Ixian
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I've had the following running for about 4 years now:
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
Crucial ECC DDR3 UDIMM (4x8) 32GB
(6) WD 5TB Red - RAIDZ2 (primary storage pool)
(2) WD 5TB Red - Mirrored (backup pool)
(1) Intel 500GB SSD (Jails, snapshotted to backup pool)
Housed in a Fractal Design R4 case with an Icy Dock 4-2 bay 5.25 bay expansion to fit more drives.
Currently using FreeNAS 11.1U6
Home file storage, media for the most part, Emby server, most it gets asked to do is transcode a lot of media (remote play for Emby users, and I have scripts that post-process recordings, plus there's thumbnail generation for Roku's going on, etc. - basically a lot of home-server ffmpeg/ffprobe duty). I run some other stuff like SABNZBD, a Nginx reverse proxy, and the like, fairly standard media server stuff.
Spent a lot of time on it back in the day, backed by plenty of advice here, and I'm back again. There's nothing wrong with the system - it is humming along quite nicely and has for years - but I need more storage.
I want to go with (8) WD Red 10TB drives using RAIDZ2. Two questions:
Do I need to up my memory? I know the rule of thumb is 1GB per TB of storage, but also it's a loose rule. My board tops out at 32GB so I'd need to replace it, and the CPU as well. I'm looking at:
Supermicro X11SSL-CF-0
Intel Xeon E3-1245v6
Crucial ECC DDR4 UDIMM (4x16)
However other than the obvious doubling of memory I don't know how much bang for the buck vs. what I have now I'd be getting. Do I need to do it anyway for an 80TB (60TB) RAIDZ2 pool?
Second question:
Ideally I'd hook the new drives up, stress test them with Spearfoot's excellent utility, then snapshot/send the data from the old pool to new. After checking, delete the old pool and figure out what I want to do with the old drives.
Except I'm going to be out of SATA ports; both the old board and potential new one max out at 14 and I'm using SATA-DOM for the FreeNAS boot device. Even if I temporarily disconnect the Jail SSD and the Backup pool drives I'm still short at least a port, I think. Both boards have 6 SATA plus two SFF 4x ports for a total of 14, and unless I am mistaken one of those ports is used for the DOM.
Any ideas on the best way to do this? Maybe I am overlooking something obvious.
Thanks!
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel Xeon E3-1230v3
Crucial ECC DDR3 UDIMM (4x8) 32GB
(6) WD 5TB Red - RAIDZ2 (primary storage pool)
(2) WD 5TB Red - Mirrored (backup pool)
(1) Intel 500GB SSD (Jails, snapshotted to backup pool)
Housed in a Fractal Design R4 case with an Icy Dock 4-2 bay 5.25 bay expansion to fit more drives.
Currently using FreeNAS 11.1U6
Home file storage, media for the most part, Emby server, most it gets asked to do is transcode a lot of media (remote play for Emby users, and I have scripts that post-process recordings, plus there's thumbnail generation for Roku's going on, etc. - basically a lot of home-server ffmpeg/ffprobe duty). I run some other stuff like SABNZBD, a Nginx reverse proxy, and the like, fairly standard media server stuff.
Spent a lot of time on it back in the day, backed by plenty of advice here, and I'm back again. There's nothing wrong with the system - it is humming along quite nicely and has for years - but I need more storage.
I want to go with (8) WD Red 10TB drives using RAIDZ2. Two questions:
Do I need to up my memory? I know the rule of thumb is 1GB per TB of storage, but also it's a loose rule. My board tops out at 32GB so I'd need to replace it, and the CPU as well. I'm looking at:
Supermicro X11SSL-CF-0
Intel Xeon E3-1245v6
Crucial ECC DDR4 UDIMM (4x16)
However other than the obvious doubling of memory I don't know how much bang for the buck vs. what I have now I'd be getting. Do I need to do it anyway for an 80TB (60TB) RAIDZ2 pool?
Second question:
Ideally I'd hook the new drives up, stress test them with Spearfoot's excellent utility, then snapshot/send the data from the old pool to new. After checking, delete the old pool and figure out what I want to do with the old drives.
Except I'm going to be out of SATA ports; both the old board and potential new one max out at 14 and I'm using SATA-DOM for the FreeNAS boot device. Even if I temporarily disconnect the Jail SSD and the Backup pool drives I'm still short at least a port, I think. Both boards have 6 SATA plus two SFF 4x ports for a total of 14, and unless I am mistaken one of those ports is used for the DOM.
Any ideas on the best way to do this? Maybe I am overlooking something obvious.
Thanks!
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