Studd Mufin
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- Aug 6, 2014
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I'll start off with I have never built a freenas but i've looked through a lot of these threads looking for good hardware recommendations etc. Anyway i'll try not to bore you guys and get to the stuff. I'm looking to build a server to hold a ton of video media for a small video production house. We shoot lots of HD video and starting to do a lot more 4k video. We want to be able to house all the media on one server and have a few editors working with the media. We are currently have 5 edit machines but we want some extra room for growth.
Here are the parts i'm thinking of getting let me know if anything is not good.
Case - NZXT Source elite 210 http://amzn.com/B005869J4O (I already have it from an old computer)
CPU - E3-1230v3 http://amzn.com/B00D697PEG
Mobo - Supermicro x10sae http://amzn.com/B00D656NSY
RAM - 32gb Samsung ECC RAM http://amzn.com/B00A74PF9K
HDDs - 8x 3tb WD RED drives
I'm also thinking of getting IO Creset pci sata card if we need to expand more http://amzn.com/B00AZ9T3OU
Let me explain to you what my plan is and if I'm making a mistake or doing something stupid or could be doing better/more efficiently let me know.
I'm thinking of doing 1 pool of 8x 3tb WD Red drives in raidz3. I would have 15tb of usable storage with 3 redundant disks. Is raidz3 safe enough?
My other option is 2 pools. 1 pool that is 4x3tb wd red that is for our current projects that is in raidz2 and a backup pool (4x3tb wd red) in raidz2 that we would backup our projects to.
So I would essentially have 6tb of 'usable' space. Is that overkill?
Is the CPU overkill? could I get away with something less powerful and a little cheaper? I'm thinking that compression with zfs and all my video files wouldn't really help save space so it probably isn't worth trying.
any and all help would be appreciated.
Here are the parts i'm thinking of getting let me know if anything is not good.
Case - NZXT Source elite 210 http://amzn.com/B005869J4O (I already have it from an old computer)
CPU - E3-1230v3 http://amzn.com/B00D697PEG
Mobo - Supermicro x10sae http://amzn.com/B00D656NSY
RAM - 32gb Samsung ECC RAM http://amzn.com/B00A74PF9K
HDDs - 8x 3tb WD RED drives
I'm also thinking of getting IO Creset pci sata card if we need to expand more http://amzn.com/B00AZ9T3OU
Let me explain to you what my plan is and if I'm making a mistake or doing something stupid or could be doing better/more efficiently let me know.
I'm thinking of doing 1 pool of 8x 3tb WD Red drives in raidz3. I would have 15tb of usable storage with 3 redundant disks. Is raidz3 safe enough?
My other option is 2 pools. 1 pool that is 4x3tb wd red that is for our current projects that is in raidz2 and a backup pool (4x3tb wd red) in raidz2 that we would backup our projects to.
So I would essentially have 6tb of 'usable' space. Is that overkill?
Is the CPU overkill? could I get away with something less powerful and a little cheaper? I'm thinking that compression with zfs and all my video files wouldn't really help save space so it probably isn't worth trying.
any and all help would be appreciated.