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I've run FreeNAS for a number of years now on a very low power AMD E-350 CPU, 16GB DDR3 non ECC RAM, and only the capability of 4 onboard SATA, and limited expansion via 1x PCIe slots after adding a dual port Intel Nic. Great part is it consumes only about 20w with the 4 x 2TB drives.
I've kept good backups to an alternate system for backup purposes only, in case the house of cards came tumbling down around me, luckily I never had an issue. I've had a productive year and I'm brushing up on my 80% limit on my storage so I figured it's time to do things right, and retire the Abomination, or at least re-purpose it.
Well I came across a few good deals on used H310 HBA's that I'll flash to it mode, and was able to pick up 10 of the HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" 4TB 7200 RPM for extremely cheap around last Easter that I'm strongly leanign towards RaidZ3. Well last year was good and I've got some spare change laying around and I'm looking to finally take the plunge on finishing the system. I knew I wanted to run two of the HBA's and a 10Gbps SFP+ NIC for faster transfers between my Main Rig and the ESXi box. Everything else will be on 1Gbps copper. Using 40TB of raw disk space I wanted at least 32GB of RAM but with looking to play with duplication, and adding additional drives as my current case will support 22 x 3.5" Drives and 6 x 2.5" drives I wanted a much higher ram ceiling then many similarly priced boards would support.
System Build via Google Sheet
Motherboard: Supermicro ATX DDR4 LGA 2011 Motherboards X10SRL-F-O
HBA: (2) Dell H310/LSI 9211-8i
Processor: Xeon Processor E5-1620 v4
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DXi4 90mm SSO2 CPU Cooler (I was looking at other coolers but I like the push pull configurations, as well as the silence of Noctua fans.)
Main Storage: 10 x HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" 4TB 7200 RPM RaidZ3
Power Supply: Antec Earthwatts 650W ATX12V/EPS12V 650 Energy Star Certified Power Supply EA-650 Platinum
Memory: Samsung M393A4K40BB1-CRC 32GB DDR4-2400 LP ECC Reg Server Memory (2 to start, with eventually populating all 8 slots for a total of 256GB potentially)
or
Memory: Samsung M393A2K40BB1-CRC 16GB DDR4-2400 LP ECC REG Server Memory (2 to start, with eventually populating all 8 slots for a total of 128GB potentially)
So I've looking to get some feedback as the only things I've grabbed so far I saw others on here were using with FreeNAS and was listed as supported. Both the ram listed above is on SuperMicro's compatibility list for this board, just looking for your thoughts on biting the bullet on 32GB DIMM's and starting off with two and adding maybe another set in 6 months or so before playing with iSCSI or DeDuplication.I may start off with two 16GB DIMMS and purchase the 32GB DIMMS thereafter.
So what are you using it for besides a massive porn collection. Well there is no porn collection sadly, but my main use is primarily for storing and delivering my media collection; Movies, TV Shows, Music, Pictures, Books, etc. My girlfriend before I introduced her to streaming services was one whom would buy the box sets of TV Series or Movies, well after many hours of ripping everything is deliverable via a Raspberry Pi and Kodi, and the physical media is in the basement and out of the living room/bedroom.
I run a IT consulting business where I am routinely working on customer machines so I have CloneZilla Images, Operating System ISO, and all of my applications and such. I'm considering having CloneZilla start to dump directly to the FreeNAS box vs to Flash or USB 3.0 External Drives.
I also do 1080p 60FPS video recording that I've done to a local 4 x 1TB Raid 0 at higher bit rate support, that I then copy over to my current FreeNAS machine for actual storage as my standard 1Gbps isn't fast enough to deliver the throughput necessary. This is part of why I'm looking to setup a machine to machine 10Gbps SFP+ Data network between my Main Rig, FreeNAS, and my ESXi Server.
I also plan to play around with having my ESXi server doing diskless short of the CF Card for the OS and hosting my VM's off of the FreeNAS and get the opportunity to play with deduplication, although I expect a lot of my VM disk usage to shrink as I've migrated a lot of my VM's to FreeBSD from Windows and Linux. I'll probably look into rebuilding them under one FreeBSD system via Jails to play around with performance and storage and RAM usage. This again is another reason why I'm looking to deploy the 10Gbps data network, parallel to my copper 1Gbps network.
