Hey everyone,
I've used a bit of freenas before, though now I am looking at setting up a dedicated solution for home,
Can anyone tell me if I am missing anything, everything listed is either in my hands or in the mail. Happy to purchase more equipment if required.
Parts Purchased
Dell R510 II
1 x L5640 (6 core 60w TDP)
1 x H200 (will flash to IT-Mode)
7 x WD RE 3TB
7 x Toshiba 3TB (4 are in used in my current Terastation)
32GB Ram
x520-DA1 (DAC to 5548P Power connect) Storage traffic
1GbE Management network
So some details;
Server will only run FreeNAS, I have another server running all my App's.
Plex server has a 48GB tmpfs to try and limit I/O (main server has 256GB Ram) will this still be needed,
Data is not critical (Use crashplan to backup a 1TB Dataset, though if there is a way I can increase its reliability with freeNAS ears are open)
How well does crashplan work with freenas, I tried in an earlier release and had only problems
Data is mainly read.
Torrents / NZB's / unrar / 3-5 Plex streams will consume the most I/O
Few VM's using the freenas but not as OS drives (7 x 900GB 10k, with a 240GB SSD Cache manages the primary OS)
Since its new, V11 my best option (I prefer not to upgrade a system once data is live unless I have a really good reason)
Share types used
CIFS : 50%
NFS : 20%
iSCSI : 30%
My Plan
vDEV1 6 x WD Raidz2 (512e so 4k setup) (1 spare disk in case)
vDEV2 6 x Toshiba Raidz2 (4k setup) (1 Spare disk in case)
vPOOL across both vDEVS
My questions outside of any critique
- Storage vDEVs is this an ideal setup ? looking at creating the first, migrating, then bringing the Toshibas across to create the second
- 32GB Ram, can upgrade to 64GB using 16GB Dimms from my server, but for use case is it worth it?
- I have a UPS, should I enable synchronis writes ?
- Jumbo Frames (do these exist, I will google after, is this an ideal setup?)
- Do I need SSD's for L2ARC or for ZIL, from reading other threads my workload won't really see any benefit, though if it will happy to grab a pair
I've used a bit of freenas before, though now I am looking at setting up a dedicated solution for home,
Can anyone tell me if I am missing anything, everything listed is either in my hands or in the mail. Happy to purchase more equipment if required.
Parts Purchased
Dell R510 II
1 x L5640 (6 core 60w TDP)
1 x H200 (will flash to IT-Mode)
7 x WD RE 3TB
7 x Toshiba 3TB (4 are in used in my current Terastation)
32GB Ram
x520-DA1 (DAC to 5548P Power connect) Storage traffic
1GbE Management network
So some details;
Server will only run FreeNAS, I have another server running all my App's.
Plex server has a 48GB tmpfs to try and limit I/O (main server has 256GB Ram) will this still be needed,
Data is not critical (Use crashplan to backup a 1TB Dataset, though if there is a way I can increase its reliability with freeNAS ears are open)
How well does crashplan work with freenas, I tried in an earlier release and had only problems
Data is mainly read.
Torrents / NZB's / unrar / 3-5 Plex streams will consume the most I/O
Few VM's using the freenas but not as OS drives (7 x 900GB 10k, with a 240GB SSD Cache manages the primary OS)
Since its new, V11 my best option (I prefer not to upgrade a system once data is live unless I have a really good reason)
Share types used
CIFS : 50%
NFS : 20%
iSCSI : 30%
My Plan
vDEV1 6 x WD Raidz2 (512e so 4k setup) (1 spare disk in case)
vDEV2 6 x Toshiba Raidz2 (4k setup) (1 Spare disk in case)
vPOOL across both vDEVS
My questions outside of any critique
- Storage vDEVs is this an ideal setup ? looking at creating the first, migrating, then bringing the Toshibas across to create the second
- 32GB Ram, can upgrade to 64GB using 16GB Dimms from my server, but for use case is it worth it?
- I have a UPS, should I enable synchronis writes ?
- Jumbo Frames (do these exist, I will google after, is this an ideal setup?)
- Do I need SSD's for L2ARC or for ZIL, from reading other threads my workload won't really see any benefit, though if it will happy to grab a pair