Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Exos drives - ST4000NM0115) Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) HBA: LSI/Broadcom SAS9207-8i, 6Gbps SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA - flashed to IT Firmware: 20.00.07.00Ĭonnected to: two 6Gb/s 24-port 3.5" mini-SAS expander backplanes (80H10024001A0) 128 GB of 16GB sticks Samsung brand PC3-12800R, DDR3 Registered ECC Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, 2.6GHz 8 Core (16 thread) System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI
For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build.
#Dell r710 hp smart array controller series
I think there was something about non i series CPU's being a bottleneck for FreeNAS? That might be the only thing that stopped me, but honestly I'd spend more trying to put together a system any other way.Īnother downside is that they are not the most energy efficient servers or cpu's so I'd pay a bit more for energy use. I did read someplace where some were not crazy about the 710 series for FreeNAS but I'm not seeing where it's terribly bad.
#Dell r710 hp smart array controller upgrade
On my ESXi box I specifically bought a Gen II MB on the Dell so I could upgrade the CPU's to X56xx cpu's for more power, but I don't think FreeNAS would really need that. Put one on either side of my 1GB fios and stop using cloud backup (250/year + sell my existing NAS another $200-300 and a few other gadgets I've got lying around and I've basically paid for it. 8-1.2TB (with growth), Backups of local site data 1.2-2.0TB (with growth) and a mirror of 2nd site data 6-8TB (with growth). Use is to hold a mirror of local site server data.
I can't buy a MB, CPU & Memory much less a HDD capable case, ps, network, ipmi etc for that amount. That's easily handled with a R710 and with 16-32GB of memory and no HD's are probably under 300 bucks. My needs are for 8-12TB (which includes growth) and also the ability to tinker with 10GB. I even have an IBM Server Raid card that I wasn't able to use in my older hardware that could go right into a Dell system. It didn't seem like there were enough cost effective upgrade options in 2.5". I'd probably buy one with 6 3.5 drives since I don't want to get stuck in the 2.5" world. Every time I try to spec a system on 2nd or 3rd gen older hardware it keeps exceeding the cost of a decent R710. I'm now looking to build a decent freenas box and keep coming back to used Dell server hardware as a possibility. Recently I bought a Dell R710 for 377 bucks on eBay with 48GB of memory and a few 2.5" hd's and built a nice ESXi system. Problem is, hardware is old and I keep running into stumbling blocks trying to get really good performance out of it. Have had Freenas installed for a few weeks.
I've been toying around with a leftover server that happened to have an 8 drive cage and an array controller that does jbod.
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