Small Photo NAS

[neverfinder]

Hey,

I'm finally thinking about moving away from Synology and creating my own NAS/Work storage system. I'm a photographer and there are mostly Photos on the NAS.

Motherboard: Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TLN2F retail (MBD-X11SDV-4C-TLN2F-O)
CPU: Intel Xeon D-2123IT
RAM: 2x Samsung DIMM 16GB, DDR4-2400, CL17-17-17, reg ECC (M393A2K43CB1-CRC)
Chassis: SilverStone Case Storage DS380, Mini-ITX (SST-DS380B)
Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700W ATX 2.4 (BN299) Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 550W ATX 2.4 (SSR-550PX)
Storage: 7x10TB RAIDZ2 (4x10000GB Hitachi Ultrastar He10 0F27452 256MB 3.5" (8.9cm) SATA 6Gb/s 3x Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3,5" 10TB) later additional 6-7 drives in a second vDev
Storage Card: Broadcom SAS 9300-8i, PCIe 3.0 x8 (LSI00344)
Boot Device: Corsair Force LS - Rev. B - 60GB, SATA (CSSD-F60GBLSB)

List of these items (without HDDs) https://geizhals.de/?cat=WL-1098515

Will that work?

Thanks a lot
Christopher

 

[kdragon75]

I don't know your workflow but this is a bit B-A-N-A-N-A-S for just photos. Unless you're using the 10gbe and editing 20+MP RAW files as layers for a composite image.

 

[Ericloewe]

Power Supply: be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM 700W ATX 2.4 (BN299)

You'll want something better. Smaller, too, if you're going with just seven drives and don't plan on expanding beyond that.
A Seasonic Focus Plus 550W (Gold or Platinum, take your pick) should be good.

Storage Card: Broadcom SAS 9300-8i, PCIe 3.0 x8 (LSI00344)

This seems odd to me. An X11SSM-F with a Xeon E3 v6 (or X11SCH-F with an i3-8xxx or a Xeon E), plus a chassis that can take microATX, would be a better overall solution. No SAS HBA needed. You'd need UDIMMs instead of RDIMMs, too.

 

[kdragon75]

UDIMMs instead of RDIMMs

This may be part of the motivation. From what I have seen UDIMMs are a fair bit more expensive. At least in DDR3.

 

[neverfinder]

Thanks for the input. First a little about the background and setup. When I made the first post I didn't have as much time as I wanted to make some things clear.

I currently have two working spots one at home with my main workstation. It has 2x2TB 970 Pros for hot data and 12 HDD RAID10 for all my files. The first backup goes to a Synology.

I'm now spending more and more time in my second "office" where I have a second smaller workstation, still the same 2x2TB 970 Pros for hot data, but a smaller case and much smaller room, so that I can't run a big internal RAID. I have a second Synology here containing all my work files. As it is an older version and can only connect through 1gbe it's not really possible to use it as "live" storage. Till now I have worked only on specific projects by copying the files I needed to my computer and working on them before moving them back. Now the problem is that I have a few projects which actually are bigger than 2TB and it's a huge hassle to split them to multiple SSD/HDDs.

So I decided I wanted a big place to store all my files here in my "office" as well. The best solution would be a NAS, as the room is small but a 10gbe connection is possible. First I thought about another modern Synology, however, I do like the idea of FreeNAS and as I build all my computers myself I do like the challenge and learning experience.

In addition, I will move to a new location in around a year and take the new NAS with me and integrate it into the main network. Putting it into a new case and extending it with a second vDev with another 7 drives. That's also the reason for the Broadcom SAS 9300-8i.

One last comment to files. I'm talking about 50-150MP files and as panoramics often reaching over 500MP. What I liked about the setup is the option do actually up the Memory to 128GB if it would be needed and still stay in a small package (At least for the beginning).

I looked at X11SSM-F options, but really don't like the max limit of 64GB of Memory. Sure, for now, more than enough, but how nows after going to 14 drives.




I will use the Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 550W ATX 2.4 (SSR-550PX) or Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 650W ATX 2.4 (SSR-650PX) will the 550 be enough if I extend the NAS with another 6 drives?

 

[Ericloewe]

I will use the Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 550W ATX 2.4 (SSR-550PX) or Seasonic Focus Plus Platinum 650W ATX 2.4 (SSR-650PX) will the 550 be enough if I extend the NAS with another 6 drives?

Should be okay, but you can always go with the 650 for extra headroom.