Greetings! So this is my first post, but I've read quite a bit today, and gone through a few different iterations on my build already. I figured why not get some feedback, see if I'm doing OK.
So far I've tried a 4x RAIDZ1 pool, which wrote like crap. So I did some reading and went with a 2x vdev mirror, striped [RAID 10]. That improved things a bit, but was still crappy. I also noticed a bit of intermittent behavior via CIFS - loss of connection, poor reads/writes, etc. This was while using the onboard Realtek. Read that Intel is preferred, so I grabbed a spare PCI-E NIC I had and installed it. That seems to be working better so far.
So that's where I am now - I plan to move an additional 4x Samsung HD103SJ [7200RPM, 32M, 1TB] over from my Ubuntu server.
This is a home box, used for storing backups, media, and docs/pics. I stream via TVersity to my PS3, and store all of my music there. Also redirect my My Documents & My Pictures to the network location. All of this is currently on a RAID10 or RAID 5 MDRAID via Ubuntu, which has great performance. I'm using that box for other things however (KVM virts, Ampache server) and need to separate the storage aspect. Hence this project.
So - any advice is welcomed. I do realize more RAM would help, but getting to 16GB via DDR2 is expensive ($300).
- Asus M4A785-M
- AMD Athlon II X2 245 2.9GHz
- 8GB DDR2
- Intel SASUC8I HBA/ LSI 1068 - JBOD
- 4x Samsung HD103SI [5400RPM, 32M, 1TB]
- 1x WD 36GB Raptor 10K [OS]
- Antec Basic 500W
- Intel GbE NIC
So far I've tried a 4x RAIDZ1 pool, which wrote like crap. So I did some reading and went with a 2x vdev mirror, striped [RAID 10]. That improved things a bit, but was still crappy. I also noticed a bit of intermittent behavior via CIFS - loss of connection, poor reads/writes, etc. This was while using the onboard Realtek. Read that Intel is preferred, so I grabbed a spare PCI-E NIC I had and installed it. That seems to be working better so far.
So that's where I am now - I plan to move an additional 4x Samsung HD103SJ [7200RPM, 32M, 1TB] over from my Ubuntu server.
This is a home box, used for storing backups, media, and docs/pics. I stream via TVersity to my PS3, and store all of my music there. Also redirect my My Documents & My Pictures to the network location. All of this is currently on a RAID10 or RAID 5 MDRAID via Ubuntu, which has great performance. I'm using that box for other things however (KVM virts, Ampache server) and need to separate the storage aspect. Hence this project.
So - any advice is welcomed. I do realize more RAM would help, but getting to 16GB via DDR2 is expensive ($300).
