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Silent.Sin
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Preface: One of our potential clients is looking to do a data migration from their in house servers to something a little more cloudy (god I hate hearing suits talk about "the cloud"). It will involve us being on-site to extract the data, then we can physically take the data and migrate it from our own office to their new system as we see fit.
We need to at least get some sort of HW in the initial proposal for this so I wanted to spec out a NAS box as the primary means of data storage. I did look at pre-built solutions that provided 12TB or more but for the "professional" ones the price seems sort of ridiculous.
I've been wanting to get my feet wet with a FreeNAS install for awhile so this seems like a good opportunity. I've been out of the loop with FreeNAS since I evaluated it last year sometime. It seems like a *lot* must have changed from version 7 to 8 just judging by the HW requirements. For anyone that has experience with both, why the drastic increase in specs? It seems like there was a pretty substantial trimming of features if anything so I'm not clear on what's the big deal.
Another question: is this still something that can be booted from a USB key provided it has sufficient bandwidth and storage? I was looking to leave a USB header dangling inside of the case with FreeNAS on there so I can use all of the spindles for their intended purpose instead of needing a stand alone drive for FreeNAS.
Here's the hardware I was looking at:
GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 2 + 6 SATA - $110
CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) - $90
AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz - $50
5 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" = 15TB - $750
Total: $1000
The case and other misc stuff I can look at later but it should be easy to get this in under $1200. Does that build look alright? The FreeBSD HCL is a lot more confusing to me than the ESXi one so I'm not exactly sure all if this is covered. Any other suggestions as far as CPU power or drive models go?
We need to at least get some sort of HW in the initial proposal for this so I wanted to spec out a NAS box as the primary means of data storage. I did look at pre-built solutions that provided 12TB or more but for the "professional" ones the price seems sort of ridiculous.
I've been wanting to get my feet wet with a FreeNAS install for awhile so this seems like a good opportunity. I've been out of the loop with FreeNAS since I evaluated it last year sometime. It seems like a *lot* must have changed from version 7 to 8 just judging by the HW requirements. For anyone that has experience with both, why the drastic increase in specs? It seems like there was a pretty substantial trimming of features if anything so I'm not clear on what's the big deal.
Another question: is this still something that can be booted from a USB key provided it has sufficient bandwidth and storage? I was looking to leave a USB header dangling inside of the case with FreeNAS on there so I can use all of the spindles for their intended purpose instead of needing a stand alone drive for FreeNAS.
Here's the hardware I was looking at:
GIGABYTE GA-880GA-UD3H AM3 2 + 6 SATA - $110
CORSAIR XMS3 8GB (4 x 2GB) - $90
AMD Athlon II X2 245 Regor 2.9GHz - $50
5 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD30EZRSDTL 3TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" = 15TB - $750
Total: $1000
The case and other misc stuff I can look at later but it should be easy to get this in under $1200. Does that build look alright? The FreeBSD HCL is a lot more confusing to me than the ESXi one so I'm not exactly sure all if this is covered. Any other suggestions as far as CPU power or drive models go?