Hi, I'm building a asrock c2750d4i in a Silverstone DS380B case and 600w SFX PSU, 32gb ECC Cruical ram, 8 wd20earx, running OS on a 16gb fairly slow thumb drive on a internal usb2 header cable zip-tied. I just need a few more pieces of hardware... I plan on using this server to be a home DVR, plex server, mythtv to strip commercials, and crashplan for backups
1) What size SSD's do you recommend for l2rarc, zil, etc to max out the performance? I should have 4 sata ports available.
2) There are 2 intel sata3, 4 intel sata2, 2 marvel se9172 sata3 Raid 0 or 1 capable, 4 marvel se9230 sata3 Raid 0,1,10 capable... I have the 8 wd20earx in hot swap bays (which freenas does not seem to like if you actually put one in or pull one out in my testing) Which sata ports would you use for the 8 drives? What port(s) for the other SSD's?
3) I only see the MythTV package in 9.2 release, should I run newest 9.2.... What release do you recommend?
Hope I'm not asking too much :) Thanks in advance! Just trying to get the most out of this DVR server and Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH combo, thought about Ceton InfiniTV 6 PCIe card, but didn't think it would fit in the case.
I've debated to run freenas in a hyper v since cifs shares will only utilize one CPU anyway. Plex will only need to remux MKV's. Also, I thought about a Hardware raid controller for the 8 hot swap bays; I will be running RaidZ (Raid 5). Just seems like overkill since the board already has 12 sata ports and also, there articles about Raid 5 giving poor performance on many of the recommend Raid cards too.
Any input would be great!
Thanks
Allan
1) What size SSD's do you recommend for l2rarc, zil, etc to max out the performance? I should have 4 sata ports available.
2) There are 2 intel sata3, 4 intel sata2, 2 marvel se9172 sata3 Raid 0 or 1 capable, 4 marvel se9230 sata3 Raid 0,1,10 capable... I have the 8 wd20earx in hot swap bays (which freenas does not seem to like if you actually put one in or pull one out in my testing) Which sata ports would you use for the 8 drives? What port(s) for the other SSD's?
3) I only see the MythTV package in 9.2 release, should I run newest 9.2.... What release do you recommend?
Hope I'm not asking too much :) Thanks in advance! Just trying to get the most out of this DVR server and Ceton InfiniTV 6 ETH combo, thought about Ceton InfiniTV 6 PCIe card, but didn't think it would fit in the case.
I've debated to run freenas in a hyper v since cifs shares will only utilize one CPU anyway. Plex will only need to remux MKV's. Also, I thought about a Hardware raid controller for the 8 hot swap bays; I will be running RaidZ (Raid 5). Just seems like overkill since the board already has 12 sata ports and also, there articles about Raid 5 giving poor performance on many of the recommend Raid cards too.
Any input would be great!
Thanks
Allan