Our office decommissioned several IBM Intellistation Z Pro workstations (model 9228), so I built two NAS boxes:
power supply 815 watts
2 Xeon cpu duel core 2.33GHz
8 Gb ram (kinda small, I know)
8 Seagate Barracuda 3Tb HDD sata 6 NCQ 64mb cache 7200 rpm
1 Intel Raid Controller RT3WB080
the disks are in a RAID50 configuration, so this yields 16.3Tb usable disk space. One NAS is version 8.3.1 and the other is 9.1. Our data access is via Windows CIFS.
The 9.1 box is used as PULL Rsync from the other box. I've enabled dedup and compression. I know it really doesn't have enough ram for dedup, but I don't care if it's slow because for now it's just a backup. And this old ram is getting expensive!
I guess what I'm asking from the forum: Do you see any big red flags with this hardware config?
power supply 815 watts
2 Xeon cpu duel core 2.33GHz
8 Gb ram (kinda small, I know)
8 Seagate Barracuda 3Tb HDD sata 6 NCQ 64mb cache 7200 rpm
1 Intel Raid Controller RT3WB080
the disks are in a RAID50 configuration, so this yields 16.3Tb usable disk space. One NAS is version 8.3.1 and the other is 9.1. Our data access is via Windows CIFS.
The 9.1 box is used as PULL Rsync from the other box. I've enabled dedup and compression. I know it really doesn't have enough ram for dedup, but I don't care if it's slow because for now it's just a backup. And this old ram is getting expensive!
I guess what I'm asking from the forum: Do you see any big red flags with this hardware config?