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What's the specs for FreeNAS® Mini
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The last public information on this is a couple years old, so there are new parts available since then. What is your reason for asking?
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The ASRock C2750D4I motherboard was used in FreeNAS Minis and Mini XL systems as of March 2017, but there have been many hardware failures with that system board and it may have been changed for a different model. Even if a change was not made due to the defect that was found in that board, there are many newer models since then and I wouldn't expect that they are still using the same one. They (iXsystems) have never, to my knowledge, published the exact specs of what is in any of their systems. This is based on user feedback in the forum.
I have the XL with the board mentioned. No issues other than only having 32GB of RAM (I have dedup enabled, but this is an archive only appliance performance has not been a priority. My biggest gripe would be the quality of the case. The drive trays are flimsy, but I don't have to replace drives often.
If you consider the motherboard, CPU, and RAM cost ~$1k on their own the price starts to make sense. An alternative would be to grab an older supermicro or Dell from https://www.theserverstore.com/ with 128GB RAM and prefilled with drives (Stay away from the Seagate SSHD drives they like to use. They are crap and one caused a server to reboot after an electrical failure from the drive hit the storage controller). Just don't forget to grab a couple ZIL drives ;-)
I grabbed a supermicro, 128GB RAM, 12x1TB drives, dual CPU 12 threads, and IT storage controller for cheap (if you don't mind the power bill lol)
If you consider the motherboard, CPU, and RAM cost ~$1k on their own the price starts to make sense. An alternative would be to grab an older supermicro or Dell from https://www.theserverstore.com/ with 128GB RAM and prefilled with drives (Stay away from the Seagate SSHD drives they like to use. They are crap and one caused a server to reboot after an electrical failure from the drive hit the storage controller). Just don't forget to grab a couple ZIL drives ;-)
I grabbed a supermicro, 128GB RAM, 12x1TB drives, dual CPU 12 threads, and IT storage controller for cheap (if you don't mind the power bill lol)
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If you are willing to forgo the tiny form factor, something like this is a more economical option:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...anges-to-upgrade-as-high-as-512gb-of-ram.110/
Are they noisy?
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I don't understand. Is what noisy?
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Lenovo TS140
HP ML10
Dell T30
These are good simple options. Lots of info about them in the forums.
HP ML10
Dell T30
These are good simple options. Lots of info about them in the forums.
MiniXL, no.
Big 2U server, if you don't keep it cool. (I had one with memory errors and CPU spikes caused by overheating. Belonged to someone else responsible for physical maintenance)
The FAN in these Supermicro
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Depends a lot on the model fan that it is. Some of the older chassis have fans that default to 5000 RPM and those are a bit on the loud side. The newer systems that I have seen recently, the fans are speed controlled by temperature and they can run almost as quiet as a desktop computer.
