Dell T430

[stevedparry]

Hey all

Synology user here, I'm wanting to move to Truenas Scale.
I have a Dell T430 server which I was wanting to use

I understand the PERC H730 that is in the server is not good, So was intending to fit a LSI 9211 in IT Mode.
This will mount 8 x 10tb SAS drives in the hotswap trays. (I dont intend to use the hotswap feature)
I was thinking of using either RAIDZ-1 or RAIDZ-2
I intend to use something like 2 x SSD for the boot drive in mirror mode (truenas mirror not hardware)
It has 16gb of memory but will probably up this to 64gb

I have all the parts apart from the controller.

Im pretty much using for storage and lab work so docker instances mainly (im a software developer by trade)

Is there anything I've missed, will this be sufficient?

 

[NugentS]

I would suggest RAIDZ2 rather than Z1
What will you use to backup ?
64GB is good, 16 is OK - IMHO absolute minimum
9211 is fine for HDD's, don't expect to mount many SSD's on it and get good performance - it doesn't have the guts for many of them.

Not sue how you will "turn off" hot swap. But whatever

 

[stevedparry]

I would suggest RAIDZ2 rather than Z1
What will you use to backup ?
64GB is good, 16 is OK - IMHO absolute minimum
9211 is fine for HDD's, don't expect to mount many SSD's on it and get good performance - it doesn't have the guts for many of them.

Not sue how you will "turn off" hot swap. But whatever

Thanks for replying NugentS

Yeah I will probably use RaidZ2
I'll be using my old synology
I though 64GB would be good, from what I've read the ZFS filesystem works better with more ECC memory
Yeah HDD's are all I intend to use, I may add a cache drive onto a different sata controller later. Storage is more important that performance.

I meant I wouldnt be pulling out any drives whilst the server is on :)

Cheers

 

[sfatula]

I would add a NUT compatible UPS would be useful, er, required in my book. For 8 10TB drives, would not use a single pool of 8 drives with Raidz1. Raidz2 better in this case.

When you say you might add a "cache" drive later, what type of cache drive do you think you might add?

What size SSD for boot?

 

[stevedparry]

I would add a NUT compatible UPS would be useful, er, required in my book. For 8 10TB drives, would not use a single pool of 8 drives with Raidz1. Raidz2 better in this case.

When you say you might add a "cache" drive later, what type of cache drive do you think you might add?

What size SSD for boot?

I was just going to get 2 x 250gb ssd's or maybe go for 2 x SATA DOM's (supermicro probably)

Cache, not really got that far into the build, its not really necessary at the moment, I just want somewhere to store data

 

[stevedparry]

I would add a NUT compatible UPS would be useful, er, required in my book. For 8 10TB drives, would not use a single pool of 8 drives with Raidz1. Raidz2 better in this case.

When you say you might add a "cache" drive later, what type of cache drive do you think you might add?

What size SSD for boot?

Sorry forgot to mention, ill be having a UPS, I have 2 PSU's so one will have the UPS and other direct into the wall, any recommendations?

 

[sfatula]

Sorry forgot to mention, ill be having a UPS, I have 2 PSU's so one will have the UPS and other direct into the wall, any recommendations?

I have no preference, as long as it's on the NUT compatible list. I personally use an Eaton, whatever was good price at the time I bought it. I will say the Cyberpowers, at least some of them, have various driver issues/bugs.

Network UPS Tools - Hardware compatibility list

Power Devices support

networkupstools.org

 

[stevedparry]

Dont suppose anyone knows what cable I need to connect the 9211-8i card to the hotswap bays?

 

[danb35]

I'd expect an ordinary SFF-8087 SAS cable.

 

[stevedparry]

I'd expect an ordinary SFF-8087 SAS cable.

The cable supplied with the H730 seems to be a Y1MGK which doesnt seem to be compatible with a the LSI card.

From what ive read the H730 has Two internal HD Mini-SAS SFF8643

and the LSI has Two x4 internal mini-SAS connectors (SFF8087)

 

[danb35]

Well, the backplane almost certainly has either SFF8087 or SFF8643 connectors. If the H730 has SFF8643, and both ends of the cable have the same connectors, then you need a SFF8087-to-SFF8643 cable. But from what I'm finding here, the Y1MGK cable should be SFF8087 on each end.

This cable has both connectors. The wider one, on the left, is a SFF8087. The narrower one, on the right, is a SFF8643: