Eispo
Cadet
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- Jul 27, 2016
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Hello overyone, this is my first post on the forum, so be a bit gentle :D
I've been surfing the forums, looking at builds and reading whatever advice the sticky sections has to offer when it comes to hardware. The problem is, I'm from Greece, hence a lot hardware mentioned here from newegg is not available to my country (from comments that I've read, even to Europe in general).
Anyways, to cut to the chase, I found a website that imports all kinds of "Enterprise grade" hardware, that are not for the everyday consumer (server motherboards etc). From my scouting here, a complete build should have: Case, Motherboard, Ram, CPU, PSU, SSD (for cache), and of course, the HDDs.
Now, from all the hardware I could find (pretty limited, not a large variety), I came up with the following:
- Case: "Fractal Design Define R4 (Window)", not so much of a problem, there are plenty vendors here that have all kinds of cases.
- Motherboard: "SuperMicro Socket 1150 MBD-X10SLM-F-O", one of the few that had onboard IPMI.
- RAM: "Kingston 32GB DDR3 ECC CL11 1600MHz (KVR16R11S4K4/32) (Kit 4 x 8192)", since there was a kit, I thought why not max out the dimms, since the MoBo can't handle more that 32GB.
- CPU: "Intel Pentium G3470 3.6 GHz Dual Core Socket 1150 53W (BX80646G3470)".
Questions:
I think that the motherboard is good. It has everything mentioned in the guidelines by the sticky post (yes, I made a list and checked every motherboard pretty much). As for the RAM, it's nearly impossible to find the "Tested Ram" in the SuperMicro website, available here. I read that Kingston is not recommended, but apart from that, there are only Crucial ones (that are ECC of course). As for the CPU, I read that we want high clock, since we use single-core (am I wrong? Could be that I got confused), and the G3470 isn't that much of a difference between the 3200, (I think) that is recommend.
Other things I could use as mentioned above:
RAM: "Crucial 16GB DDR3 ECC CL11 1600MHz (CT204872BB160B)"
Please note that I have very little choice as to what hardware I can use. So my real question here is, can we make it work with what I have?
So that leaves the PSU, SSD, and HDD.
I plan on maxing out the SATA ports, so 4x WD REDS (don't know about the capacity yet).
That leaves 2 other ports. I read that I must have an SSD for file CACHE. There goes one port, and we have one left, which I believe a 30GB SSD will do fine for the OS?
Questions vol2:
I read on some posts, (and I think on the recommended section of the website), that I should do well, to have two SSDs Mirrored for Caching. And I'm confident that there was something about mirroring the OS too. I believe that was on the "enterprise" section. I don't really need that, do I? I mean, maybe having two SSDs for Cache, but two for the OS? Also, if I'm going 4x4TB WD Reds, I'm at 16TB. Would the 32GB be too much RAM? I'm pretty negative on using higher capacity HDDs, the only way to have more than 16TB (and needing >16GB RAM), is through a 5th HDD. But then, I would have to use the OS through some USB. Is that recommended? I know that some people did it, but since I read that there are builds that have the OS on mirrored SSD (for security?), should I really have it on a flash drive?
Giving some answers to your questions:
Now that I think about it, some of you might be, "How can we know if you should do this or that, it depends on what you wanna do!". So, let's clarify what I want from my NAS.
24/7 Uptime
12-16TB RAW storage (if I can have more through 5th or 6th HDD, that would be great, but buying bigger HDDs is really cost-inefficient in case of failure.)
Gigabit Network Speeds (which I thing is covered by the motherboard)
and 1-2, maximum 3, simultaneous users through network.
Questions vol3:
Please, considering all the above, what PSU should I use? From my "calculations" 500W should be ok since they add up to 350W or so.
After giving it some thought while writing this, do you thing it would be wise to use a flash drive for the operating system, and a PCI-E SSD for caching? I could end up freeing the other two SATA and use more HHDs
Thank you guys for reading, and any reply would be welcome!
