Hello All,
Just a quick introduction to say Hi and get some feedback and advise. I have been around NAS and external storage a little in my job role and have tinkered in that side a little but usually bought NAS specific devices and now its my turn to spice things up a little.
My FreeNAS is being built to store a lot of data at home, Videos, Applications, Data Backups, Images etc. I do not need to use it other than to sit there and receive or feed data a quickly as possible.
My plan is to use the following for a FreeNAS (This is what I have to hand but I do have access to other parts and can buy).
1x HP Microserver G7 N54L 2.2Ghz AMD x64 CPU (Modified to take 6 HDD's and 1 SSD, Don't ask).
16 GB Kingston PC3-10600E unbuffered ECC RAM.
1x LSI 9240-8i 8-port SAS / SATA Controller.
Question 1: OS USB or SSD? I have a 16GB USB Drive I can put the OS on and I also have a good brand 256GB SSD I can put this on - Which should I do and what sort of difference will it make.
Question 2: Hard Drives - I have 4x SAS 4TB HDD's and 2x 4TB SATA HDD's
SAS 4TB are: Seagate Constellation ES.3
SATA 4TB are: Hitachi HDS724040ALE640
I want to get as much space as possible but with data redundancy. Recommendations please? Traditionally I would do either RAID 10 or 0 or 1 with older NAS devices depending on purpose and amount of disks. Thoughts on RAID 6 in this situation?
Question 3: (Also based partly on 2). How much would I suffer trying to use the SAS and SATA devices on a combined RAID? Or should I Create 2 different volumes?
Questi
Just a quick introduction to say Hi and get some feedback and advise. I have been around NAS and external storage a little in my job role and have tinkered in that side a little but usually bought NAS specific devices and now its my turn to spice things up a little.
My FreeNAS is being built to store a lot of data at home, Videos, Applications, Data Backups, Images etc. I do not need to use it other than to sit there and receive or feed data a quickly as possible.
My plan is to use the following for a FreeNAS (This is what I have to hand but I do have access to other parts and can buy).
1x HP Microserver G7 N54L 2.2Ghz AMD x64 CPU (Modified to take 6 HDD's and 1 SSD, Don't ask).
16 GB Kingston PC3-10600E unbuffered ECC RAM.
1x LSI 9240-8i 8-port SAS / SATA Controller.
Question 1: OS USB or SSD? I have a 16GB USB Drive I can put the OS on and I also have a good brand 256GB SSD I can put this on - Which should I do and what sort of difference will it make.
Question 2: Hard Drives - I have 4x SAS 4TB HDD's and 2x 4TB SATA HDD's
SAS 4TB are: Seagate Constellation ES.3
SATA 4TB are: Hitachi HDS724040ALE640
I want to get as much space as possible but with data redundancy. Recommendations please? Traditionally I would do either RAID 10 or 0 or 1 with older NAS devices depending on purpose and amount of disks. Thoughts on RAID 6 in this situation?
Question 3: (Also based partly on 2). How much would I suffer trying to use the SAS and SATA devices on a combined RAID? Or should I Create 2 different volumes?
Questi