smallrebelarmy
Cadet
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- Mar 15, 2016
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Hi everyone. New to freeNAS. I’ve been lurking the past 3-4 days (maybe obsessing?) and have set up an old 2009 Mac Pro as a test run. Getting the feel for it. Digging it.
Now I’m ready to take the plunge on a system. The primary purpose of this system is a backup for my main WS. My workstation is OSX with about 20Tb in a hardware RAID3 for film editing. More likely 17-18TB after some pruning. I’d like to have a back up of my WS media on the FreeNAS ZFS so I can get rid of the million external drives I have laying around.
Here is the build I’m considering.
MB: X10SRA-F
CPU: E5-1620 v3
(any real benefit moving to the E5-1650 v3?)
FAN: NH-U12DXi4
(2) SAMSUNG 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Server Memory Model M393A2G40DB0-CPB
(6) WD RED 6TB
Intel 510 SSD for booting. (repurposed)
Living in a Corsair 750d (temporarily)
SeaSonic Platinum 860W (overkill, but will be repurposed later this summer by a new workstation and replaced by an older smaller one.)
Second phase I’ll add another drives, more RAM, and move to a rack mount. Eventually I’d like to look into using it to serve the media itself and find a alternate backup solution. This may not be realistic since I mostly deal with large R3D files. For now I’ll be happy with an intelligent backup system.
One last question. Should I even consider the x11 options? It opens up more 10GbE options, but the 64gb memory limitations seems like it may be problematic. The E3-1270 v5 is a good price point.
If you guys wouldn't mind having a quick look and letting me know if I over looked anything (or if you see other possibilities) I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
Now I’m ready to take the plunge on a system. The primary purpose of this system is a backup for my main WS. My workstation is OSX with about 20Tb in a hardware RAID3 for film editing. More likely 17-18TB after some pruning. I’d like to have a back up of my WS media on the FreeNAS ZFS so I can get rid of the million external drives I have laying around.
Here is the build I’m considering.
MB: X10SRA-F
CPU: E5-1620 v3
(any real benefit moving to the E5-1650 v3?)
FAN: NH-U12DXi4
(2) SAMSUNG 16GB 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR4 2133 (PC4 17000) Server Memory Model M393A2G40DB0-CPB
(6) WD RED 6TB
Intel 510 SSD for booting. (repurposed)
Living in a Corsair 750d (temporarily)
SeaSonic Platinum 860W (overkill, but will be repurposed later this summer by a new workstation and replaced by an older smaller one.)
Second phase I’ll add another drives, more RAM, and move to a rack mount. Eventually I’d like to look into using it to serve the media itself and find a alternate backup solution. This may not be realistic since I mostly deal with large R3D files. For now I’ll be happy with an intelligent backup system.
One last question. Should I even consider the x11 options? It opens up more 10GbE options, but the 64gb memory limitations seems like it may be problematic. The E3-1270 v5 is a good price point.
If you guys wouldn't mind having a quick look and letting me know if I over looked anything (or if you see other possibilities) I would appreciate it.
Thanks!
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