Hello all! So I moved my introduction info to the "Introductions" forum to avoid unnecessary reading for everyone in this post. With that said, below is the new FreeNAS build I have in progress and hoping to get some additional feedback from the community on:
Motherboard: X10SL7-F($177.02)
Processor: E3-1220 v3(came with board)
Case: CSE-826BE16-R920LPB/SC826E16-R920LPB with BPN-SAS2-826EL1 and 2xPWS-920P-SQ ($145)
Case/Trays: 12xSC93301 3.5 HD Trays ($27.68)
Case/Screws: Supermicro Screw Bag and Labels for 3.5 HD Trays (MCP-410-00005-0N), 100 pcs($4.47)
Case/Cable: 19" SATA Discrete to SFF-8087 36-Pin Reverse Breakout Cable ($12.99)
Memory: 4x8GB Micron MT18KSF1G72AZ-1G6E1ZE/32GB Total ($75.96)
OS Boot Drive: Innodisk SATADOM-ML 3SE Series 64GB ($29.98)
Storage: 6x4TB HMS5C4040BLE640 ($367.94)
Total: $841.04
Hoping I didn't do too bad on the costs. Only waiting on the 826 case to be delivered now!
This new config is probably overkill based on the fact that the microserver served its purpose reliably for years without performance issues.
We currently don't do any transcoding today as all our media files are in a format that all clients can read without transcoding, but if we do
need to go that route in the future it looks like the E3-1220 v3 should be able to handle it based on the hardware recommendation guide and other forum posts I have seen. I plan on creating 1xRAIDZ2 vdev with the first six disks, and then add another six in a second RAIDZ2 vdev when the finances permit.
Before I finally decided to go this route I was looking at a Denverton setup with consumer hardware, and never thought of leveraging used enterprise hardware before since I assumed the power consumption would be astronomical! But reading up on posts in these forums has convinced me otherwise, and my new setup actually costs me less than the consumer hardware I was considering, although the Denverton represented a big chunk of that cost. And I love having IPMI!!! Performed the bios update, the 2308 it mode update, and ipmi firmware update
using IPMI! We have these capabilities at work, but never thought about the convenience of also having this at home since I never really considered running enterprise hardware at home before due to power consumption concerns.
Now I am trying to get a handle on what the total idle power consumption will be. Below are my estimates:
X10SL7-F: (could not find specific numbers for the board itself)
E3-1220 v3: 20 watts total
MT18KSF1G72AZ-1G6E1ZE: 4x2watts 8 watts total??
HMS5C4040BLE640: 6x4.9 watts 29.4 watts total
2308 Controller: 8 watts total
SATA-DOM: 1 watt total?
PSU: ??
FANS: 10 watts total??
I have been searching the net/forums to gather the info but coming up short on some of the numbers. So I am coming up with roughly idle 76.4 watts with just the numbers above but not sure how accurate that is so please correct me where ever I am wrong. I know this will may consume more than my current Microserver setup, but hopefully not much more.
Also, saw a post about the ATX 24pin and 12v 8pin connectors from the power distributor possibly being too short? So wondering if I may need
to get extenders for those. I know in the post by mattbbpl(https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/build-double-check-painting-by-numbers.34932/) post #33 he shows a picture of the board installed and the connectors not reaching. He states he has the CSE-826TQ-R800LPB with the 800watt power supplies which uses the PDB-PT825-8824 power distributor, whereas the case I purchased with the 920watt power supplies has the PDB-PT826-8824 power distributor. Is it possible that the connector lengths are different depending on the PD you get? Have not seen any other posts in regards to the connectors being too short when installing the X10SL7-F in a CSE-826 case so any feedback from anyone on this topic would be greatly appreciated as well!
Motherboard: X10SL7-F($177.02)
Processor: E3-1220 v3(came with board)
Case: CSE-826BE16-R920LPB/SC826E16-R920LPB with BPN-SAS2-826EL1 and 2xPWS-920P-SQ ($145)
Case/Trays: 12xSC93301 3.5 HD Trays ($27.68)
Case/Screws: Supermicro Screw Bag and Labels for 3.5 HD Trays (MCP-410-00005-0N), 100 pcs($4.47)
Case/Cable: 19" SATA Discrete to SFF-8087 36-Pin Reverse Breakout Cable ($12.99)
Memory: 4x8GB Micron MT18KSF1G72AZ-1G6E1ZE/32GB Total ($75.96)
OS Boot Drive: Innodisk SATADOM-ML 3SE Series 64GB ($29.98)
Storage: 6x4TB HMS5C4040BLE640 ($367.94)
Total: $841.04
Hoping I didn't do too bad on the costs. Only waiting on the 826 case to be delivered now!
This new config is probably overkill based on the fact that the microserver served its purpose reliably for years without performance issues.
We currently don't do any transcoding today as all our media files are in a format that all clients can read without transcoding, but if we do
need to go that route in the future it looks like the E3-1220 v3 should be able to handle it based on the hardware recommendation guide and other forum posts I have seen. I plan on creating 1xRAIDZ2 vdev with the first six disks, and then add another six in a second RAIDZ2 vdev when the finances permit.
Before I finally decided to go this route I was looking at a Denverton setup with consumer hardware, and never thought of leveraging used enterprise hardware before since I assumed the power consumption would be astronomical! But reading up on posts in these forums has convinced me otherwise, and my new setup actually costs me less than the consumer hardware I was considering, although the Denverton represented a big chunk of that cost. And I love having IPMI!!! Performed the bios update, the 2308 it mode update, and ipmi firmware update
using IPMI! We have these capabilities at work, but never thought about the convenience of also having this at home since I never really considered running enterprise hardware at home before due to power consumption concerns.
Now I am trying to get a handle on what the total idle power consumption will be. Below are my estimates:
X10SL7-F: (could not find specific numbers for the board itself)
E3-1220 v3: 20 watts total
MT18KSF1G72AZ-1G6E1ZE: 4x2watts 8 watts total??
HMS5C4040BLE640: 6x4.9 watts 29.4 watts total
2308 Controller: 8 watts total
SATA-DOM: 1 watt total?
PSU: ??
FANS: 10 watts total??
I have been searching the net/forums to gather the info but coming up short on some of the numbers. So I am coming up with roughly idle 76.4 watts with just the numbers above but not sure how accurate that is so please correct me where ever I am wrong. I know this will may consume more than my current Microserver setup, but hopefully not much more.
Also, saw a post about the ATX 24pin and 12v 8pin connectors from the power distributor possibly being too short? So wondering if I may need
to get extenders for those. I know in the post by mattbbpl(https://www.ixsystems.com/community/threads/build-double-check-painting-by-numbers.34932/) post #33 he shows a picture of the board installed and the connectors not reaching. He states he has the CSE-826TQ-R800LPB with the 800watt power supplies which uses the PDB-PT825-8824 power distributor, whereas the case I purchased with the 920watt power supplies has the PDB-PT826-8824 power distributor. Is it possible that the connector lengths are different depending on the PD you get? Have not seen any other posts in regards to the connectors being too short when installing the X10SL7-F in a CSE-826 case so any feedback from anyone on this topic would be greatly appreciated as well!
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