TechSupportJosh
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Hi everyone,
We're looking to build out a NAS for internal work resources and we've specced a system which I think meets all our requirements, but I'd appreciate a sanity check in our hardware choices.
Our main requirement is roughly 15TB~ of storage for on-site backups, very rarely read from so does not need to be massively performant. We already have a server rack and our room has AC running 24/7. The data will also need to be encrypted at rest and as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be a problem with TrueNAS as long as the CPU has AES-NI support (which it does).
The main server itself is from here:
And for drives / boot drive, we've gone for these:
Something I am already aware of is the H330 RAID card. My understanding is that this will require a firmware flash as detailed in this post to put it into IT mode (which I believe makes it act like a HBA card) but a sanity check would be appreciated on the rest of the hardware too.
In terms of upgrading down the line, it should be possible to just add extra drives later on and expand the TrueNAS pool?
Otherwise, I believe this spec should give us roughly 15TB of space with RAIDz2 which offers a nice level of redundancy versus useable storage.
We're looking to build out a NAS for internal work resources and we've specced a system which I think meets all our requirements, but I'd appreciate a sanity check in our hardware choices.
Our main requirement is roughly 15TB~ of storage for on-site backups, very rarely read from so does not need to be massively performant. We already have a server rack and our room has AC running 24/7. The data will also need to be encrypted at rest and as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be a problem with TrueNAS as long as the CPU has AES-NI support (which it does).
The main server itself is from here:
Code:
1 x Dell PowerEdge R730 XD 2U 12x 3.5" (LFF) 2x 2.5" (SFF) - 3x PCIe-x16 LP, 4x PCIe-x16 FH 1 x Intel Xeon E5-2667 V4 - 8-Core 16-Threads 3.20GHz (3.60GHz Boost, 25MB Cache, 135W TDP) 1 x Dell PowerEdge Heatsink 2 x 16GB - DDR4 2666MHz (PC4-21300, 2Rx4) 1 x H330 (SAS/SATA) RAID Kit - 0/1/5/6/10/50/60/Non-RAID 12 x Dell 3.5" (LFF) Hot-Swap Caddy 2 x Dell 2.5" (SFF) Hot-Swap Caddy 1 x Dell PowerEdge 'Platinum' Hot-Swap PSU 750W 1 x Dell PowerEdge B4 Ready Rail Kit 1 x UK Plug to C13 (Kettle Lead) Power Cable
And for drives / boot drive, we've gone for these:
Code:
5 x Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS Hard Drive 3.5" 5400RPM 1 x 240GB Cruical MX500
Something I am already aware of is the H330 RAID card. My understanding is that this will require a firmware flash as detailed in this post to put it into IT mode (which I believe makes it act like a HBA card) but a sanity check would be appreciated on the rest of the hardware too.
In terms of upgrading down the line, it should be possible to just add extra drives later on and expand the TrueNAS pool?
Otherwise, I believe this spec should give us roughly 15TB of space with RAIDz2 which offers a nice level of redundancy versus useable storage.
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