Hello guys, I'm new to FreeNAS! In the last years I used QNAP units for my customers, now I'd like to switch to FreeNAS with some configurations, all with 8 disks (from 2TB to 8TB Seagate Ironwolfs) in RaidZ2, based on the number of concurrent clients working on it.
All my customers work with photo and video editing with very large files, on MacOS clients.
Possible configurations are:
for 2 clients @ 1Gbit/s:
Asus P10WS + Core i3 6100
RAM 8GB ECC DDR4-2400 (16GB on 36+TB configurations)
2x onboard 1Gbit/s
no SSD
for 4 clients @ 1Gbit/s:
Asus P10WS + Xeon E3 1230v6
RAM 16GB ECC DDR4-2400 (24GB on 36+TB configurations)
2x onboard 1Gbit/s + Intel PRO/1000 dual port
2x SSD 256GB M.2 AHCI (for ZIL/L2ARC)
for 8 clients @ 1Gbit/s
Same MB+CPU
RAM 32GB ECC DDR4-2400
2x onboard 1Gbit/s + 3x Intel PRO/1000 dual port
2x SSD 256GB M.2 NVME (for ZIL/L2ARC)
for 20 clients @ 1Gbit/s or 2 clients @ 10Gbit/s
Same MB+CPU
RAM 64GB ECC DDR4-2400
Dual port 10GBe card (I don't know which one for now)
2x SSD 512GB M.2 NVME (for ZIL/L2ARC)
What do you think about these configurations? Will they FreeNAS? :)
Thank you in advance for your help!
All my customers work with photo and video editing with very large files, on MacOS clients.
Possible configurations are:
for 2 clients @ 1Gbit/s:
Asus P10WS + Core i3 6100
RAM 8GB ECC DDR4-2400 (16GB on 36+TB configurations)
2x onboard 1Gbit/s
no SSD
for 4 clients @ 1Gbit/s:
Asus P10WS + Xeon E3 1230v6
RAM 16GB ECC DDR4-2400 (24GB on 36+TB configurations)
2x onboard 1Gbit/s + Intel PRO/1000 dual port
2x SSD 256GB M.2 AHCI (for ZIL/L2ARC)
for 8 clients @ 1Gbit/s
Same MB+CPU
RAM 32GB ECC DDR4-2400
2x onboard 1Gbit/s + 3x Intel PRO/1000 dual port
2x SSD 256GB M.2 NVME (for ZIL/L2ARC)
for 20 clients @ 1Gbit/s or 2 clients @ 10Gbit/s
Same MB+CPU
RAM 64GB ECC DDR4-2400
Dual port 10GBe card (I don't know which one for now)
2x SSD 512GB M.2 NVME (for ZIL/L2ARC)
What do you think about these configurations? Will they FreeNAS? :)
Thank you in advance for your help!