Recent content by mattrk

The SC847 SuperMicro chassis is a 36 bay chassis. 24 bays in front and 12 in back. Pretty neat little chassis. I'd love to go for one of the Chenbro 50 bay chassis in a 4U form factor, but those are a bit out of my price range. *I should also add that this is why there are two separate backplanes.

You're correct on the ram assesment. I will probably stick with 16GB since that unbuffered ram is so expensive. As for the pool layout, i'm thinking of 3 x 12 disk pools. Each pool will probably be a raidz2. May go raidz1 to get more space. I also completely forgot about OS drives...

This is very true. Sometimes i forget the difference between the theoretical transfer rates and the real world numbers. I just want to avoid putting a bottleneck in place that will stop me from getting everything i can out of this box. Lol. Good point. ;) You're right on the ram aspect...

I'm in the process of designing a backup storage server. This box will serve as a backup to our primary backup server. The only things we need out of it are the following: 1) Be able to fully saturate two Gigabit network cards (250 MB/s) 2) Lots of storage space (100TB ish) The box will...