Hello fellow NAS Enthusiasts!

[vumda]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all doing good! New member of the community here From Atlanta, GA but not new to freenas. I've used it on and off over the past few years as I was searching and looking to build my own NAS. Having owned ReadyNAS+, Thecus, QNAP, Synology, I thought it was time to build my own and also reduce number of servers/appliances im running in my house!

I tested with a few opensource/free NAS solutions like Openfiler, xpnology, Rockstor (good NAS but still buggy in my opinion and not ready, BTRFS is great!).

So far FreeNAS has been wonderful and the new version is marvelous move forward and puts it way ahead of others.

My setup:
Vmware ESXi 6.0 NAS / PLEX / BLUEIRIS
-4U Supermicro CSE-846BA-R920B Case
-Supermicro X10DRi Server Motherboard
-Dual Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 2.0 14C CPUs
-128GB ECC RAM (4x 32GB Sticks)
DELL PERC H730 Adapter SAS/SATA/SSD 12GB/S 1GB
--Dual SSD 512GB RAID1 + DUAL HDD 6TB RAID1 (Local)
IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS HBA #1
--FreeNAS Corral (VM)
--4x HGST 6TB HDDs

Vmware ESXi 6.0 DRS & VSAN Cluster
4x Node, 2U Dell C6105 w/24 2.5" Drivebays
Dual AMD Opteron 4332 HE 3Ghz 6core (8 Total)
64GB RAM (256GB Total)
Dual Gbe onboard NICs & Dell Quad Gbe Mez NICs
LSI 9260-8i HBA w/ Battery Backup
4x Intel DC S3700 200GB SSDs (vSAN Cache)
8x 300GB 10k 2.5 SAS HDD 
vSAN Datastore: 2.1TB, grow to 10TB
(This is for sale if anyone is interested)


Gateway:
Vmware ESXi 6.0 Gateway Appliance w/ Sophos UTM

3x Cisco SG300 Switches
3x Other NASes (Synology 1813+ 8TB, Thecus N7700PRO 7TB, NetGearNAS+ 5TB
8x IP cameras
TP-Link EAP330 and Asus RT-68U Wireless Access points

 

[Spearfoot]

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all doing good! New member of the community here From Atlanta, GA but not new to freenas. I've used it on and off over the past few years as I was searching and looking to build my own NAS. Having owned ReadyNAS+, Thecus, QNAP, Synology, I thought it was time to build my own and also reduce number of servers/appliances im running in my house!

I tested with a few opensource/free NAS solutions like Openfiler, xpnology, Rockstor (good NAS but still buggy in my opinion and not ready, BTRFS is great!).

So far FreeNAS has been wonderful and the new version is marvelous move forward and puts it way ahead of others.

My setup:
Vmware ESXi 6.0 NAS / PLEX / BLUEIRIS
-4U Supermicro CSE-846BA-R920B Case
-Supermicro X10DRi Server Motherboard
-Dual Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 2.0 14C CPUs
-128GB ECC RAM (4x 32GB Sticks)
DELL PERC H730 Adapter SAS/SATA/SSD 12GB/S 1GB
--Dual SSD 512GB RAID1 + DUAL HDD 6TB RAID1 (Local)
IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS HBA #1
--FreeNAS Corral (VM)
--4x HGST 6TB HDDs

Vmware ESXi 6.0 DRS & VSAN Cluster
4x Node, 2U Dell C6105 w/24 2.5" Drivebays
Dual AMD Opteron 4332 HE 3Ghz 6core (8 Total)
64GB RAM (256GB Total)
Dual Gbe onboard NICs & Dell Quad Gbe Mez NICs
LSI 9260-8i HBA w/ Battery Backup
4x Intel DC S3700 200GB SSDs (vSAN Cache)
8x 300GB 10k 2.5 SAS HDD 
vSAN Datastore: 2.1TB, grow to 10TB
(This is for sale if anyone is interested)


Gateway:
Vmware ESXi 6.0 Gateway Appliance w/ Sophos UTM

3x Cisco SG300 Switches
3x Other NASes (Synology 1813+ 8TB, Thecus N7700PRO 7TB, NetGearNAS+ 5TB
8x IP cameras
TP-Link EAP330 and Asus RT-68U Wireless Access points

Welcome to the forum! How are things there in good ol' Hot 'Lanta?

That's an impressive array of equipment you have; I'm green with envy. :)

 

[joeschmuck]

That's an impressive array of equipment you have; I'm green with envy. :)

Agreed!

 

[vumda]

Welcome to the forum! How are things there in good ol' Hot 'Lanta?

That's an impressive array of equipment you have; I'm green with envy. :)

:) Thanks. Things are pretty good over here in Hotlanta!

A lot of work and thought went into this built... few issues with the Norco cases (cheap doesn't cut it!) and then I ended up going for supermicro, solid case!