AllanB
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For a photo archive. Planning on running RAID-Z3. Plan on expanding as needed out to 12 drives.
Case: Fractal Design Define XL. I already have this; holds 13 or so drives, or more with some creativity.
Main drives: 8 x Western Digital Red 8 TB WEWD80EFRX. 64 TB total, 40 TB capacity in RAID-Z3.
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSH-CTF LGA 1151. Has 8xSATA and 8xSAS ports, 10 Gb ethernet, chipset C236. Manufacturer link.
Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5. There are a lot of options here, this seems to be decent.
Memory: 2 x Crucial 16GB Single 2133 DDR4 PC4-17000 ECC. 32 GB to start, can be expanded to 64 GB if needed.
FreeNAS drive: m.2 Crucial MX300 525GB. Lots of options here. Smaller would probably work fine but doesn't really save much money.
I haven't looked into power supplies, fans, CPU cooling or cables yet.
Does this look like a good start? I'm not really expecting to do a lot of transcoding but there might be some. System will primarily be a photo archive with just 1 or 2 users.
Thanks for any tips
Case: Fractal Design Define XL. I already have this; holds 13 or so drives, or more with some creativity.
Main drives: 8 x Western Digital Red 8 TB WEWD80EFRX. 64 TB total, 40 TB capacity in RAID-Z3.
Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSH-CTF LGA 1151. Has 8xSATA and 8xSAS ports, 10 Gb ethernet, chipset C236. Manufacturer link.
Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1225 v5. There are a lot of options here, this seems to be decent.
Memory: 2 x Crucial 16GB Single 2133 DDR4 PC4-17000 ECC. 32 GB to start, can be expanded to 64 GB if needed.
FreeNAS drive: m.2 Crucial MX300 525GB. Lots of options here. Smaller would probably work fine but doesn't really save much money.
I haven't looked into power supplies, fans, CPU cooling or cables yet.
Does this look like a good start? I'm not really expecting to do a lot of transcoding but there might be some. System will primarily be a photo archive with just 1 or 2 users.
Thanks for any tips