My current FreeNAS build has 2 x 2TB that I am thinking of setting up as a Raid 10 for the VM's to reside on, although I think I'll move to 6 SSD's eventually in RaidZ2 or Two Mirrored RaidZ vdevs as I suspect that will offer better performance.
I've kept good backups to an alternate system for backup purposes only, in case the house of cards came tumbling down around me, luckily I never had an issue. I've had a productive year and I'm brushing up on my 80% limit on my storage so I figured it's time to do things right, and retire the Abomination, or at least re-purpose it.
Well I came across a few good deals on used H310 HBA's that I'll flash to it mode, and was able to pick up 10 of the HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" 4TB 7200 RPM for extremely cheap around last Easter that I'm strongly leanign towards RaidZ3. Well last year was good and I've got some spare change laying around and I'm looking to finally take the plunge on finishing the system. I knew I wanted to run two of the HBA's and a 10Gbps SFP+ NIC for faster transfers between my Main Rig and the ESXi box. Everything else will be on 1Gbps copper. Using 40TB of raw disk space I wanted at least 32GB of RAM but with looking to play with duplication, and adding additional drives as my current case will support 22 x 3.5" Drives and 6 x 2.5" drives I wanted a much higher ram ceiling then many similarly priced boards would support.
System Build via Google Sheet
Motherboard: Supermicro ATX DDR4 LGA 2011 Motherboards X10SRL-F-O
HBA: (2) Dell H310/LSI 9211-8i
Processor: Xeon Processor E5-1620 v4
CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-U9DXi4 90mm SSO2 CPU Cooler (I was looking at other coolers but I like the push pull configurations, as well as the silence of Noctua fans.)
Main Storage: 10 x HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5" 4TB 7200 RPM RaidZ3
Power Supply: Antec Earthwatts 650W ATX12V/EPS12V 650 Energy Star Certified Power Supply EA-650 Platinum
Memory: Samsung M393A4K40BB1-CRC 32GB DDR4-2400 LP ECC Reg Server Memory (2 to start, with eventually populating all 8 slots for a total of 256GB potentially)
or
Memory: Samsung M393A2K40BB1-CRC 16GB DDR4-2400 LP ECC REG Server Memory (2 to start, with eventually populating all 8 slots for a total of 128GB potentially)
So I've looking to get some feedback as the only things I've grabbed so far I saw others on here were using with FreeNAS and was listed as supported. Both the ram listed above is on SuperMicro's compatibility list for this board, just looking for your thoughts on biting the bullet on 32GB DIMM's and starting off with two and adding maybe another set in 6 months or so before playing with iSCSI or DeDuplication.I may start off with two 16GB DIMMS and purchase the 32GB DIMMS thereafter.
So what are you using it for besides a massive porn collection. Well there is no porn collection sadly, but my main use is primarily for storing and delivering my media collection; Movies, TV Shows, Music, Pictures, Books, etc. My girlfriend before I introduced her to streaming services was one whom would buy the box sets of TV Series or Movies, well after many hours of ripping everything is deliverable via a Raspberry Pi and Kodi, and the physical media is in the basement and out of the living room/bedroom.
I run a IT consulting business where I am routinely working on customer machines so I have CloneZilla Images, Operating System ISO, and all of my applications and such. I'm considering having CloneZilla start to dump directly to the FreeNAS box vs to Flash or USB 3.0 External Drives.
I also do 1080p 60FPS video recording that I've done to a local 4 x 1TB Raid 0 at higher bit rate support, that I then copy over to my current FreeNAS machine for actual storage as my standard 1Gbps isn't fast enough to deliver the throughput necessary. This is part of why I'm looking to setup a machine to machine 10Gbps SFP+ Data network between my Main Rig, FreeNAS, and my ESXi Server.
I also plan to play around with having my ESXi server doing diskless short of the CF Card for the OS and hosting my VM's off of the FreeNAS and get the opportunity to play with deduplication, although I expect a lot of my VM disk usage to shrink as I've migrated a lot of my VM's to FreeBSD from Windows and Linux. I'll probably look into rebuilding them under one FreeBSD system via Jails to play around with performance and storage and RAM usage. This again is another reason why I'm looking to deploy the 10Gbps data network, parallel to my copper 1Gbps network.
My current FreeNAS build has 2 x 2TB that I am thinking of setting up as a Raid 10 for the VM's to reside on, although I think I'll move to 6 SSD's eventually in RaidZ2 or Two Mirrored RaidZ vdevs as I suspect that will offer better performance.
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