I'm excited to be putting together some good reliable storage here, finally. It will be for a home network, storing files for a couple of small businesses, as well as family music, movies, photos, etc.
Browsing this forum has been very helpful. I have nothing yet, but ordered and on its way here:
MB: Supermicro X9SCM-F
Case: Fractal Designs R4
Power supply: Seasonic SSR-360GP
Memory: Crucial 8GBx2 DDR3 PC3-14900 Unbuffered ECC 1.5V 1024Meg x 72
Got some good deals from Newegg and eBay. Total so far for all of the above only $385.00.
I still need to choose a CPU and hard disks. I don't yet have enough understanding of vdevs and zpools to decide about numbers and sizes of disks, and Z2 or Z3. I'm looking at WD Greens from Newegg right now as there is a special promo ending today. I can get five 3TB WD Greens for $424.95. Not sure whether to get the five and put in a 5-disk Z3 zpool in a single vdev, or get six and have a spare on the shelf, or get six and put them all in, filling the MBs SATA ports, and either use Z3 with compression or use Z2. Will appreciate any comments or suggestions.
Browsing this forum has been very helpful. I have nothing yet, but ordered and on its way here:
MB: Supermicro X9SCM-F
Case: Fractal Designs R4
Power supply: Seasonic SSR-360GP
Memory: Crucial 8GBx2 DDR3 PC3-14900 Unbuffered ECC 1.5V 1024Meg x 72
Got some good deals from Newegg and eBay. Total so far for all of the above only $385.00.
I still need to choose a CPU and hard disks. I don't yet have enough understanding of vdevs and zpools to decide about numbers and sizes of disks, and Z2 or Z3. I'm looking at WD Greens from Newegg right now as there is a special promo ending today. I can get five 3TB WD Greens for $424.95. Not sure whether to get the five and put in a 5-disk Z3 zpool in a single vdev, or get six and have a spare on the shelf, or get six and put them all in, filling the MBs SATA ports, and either use Z3 with compression or use Z2. Will appreciate any comments or suggestions.