Hi All,
Been reading the forums for a while now. Just starting to build a FreeNAS box, and have a few questions that don't seem to pop up in the search easily, so I guess it's time to register.
Anyway, to Start - Will it FreeNAS? (I Hope so!)
X11SSM-F (Yeah, ok maybe a bit old, but seems popular! :)
i3-6300 (Hopefully low Power)
Two 16Gb DDR4-2400 ECC RAM (Maybe two more??? Is more data cache a bad thing?)
Four 4Tb WD RED NAS Drives (Maybe two more also??? see Below)
Seasonic SSR-750FM PSU (G550's are old now, so what's a guy to buy?)
Two Samsung FIT USB 64Gb Boot Drives (Yeah, Yeah, I know. still just testing this whole thing out yet.)
I'm hoping to add a Chelsio T520-CR soon. Ideally two fiber links from the NAS Box. The NAS Box will reside in secure reinforced concrete fireproof bunker, on isolated power, in a hopefully lightning proof configuration. (Yes, I AM that guy! LOL!)
The Goal is a NAS box for the house. The Main PC on a dedicated fast line, with most PC's accessing files as needed via network. I'd like to give the main PC a 10Gb link to the NAS to reduce latency and increase throughput. Data is to be the main "Files" drive, the less often used but larger "Working" drive, and an offsite backup from work. Work backup is just hand carried offsite backups on an encrypted disk, copied to NAS Box to ensure offsite data even when the "transit" disks are in transit. Eventually I'd like to setup VPN for nightly offsite backups, etc.) Total NAS Storage currently about 1.5Tb. Maybe growing to 3Tb in a couple of years.
Currently FreeNAS hardware is running Ram tests. Will probably do a quick windows install to run some large number crunching calculations for a few weeks. (Y-Cruncher, and/or similar) for a hardware stress test (And, it's my standard benchmark for new PC's...).
But, My biggest question is if the Chelsio T520 series cards are supported for windows 7? My current main PC is windows 7 still, and I'd like to do some testing between FreeNAS and the Win7 box with some 10Gb stuff, but can't seem to spot drivers.
My second questions is for a the given usage, how to optimize the vdev for redundancy and speed. What's a good balance. 3 mirrored 4Tb disks per vdev, or would some RAIDZ be better... ...but still reading on this.
So, if anyone wants to offer insight on the Chelsio/Win7 thing, great. If not I'll ask in a day or two in the networking forum...
Anyway, I'm sure you'll all be hearing more from me soon!
Dan
Been reading the forums for a while now. Just starting to build a FreeNAS box, and have a few questions that don't seem to pop up in the search easily, so I guess it's time to register.
Anyway, to Start - Will it FreeNAS? (I Hope so!)
X11SSM-F (Yeah, ok maybe a bit old, but seems popular! :)
i3-6300 (Hopefully low Power)
Two 16Gb DDR4-2400 ECC RAM (Maybe two more??? Is more data cache a bad thing?)
Four 4Tb WD RED NAS Drives (Maybe two more also??? see Below)
Seasonic SSR-750FM PSU (G550's are old now, so what's a guy to buy?)
Two Samsung FIT USB 64Gb Boot Drives (Yeah, Yeah, I know. still just testing this whole thing out yet.)
I'm hoping to add a Chelsio T520-CR soon. Ideally two fiber links from the NAS Box. The NAS Box will reside in secure reinforced concrete fireproof bunker, on isolated power, in a hopefully lightning proof configuration. (Yes, I AM that guy! LOL!)
The Goal is a NAS box for the house. The Main PC on a dedicated fast line, with most PC's accessing files as needed via network. I'd like to give the main PC a 10Gb link to the NAS to reduce latency and increase throughput. Data is to be the main "Files" drive, the less often used but larger "Working" drive, and an offsite backup from work. Work backup is just hand carried offsite backups on an encrypted disk, copied to NAS Box to ensure offsite data even when the "transit" disks are in transit. Eventually I'd like to setup VPN for nightly offsite backups, etc.) Total NAS Storage currently about 1.5Tb. Maybe growing to 3Tb in a couple of years.
Currently FreeNAS hardware is running Ram tests. Will probably do a quick windows install to run some large number crunching calculations for a few weeks. (Y-Cruncher, and/or similar) for a hardware stress test (And, it's my standard benchmark for new PC's...).
But, My biggest question is if the Chelsio T520 series cards are supported for windows 7? My current main PC is windows 7 still, and I'd like to do some testing between FreeNAS and the Win7 box with some 10Gb stuff, but can't seem to spot drivers.
My second questions is for a the given usage, how to optimize the vdev for redundancy and speed. What's a good balance. 3 mirrored 4Tb disks per vdev, or would some RAIDZ be better... ...but still reading on this.
So, if anyone wants to offer insight on the Chelsio/Win7 thing, great. If not I'll ask in a day or two in the networking forum...
Anyway, I'm sure you'll all be hearing more from me soon!
Dan