Hi,
I'm planning a build intended for inexpensive 8 bay storage based on FreeNAS. It is intended to be used as NFS server, small amount of clients (1-3), archiving image data (many small files, mainly archive with bursts of RW, probably cacheable (< 15GB of data) when image data is being processed over NFS).
So far, this is what I came up with:
Xeon E3-1220 v6
Supermicro X11SSH-F
2x 16G ECC UDIMM Corsair CT16G4WFD8266
(Boot device) SSD M.2 Kingston 240GB SSDNOW A1000
Chassis Antec P101 Silent
PSU 550W Antec NE550M
HDD 8x WD Red WD40EFRX
Choosing X11SSH-F over X11SSM-F is because I'd like to put 8 disks inside and I'm reluctant to put it in another place with USB as a boot device that might be mistakenly pulled out.
Will it FreeNAS? I'm concerned about the M.2 SSD as a boot device.
Also, are there any recommendations for something that has smaller footprint, reasonably ventilated, but can still take 8 drives? (if not, 6 drives?)
Would love to hear your feedback.
I'm planning a build intended for inexpensive 8 bay storage based on FreeNAS. It is intended to be used as NFS server, small amount of clients (1-3), archiving image data (many small files, mainly archive with bursts of RW, probably cacheable (< 15GB of data) when image data is being processed over NFS).
So far, this is what I came up with:
Xeon E3-1220 v6
Supermicro X11SSH-F
2x 16G ECC UDIMM Corsair CT16G4WFD8266
(Boot device) SSD M.2 Kingston 240GB SSDNOW A1000
Chassis Antec P101 Silent
PSU 550W Antec NE550M
HDD 8x WD Red WD40EFRX
Choosing X11SSH-F over X11SSM-F is because I'd like to put 8 disks inside and I'm reluctant to put it in another place with USB as a boot device that might be mistakenly pulled out.
Will it FreeNAS? I'm concerned about the M.2 SSD as a boot device.
Also, are there any recommendations for something that has smaller footprint, reasonably ventilated, but can still take 8 drives? (if not, 6 drives?)
Would love to hear your feedback.