Common wisdom would seem to suggest you can't really go wrong with a Supermicro board, intel cpu and lan, ECC ram, nas drives and the best dang psu your budget has in it.
So to *finally* get my FreeNas journey started I'm hitting the web and hunting for bargains. My use case is pretty modest and using drives I already have; a 6TB mirrored pool of three Ironwolf Pro & WD Red drives, and maybe a second 2x1TB mirrored pool of WD Green's (for low priority stuff). Not looking to do transcoding or much of anything else other than file sharing to get started. My primary concerns are reliability and longevity -- I want to avoid requiring a hardware upgrade to install FreeNas 13 :)
The spreadsheet of finds so far:
X9SCL-F $78
X9SCM-F $45
X10SLQ-L $58
X10SLM-F $70 (+ $19 sh) = $90
X10SLM+-F $100 (+ $15 sh) = $115
X10SLL-F $80 (+ $10 sh) = $90
X10SL7-F $188 (+ $30 sh) = $208
1. Am I right that the X10SLQ does not accept ECC ram and thus should be removed from consideration?
2. I've seen a few people recommending the X10 over the X9 arguing along the lines that they're priced much the same. X10SLM/L vs X9SCL that seems to be true, but obviously the X9SCM is 50% less. I'm struggling to see what differentiates the X9 boards to cause the discrepancy. Best I can gather the M uses C204 vs C202 and splits it's sata ports 4xSata2, 2xSata3, while the L's are all Sata2. Anything I'm misssing?
3. The X10 SLM-F, SLM+-F, and SLL-F appear to only have minor differences between them with regards to impacting a FreeNAS build. The M's use C224 while the L uses C222 so the primary difference appears to be they have a higher ratio of their usb and sata ports supporting sata3 and usb 3 speeds. The '+' has matched nic. Again, anything I'm missing?
4. The X10SL7-F's standout price comes primarily from it's support for 14 drives via an in built SAS?
Any help and advice is much appreciated.
So to *finally* get my FreeNas journey started I'm hitting the web and hunting for bargains. My use case is pretty modest and using drives I already have; a 6TB mirrored pool of three Ironwolf Pro & WD Red drives, and maybe a second 2x1TB mirrored pool of WD Green's (for low priority stuff). Not looking to do transcoding or much of anything else other than file sharing to get started. My primary concerns are reliability and longevity -- I want to avoid requiring a hardware upgrade to install FreeNas 13 :)
The spreadsheet of finds so far:
X9SCL-F $78
X9SCM-F $45
X10SLQ-L $58
X10SLM-F $70 (+ $19 sh) = $90
X10SLM+-F $100 (+ $15 sh) = $115
X10SLL-F $80 (+ $10 sh) = $90
X10SL7-F $188 (+ $30 sh) = $208
1. Am I right that the X10SLQ does not accept ECC ram and thus should be removed from consideration?
2. I've seen a few people recommending the X10 over the X9 arguing along the lines that they're priced much the same. X10SLM/L vs X9SCL that seems to be true, but obviously the X9SCM is 50% less. I'm struggling to see what differentiates the X9 boards to cause the discrepancy. Best I can gather the M uses C204 vs C202 and splits it's sata ports 4xSata2, 2xSata3, while the L's are all Sata2. Anything I'm misssing?
3. The X10 SLM-F, SLM+-F, and SLL-F appear to only have minor differences between them with regards to impacting a FreeNAS build. The M's use C224 while the L uses C222 so the primary difference appears to be they have a higher ratio of their usb and sata ports supporting sata3 and usb 3 speeds. The '+' has matched nic. Again, anything I'm missing?
4. The X10SL7-F's standout price comes primarily from it's support for 14 drives via an in built SAS?
Any help and advice is much appreciated.
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