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[TinTIn]

I'm interested to know on what scale people are using FreeNAS.

I'm running a 90 x 4TB solution over three JBODs so max raw 360TB.

I've looked at other solutions such as Solaris, Open Indi, OmniOS but I find FreeNAS the best for what I need.

I would be interested in everyone's thoughts.

Cheers


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[nick779]

Thats absolutely nuts.

Im managing a 6x 1tb :P

 

[Jailer]

I'm interested to know on what scale people are using FreeNAS.

I'm running a 90 x 4TB solution over three JBODs so max raw 360TB.

I've looked at other solutions such as Solaris, Open Indi, OmniOS but I find FreeNAS the best for what I need.

I would be interested in everyone's thoughts.

Cheers


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Would love to see a pic of this setup. Just curious, what use scenario requires that much storage?

 

[TinTIn]

Science.


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[Bidule0hm]

"90 x 4TB" that's a cute little home server :D ^^

BTW I'm managing 8x 3TB in RAID-Z3 ;)

 

[cyberjock]

I've got 10x6TB, but I've personally worked on boxes as large as about 400TB or so, and other systems that had over 100 disks that were 2TB drives.

FreeNAS definitely scales up very very nicely. In fact, I'd say that FreeNAS doesn't scale down as well as many home users would like. ;)

 

[TinTIn]

Thanks all. That's good to hear cyberjock that I'm not alone. I've just found FreeNAS to be the best all rounder. Performance, Function and ease of management. Glad it likes scaling as we are considering a 2PB solution.


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[danb35]

Thanks, @TinTIn. Until your post, I was rather pleased with my little 12-disk server...

 

[Ericloewe]

Thanks all. That's good to hear cyberjock that I'm not alone. I've just found FreeNAS to be the best all rounder. Performance, Function and ease of management. Glad it likes scaling as we are considering a 2PB solution.


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Just don't try to go over 2^78 bytes :D

 

[jgreco]

FreeNAS definitely scales up very very nicely. In fact, I'd say that FreeNAS doesn't scale down as well as many home users would like. ;)

Yeah, you got that right, brother.

 

[jnyl42]

I was going to make a 3x3TB z1 on retired desktop hardware.
I now have a 10x3TB z2 on [last-gen] server hardware, with a UPS and everything.

It was all going to be so simple.

But I could just drop in one more drive and rebuild as 11x3 z3... or get a 24-bay norco and then.....

 

[Mlovelace]

There was a user who had 114 drives (2TB IIRC). I have two systems with 18x3TB and two systems with 12x3TB drives.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

@TinTIn, I'm guessing you have a couple of BackBlaze pods.

FreeNAS scales down very nicely for my purposes, thanks.

 

[cyberjock]

WTB Backblaze pod. Offering $50. :D

 

[TinTIn]

I've got three of these controlled by a single node http://www.supermicro.co.uk/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E26-RJBOD1.cfm


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[vikingboy]

10 * 4TB. It's reassuring to know that FreeNAS has plenty of headroom to grow into.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Nice. So what's the science that's filling them up?

 

[jgreco]

Nice. So what's the science that's filling them up?

Observational data on human reproduction, obviously.

 

[TinTIn]

Very good. Not far away actually, Medical Science.


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[jgreco]

Medical science must be a more obscure euphemism for "giant porn archive" than I'm used to.