DataKeeper
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Hello,
I'm looking at the Supermicro 24 bay chassis for a FreeNAS build. I plan to start with a 10 or 12 x 4TB WD RED disk raidz2 setup but nothing is in stone yet. This is for a home setup to house a large media collection, personal & business documents and photos. The server will stream music to different locations of the house pretty much 24/7, plex server to stream video to as many as 5 TVs as well as to my personal home theater, act as a personal cloud for 6 users, provide iscsi shares to half a dozen computers/laptops (both Microsoft and Debian based) in the house and act as a backup for 2 home systems. The kids will also more than likely stream via plex to their iPhones or iPads while on the go.
All that aside for now.. Looking at the SM 24-bay chassis I see there are differences. While choices are great it makes decisions more difficult to those new to the hardware.
Forgive me if these are dumb questions however I'd rather ask and confirm before dumping a ton of cash on a mistake and this is all new hardware to me. I've read enough right now to make me dangerous to my pocketbook. :D
I was ALMOST set to order a Norco RPC-4224 as its an easy and ready to go case with easy SFF-8087 wiring management, from what I've read. I'd just rather a more robust and quality setup like the SM chassis.
I'm dedicating a new room in our unfinished basement as a 10'x10' server room where the temps remain about 58 degrees year round. With a 24-bay FreeNAS and a few other network servers and associated hardware like switches and routers I hope things remain decently chilled and fan/drive noise separated from the rest of the house. I'm getting ready to run Cat6a Shielded SSTP/SFTP ethernet from the server room location throughout the house and yard (detached garage, pool area and the kids 'shed') for future expandability. Running at least 2 drops per room with some such as my office, theater, and family room receiving upwards of 8.
I'm spending some serious coin over the next year updating our entire network but I still don't wish to spend 4 figures on a server case.. hence the reason I was looking at the Norco. However, I just know I wouldn't be happy with it over the long run.
Thanks,
Rob
I'm looking at the Supermicro 24 bay chassis for a FreeNAS build. I plan to start with a 10 or 12 x 4TB WD RED disk raidz2 setup but nothing is in stone yet. This is for a home setup to house a large media collection, personal & business documents and photos. The server will stream music to different locations of the house pretty much 24/7, plex server to stream video to as many as 5 TVs as well as to my personal home theater, act as a personal cloud for 6 users, provide iscsi shares to half a dozen computers/laptops (both Microsoft and Debian based) in the house and act as a backup for 2 home systems. The kids will also more than likely stream via plex to their iPhones or iPads while on the go.
All that aside for now.. Looking at the SM 24-bay chassis I see there are differences. While choices are great it makes decisions more difficult to those new to the hardware.
- I'm seeing some listed at various sites as CSE-846E16-R1200B and others as CS-846E16-R1200B. Is it a misprint or are these two different versions of the chassis and/or hardware configuration?
- Backplanes.. I'm looking at some with BPN-SAS2-846EL1 backplanes. Reading THIS link shows it is 6Gb/s SAS2 expander backplane. Is there anything I should be worried about in regards to this backplane? I'm assuming this should support all modern day and hopefully future hard drive storage for many years to come.
- I'm planning to use a SM X10 or X9 mainboard. Am I correct in that if I use an X10 I should be able to plug the backplane directly into the mainboard where as the X9 boards would require something like the M1015 crossflashed?
- I've read the 1200 watt PSUs are quite a bit quieter then the 900 watt PSUs. Not that it really matters but is this correct?
Forgive me if these are dumb questions however I'd rather ask and confirm before dumping a ton of cash on a mistake and this is all new hardware to me. I've read enough right now to make me dangerous to my pocketbook. :D
I was ALMOST set to order a Norco RPC-4224 as its an easy and ready to go case with easy SFF-8087 wiring management, from what I've read. I'd just rather a more robust and quality setup like the SM chassis.
I'm dedicating a new room in our unfinished basement as a 10'x10' server room where the temps remain about 58 degrees year round. With a 24-bay FreeNAS and a few other network servers and associated hardware like switches and routers I hope things remain decently chilled and fan/drive noise separated from the rest of the house. I'm getting ready to run Cat6a Shielded SSTP/SFTP ethernet from the server room location throughout the house and yard (detached garage, pool area and the kids 'shed') for future expandability. Running at least 2 drops per room with some such as my office, theater, and family room receiving upwards of 8.
I'm spending some serious coin over the next year updating our entire network but I still don't wish to spend 4 figures on a server case.. hence the reason I was looking at the Norco. However, I just know I wouldn't be happy with it over the long run.
Thanks,
Rob