lowerCamelCase
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Hello there!
I am building a FreeNAS machine right now. It will be used as data directory for 2 clients, shared data folder in 5 clients and as docker registry. In addition there will be a few clients saving some data from time to time, but those are pretty much irrelevant. The relevant data are a mixture of small files (<64kB) and medium files (<10mB), there are also a few multi gb files where I am mainly interested in fast reads. I want to build a raidz2 system.
All clients are Linux based and will propably use nfs. Generally speaking it is a home office environment with a bit more compute power than usual, but it will also serve to save a few private files, especially the picture database of my wife (in total about 2tb pictures in raw and jpg format).
I already own everything I need (not bought for this project but used for it now), but can go two ways from here.
Parts I plan to use:
I would actually prefer to use the older X5650 system, as I have other useful usage for the v3 system, not so much for the x5650. On the other hand I plan to use lz4 compression and I am not quite sure if the old Xeons can handle this task well enough.
What are your thoughts about this? Anything else I might have misdimensioned?
I have experience with bigger storage systems, contributed to beegfs, planed and used storage clusters in beegfs, ceph and lustre and have generally high knowledge about Linux systems. I have not used BSD in a while though. What I dont have experience with is small single noded storage systems as this one. I decided to go with FreeNAS as it seems to deliver good performance and I do not want to burn too much time on this project.
I am building a FreeNAS machine right now. It will be used as data directory for 2 clients, shared data folder in 5 clients and as docker registry. In addition there will be a few clients saving some data from time to time, but those are pretty much irrelevant. The relevant data are a mixture of small files (<64kB) and medium files (<10mB), there are also a few multi gb files where I am mainly interested in fast reads. I want to build a raidz2 system.
All clients are Linux based and will propably use nfs. Generally speaking it is a home office environment with a bit more compute power than usual, but it will also serve to save a few private files, especially the picture database of my wife (in total about 2tb pictures in raw and jpg format).
I already own everything I need (not bought for this project but used for it now), but can go two ways from here.
Parts I plan to use:
- 2*128gb SSD (MDADM Raid 1 as boot device) (not preused)
- 6*4tb HGST Ultrastar 7k6000 plus 1 spare (nearly not preused)
- 2*40gbit qdr Mellanox Infiniband PCIe Cards (all relevant clients are connected via qdr inf) (preused)
- dual Xeon X5650 with 12*8gb=96gb RAM (ddr3 reg ecc) (also possible to use 12*4gb=48gb) in combination with dell h310 raid controller (only 6 sata connectors on this generation of mainboards)
- dual Xeon E5-2637 v3 with 8*16gb=128gb RAM (ddr4 reg ecc) using on board sata connectors
I would actually prefer to use the older X5650 system, as I have other useful usage for the v3 system, not so much for the x5650. On the other hand I plan to use lz4 compression and I am not quite sure if the old Xeons can handle this task well enough.
What are your thoughts about this? Anything else I might have misdimensioned?
I have experience with bigger storage systems, contributed to beegfs, planed and used storage clusters in beegfs, ceph and lustre and have generally high knowledge about Linux systems. I have not used BSD in a while though. What I dont have experience with is small single noded storage systems as this one. I decided to go with FreeNAS as it seems to deliver good performance and I do not want to burn too much time on this project.