I'm considering building a new ZFS file server to replace my aging WHS.
I already posted in the OpenSolaris thread, but thought I would make a new thread.
This would be used for home use - backup and media storage/streaming to about 5 other computers.
I would like this to last me around 5 years.
Planning on FreeNAS as the OS right now.
Here is what I am thinking
Chenbro RM41824M2
SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O
Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge
32GB of Kingston 8GB ECC DDR31333MHz KVR1333D3E9S/8G
3 x IBM ServeRAID M1015
Intel 320 80GB SSD for boot drive
what hard drives?
would like to start with 8 (2TB) drives in RAID Z2, add a second set of 8 (3TB) later on, and a 3rd and final set of 8 (4TB) after that
probably around 72TB of drives in the end
I read that ZFS needs about 1GB of RAM per TB of storage, so I may need to get a motherboard with more memory slots?
SUPERMICRO X9SRA
X9SRi-F
or maybe add a SSD for caching?
Intel 710 100GB SSD
I already posted in the OpenSolaris thread, but thought I would make a new thread.
This would be used for home use - backup and media storage/streaming to about 5 other computers.
I would like this to last me around 5 years.
Planning on FreeNAS as the OS right now.
Here is what I am thinking
Chenbro RM41824M2
SUPERMICRO MBD-X9SCM-F-O
Intel Xeon E3-1230 Sandy Bridge
32GB of Kingston 8GB ECC DDR31333MHz KVR1333D3E9S/8G
3 x IBM ServeRAID M1015
Intel 320 80GB SSD for boot drive
what hard drives?
would like to start with 8 (2TB) drives in RAID Z2, add a second set of 8 (3TB) later on, and a 3rd and final set of 8 (4TB) after that
probably around 72TB of drives in the end
I read that ZFS needs about 1GB of RAM per TB of storage, so I may need to get a motherboard with more memory slots?
SUPERMICRO X9SRA
X9SRi-F
or maybe add a SSD for caching?
Intel 710 100GB SSD
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