I've been surfing the forums, looking at builds and reading whatever advice the sticky sections has to offer when it comes to hardware. The problem is, I'm from Greece, hence a lot hardware mentioned here from newegg is not available to my country (from comments that I've read, even to Europe in general).
Anyways, to cut to the chase, I found a website that imports all kinds of "Enterprise grade" hardware, that are not for the everyday consumer (server motherboards etc). From my scouting here, a complete build should have: Case, Motherboard, Ram, CPU, PSU, SSD (for cache), and of course, the HDDs.
Now, from all the hardware I could find (pretty limited, not a large variety), I came up with the following:
- Case: "Fractal Design Define R4 (Window)", not so much of a problem, there are plenty vendors here that have all kinds of cases.
- Motherboard: "SuperMicro Socket 1150 MBD-X10SLM-F-O", one of the few that had onboard IPMI.
- RAM: "Kingston 32GB DDR3 ECC CL11 1600MHz (KVR16R11S4K4/32) (Kit 4 x 8192)", since there was a kit, I thought why not max out the dimms, since the MoBo can't handle more that 32GB.
- CPU: "Intel Pentium G3470 3.6 GHz Dual Core Socket 1150 53W (BX80646G3470)".
Questions:
I think that the motherboard is good. It has everything mentioned in the guidelines by the sticky post (yes, I made a list and checked every motherboard pretty much). As for the RAM, it's nearly impossible to find the "Tested Ram" in the SuperMicro website, available here. I read that Kingston is not recommended, but apart from that, there are only Crucial ones (that are ECC of course). As for the CPU, I read that we want high clock, since we use single-core (am I wrong? Could be that I got confused), and the G3470 isn't that much of a difference between the 3200, (I think) that is recommend.
Other things I could use as mentioned above:
RAM: "Crucial 16GB DDR3 ECC CL11 1600MHz (CT204872BB160B)"
Please note that I have very little choice as to what hardware I can use. So my real question here is, can we make it work with what I have?
So that leaves the PSU, SSD, and HDD.
I plan on maxing out the SATA ports, so 4x WD REDS (don't know about the capacity yet).
That leaves 2 other ports. I read that I must have an SSD for file CACHE. There goes one port, and we have one left, which I believe a 30GB SSD will do fine for the OS?
Questions vol2:
I read on some posts, (and I think on the recommended section of the website), that I should do well, to have two SSDs Mirrored for Caching. And I'm confident that there was something about mirroring the OS too. I believe that was on the "enterprise" section. I don't really need that, do I? I mean, maybe having two SSDs for Cache, but two for the OS? Also, if I'm going 4x4TB WD Reds, I'm at 16TB. Would the 32GB be too much RAM? I'm pretty negative on using higher capacity HDDs, the only way to have more than 16TB (and needing >16GB RAM), is through a 5th HDD. But then, I would have to use the OS through some USB. Is that recommended? I know that some people did it, but since I read that there are builds that have the OS on mirrored SSD (for security?), should I really have it on a flash drive?
Giving some answers to your questions:
Now that I think about it, some of you might be, "How can we know if you should do this or that, it depends on what you wanna do!". So, let's clarify what I want from my NAS.
24/7 Uptime
12-16TB RAW storage (if I can have more through 5th or 6th HDD, that would be great, but buying bigger HDDs is really cost-inefficient in case of failure.)
Gigabit Network Speeds (which I thing is covered by the motherboard)
and 1-2, maximum 3, simultaneous users through network.
Questions vol3:
Please, considering all the above, what PSU should I use? From my "calculations" 500W should be ok since they add up to 350W or so.
After giving it some thought while writing this, do you thing it would be wise to use a flash drive for the operating system, and a PCI-E SSD for caching? I could end up freeing the other two SATA and use more HHDs
Thank you guys for reading, and any reply would be welcome!
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