Hello.
I'm building FreeNAS with Supermicro 1150 with a Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. In this build there's going to be 6x 4TB WD Black in raidz2 and I have a few questions before I finish it completely. The server is going to be used at home with 5 family users, with almost never high loads.
I have Dual-WAN at home, so that is going to answer alot of questions regarding dedup (torrenting).
1) How much RAM does dedup AND compression need in my situation if I can't go over 32GB? I'm thinking dual seedboxes with only 1 data written onto the array. EDIT: "I think" in this subject I'm going for "heavy dedup", like 6TB+ torrents dedup-ed...
2) Can 1) be solved with L2ARC?
3) If it can be solved with L2ARC, does it need to be SSD? I have few 160-320GB HDDs laying around and I could put them in just for that. Performance of the array is not that important!
4) Maybe a hard one: I'm building a very self-"maintained" server, for that I want the OS drive (HDD) to be in RAID1. I'm thinking Supermicro X10SL7-F with that 2 ports in RAID1 just for the OS drive. Question: What is stored on the OS drive and not on the arrays? Specifically, if the OS drive fails, what should I then restore? Samba shares? What configuration should then be restored? I hope I'm very clear on this subject...
EDIT2:
5) In this particular situation I'm also going to use another server (Hyper-V) which is going to run a few VMs. This server will have all VMs stored on the FreeNAS for "data security". I was thinking on doing iSCSI, but I'm also asking you guys, what is better in case of a power failure: iSCSI or classic SAMBA for this?
The server is going to be used like forever till it dies, so when I make the first build it must be perfect, I hope you understand :-(
Thank you!
Luka
I'm building FreeNAS with Supermicro 1150 with a Xeon and 32GB ECC RAM. In this build there's going to be 6x 4TB WD Black in raidz2 and I have a few questions before I finish it completely. The server is going to be used at home with 5 family users, with almost never high loads.
I have Dual-WAN at home, so that is going to answer alot of questions regarding dedup (torrenting).
1) How much RAM does dedup AND compression need in my situation if I can't go over 32GB? I'm thinking dual seedboxes with only 1 data written onto the array. EDIT: "I think" in this subject I'm going for "heavy dedup", like 6TB+ torrents dedup-ed...
2) Can 1) be solved with L2ARC?
3) If it can be solved with L2ARC, does it need to be SSD? I have few 160-320GB HDDs laying around and I could put them in just for that. Performance of the array is not that important!
4) Maybe a hard one: I'm building a very self-"maintained" server, for that I want the OS drive (HDD) to be in RAID1. I'm thinking Supermicro X10SL7-F with that 2 ports in RAID1 just for the OS drive. Question: What is stored on the OS drive and not on the arrays? Specifically, if the OS drive fails, what should I then restore? Samba shares? What configuration should then be restored? I hope I'm very clear on this subject...
EDIT2:
5) In this particular situation I'm also going to use another server (Hyper-V) which is going to run a few VMs. This server will have all VMs stored on the FreeNAS for "data security". I was thinking on doing iSCSI, but I'm also asking you guys, what is better in case of a power failure: iSCSI or classic SAMBA for this?
The server is going to be used like forever till it dies, so when I make the first build it must be perfect, I hope you understand :-(
Thank you!
Luka