What would be the fun in that? I may be spending a little extra, but at least I'd learn something and can reuse the server and increase the volume with minimal work in the future.
I don't want to think about upgrading storage again for a long time. But you're right, I could fill the array with 1TB drives and still have double the space, and can upgrade the size later if I wanted to.
And 1TB drives seem to be about as expensive as 2TB drives now, which run about $70...
the NIC's are actually powered by an Intel chip. There are lots of reports of people running freenas successfully with the boards (as long as the firmware is all up to date)
Just a quick update on some recent decisions:
- Decided to go with the Avaton quad-core board instead of octo-core. Reason: It's cheaper and I don't plan on using it much beyond a NAS with maybe some jails running on it (bittorrent, owncloud, maybe vpn)
- Going with 32 GB of RAM. Reason: why...
How about this motherboard (SUPERMICRO MBD-A1SRi-2758F-O)?
Really my only concern is whether it'd be fast enough to saturate the gigabit network on read/write. I won't be using the server for much else. Maybe an iTunes server, but that's about it.
The IPMI will come in handy as well since...
I've thought the same about my storage situation as well for a long time. I have a 1TB hard drive on my iMac that I use for random stuff and to house downloads before moving off to my NAS, and I have a NAS that is 2.5TB or something like that (can't really remember) but only has a few hundred GB...
I don't have a good story on backing up my backups. I guess not everything has to be backed up again, only the things that are special to me, like pictures.
Anyway, thanks for your input! How big is your NAS? And how many disks does it have?
I mentioned the SSD as it will take up a SATA port, and there are only 5 ports on the motherboard. So 1 SSD and 5 hard disks, 1 of which will be used for redundancy
I've had disk failures affect a NAS before, but 1-disk redundancy is fine with me in a 5-disk array. Obviously I'd scale up if there were more disks, I'd go with 2-disk redundancy for 6 disks or above.
I could, but that seems kind of excessive. Plus, the article mentioned using an SSD for the logs and cache, and it sped up performance quite a bit over the 5400 drives.
http://prolig.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/freenas-zfs/
Things I'd do the same:
- Power Supply (I already have it)
- motherboard
- CPU
- case
Things I'd do differently
- SSD (I already have an Intel X-25M G2 80GB)
- USB thumb drive for FreeNAS...
I usually leave my NAS on, and left for a week-long vacation and came back to the NAS being powered off. When I power try to power it on, it never boots up. I've replaced the memory and the power supply, both with the same results. It may be the motherboard itself, but I don't know where to get...
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