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Hi all, I am planning my next big FreeNAS. I have an almost brand new SuperMicro Chassis with dual CPUs & 32GB RAM. The Chassis hos 36 6TB HDDs & 2 1TB SSDs for boot.
This new server will have just one job: Storage vault for Acronis Backup 12.5.
Some of what I backup are Exchange databases. Currently my two exchange databases add up to just under 2TB total size. I also backup a slew of production servers with total size per server being less than 500GB. In the next month or two I will be deploying a new Exchange Server and with luck I will be able to read all of the data into one database of apx 2TB.
When my SuperMicro arrived there was a gotcha as I could not create RAIDs so I called SuperMicro and they arraigned for a new RAID card and I was good to go. I believe the first RAID card a SUPER AOC-S3008L-L8E may be what I need for FreeNAS (comments are welcome). On the original RAID card all I could see were 36HDDs with no way to RAID them.
Currently I have:
32GB RAM
36 X 6TB HDDs
2 X 1TB SSDs
2 empty NVME slots
I am wondering if I would kill the machine or make it run like the wind if I added Four 2TB enterprise level SSDS in two RAID1 volumes and used one volume for read & the other for write cache? The reasoning behind my GIANT R/W cache is trying to handle GIANT files easier?
I am planning on using the two SSDs I currently have as a place for my logs.
I am planning on booting from a pair of NVME drives in RAID1 configuration.
And YES this time I will write down all the serial numbers on the drives and what slot they are in the day I build the beast instead of waiting 3.5 years as I did 4 years ago.
Thanks to everyone,
This new server will have just one job: Storage vault for Acronis Backup 12.5.
Some of what I backup are Exchange databases. Currently my two exchange databases add up to just under 2TB total size. I also backup a slew of production servers with total size per server being less than 500GB. In the next month or two I will be deploying a new Exchange Server and with luck I will be able to read all of the data into one database of apx 2TB.
When my SuperMicro arrived there was a gotcha as I could not create RAIDs so I called SuperMicro and they arraigned for a new RAID card and I was good to go. I believe the first RAID card a SUPER AOC-S3008L-L8E may be what I need for FreeNAS (comments are welcome). On the original RAID card all I could see were 36HDDs with no way to RAID them.
Currently I have:
32GB RAM
36 X 6TB HDDs
2 X 1TB SSDs
2 empty NVME slots
I am wondering if I would kill the machine or make it run like the wind if I added Four 2TB enterprise level SSDS in two RAID1 volumes and used one volume for read & the other for write cache? The reasoning behind my GIANT R/W cache is trying to handle GIANT files easier?
I am planning on using the two SSDs I currently have as a place for my logs.
I am planning on booting from a pair of NVME drives in RAID1 configuration.
And YES this time I will write down all the serial numbers on the drives and what slot they are in the day I build the beast instead of waiting 3.5 years as I did 4 years ago.
Thanks to everyone,