offsite HW/machine

[phier]

Hello,
i am running as a primary NAS mainboard supermicro X11SSM-F with 8 drives.

I am planning that offsite will have 4-6 drives; will be located on different geo location.

Is it a good idea to buy some cheap supermicro X8SIE-F
which is also ECC, 6 sata ports (additional ports could be added via PCI-e i assume) with 8/16G ram and some basic Pentium processor.

May the most important Question - is it possible that X8SIE-F will handle 8/16/18 TB drives?

Thank you

 

[Nick2253]

X8SIE-F should handle any size drive just fine. The Intel 3420 controller communicates with the SATA ports, and has no such limitations.

For home use, used hardware is good value for money, but be mindful that the power draw of such an old system may make it more costly in the long run than buying new(er) hardware.

Also, just something to consider, but what is your upload internet speed at your primary location? Many ISPs have very low uploads, and this might make an offsite backup infeasible.

 

[phier]

@Nick2253
but the supermicro spec says max 4TB so thats why i am confused.

as an alternative i was thinking about X11SSM-F with Pentium processor...

maybe there is better supermicro with ECC and some builtin low-power cpu?


upload is 50, will be 300-600

 

[Nick2253]

I can find no limitation in the specs. Supermicro lists the largest disk tested with the controller (on their compatibility list) as 4TB, but you should expect something like that. Supermicro doesn't have an incentive to go back to their old hardware and update the compatibility list.

Usually, if there is a size limit, it has everything to do with the motherboard's BIOS's ability to boot off of drives in excess of that size. Otherwise, if there is a real size limit, it's 2TB, because of the 32-bit limitation.