Building a new FreeNAS box, thoughts/feedback?

[GCM]

You should probably look at an LSI card to support the hard drives. Something along the lines of an 9240-8i or 9211-8i in IT mode.

Yep, planning on a m1015.

 

[Keljian]

I have the virtualisation bug, so I would then look at adding other services to the box.. More ram, more services, better capitalisation on server hardware expenditure...

 

[GCM]

I have the virtualisation bug, so I would then look at adding other services to the box.. More ram, more services, better capitalisation on server hardware expenditure...

We have a separate box for that

 

[GCM]

OK,

Sanity check on the build:


Lenovo TS440 (E3-1225V3)(8x Hotswap bays)
32GB ECC RAM
8x 6TB HGST
T420-SO-CR /w 10GbE Fiber
IBM m1015
Raid2z

Still unsure about iops and if using 2 vdevs would be a better option.

 

[Keljian]

Looks good