Hello Guys,
I know a lot of you have large FreeNas builds & I'm looking at upgrading from my HP N40L w/ 5x2TB drives RAIDz, to something that can ultimately store 24 drives & i'm a little lost on what hardware would achieve this without breaking the bank entirely.
This box won't be running a full 24 drives initially, but rather expansion will go something like:
My thoughts on hardware so far are as follows:
Equally if 32GB of RAM and an 8-core AMD processor is probably going to be overkill, then I'll scale back.
Any help is massively appreciated, even if it's pointing me to other build-logs that I somehow managed to miss when scouring the forums.
I know a lot of you have large FreeNas builds & I'm looking at upgrading from my HP N40L w/ 5x2TB drives RAIDz, to something that can ultimately store 24 drives & i'm a little lost on what hardware would achieve this without breaking the bank entirely.
This box won't be running a full 24 drives initially, but rather expansion will go something like:
- starting off with a 8 x 2TB in RAIDz2 array initially w/ a single LSI HBA
- then once that's filled, add a 8 x 4TB in RAIDz2 array adding an additional LSI HBA
- then once that's filled, add a 8 x 4TB in RAIDz2 array adding a 3rd and final LSI HBA
My thoughts on hardware so far are as follows:
- Case : X-Case RM 424 - 24 Hotswap Bay 6GB Mini SAS (SATA/SAS Backplane) - Rail Kit included
- CPU: AMD 8320 (Great bang for the buck, and lots of cores)
- Memory: 32GB (Fairly non-descript, not sure if ECC is worth it as this is just for home use)
- Motherboard: SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 (Basically picked at random, looks like a feature packed board)
- Storage: I already own 5 x 2TB WD RED's for stage 1, so will purchase an additional 3.
- PSU: 850Watt Corsair (Again, fairly non-descript)
- Expansion: LSI HBA (Not sure of model, did have a look for the recommended IBM HBA's but in the UK they retail for £100 + P&P)
- Cache Drive: Crucial M4 128GB
Equally if 32GB of RAM and an 8-core AMD processor is probably going to be overkill, then I'll scale back.
Any help is massively appreciated, even if it's pointing me to other build-logs that I somehow managed to miss when scouring the forums.