vooze
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Hey guys
While I enjoy our X20 HA for iSCSI VMware workload, I'm setting up a FreeNAS box for backups.
Supermicro SuperStorageServer
1x SSG-5049P-E1CTR36L
1x Intel XEON CLX 5222 4/2P 4C/8T 3.8G 16.5M 10.4GT 105W 3647
6x 8GB DDR4-2933 1Rx8 ECC REG DIMM
24 x 10TB Hard disks, either HGST/WD or Seagate enterprise.
2 spare drives
Boot from mirrored USB.
Now, the question about setting up the drives.
Since this is backup, I don't really need crazy performance, so:
I was thinking 2 vdevs of 12 drives in RAIDz2 or RAIDz3
or maybe 4 vdevs of 6 drives in RAIDz2?
The reason I was thinking either of these 3 setups, is I have room for 12 more hard drives, I want to be able to expand in the future.
Remember this is a backup server, so performance is not the most important thing.
What do you think?
I know I can buy older hardware for cheaper but this is for work, so I want new.
While I enjoy our X20 HA for iSCSI VMware workload, I'm setting up a FreeNAS box for backups.
Supermicro SuperStorageServer
1x SSG-5049P-E1CTR36L
1x Intel XEON CLX 5222 4/2P 4C/8T 3.8G 16.5M 10.4GT 105W 3647
6x 8GB DDR4-2933 1Rx8 ECC REG DIMM
24 x 10TB Hard disks, either HGST/WD or Seagate enterprise.
2 spare drives
Boot from mirrored USB.
Now, the question about setting up the drives.
Since this is backup, I don't really need crazy performance, so:
I was thinking 2 vdevs of 12 drives in RAIDz2 or RAIDz3
or maybe 4 vdevs of 6 drives in RAIDz2?
The reason I was thinking either of these 3 setups, is I have room for 12 more hard drives, I want to be able to expand in the future.
Remember this is a backup server, so performance is not the most important thing.
What do you think?
I know I can buy older hardware for cheaper but this is for work, so I want new.