snicke
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After a lot of reading, googling, asking and thinking it's time for me to start buying the parts for my brand new Intel Skylake based FreeNAS server. But before that, of course I would like all the skilled and helpful people of the excellent FreeNAS community to review my build. :)
The use case:
Looking forward to your input fellow FreeNAS geeks! Thank you in advance! :)
The use case:
- Most important: Secure storage for my family pictures, videos and files.
- I really want a system where the probability of data loss is so unlikely that "it will not happen in practice" except if my server explodes/house burns down/theft etc. I always have two backups of my important data, one on site and one off site, so I don't at all look at it as a backup replacement but I do think that if you have chosen a system like FreeNAS mainly for data integrity purposes your backups should only come into play in an unlikely emergency situation where the RAIDZ configuration really didn't matter.
- Media server for movies, music, TV-shows etc. Using Plex when needed. Though probably using Kodi on the HTPC.
- Owncloud: Be able to access all my files remotely in a convenient way.
- Jails: At least one Redmine and one Wordpress server.
- GIT-repos.
- Enough head room to be considered future proof both regarding hardware, expansion possibilities and initial storage capacity and vdev configuration.
- Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSM-F
- X11SSH-F as an alternative and then getting an M.2 PCIe 3.0 (X2 speed!) port but losing an ordinary PCIe 3.0 slot (X4 speed!). Feel free to give me your opinion of what is most useful.
- CPU:
Intel Xeon E3-1240v5 3,5GHzUpdate: Intel Xeon E3-1230v5 3,4GHz since I cannot find 1240 in stock.- Yes, why not E3-1230v5 @ 3,4GHz? So little difference in clock frequency/speed! Well, the local price difference is so low so why not 3,5GHz with the 1240.
- RAM: 2x Samsung 16GB DDR4 ECC 2133Mhz UDIMM (M391A2K43BB1-CPB - unbufferd) for a total of 32GB.
- Storage: 8x WD Red 4TB drives (WD40EFRX) in RAIDZ3
- Main motivation of RAIDZ3: See "Most important" in use case above.
- Usable storage in RAIDZ3: 5*4*0,8 = 16TB.
- (Relevant comment from @Ericloewe: That's 16 drive-manufacturer-TB, not 16*2^40 Bytes. You get closer to 14.5TB.)
- PSU: Corsair RM650i 650W
- 86,16% efficiency @ 10% load @ 230V (source: Corsair)
- 90,34% efficiency @ 20% load @ 230V (source: Corsair)
- Boot SSD: Samsung 850 EVO Series MZ75E120B 120GB
- Yes, overkill for boot drive both size and speed wise, but the local price difference for all smaller and slower drives (branded and "no names") is so small so why not go with a really good and probably reliable boot drive. Cannot use USB stick as boot drive (and probably don't want to = follow current community the trend of using SSD) since FreeNAS currently doesn't support XHCI for USB which makes the USB ports on the Supermicro unusable until XHCI for USB becomes supported by FreeNAS in the future.
- HBA: IBM ServeRAID M1015
- For additional SATA ports at least for the boot SSD but maybe also for a jails SSD and future expansion. The motherboard has 8 Sata3 ports though for the planned 8 storage drives.
- Update: 1x (or 2x in mirror) Samsung 850 EVO Series MZ-75E250B 250GB SSD pool for jails specifically.
- Chassi: Fractal Design Define R5 OR Fractal Design Node 804 OR The best thing that the skilled FreeNAS community can come up with.
- Please come up with your proposals and why! Obviously a not to pricey and silent chassi is wanted but where the highest priority is that all the computer parts are kept cool enough and well ventilated.
Looking forward to your input fellow FreeNAS geeks! Thank you in advance! :)
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