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Hi everyone, I am currently putting together a FreeNAS server that I will use for NAS, SAN, and iSCSI targets in my home. It will host my media via CIFS and also be used with an iSCSI target as a datastore for my ESXi home lab. Any feedback on my build list or potential issues would be highly appreciated. I really want to avoid having to buy/RMA stuff because things don't fit/aren't compatible and I want to get it right on the first try. Specific questions I have about this build: quote:
Builds Specs: OS quote:Freenas 9.2.1.6 on 16GB USB memory stick. Storage Layout quote:16x - 4TB drives. Case PSUs quote:2x - 920 watt redundant PSU's included in above case. Motherboard CPU HSF RAM quote:4x - Crucial 16GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Server Memory Model CT16G3ERSLD41339 HBAs HBA cables HDDs quote:16x - Seagate Desktop HDD.15 ST4000DM000 4TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive orian fucked around with this message at 02:08 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 01:48
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You probably want the parts picking megathread.
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Jul 7, 2014 02:44
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I should also mentioned I already have the following from what I listed above: E5645 CPU 2x - HBA's 64GB RAM 16x 4TB HDD's I had listed those because I already have them and would like to reuse as much as possible. I really just figure I can take all that a throw it in a case with a motherboard/hsf and call it a day.
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Jul 7, 2014 03:18
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What exactly is this for? And what's your budget range? You also may want to check out the storage mega thread Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Jul 7, 2014 |
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Jul 7, 2014 18:48
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:What exactly is this for? And what's your budget range? NAS, SAN, and iSCSI targets in my home. It will host my media via CIFS and also be used with an iSCSI target as a datastore for my ESXi home lab. Also storage of files (around 8TB) for my home office.
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Jul 7, 2014 23:02
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This thread revolves around home NAS as well. I will give a few specific pieces of advice as someone who has built a bigger version of this. It will be loud and there are quite a few small, high speed fans. I honestly can't imagine running one at home. The 3TB version of the hard drives you picked out are extremely unreliable. I am not sure if this extends to the 4TB model but I suspect it does. They fail in odd ways -- total failures rather than predictive. They also don't do IO timeouts gracefully and have caused kernel panics for me. I ended up replacing them all with better quality hardware, which was easy, because I wasn't paying for it. The OS was an issue. FreeNAS was stable but dogshit slow. NAS4Free was fast but crashed routinely under IO load. This turned out to be a bug in BSD stable/9 but I have no idea if it's been fixed. I ended up going with Illumos to get both decent performance and stability. I doubt you'll put enough load on the thing to run into this problem, but figured I'd mention it.
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Jul 8, 2014 16:49
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orian posted:It looks like the Supermicro CSE-836BA-R920B case has SFF-8087 connectors on the backplane, how does the backplane power the hard drives (Molex, SATA, etc.)? There are 4-pin power connectors on the backplane as well.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:55
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KS posted:This thread revolves around home NAS as well. Thanks for the reply. Do you recommend napp-it, Solaris 11, OpenIndiana, etc?
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Jul 9, 2014 02:27
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If speed is the gain, Nexenta(solaris based) is pretty awesome so long as you don't use Broadcom nic's. However freeNas and Nexenta are fairly neck and neck if looking at a home solution, FreeNas might provide some additional features like media server, iTunes server, and other things that could make it more appealing.
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Jul 9, 2014 03:15
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Dilbert As gently caress posted:If speed is the gain, Nexenta(solaris based) is pretty awesome so long as you don't use Broadcom nic's. It looks like you can only have 18TB for home use with Nexenta and my build will be well beyond that, unless I missed something? I have lots of experience with FreeNAS but I would be open to try out something else. Napp-it seems attractive as they also have a "napp-it to go" release that boots off USB, which is perfect, because I don't want to run the OS on a HDD(s). orian fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 03:57
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orian posted:It looks like you can only have 18TB for home use with Nexenta and my build will be well beyond that, unless I missed something? I have lots of experience with FreeNAS but I would be open to try out something else. Napp-it seems attractive as they also have a "napp-it to go" release that boots off USB, which is perfect, because I don't want to run the OS on a HDD(s). Nexenta would limit you to 18TB correct, sorry I recalled incorrectly, I thought you posted 16x 1TB drives. Napp-it is cool but the community is a bit slow and running it is somewhat of a feness than the grab and go of freeNas. Also FreeNas will run and boot off of a USB since like.... 5 years ago. I think 9.1 even recommends running it off a USB. Speaking as if this is a home lab, I'd say go off what you are more accustom to unless Napp-It, Openfiler, Illominus, or the like have an offering you can't get on FreeNas or the similar. I mean really you're just debating which OS you like ZFS to run off of more than the other. Dilbert As FUCK fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 04:23
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orian posted:Thanks for the reply. Do you recommend napp-it, Solaris 11, OpenIndiana, etc? When I said under load I really meant it. The NAS4Free crashes only occurred under loads that you'll never put on a home system -- saturating 10 gbit with multiple backup streams. I run NAS4Free at home with no issues. FreeNAS has since updated to BSD 9 I believe, so it should be really similar. I'd just run what you know. To answer the question, though, I'm using OmniOS and have been happy with it.
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Jul 9, 2014 16:29
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KS posted:When I said under load I really meant it. The NAS4Free crashes only occurred under loads that you'll never put on a home system -- saturating 10 gbit with multiple backup streams. I run NAS4Free at home with no issues. I think I'll settle on FreeNAS with the following: 2x 10 disk z2 zpools 1x 4 disk zpool mirror dedicated for ESXi datastore Thanks for the help everyone!
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Jul 12, 2014 20:37
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You could just buy a FreeNAS system from iXSystems and not have to worry about doing it wrong
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