David3D
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Hi guys,
I'm in the process of putting together a server for a small business. We are a design/printing company. Design files for illustrator and photoshop as well as various applications for printers are served from a central location and saved back. I'm looking at a RAIDZ2 configuration for 12TB of usable storage with a two disk fault tolerance.
I wanted to come up with something fast-ish that won't end up over-kill. I've done a lot of reading here and I hope it's paid off. Here is the build:
CHASSIS: Standard 2U Workgroup rackmount chassis
Motherboard: Supermicro board of some description/Have not decided yet
CPU: CPU Intel XEON E3-1230 V3 4C/8T 3.3GHZ 8MB CACHE
MEMORY: 32GB DDR3-1600 SDRAM (4X 8GB ECC CL11 DIMMS)
HARD DISK: 8X 4TB Enterprise drives
RAID CARD: Undecided (Possibly Adaptec 6805E 8 Port SAS/SATA PCI-E RAID Controller - Need to check if it will be OK - No particular preference)
Power Supply: Redundant 740W power supplies (Overkill, but about all I can get my hands on with this configuration)
If anyone has any suggestions or can pick up any short falls or places I might be able to improve, let me know.
Cheers,
David
I'm in the process of putting together a server for a small business. We are a design/printing company. Design files for illustrator and photoshop as well as various applications for printers are served from a central location and saved back. I'm looking at a RAIDZ2 configuration for 12TB of usable storage with a two disk fault tolerance.
I wanted to come up with something fast-ish that won't end up over-kill. I've done a lot of reading here and I hope it's paid off. Here is the build:
CHASSIS: Standard 2U Workgroup rackmount chassis
Motherboard: Supermicro board of some description/Have not decided yet
CPU: CPU Intel XEON E3-1230 V3 4C/8T 3.3GHZ 8MB CACHE
MEMORY: 32GB DDR3-1600 SDRAM (4X 8GB ECC CL11 DIMMS)
HARD DISK: 8X 4TB Enterprise drives
RAID CARD: Undecided (Possibly Adaptec 6805E 8 Port SAS/SATA PCI-E RAID Controller - Need to check if it will be OK - No particular preference)
Power Supply: Redundant 740W power supplies (Overkill, but about all I can get my hands on with this configuration)
If anyone has any suggestions or can pick up any short falls or places I might be able to improve, let me know.
Cheers,
David