Hi all, first time posting though I've been lurking for many months now. This forum has been hugely informative, and @Patrick your site is very unique in having useful coverage and a meaningful forum that doesn't venture off into nonsense. Also, bar none, this site has the best Xeon-D coverage and info I've found.
I've been mulling over a build up of a home NAS solution for a while now, but when a fiber to the home solution was made available in my neighborhood, I changed my original motherboard choice from being an Avoton/Rangley board to Xeon-D acting as an All-In-One running ESX with a VM running pfSense or Sophos and a separate one running a ZFS on Linux solution (using an LSI HBA as a VTd passthrough device.) I studied this site, and watched Wiredzone's pages waiting for a second gen Xeon-D board to my liking to come in stock. While waiting, I realized that having an AIO solution wouldn't be the wisest thing in the world, since my significant other wouldn't appreciate any network downtime due to my "learning" exercises... so I procured a Netgate RCC 2440 and put pfSense on it (after trying out Sophos on it) and have a stable network firewall solution.
All that background established, I sent a note to Wiredzone this past weekend asking to be informed when the X10SDV-4C-7TP4F came in stock. I got a reply back on Monday saying one was available, order placed, and now it is sitting in my house. This happened much quicker than I anticipated, so I'm way behind on ordering the rest of the components for my system. This system will be a home NAS box number one, with potential extra duties being ELK processing of pfSense logs, and possibly picking up some sort of media ripping/archiving/plex-type duties. Yes, probably overkill for a home NAS box, but I am purposely over provisioning since getting the opportunity to do significant home lab/infrastructure upgrades is not very often.
Things I'm 100% set on:
Things not so set yet, but pretty firm:
Thanks!
I've been mulling over a build up of a home NAS solution for a while now, but when a fiber to the home solution was made available in my neighborhood, I changed my original motherboard choice from being an Avoton/Rangley board to Xeon-D acting as an All-In-One running ESX with a VM running pfSense or Sophos and a separate one running a ZFS on Linux solution (using an LSI HBA as a VTd passthrough device.) I studied this site, and watched Wiredzone's pages waiting for a second gen Xeon-D board to my liking to come in stock. While waiting, I realized that having an AIO solution wouldn't be the wisest thing in the world, since my significant other wouldn't appreciate any network downtime due to my "learning" exercises... so I procured a Netgate RCC 2440 and put pfSense on it (after trying out Sophos on it) and have a stable network firewall solution.
All that background established, I sent a note to Wiredzone this past weekend asking to be informed when the X10SDV-4C-7TP4F came in stock. I got a reply back on Monday saying one was available, order placed, and now it is sitting in my house. This happened much quicker than I anticipated, so I'm way behind on ordering the rest of the components for my system. This system will be a home NAS box number one, with potential extra duties being ELK processing of pfSense logs, and possibly picking up some sort of media ripping/archiving/plex-type duties. Yes, probably overkill for a home NAS box, but I am purposely over provisioning since getting the opportunity to do significant home lab/infrastructure upgrades is not very often.
Things I'm 100% set on:
- Motherboard is: X10SDV-4C-7TP4F
- Data drives will be NL-SAS. Total capacity not yet determined, but trending to 6x 3TB or 4TB drives in three mirrored vdevs as the zpool. I really like Jim Salter's article on why using this approach found at ZFS: You should use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ. | JRS Systems: the blog
- OS drives will be a pair of mirrored SATA SSD's.
- O/S will be Linux - likely the upcoming Ubuntu LTS 16.04 release, file system for data drives will be ZFS
- Near term networking will be 1 Gb, but I'm glad that there are the 2 10 Gb ports for one-day future expansion
Things not so set yet, but pretty firm:
- RAM quantity will be 64 GB, likely the Samsung 32 GB M393A4K40BB0-CPB0 x2 - though I really would like feedback from those here on this memory operating with Super Micro Xeon-D motherboards.
- Chassis will be ??
- The motherboard has the 16 port LSI 2116 on it, so I will have oceans of upgrade opportunity. The chassis should probably comprehend this.
- I therefore need to select an appropriate power supply.
- Ideally this box won't be mega loud - so an at least somewhat quiet chassis will have to be identified.
Thanks!