Hello guys!
In my company we use Qnap TS-439. We want to switch it to more reliable and expandable machine with ZFS and Qnap will be as backup. We only interested in storing files and sharing them to Windows clients. Nothing more (no media center, surveillance or any similar things)
Because so far we are pretty happy from two used HP Z400 worksations (Intel Xeon W3520 2.67GHz,12GB RAM ECC,120SSD,Windows 10) bought from reliable reseller we want to use the same machine, but with more RAM, different chasis and maybe different CPU.
1$ = 3,6PLN
CPU: Intel Xeon W3520 or Intel Xeon E5620
- we are more forward to latter because it has AES NI which is usefull in case we would want use VPN (we have 2 OpenVPN severs)
RAM: 24 GB DDR3 ECC
- this is maximum for this mainboard, so as best practice says we can handle 24TBs of data without a hassle? Anything above will slow things right?
PSU: Delta 475W 80 bronze, ATX
- we want to stick with ATX standard, no rack or any fancy swapable psu's
SSD: 120GB Sandisk
- dont remember the model name
onboard SATA: 6xSATAII
- yea, its the only bottleneck, but i hope there are some PCI-E controllers compatible with FreeBSD which can extend that number.
This whole setup will cost us 1280PLN (about 355$)
Additionally ...
chasis: Ravcore Goliath - 300PLN (about 83$)
- We want to move to it all interiors from original HP Z400 chasis. AFAIK cheapest chasis with 7x3,5" bays and 4x5,25" bays. And if you put something like IcyBox IB-555SSK you get 12x3,5" bays! IMO crazy for this level of price!
disks: some WD REDs (4x2TB) in RAID10 - 1240PLN (about 350$)
- we want use RAID10 because its easier to expand than RAIDZ1 or 2. After about 5 years we gathered 1,6TB od data (documents and blueprints mostly) which only 0,5GB is most precious so we think 4TB of usefull space would be more than enough for some time.
What do you think? My only concern is about max drive capacity. AFAIK mainboard can recognise 3TB disks in GPT, but is it somewhat relevant to ZFS?
Sorry for any grammar mistakes, im from Poland.
In my company we use Qnap TS-439. We want to switch it to more reliable and expandable machine with ZFS and Qnap will be as backup. We only interested in storing files and sharing them to Windows clients. Nothing more (no media center, surveillance or any similar things)
Because so far we are pretty happy from two used HP Z400 worksations (Intel Xeon W3520 2.67GHz,12GB RAM ECC,120SSD,Windows 10) bought from reliable reseller we want to use the same machine, but with more RAM, different chasis and maybe different CPU.
1$ = 3,6PLN
CPU: Intel Xeon W3520 or Intel Xeon E5620
- we are more forward to latter because it has AES NI which is usefull in case we would want use VPN (we have 2 OpenVPN severs)
RAM: 24 GB DDR3 ECC
- this is maximum for this mainboard, so as best practice says we can handle 24TBs of data without a hassle? Anything above will slow things right?
PSU: Delta 475W 80 bronze, ATX
- we want to stick with ATX standard, no rack or any fancy swapable psu's
SSD: 120GB Sandisk
- dont remember the model name
onboard SATA: 6xSATAII
- yea, its the only bottleneck, but i hope there are some PCI-E controllers compatible with FreeBSD which can extend that number.
This whole setup will cost us 1280PLN (about 355$)
Additionally ...
chasis: Ravcore Goliath - 300PLN (about 83$)
- We want to move to it all interiors from original HP Z400 chasis. AFAIK cheapest chasis with 7x3,5" bays and 4x5,25" bays. And if you put something like IcyBox IB-555SSK you get 12x3,5" bays! IMO crazy for this level of price!
disks: some WD REDs (4x2TB) in RAID10 - 1240PLN (about 350$)
- we want use RAID10 because its easier to expand than RAIDZ1 or 2. After about 5 years we gathered 1,6TB od data (documents and blueprints mostly) which only 0,5GB is most precious so we think 4TB of usefull space would be more than enough for some time.
What do you think? My only concern is about max drive capacity. AFAIK mainboard can recognise 3TB disks in GPT, but is it somewhat relevant to ZFS?
Sorry for any grammar mistakes, im from Poland.
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