Ben Lavery
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Hi all,
For a few years I've been meaning to build a FreeNAS box, each time I get some cash together something more important comes along…Earlier this year I sold some equipment and have a little over £500 to spend on such a box.
My use cases are:
Processor (CPU): 2x Intel E5-2600 V1/V2 Series Processors (Socket LGA 2011)
Memory (RAM): Up to 512GB of Registered (RDIMM) ECC DDR3 RAM
Hard Disk Controller: SATA 3.0 6Gb/s with RAID 0, 1, 5, 1
Hard Disk Configuration: 12 x Large Form Factor (3.5")
Hard Disk Drive: 12 x 3.5" SAS/SATA Drive
Graphics: Matrox G200eW Video Controller
Optical Drive: N/A
Network Ports: Intel i350 Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet
Power: 900W Hot-Swappable PSU
Expansion Slots: 6 (x8) PCI-E 3.0 slots
Interface Ports: 2 x SATA 3.0 ports (6Gb/s), 4 x SATA 2.0 ports (3Gb/s), 8 x SAS2 ports (6Gb/s), 4 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, 1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port, 9 x USB 2.0 ports total (4 rear + 4 via header + 1 Type A), 1 x VGA port
Remote Management: Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller
Bezel: N/A
Rack Rails: Configurable
My concerns and questions about the setup are:
Many thanks for any pointers, answers, and past relationships with Bargain Hardware.
Ben
For a few years I've been meaning to build a FreeNAS box, each time I get some cash together something more important comes along…Earlier this year I sold some equipment and have a little over £500 to spend on such a box.
My use cases are:
- Centralised home storage
- Backup of a FreeBSD Linode (via zfs send/recv)
- Some home services (www/nextcloud, www/gitea, etc)
- Potentially a couple of bhyve VMs for port testing/occasional Linux testing
- I'm not looking at doing video encoding/transcoding or much heavy lifting.
- I have an existing 4 HDD (SATA) RAIDz that I'm looking toad to the system
- I'd like to convert this into something more manageable, probably a few sets of mirrors
- I have a number of other SATA HDDs that I'm planning on using
- I've got a bunch of 16GB PC3L-12800R DIMMs that I saved from a skip, so I'd like to be able to reuse some of them
I've found a UK based site called Bargain Hardware, and I can put together a server within my budget:Allan Jude said:@forquare Find the european version of http://UnixSurplus.com and get some off-lease SuperMicro gear with 8-12 bays and an LSI HBA controller (9207, 9211, etc). Then you should be good.
Processor (CPU): 2x Intel E5-2600 V1/V2 Series Processors (Socket LGA 2011)
Memory (RAM): Up to 512GB of Registered (RDIMM) ECC DDR3 RAM
Hard Disk Controller: SATA 3.0 6Gb/s with RAID 0, 1, 5, 1
Hard Disk Configuration: 12 x Large Form Factor (3.5")
Hard Disk Drive: 12 x 3.5" SAS/SATA Drive
Graphics: Matrox G200eW Video Controller
Optical Drive: N/A
Network Ports: Intel i350 Quad Port Gigabit Ethernet
Power: 900W Hot-Swappable PSU
Expansion Slots: 6 (x8) PCI-E 3.0 slots
Interface Ports: 2 x SATA 3.0 ports (6Gb/s), 4 x SATA 2.0 ports (3Gb/s), 8 x SAS2 ports (6Gb/s), 4 x RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports, 1 x RJ45 Dedicated IPMI LAN port, 9 x USB 2.0 ports total (4 rear + 4 via header + 1 Type A), 1 x VGA port
Remote Management: Nuvoton WPCM450 Controller
Bezel: N/A
Rack Rails: Configurable
My concerns and questions about the setup are:
- The motherboard detailed (X9DRH) doesn't seem to be specific, and I'm not sure if there are denominations of this board that will or won't work well
- Will the hard disk controller work with FreeNAS? It doesn't seem to specify what the controller is, so I'm having a hard time cross-referencing with the HCL
- The specs state that it does multiple RAID levels, for ZFS I know I don't want any RAID controller and I'm not sure how to tell if I will be able to turn this off (or potentially replace it?)
- There are 8xSAS2 ports…IIRC, I should be able to install SATA drives into these ports? I'm interested in the potential to upgrade to some SAS drives in the future, but right now I've got SATA
- When it comes to a CPU, I was looking at something like the Intel Xeon E5-2630L V2 - 6-Core 2.40Ghz, which I think should be supported by bhyve?
Many thanks for any pointers, answers, and past relationships with Bargain Hardware.
Ben