card via FreeNAS. I will probably build another machine with the S1200KPR and let it handle load-balancing ;)