Murac
Dabbler
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- Mar 18, 2015
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How's it going people. A few days ago I was researching simple little builds for a pfsense firewall to add some proper protection to my home network which contains my FreeNAS build which is:
AsRock C2550D4I
6x4TB WD RED in RAIDZ2
16gb ECC RAM
And before long, I got to thinking how I was already at 80% of the tank volume, and plex really loves to transcode, so what if I finally switched over to one of those professional looking rack servers to handle the growth of my pool and use the extra resources after the CPU upgrade for some VMs to accommodate my personal projects. I admit I'm green when it comes to this enterprise hardware but knew of all the used parts on ebay and found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-...444539?hash=item281ecd053b:g:L5gAAOSwV0RXu0Ia
SYSTEM SUPERMICRO: 4U 846E16-R1200B
CHASSIS: CSE-846
HDD BACKPLANE: SAS2-846EL1
SYSTEM BOARD: X8DTE-F
PROCESSOR: DUAL INTEL XEON L5640 2.26GHZ SIX CORE CPU WITH 12MB CACHE
MEMORY 48GB MEMORY ( 12X 4GB) DDR-3 ECC
HARD DRIVE NO HARD DRIVES INSTALLED (24X TRAYS W/ SCREWS)
RAID CONTROLLER LSI 9210-8I ARRAY CONTROLLER
POWER SUPPLIES DUAL 1200W PWS-1K21P-1R POWER SUPPLIES
RAILS RAILS INCLUDED
-24-bays won't be full for atleast a decade.
-the L5640 passmark score is 6584 compared to the C2550's 2329, and half the CPUs. Definitely room to grow despite the age
This this is supposedly loud as hell and I haven't figured out where I'm going to put it yet. Challenge accepted.
From what I understand this is a decent price for what i'm getting and I've heard good things about the chassis.
There are two things I'm concerned about:
1) Is the LSI 9210-8I ARRAY CONTROLLER compatible with freenas? I see lots of talk about the 9211 and the 9201 being either compatible or flashable but not much about this model. I'm okay with just replacing this component if that's what it comes to. Any suggestions?
2) Once I increase my pool to include 12 total 4TB drives, will 48GB of RAM be a bottle neck if plex is transcoding 5+ streams simultaneously plus whatever the VMs are doing? (everything in the VMs will be light weight, atleast to start, input simple sandbox use case here)
Any and all criticism or insight is welcome.
Anyways, back to pfsense. I'll probably run it on the machine i already have despite it beyond way beyond what I would need for a home network.
Thanks!
AsRock C2550D4I
6x4TB WD RED in RAIDZ2
16gb ECC RAM
And before long, I got to thinking how I was already at 80% of the tank volume, and plex really loves to transcode, so what if I finally switched over to one of those professional looking rack servers to handle the growth of my pool and use the extra resources after the CPU upgrade for some VMs to accommodate my personal projects. I admit I'm green when it comes to this enterprise hardware but knew of all the used parts on ebay and found this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPERMICRO-...444539?hash=item281ecd053b:g:L5gAAOSwV0RXu0Ia
SYSTEM SUPERMICRO: 4U 846E16-R1200B
CHASSIS: CSE-846
HDD BACKPLANE: SAS2-846EL1
SYSTEM BOARD: X8DTE-F
PROCESSOR: DUAL INTEL XEON L5640 2.26GHZ SIX CORE CPU WITH 12MB CACHE
MEMORY 48GB MEMORY ( 12X 4GB) DDR-3 ECC
HARD DRIVE NO HARD DRIVES INSTALLED (24X TRAYS W/ SCREWS)
RAID CONTROLLER LSI 9210-8I ARRAY CONTROLLER
POWER SUPPLIES DUAL 1200W PWS-1K21P-1R POWER SUPPLIES
RAILS RAILS INCLUDED
-24-bays won't be full for atleast a decade.
-the L5640 passmark score is 6584 compared to the C2550's 2329, and half the CPUs. Definitely room to grow despite the age
This this is supposedly loud as hell and I haven't figured out where I'm going to put it yet. Challenge accepted.
From what I understand this is a decent price for what i'm getting and I've heard good things about the chassis.
There are two things I'm concerned about:
1) Is the LSI 9210-8I ARRAY CONTROLLER compatible with freenas? I see lots of talk about the 9211 and the 9201 being either compatible or flashable but not much about this model. I'm okay with just replacing this component if that's what it comes to. Any suggestions?
2) Once I increase my pool to include 12 total 4TB drives, will 48GB of RAM be a bottle neck if plex is transcoding 5+ streams simultaneously plus whatever the VMs are doing? (everything in the VMs will be light weight, atleast to start, input simple sandbox use case here)
Any and all criticism or insight is welcome.
Anyways, back to pfsense. I'll probably run it on the machine i already have despite it beyond way beyond what I would need for a home network.
Thanks!