brando56894
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I'm going to start upgrading my NAS in the near future since I finally have a job again and I was wondering if it would be worth it to switch from SATA to SAS since I'm buying new HDDs anyway and my case already has a SAS backplane built in (I know I have to buy a controller PCI card). My current setup is as follows
Hardware
AsrockRack C2750D4I Intel Avoton
Silverstone CS-DS380B Case
2x8GB DDR3 1600 MHz ECC RAM (plan on upgrading to 4x16GB)
Pools
RAIDZ: 3x3TB WD Green and 1x3TB HGST NAS
Stripe: 2x1TB WD Red
Single: 1x750 GB 2.5" HDD (replacement for my nearly dead 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD, plan on replacing it with 2x32 or 64 GB Striped SSDs to help with wear leveling)
I'm going to replace the 4 3 TB drives with 5 or 6 8 TB drives and will probably convert it back over to RAIDZ2, but that's going to take a few months since it's going to cost a few grand haha. Before I go out and buy all these drives I'd like to get some opinions since I probably won't be doing an upgrade as large as this for years to come (it's going to take a while for me to fill up 30TB+ hahaha) so I want to make the right choices and not regret my decision down the line. This pool will mostly be for storage of HD multimedia (mostly 1080P at the moment, with some 720P. I'll be storing 4K content if I ever get a 4K TV), it's secondary functions will be for backups of anything I have on my PC that I want to save (not much, considering most of it is already on the NAS, a few hundred gigabytes) which includes a folder currently called "Safe Keeping" (the aforementioned few hundred GBs), and will probably include an iSCSI block device or two just for the hell of it. Data will be written to the pool on a daily basis by one or two specific programs, this won't be constant, but sporadically throughout the day for anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours. Data will be read from the pool by the Kodi Media Centers throughout my apartment (one at a time, there are only two), along with Plex media server which is mostly used by my friends for remote streaming at random times.
The internal space in the case itself is very tight and makes cabling difficult, also there are currently 3 different controllers managing my 10 SATA ports:
Intel® C2750 for 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s, 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s
Marvell SE9172: 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s,
Marvell SE9230: 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s
I've read that people that have this board have hit bottlenecks when using all the ports, I already have 8 used and I'm probably reaching the limit. My thinking is that I could attach the 6x8 TB drive pool via SAS to an LSI PCI-E x8 card, use one SATA port for a SATA DOM (yea I know it's not necessary and it's overkill but so what, this whole build is overkill for my needs hahaha), connect my stripe (which will house my jails) to the Intel SATA 3 ports, then later on if and when it's necessary add an L2ARC and a ZIL to one of the Marvell controllers.
Hardware
AsrockRack C2750D4I Intel Avoton
Silverstone CS-DS380B Case
2x8GB DDR3 1600 MHz ECC RAM (plan on upgrading to 4x16GB)
Pools
RAIDZ: 3x3TB WD Green and 1x3TB HGST NAS
Stripe: 2x1TB WD Red
Single: 1x750 GB 2.5" HDD (replacement for my nearly dead 128 GB Crucial M4 SSD, plan on replacing it with 2x32 or 64 GB Striped SSDs to help with wear leveling)
I'm going to replace the 4 3 TB drives with 5 or 6 8 TB drives and will probably convert it back over to RAIDZ2, but that's going to take a few months since it's going to cost a few grand haha. Before I go out and buy all these drives I'd like to get some opinions since I probably won't be doing an upgrade as large as this for years to come (it's going to take a while for me to fill up 30TB+ hahaha) so I want to make the right choices and not regret my decision down the line. This pool will mostly be for storage of HD multimedia (mostly 1080P at the moment, with some 720P. I'll be storing 4K content if I ever get a 4K TV), it's secondary functions will be for backups of anything I have on my PC that I want to save (not much, considering most of it is already on the NAS, a few hundred gigabytes) which includes a folder currently called "Safe Keeping" (the aforementioned few hundred GBs), and will probably include an iSCSI block device or two just for the hell of it. Data will be written to the pool on a daily basis by one or two specific programs, this won't be constant, but sporadically throughout the day for anywhere from 15 minutes to a few hours. Data will be read from the pool by the Kodi Media Centers throughout my apartment (one at a time, there are only two), along with Plex media server which is mostly used by my friends for remote streaming at random times.
The internal space in the case itself is very tight and makes cabling difficult, also there are currently 3 different controllers managing my 10 SATA ports:
Intel® C2750 for 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s, 4 x SATA2 3.0 Gb/s
Marvell SE9172: 2 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s,
Marvell SE9230: 4 x SATA3 6.0 Gb/s
I've read that people that have this board have hit bottlenecks when using all the ports, I already have 8 used and I'm probably reaching the limit. My thinking is that I could attach the 6x8 TB drive pool via SAS to an LSI PCI-E x8 card, use one SATA port for a SATA DOM (yea I know it's not necessary and it's overkill but so what, this whole build is overkill for my needs hahaha), connect my stripe (which will house my jails) to the Intel SATA 3 ports, then later on if and when it's necessary add an L2ARC and a ZIL to one of the Marvell controllers.