Bender B. Rodriguez
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- Dec 23, 2013
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Hello everyone. I'd just like to take a quick minute and introduce myself.
I am a senior EE/Physics double major with strong interests in CompSci and ME. I've had a computer hooked up to my TV in one way or the other for 10 years or so now. Mostly just a WinXP box combined with a gyro-mouse, with a short time spent failing at LinuxMCE and then moving on to Win7. That is, until a year ago, when I discovered Plex MS.
I have also, for no real reason, had a Linux firewall for about the same length of time. For awhile it was Smoothwall, and now, for the last couple of years, pfSense.
With regard to storage, I've always just had a bunch of drives on a Winbox with. Luckily, I have never had a data drive fail on me. I have, however, had an OS drive fail and needless to say, it sucked.
I have finally decided to build a legitimate file server. My current one is an old AMD socket 939 gaming rig from 2005 or so and I'm thinking that it may be a good time to retire it. So far I have slowly bought a few 3TB Reds and recently, a Norco 4220. :D
My overall goal in the short term is to have a 24/7 FreeNAS server running by the beginning of March. I will most likely start with a 6x3TB Raid-z2 on a Supermicro motherboard with 16GB of ECC RAM and an Intel Xeon CPU. I'll add more 6-drive vdevs and RAM as needed. Currently, Supermicro's X10SL-F-O seems to be a decently good motherboard. The shear amount of SATA/SAS ports on it, (14!) makes a single M105, without a SAS expander, a real possibility for my chassis. Although, the 32GB RAM limit worries me with respect to how long the server will perform well as the vpool grows as I populate the 20-bay Nocro.
I'm sure I will have some neurotic questions in the coming days and weeks as I progress with my build. Hopefully I will not irritate any guard-dogs. :p
BBR
I am a senior EE/Physics double major with strong interests in CompSci and ME. I've had a computer hooked up to my TV in one way or the other for 10 years or so now. Mostly just a WinXP box combined with a gyro-mouse, with a short time spent failing at LinuxMCE and then moving on to Win7. That is, until a year ago, when I discovered Plex MS.
I have also, for no real reason, had a Linux firewall for about the same length of time. For awhile it was Smoothwall, and now, for the last couple of years, pfSense.
With regard to storage, I've always just had a bunch of drives on a Winbox with. Luckily, I have never had a data drive fail on me. I have, however, had an OS drive fail and needless to say, it sucked.
I have finally decided to build a legitimate file server. My current one is an old AMD socket 939 gaming rig from 2005 or so and I'm thinking that it may be a good time to retire it. So far I have slowly bought a few 3TB Reds and recently, a Norco 4220. :D
My overall goal in the short term is to have a 24/7 FreeNAS server running by the beginning of March. I will most likely start with a 6x3TB Raid-z2 on a Supermicro motherboard with 16GB of ECC RAM and an Intel Xeon CPU. I'll add more 6-drive vdevs and RAM as needed. Currently, Supermicro's X10SL-F-O seems to be a decently good motherboard. The shear amount of SATA/SAS ports on it, (14!) makes a single M105, without a SAS expander, a real possibility for my chassis. Although, the 32GB RAM limit worries me with respect to how long the server will perform well as the vpool grows as I populate the 20-bay Nocro.
I'm sure I will have some neurotic questions in the coming days and weeks as I progress with my build. Hopefully I will not irritate any guard-dogs. :p
BBR