philipforget
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After 6 years I've officially outgrown my 6x3tb Node 304 FreeNAS box. I'll be using that one as a backup target for a new FreeNAS server I'm building now but I have a few questions about my hardware choices below.
Here's the plan, largely following the recommendations of @Chris Moore on Specific build changes to upgrade as high as 512GB of RAM
The whole thing is going to live behind my couch where my current freenas machine and HTPC sit so it needs to be pretty quiet. I live in an apartment so used rack mount stuff is not really an option.
Primary use: Dedicated storage server with a few NFS shares and potential iSCSI targets for VMS on a different machine in the future. No jails, no vms, nothing but freenas. I want to optimize for that use case and potential expandability.
- Case: Fractal Design R6, fits up to 12 drives.
- Drives: 8x10tb WD
- Motherboard: Supermicro X9SRL-F
- Ram: Minimum 32gb DDR3 ecc to start
- CPU: Something like an E5-2650L, hoping to find a mobo + cpu + ram + cooler combo in the ~250-300 range on eBay that fits these specs ( similar to this option or this one with an E5-1620).
- Cooler: Hopefully as part of a combo described above or possibly a Noctua NH-U9DX to keep things quiet
- PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus 850 Gold, might it make sense to go with 1000w upfront to support a potential 12 drives in the future?
- 10gbe NIC: Chelsio T420-CR dual 10gbe
- SAS HBA: Dell H310 IT Mode, I figured the first 8 drives on the SAS HBA, any additional drives in the future can go to the mobo's sata ports
- 64gb SSD boot drive
- Variety of cables (mini SAS to sata, etc)
For ZFS configuration, I'd like to keep in mind potentially expanding with 4 more drives in a few years, does 2x4 Raidz2 pools make the most sense starting with 8 drives and then adding 4 more as it's own raidz2 pool in the future?
Thanks for all the hard work and recommendations so far!
Here's the plan, largely following the recommendations of @Chris Moore on Specific build changes to upgrade as high as 512GB of RAM
The whole thing is going to live behind my couch where my current freenas machine and HTPC sit so it needs to be pretty quiet. I live in an apartment so used rack mount stuff is not really an option.
Primary use: Dedicated storage server with a few NFS shares and potential iSCSI targets for VMS on a different machine in the future. No jails, no vms, nothing but freenas. I want to optimize for that use case and potential expandability.
- Case: Fractal Design R6, fits up to 12 drives.
- Drives: 8x10tb WD
- Motherboard: Supermicro X9SRL-F
- Ram: Minimum 32gb DDR3 ecc to start
- CPU: Something like an E5-2650L, hoping to find a mobo + cpu + ram + cooler combo in the ~250-300 range on eBay that fits these specs ( similar to this option or this one with an E5-1620).
- Cooler: Hopefully as part of a combo described above or possibly a Noctua NH-U9DX to keep things quiet
- PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus 850 Gold, might it make sense to go with 1000w upfront to support a potential 12 drives in the future?
- 10gbe NIC: Chelsio T420-CR dual 10gbe
- SAS HBA: Dell H310 IT Mode, I figured the first 8 drives on the SAS HBA, any additional drives in the future can go to the mobo's sata ports
- 64gb SSD boot drive
- Variety of cables (mini SAS to sata, etc)
For ZFS configuration, I'd like to keep in mind potentially expanding with 4 more drives in a few years, does 2x4 Raidz2 pools make the most sense starting with 8 drives and then adding 4 more as it's own raidz2 pool in the future?
Thanks for all the hard work and recommendations so far!