Having done some reading and research I built a little freenas box as for backup storage, media serving etc. and as a bit of an experiment. It seems to run quite well so far.
Case: Node 304
Motherboard: ASRock E3C226D2l Server Board
CPU Corei3 4130T
RAM: 16 Gb Kingston ECC CL11
PSU: Corsair RM550
HDD: 6 x WD Green 500gb RaidZ2 Freenas 9.2
As far as the disks go I had the 500Gb WD greens around after some upgrades in other machines and decided to use them to start with while I was experimenting and getting a feel for things.
I checked them and WDIDLE'd them to 300 seconds and they are running well RaidZ2 giving enough space for now, but they are older drives and wont last forever.
I intend to upgrade the disks in size, always intending to use 2Tb disks (not decided which flavour yet) which would conform exactly to the recommendation “4Gb RAM + 1Gb per Tb storage” May either resilver one at a time or start again fresh from backup depending on things at the time.
My question is: (finally you say!) would I be causing myself a problem using 3Tb drives over the 2Tb?
I am stuck with 16Gb RAM and 18Tb is over the ideal but I have seen configs similar. It is just that 3Tb drives are becoming the value sweet spot as time goes on and I was just wondering if the system would take more than 12Tb with no problems before starting to buy them? I am happy with the build and spec otherwise and don’t want to mess it up!
I have read and searched but no-one seems to have asked this particular one (waiting to be corrected). Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful (first post so be gentle!)
Case: Node 304
Motherboard: ASRock E3C226D2l Server Board
CPU Corei3 4130T
RAM: 16 Gb Kingston ECC CL11
PSU: Corsair RM550
HDD: 6 x WD Green 500gb RaidZ2 Freenas 9.2
As far as the disks go I had the 500Gb WD greens around after some upgrades in other machines and decided to use them to start with while I was experimenting and getting a feel for things.
I checked them and WDIDLE'd them to 300 seconds and they are running well RaidZ2 giving enough space for now, but they are older drives and wont last forever.
I intend to upgrade the disks in size, always intending to use 2Tb disks (not decided which flavour yet) which would conform exactly to the recommendation “4Gb RAM + 1Gb per Tb storage” May either resilver one at a time or start again fresh from backup depending on things at the time.
My question is: (finally you say!) would I be causing myself a problem using 3Tb drives over the 2Tb?
I am stuck with 16Gb RAM and 18Tb is over the ideal but I have seen configs similar. It is just that 3Tb drives are becoming the value sweet spot as time goes on and I was just wondering if the system would take more than 12Tb with no problems before starting to buy them? I am happy with the build and spec otherwise and don’t want to mess it up!
I have read and searched but no-one seems to have asked this particular one (waiting to be corrected). Any thoughts or opinions would be helpful (first post so be gentle!)