moxxii
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- Jan 3, 2015
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Hi guys,
I´ve read cyberjock´s PowerPoint presentation and his HW recommendation guide.
Purpose:
- running Plex Media Server on the FreeNAS build
- about 22 TB of usable storage (Raid-z2), 1 vdev
- 12 hours per day operation in my living room
- Backups on Qnap TS-569 Pro with 5x WD30EFRX (RAID5), very important stuff is backuped on an additional external Hard Drive. The Qnap is located at my parents apartment, so if anything happens to my own apartment, I still have most of my data.
What I have ordered first (and why I opened this thread):
- Mainboard: Supermicro A1SA7-2750F (order cancelled)
- ECC-RAM: 2x Intelligent Memory DIMM 16GB, DDR3L-1333, CL9, ECC (IMM2G72D3(L)DUD8AG-B15E) for a total of 32GB (order cancelled)
What I´ve ordered finally:
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620v3
- CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12DX-i4
- Mainboard: Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F
- RAM: 2x 32GB DDR4 LRDIMM-2133 Samsung M386A4G40DM0-CPB
- HDDs: 6x WD60EFRX 6TB Drives (Raid-z2)
- Fans: 3x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm, 2x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 140mm
- SATA cables: 5x SilverStone 4 Way SATA Power Splitter Cable
- PSU: Seasonic Snow Silent 1050
- Case: Lian Li D8000
- UPS: Eaton UPS Pro 850 DIN
After I read cyberjock´s PowerPoint, I realized, that for my purpose, I would need 12 GB RAM for FreeNAS + Plex Media Server. Leaving 20 GB RAM for Storage.
I have 4x 6 TB = 24 TB of raw storage now, that means my build is lacking 4 GB RAM.
Another thing is that cyberjock´s PowerPoint recommends 3, 5, or 9 disks for a Raid-z1 pool, for best performance. That´s less important to me, but if I would go for 5 Drives, I would definetely have to buy 2 additional 16 GB DIMMS.
And thats the problem:
One 16GB DIMM for the Avoton Mainboard costs me 337 Euros (just one seller in Germany sells this RAM)! 670 Euros for 32 GB. I am asking myself, was the board the wrong choice? Paying 1340 Euros for 64 GB of Registered ECC-RAM? This build will become very expensive once it is finished and I am limited in RAM and so am I in Storage. I contacted Supermicro before ordering and they told me, that this is the only tested 16GB DIMM for this board.
I went with this MB because it has a lot of SATA Ports, LSI 2116 Controller, IPMI, Support for ECC RAM, silent (no fan) and low power consumption compared to many of the Supermicro XEON Builds I considered too. The main reasons I didn´t go with another XEON Supermicro build was, the number of identical SATA ports on the board and the power consumption.
Maybe I was too shortsighted, but it´s still not too late to correct my orders.
I am still thinking about the Supermicro X9SRH-7F. I have one last question about this board and its SATA Ports. Can I combine all the 14 SATA Ports (2 SATA 3.0 ports, 4 SATA 2.0 ports, 8 SAS2 ports) to lets say, 2 Raid-z2 pools with 6 disks each? I mean the 6 disks of pool #1 connected to all different types of SATA ports? For example: 2 to SATA 3.0, 2 to SATA 2.0 and the remaining 2 hdd´s to the SAS2 ports?
I´ve read cyberjock´s PowerPoint presentation and his HW recommendation guide.
Purpose:
- running Plex Media Server on the FreeNAS build
- about 22 TB of usable storage (Raid-z2), 1 vdev
- 12 hours per day operation in my living room
- Backups on Qnap TS-569 Pro with 5x WD30EFRX (RAID5), very important stuff is backuped on an additional external Hard Drive. The Qnap is located at my parents apartment, so if anything happens to my own apartment, I still have most of my data.
What I have ordered first (and why I opened this thread):
- Mainboard: Supermicro A1SA7-2750F (order cancelled)
- ECC-RAM: 2x Intelligent Memory DIMM 16GB, DDR3L-1333, CL9, ECC (IMM2G72D3(L)DUD8AG-B15E) for a total of 32GB (order cancelled)
What I´ve ordered finally:
- CPU: Intel Xeon E5-1620v3
- CPU cooler: Noctua NH-U12DX-i4
- Mainboard: Supermicro X10SRH-CLN4F
- RAM: 2x 32GB DDR4 LRDIMM-2133 Samsung M386A4G40DM0-CPB
- HDDs: 6x WD60EFRX 6TB Drives (Raid-z2)
- Fans: 3x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 120mm, 2x Be Quiet! Silent Wings 2 140mm
- SATA cables: 5x SilverStone 4 Way SATA Power Splitter Cable
- PSU: Seasonic Snow Silent 1050
- Case: Lian Li D8000
- UPS: Eaton UPS Pro 850 DIN
After I read cyberjock´s PowerPoint, I realized, that for my purpose, I would need 12 GB RAM for FreeNAS + Plex Media Server. Leaving 20 GB RAM for Storage.
I have 4x 6 TB = 24 TB of raw storage now, that means my build is lacking 4 GB RAM.
Another thing is that cyberjock´s PowerPoint recommends 3, 5, or 9 disks for a Raid-z1 pool, for best performance. That´s less important to me, but if I would go for 5 Drives, I would definetely have to buy 2 additional 16 GB DIMMS.
And thats the problem:
One 16GB DIMM for the Avoton Mainboard costs me 337 Euros (just one seller in Germany sells this RAM)! 670 Euros for 32 GB. I am asking myself, was the board the wrong choice? Paying 1340 Euros for 64 GB of Registered ECC-RAM? This build will become very expensive once it is finished and I am limited in RAM and so am I in Storage. I contacted Supermicro before ordering and they told me, that this is the only tested 16GB DIMM for this board.
I went with this MB because it has a lot of SATA Ports, LSI 2116 Controller, IPMI, Support for ECC RAM, silent (no fan) and low power consumption compared to many of the Supermicro XEON Builds I considered too. The main reasons I didn´t go with another XEON Supermicro build was, the number of identical SATA ports on the board and the power consumption.
Maybe I was too shortsighted, but it´s still not too late to correct my orders.
I am still thinking about the Supermicro X9SRH-7F. I have one last question about this board and its SATA Ports. Can I combine all the 14 SATA Ports (2 SATA 3.0 ports, 4 SATA 2.0 ports, 8 SAS2 ports) to lets say, 2 Raid-z2 pools with 6 disks each? I mean the 6 disks of pool #1 connected to all different types of SATA ports? For example: 2 to SATA 3.0, 2 to SATA 2.0 and the remaining 2 hdd´s to the SAS2 ports?
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