Terry Wilson
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whether it is nobler of man... ok.. let me see if I can word this without writing a book in the process.
I have a small business that started out with a few backup customers on a small 5TB Freenas server, life was good. Then business picked up so I got a Dell R710 and loaded it up with 8 6TB drives (largest they had at the time) and life was great! Well guess what, its time to add more storage...
So the question then becomes what is the most cost effective way to lets say double the capacity of what i have now? Granted you can get 8Tb drives now but that doesn't help much and they are still mondo $$
I am wondering if I am better off to try add an external drive chassis like a (insert favorite vendor here) 12 bay with an LSI SAS card and cable, or build a whole new server with 12 bays from the start (vs 6 on the Dell R710) with something like the Supermicro 2U Server X8DTN ?
Surely 12 6TB drives in a Z2 setup with your favorite vdev layout would suffice!
Currently I am running 6 of WD Red 6TB Z2 and have apx 24TB of storage. Speed is not an issue as all this data is being sent over a 100mb internet connection so the bottleneck there far outweighs any speed issue with the 7200 RPM drives, Z2, etc..
Looking for more Cap, than speed anyway..
So what do you think on the best way to grow/expand this beast?>
I have a small business that started out with a few backup customers on a small 5TB Freenas server, life was good. Then business picked up so I got a Dell R710 and loaded it up with 8 6TB drives (largest they had at the time) and life was great! Well guess what, its time to add more storage...
So the question then becomes what is the most cost effective way to lets say double the capacity of what i have now? Granted you can get 8Tb drives now but that doesn't help much and they are still mondo $$
I am wondering if I am better off to try add an external drive chassis like a (insert favorite vendor here) 12 bay with an LSI SAS card and cable, or build a whole new server with 12 bays from the start (vs 6 on the Dell R710) with something like the Supermicro 2U Server X8DTN ?
Surely 12 6TB drives in a Z2 setup with your favorite vdev layout would suffice!
Currently I am running 6 of WD Red 6TB Z2 and have apx 24TB of storage. Speed is not an issue as all this data is being sent over a 100mb internet connection so the bottleneck there far outweighs any speed issue with the 7200 RPM drives, Z2, etc..
Looking for more Cap, than speed anyway..
So what do you think on the best way to grow/expand this beast?>