zantag
Dabbler
- Joined
- Nov 7, 2020
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Hi guys!
I am new here 'cos the time for my first freenas/truenas project has come, at last.
My plan is NAS on old cheap server platform with 5 or 6 x 6TB/8TB 3.5inch HDD in RAIDZ2. So maybe like everyone else i try to read tones of info and my head almost blow up. First big mistake was to buy Dell r710 with 32g RAM and 2x Xeon E2620 with 6x3.5 HDD slots... and PERC 6/i SAS.
Yeah thats fu*** right PERC 6/i ... so waiting almost 2 months for H200 on IT MODE and cables from ebay (-50€).
Finally i start my project with some tests HDD-s but i have some noob questions which answers i hope to find here.
If not what do you suggest me to around 200€ per HDD. In my case more space is better than speed. Sorry for my noob questions and thx in advance to everyone:)
I am new here 'cos the time for my first freenas/truenas project has come, at last.
My plan is NAS on old cheap server platform with 5 or 6 x 6TB/8TB 3.5inch HDD in RAIDZ2. So maybe like everyone else i try to read tones of info and my head almost blow up. First big mistake was to buy Dell r710 with 32g RAM and 2x Xeon E2620 with 6x3.5 HDD slots... and PERC 6/i SAS.
Yeah thats fu*** right PERC 6/i ... so waiting almost 2 months for H200 on IT MODE and cables from ebay (-50€).
Finally i start my project with some tests HDD-s but i have some noob questions which answers i hope to find here.
- I want to use 2 or all 4 Gbps ports on my 710 so i try link agreagation to loadbalance mode. But when i try to test the speeds ... surprise no 2Gbps+ speed. I test with iperf3 and with standart copy paste on smb share. The speed is absolutely the same 100-112MB/s with or without link agregation. Am i doing something wrong or? How to get double link speed?
- In the middle of the motherboard of the server ( Dell r710) I find two other sata ports called SATA-A and SATA-B can i use them to attach SSD and install truenas system on it? I think this port was for CD-ROM so maybe are only SATA-3Gbps is that a problem?
- If i get it right i have to choose CMR HDD not SMR. I find some Toshiba X300 6TB/8TB on very good price... are they CMR and good for a FREENAS project? From this list which one to choose. Are they all CMR. I read very good review for HGST so are they the best?

If not what do you suggest me to around 200€ per HDD. In my case more space is better than speed. Sorry for my noob questions and thx in advance to everyone:)