cookiesowns
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So...
Finally bit the bullet on everything. Going forward from my previous thread here http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...-choice-for-48tb-zfs-array.21494/#post-125248
I've finally decided on the following:
CPU: E5-1620V2
MB: Supermicro X9SRH-7TF
RAM: 64GB ECC REG 1866Mhz
SSD: 2x Intel S3500 120GB for either as L2ARC or ZIL for testing / various not whats.
HDD: 24x Hitachi Deskstar NAS drives
HBA: 2x LSI 9207-8i + onboard Supermicro LSI 2308
Chassis: Supermicro SC846BA-R920B
The array setup would most likely be 4x zdevs of 6 drive Z2's for a total of 64TB RAW Usable.
The second server would be the same exact setup but with 2x zdevs of 11 Z3's with the extra 2 drives either as warm spares or for iSCSI live media use. Or potentially 3x zdevs of 8 Z2's.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a FreeNAS newbie ( I've done ZOL & large raid builds before, but that was in lab environments ) in terms of benchmarking or any configuration changes? It doesn't seem like the FreeNAS GUI supports initial creation of striped zpools off the beginning, or am I mistaken on this? Such as ARC optimization & 10GbE optimization?
And does anyone have any experiences in backing up large ZFS arrays ? Especially to tapes.
Finally bit the bullet on everything. Going forward from my previous thread here http://forums.freenas.org/index.php...-choice-for-48tb-zfs-array.21494/#post-125248
I've finally decided on the following:
CPU: E5-1620V2
MB: Supermicro X9SRH-7TF
RAM: 64GB ECC REG 1866Mhz
SSD: 2x Intel S3500 120GB for either as L2ARC or ZIL for testing / various not whats.
HDD: 24x Hitachi Deskstar NAS drives
HBA: 2x LSI 9207-8i + onboard Supermicro LSI 2308
Chassis: Supermicro SC846BA-R920B
The array setup would most likely be 4x zdevs of 6 drive Z2's for a total of 64TB RAW Usable.
The second server would be the same exact setup but with 2x zdevs of 11 Z3's with the extra 2 drives either as warm spares or for iSCSI live media use. Or potentially 3x zdevs of 8 Z2's.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a FreeNAS newbie ( I've done ZOL & large raid builds before, but that was in lab environments ) in terms of benchmarking or any configuration changes? It doesn't seem like the FreeNAS GUI supports initial creation of striped zpools off the beginning, or am I mistaken on this? Such as ARC optimization & 10GbE optimization?
And does anyone have any experiences in backing up large ZFS arrays ? Especially to tapes.