Hello all,
I would like some advice regarding construction of a "home node" NAS. The motivation is to have a NAS at home, as quiet as possible. The clunking and whirring of spinning drives on my current NAS is very annoying.
I am thinking of one, or a combination of, of the following solutions:
I'm thinking of getting 4x Samsung PM983 4 TB NVMe SSD's so that I have a lot of storage at home. The point is that we need to be able to throw data at the NAS without having to worry (too much) that we'll fill it up soon. I would configure these into a RAIDZ2 pool or RAID10 pool in ZFS.
The idea is to regularly synchronize this mini-NAS with the upstream, remote, bulk NAS over the network. The would happen by using the ZFS send/recv, or NFS fs-cache.
For completeness I also have the following:
In fact, I was thinking that I could even build two mini-NAS'es (in the same chassis) for home use, using two sets of 4x SSD's.
The SC116 and SC216 series appeal to me, and my idea is to use one of these plus one (or two) AOC cards: AOC-SLG3-4E2P | Add-on Cards | Accessories | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc. .
I have been told that the slightly older SC216 chassis can be got for quite cheap. The main issue with the SC116, that I can see so far, is that it only allows for one expansion card.
As you can see, I do like Supermicro hardware. But now I'm also wondering if some other combination of chassis might be appropriate.
Any help or considering would be greatly appreciated. (I've got other questions regardig some SAS drives that I have but I think it's best to keep things focused on the immediate problem for now.)
Please let me know what you think! Have I missed anything crucial? Thank you!!
Kind regards,
@ullbeking
I would like some advice regarding construction of a "home node" NAS. The motivation is to have a NAS at home, as quiet as possible. The clunking and whirring of spinning drives on my current NAS is very annoying.
I am thinking of one, or a combination of, of the following solutions:
- all-SSD NAS
- NFS's fs-cache using SSD's (although I'm thinking of changing to CIFS/SMB due to many strong recommendations by helpful users in these forums)
- rack-mounted chassis would be ideal if possible and acoustically friendly; I have a few other rack-mountable chassis that I use for different purposes. They are very quiet and have no moving parts.
- keeping two vdevs, each as its own pool
- recreate the NAS as a single pool
I'm thinking of getting 4x Samsung PM983 4 TB NVMe SSD's so that I have a lot of storage at home. The point is that we need to be able to throw data at the NAS without having to worry (too much) that we'll fill it up soon. I would configure these into a RAIDZ2 pool or RAID10 pool in ZFS.
The idea is to regularly synchronize this mini-NAS with the upstream, remote, bulk NAS over the network. The would happen by using the ZFS send/recv, or NFS fs-cache.
For completeness I also have the following:
- 5x Intel (Oracle) 1.6 TB NVMe 2.5" SSD's
- 4x Samsung PM953 1.92 TB NVMe 2.5" SSD's
- About 12-16x Intel 400 GB SATA 2.5" SSD's
In fact, I was thinking that I could even build two mini-NAS'es (in the same chassis) for home use, using two sets of 4x SSD's.
The SC116 and SC216 series appeal to me, and my idea is to use one of these plus one (or two) AOC cards: AOC-SLG3-4E2P | Add-on Cards | Accessories | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc. .
I have been told that the slightly older SC216 chassis can be got for quite cheap. The main issue with the SC116, that I can see so far, is that it only allows for one expansion card.
As you can see, I do like Supermicro hardware. But now I'm also wondering if some other combination of chassis might be appropriate.
Any help or considering would be greatly appreciated. (I've got other questions regardig some SAS drives that I have but I think it's best to keep things focused on the immediate problem for now.)
Please let me know what you think! Have I missed anything crucial? Thank you!!
Kind regards,
@ullbeking