I currently have a WHSv1 built around a Coolmaster Stacker chassis and a bunch of 4x3 modules. It is running on an old AMD Opteron 190 and AOC-SASLP-MV8 + motherboard ports for storage. I'm running out of room in the case and ports, and while it was very easy to use this solution never really gave me the performance or data protection I was looking for. I have 9 2TB drives, mostly Samsung F3's and F4's with a couple Seagates thrown in that I will be adding to my new build once the data is migrated.
I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum and elsewhere about ZFS. I'm planning to move to a ZFS based storage system, most likely Nexenta. sub.mesa's ZFS GURU project looks really interesting, so I'll keep an eye on that for the future, but Nexenta seems to be one of the most up to date and mature ZFS implementations currently out there.
New Hardware:
Shipping: $65.57
Total: $2825.40
For the case I considered the Supermicro SC846E1 series as it seemed like a great solution with expander built in, but at around $1200 the redundant power supply didn't seem worth the added expense and noise. I'm sure the case is top quality, and it did have significantly better cabling with the built-in expander, but not enough to justify the price premium.
I wanted to go with the Xeon for the ECC memory and relatively low power consumption of the 1156 socket. The Supermicro board was a no brainer with it's onboard LSI SAS controller. I was considering the SUPERMICRO X8SIL-F and recycle my AOC-SASLP-MV8, but I've heard that it has compatibility issues with FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
For memory I'll start out with 8GB memory for now, with the option to expand to 16GB later. It didn't seem like it was worth it to purchase one 8GB registered stick just to have the option of 32GB in the future.
Zpool - Total Capacity 40TB
I plan on building out two 12 drive RAIDz2 vdev's. I'll bring up the server with 1 vdev in the pool, copy all the data from my WHSv1 box, then once the data is verified on the ZFS box, I'll move the 9 x 2TB HDD's out of the WHS box along with the 3 leftover new drives and create a second 12 drive RAIDz2 vdev and add that to the pool, maxing out the norco 4224, and hopefully giving me a lot of room to grow.
System + ZIL + L2ARC
I had heard of someone splitting one SSD up into 3 different partitions, one for the system, one for ZIL and one for L2ARC. I was thinking of taking the 2 Intel X25-V's, mirroring them to create 3 mirrored partitions for the system, ZIL, and L2ARC. Will this work well? I'm looking to get a good boost to performance, while maintaining redundancy and doing it all for a budget price.
I know there are a lot of ZFS diehards in this forum, so being new to ZFS I'd appreciate any feedback or advice. Thanks.
I've been doing a lot of reading on this forum and elsewhere about ZFS. I'm planning to move to a ZFS based storage system, most likely Nexenta. sub.mesa's ZFS GURU project looks really interesting, so I'll keep an eye on that for the future, but Nexenta seems to be one of the most up to date and mature ZFS implementations currently out there.
New Hardware:
- Case: Norco RPC-4224 - $399.99
- Motherboard: Supermicro X8SI6-F-O - $278.61
- CPU: Xeon X3440 QC LGA1156 - $224.78
- RAM: Crucial Memory 8G Kit (4GX2) DDR3-1333 ECC - $117.51
- RAID Controller: LSI SAS 2008 Onboard.
- SAS Expander: HP SAS Expander
- Cables: 3Ware SFF8087SB-06M Is an Internal Mini-SAS (SFF8087) to Mini-SAS (SFF8087) Cable - $76.35 (15.27 each)
- System SSD: 2x Intel X25-V SSDSA2MP040G2K5 2.5" 40GB SATA II MLC - $139.98 (69.99 each after rebate)
- Storage HDD: 15 x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F4 HD204UI 2TB 5400 RPM - $1199.85 ($79.99 each)
- Storage HDD: Reusing the 9 x 2TB HDD's from my old server.
- Power Supply: CORSAIR Professional Series AX750 750W ATX12V v2.31 / EPS12V v2.92 80 PLUS GOLD Certified - $159.99 after rebate
- UPS: Tripp Lite SmartPro LCD UPS 1500VA/900W 120V 8-Outlet 5-15P - $162.64
Shipping: $65.57
Total: $2825.40
For the case I considered the Supermicro SC846E1 series as it seemed like a great solution with expander built in, but at around $1200 the redundant power supply didn't seem worth the added expense and noise. I'm sure the case is top quality, and it did have significantly better cabling with the built-in expander, but not enough to justify the price premium.
I wanted to go with the Xeon for the ECC memory and relatively low power consumption of the 1156 socket. The Supermicro board was a no brainer with it's onboard LSI SAS controller. I was considering the SUPERMICRO X8SIL-F and recycle my AOC-SASLP-MV8, but I've heard that it has compatibility issues with FreeBSD and OpenSolaris.
For memory I'll start out with 8GB memory for now, with the option to expand to 16GB later. It didn't seem like it was worth it to purchase one 8GB registered stick just to have the option of 32GB in the future.
Zpool - Total Capacity 40TB
I plan on building out two 12 drive RAIDz2 vdev's. I'll bring up the server with 1 vdev in the pool, copy all the data from my WHSv1 box, then once the data is verified on the ZFS box, I'll move the 9 x 2TB HDD's out of the WHS box along with the 3 leftover new drives and create a second 12 drive RAIDz2 vdev and add that to the pool, maxing out the norco 4224, and hopefully giving me a lot of room to grow.
System + ZIL + L2ARC
I had heard of someone splitting one SSD up into 3 different partitions, one for the system, one for ZIL and one for L2ARC. I was thinking of taking the 2 Intel X25-V's, mirroring them to create 3 mirrored partitions for the system, ZIL, and L2ARC. Will this work well? I'm looking to get a good boost to performance, while maintaining redundancy and doing it all for a budget price.
I know there are a lot of ZFS diehards in this forum, so being new to ZFS I'd appreciate any feedback or advice. Thanks.