I have 2 reasons for wanting to build my first NAS/SAN
1) I have a commercial grade SAN that I've used for iSCSI for labs and I'M finally tired of the noise it puts out and I'd like to replace it with something more consumer so it's quieter. Currently I only power it on when I want to do lab stuff and the noise is actually annoying me enough that I don't feel motivated to do any of that stuff.
2) I'd like to get my data off my PC and onto a NAS
Unless someone can point to a good reason why I shouldn't, this is the hardware I'm considering using for the NAS/SAN
CPU: i7-4820K (For those not in the know, this is a HEDT CPU that has something in the realms of 44 PCIe lanes, this will be important later)
RAM: 64GB
I'm not sure what NAS Software I should use and I'm looking for suggestions based on my requirements below. Or maybe none of them meet my requirements, please tell me if I'm dreaming!
1) I'd like to add 10Gbe Networking to this.
2) It would be nice if it could make use of an NVMe drive as a cache
3) Needs to support iSCSI for my lab
4) I want to also store my regular data on this.
How do you backup your NAS?
Can NAS software do it's own backups?
Currently my data is stored in HDD/SSD in my desktop.
I currently have 2x 3TB drives in RAID 0 in my desktop that stores my data.
I regularly use a Robocopy script to copy all that data to a 10TB drive that's in a drive caddy.
I have 2x 10TB drives for backup and one of them lives off-site and I simply swap them around as I create noteworthy chunks of data.
When those 2x 3TB drives become full, I'll buy 2x 20TB drives for the backup and put the 2x 10TB drives in RAID0 in the desktop.
I'd like to continue that idea but with the NAS. Obviously I become screwed when my data hits more than the size of a single available drive, but I'll just that hurdle if I ever get there.
1) I have a commercial grade SAN that I've used for iSCSI for labs and I'M finally tired of the noise it puts out and I'd like to replace it with something more consumer so it's quieter. Currently I only power it on when I want to do lab stuff and the noise is actually annoying me enough that I don't feel motivated to do any of that stuff.
2) I'd like to get my data off my PC and onto a NAS
Unless someone can point to a good reason why I shouldn't, this is the hardware I'm considering using for the NAS/SAN
CPU: i7-4820K (For those not in the know, this is a HEDT CPU that has something in the realms of 44 PCIe lanes, this will be important later)
RAM: 64GB
I'm not sure what NAS Software I should use and I'm looking for suggestions based on my requirements below. Or maybe none of them meet my requirements, please tell me if I'm dreaming!
1) I'd like to add 10Gbe Networking to this.
2) It would be nice if it could make use of an NVMe drive as a cache
3) Needs to support iSCSI for my lab
4) I want to also store my regular data on this.
How do you backup your NAS?
Can NAS software do it's own backups?
Currently my data is stored in HDD/SSD in my desktop.
I currently have 2x 3TB drives in RAID 0 in my desktop that stores my data.
I regularly use a Robocopy script to copy all that data to a 10TB drive that's in a drive caddy.
I have 2x 10TB drives for backup and one of them lives off-site and I simply swap them around as I create noteworthy chunks of data.
When those 2x 3TB drives become full, I'll buy 2x 20TB drives for the backup and put the 2x 10TB drives in RAID0 in the desktop.
I'd like to continue that idea but with the NAS. Obviously I become screwed when my data hits more than the size of a single available drive, but I'll just that hurdle if I ever get there.