Hello guys
I'm working on a reduction of power usage. I'm dealing with 700watts (~$50 /mo?) of consumption but that also includes VM Hosts not part of the topic today but i'm going to consolidate those 3 hosts into 1 in future. That would help but for the Freenas I'm already have a long plan to replace this NAS specs below with a SSD NAS inlcuding hardware since our MB Failure. I've read plenty of threads and sadly OP finds out doesn't save them much to use HD standby. I've got a bit more drives then average but also interested in consolidating. Part of the win is to remove some of the power hog 15k sas drives. I can convert some of the datasets to SSD I think with our budget. The media is the one that I fear isn't cost effective to move to SSD. So for an dataset that only has Emby media I would like to standby usage since emby doesn't get used every day.
Note: Don't have specs of new NAS but seems like price point works well on 1TB SSD and migrate 3TB SAS for bit until SSDs are cheaper.
Questions/Topics
FreeNas 11.2-RC1
i7 960 (Stop gap MB died on us)
RAM 16gb
2x breakout SAS to SATA
Dual USB Boot 16gb
8x 15k 600gb SAS (Temp offline for power)
8x 7k 3tb SAS (Media)
3x 7k 3tb SATA system dataset + Emby
4x 120gb SSD (Temp offline)
2x HBA SAS2008 IT Mode (I think its a PERC H310)
0 SAS2008(B2) 20.00.07.00 14.01.00.08 No Image 00:03:00:00
1 SAS2008(B2) 20.00.07.00 14.01.00.08 No Image 00:04:00:00
Thanks!
I'm working on a reduction of power usage. I'm dealing with 700watts (~$50 /mo?) of consumption but that also includes VM Hosts not part of the topic today but i'm going to consolidate those 3 hosts into 1 in future. That would help but for the Freenas I'm already have a long plan to replace this NAS specs below with a SSD NAS inlcuding hardware since our MB Failure. I've read plenty of threads and sadly OP finds out doesn't save them much to use HD standby. I've got a bit more drives then average but also interested in consolidating. Part of the win is to remove some of the power hog 15k sas drives. I can convert some of the datasets to SSD I think with our budget. The media is the one that I fear isn't cost effective to move to SSD. So for an dataset that only has Emby media I would like to standby usage since emby doesn't get used every day.
Note: Don't have specs of new NAS but seems like price point works well on 1TB SSD and migrate 3TB SAS for bit until SSDs are cheaper.
Questions/Topics
- FreeNas Spin Up (Managing Scrubs?)
- Jail Mount of dataset and HD Standby
- If there is a few fileshares but the media share doesn't get used often but if you go direct to a different share do the Media share pool spin up. Or is the issue only come up if someone browses the root ie: \\nas\
- Addon LSI Cards and Standby
- Goal to only have drives fire up once a day on idle possible?
- Any other issues with standby? (I'm aware it costs wear and tare)
FreeNas 11.2-RC1
i7 960 (Stop gap MB died on us)
RAM 16gb
2x breakout SAS to SATA
Dual USB Boot 16gb
8x 15k 600gb SAS (Temp offline for power)
8x 7k 3tb SAS (Media)
3x 7k 3tb SATA system dataset + Emby
4x 120gb SSD (Temp offline)
2x HBA SAS2008 IT Mode (I think its a PERC H310)
0 SAS2008(B2) 20.00.07.00 14.01.00.08 No Image 00:03:00:00
1 SAS2008(B2) 20.00.07.00 14.01.00.08 No Image 00:04:00:00
Thanks!
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