The story for this build is I work for a IT managed services provider. We work mainly with companies with under 200 employees. I love it because I get to use a great mix of hardware and software and can tailor solutions to individual needs not to just a company outline. We are in the process of getting a quote together for a client who is going to be doing a P-V conversion going from HP DL360 G5s to the same servers just running Server 2008 R2 Enterprise + Hyper V. This client is very budget conscious and its not that they don't have the money for really high end gear, they just don't want to spend it if they don't have to. Originally my colleague and I were going to use a DroboElite with 8 2TB Western Digital RE4 drives. For the $7000 it was going to cost it was going to do everything we wanted much cheaper then HP, Dell, EMC, Sun, or Promise could offer. Then today I get a call from my colleague asking if I had ever heard of openfiler, I said I had but had never used it myself but was excited to. After about 6 hours of going over configurations, changing this, tweaking that we finally settled on one we think is going to suite our needs perfectly.
The overall goal was to get a 10TB RAID 5 for as close to $3000 as we could.
1x Supermicro CSE-836TQ-R800B 3U Rackmount Chasis $899.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152090
1x ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo LGA 775 Motherboard $124.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131377
1x Intel Pentium E5300 Wolfdale 2.6Ghz LGA 775 Processor $69.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116074
2x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3-1600 (8GB) RAM $195.98
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145260
1x EVGA GeForce FX5200 PCI Video Card $34.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130188
1x Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad RJ-45 Server NIC $406.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106019
1x HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 PCI-E x8 RAID Card $479.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115031
1x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD800AAJS 80GB 7200RPM SATA II (OS Drive) $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136195
12x Western Digital Caviar Black WD1501FASS 1.5TB 7200RPM SATA II (RAID) $1319.88
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136592
Total including 2 years of hardware warranty offered by Newegg $3610.76
So here is the big questions
1: Are we going to have any unexpected surprises with Openfiler and this config?
2: What parts would you change and why?
The overall goal was to get a 10TB RAID 5 for as close to $3000 as we could.
1x Supermicro CSE-836TQ-R800B 3U Rackmount Chasis $899.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811152090
1x ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo LGA 775 Motherboard $124.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131377
1x Intel Pentium E5300 Wolfdale 2.6Ghz LGA 775 Processor $69.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116074
2x Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3-1600 (8GB) RAM $195.98
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145260
1x EVGA GeForce FX5200 PCI Video Card $34.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130188
1x Intel Pro/1000 PT Quad RJ-45 Server NIC $406.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106019
1x HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 PCI-E x8 RAID Card $479.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115031
1x Western Digital Caviar Blue WD800AAJS 80GB 7200RPM SATA II (OS Drive) $36.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136195
12x Western Digital Caviar Black WD1501FASS 1.5TB 7200RPM SATA II (RAID) $1319.88
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136592
Total including 2 years of hardware warranty offered by Newegg $3610.76
So here is the big questions
1: Are we going to have any unexpected surprises with Openfiler and this config?
2: What parts would you change and why?