Help!
I'm looking at adding a JBOD chassis to my current storage environment for home. I've currently got a Supermicro SC-847 w/ 36 Hitachi Ultrastar 7k2000? drives in it.
It's set up as 4x8 Drive Raid-Z3's zpool w/ 4 hot spares, 24 drives on a LSI 9265-8i, and 12 Drives + Boot (2x140gb raid1) on a 9211-8i. (~36TB usable)
I was originally planning on doing HW raid for the whole deal, but I like ZFS's end to end checksumming more, because it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Server has been on for ~2 years now, no drive failures or hiccups or anything, so that makes me happy. Servers primary purpose is to hold onto my media collection. 98% of the time it has just me watching media from it.
I'm torn between a few options, The newer Supermicro JBOD chassis that holds 44? 3.5" drives, a Supermicro 3U 15 Drive chassis, or a Norco 24 drive 4U. I know I'd be giving up a fault tolerant PSU on the Norco, unless I buy some magic to put in there, but the Norco is more than half the cost of the Supermicro. Plus I can add a 24-32 port HBA to the Norco for under $300, and I could probably get a power controller included for that cost (referenced on the site)
Also, I'm not sure what to do about drives. When I bought my 36 Drive array initially, I think I spent $7k CAD just on drives. and if I go up to a 3 or 4TB (lol) drive, it'll easily cost near that much or even more again. I'm REALLY happy with my Hitachi's, but I don't think I use them to their full potential enough to really justify the cost...
So in summary, looking for a cheap(er) low power setup to add to my current array. My current array consumes about 800W at idle. Noise isn't an issue as it lives in the basement.
I'm looking at adding a JBOD chassis to my current storage environment for home. I've currently got a Supermicro SC-847 w/ 36 Hitachi Ultrastar 7k2000? drives in it.
It's set up as 4x8 Drive Raid-Z3's zpool w/ 4 hot spares, 24 drives on a LSI 9265-8i, and 12 Drives + Boot (2x140gb raid1) on a 9211-8i. (~36TB usable)
I was originally planning on doing HW raid for the whole deal, but I like ZFS's end to end checksumming more, because it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Server has been on for ~2 years now, no drive failures or hiccups or anything, so that makes me happy. Servers primary purpose is to hold onto my media collection. 98% of the time it has just me watching media from it.
I'm torn between a few options, The newer Supermicro JBOD chassis that holds 44? 3.5" drives, a Supermicro 3U 15 Drive chassis, or a Norco 24 drive 4U. I know I'd be giving up a fault tolerant PSU on the Norco, unless I buy some magic to put in there, but the Norco is more than half the cost of the Supermicro. Plus I can add a 24-32 port HBA to the Norco for under $300, and I could probably get a power controller included for that cost (referenced on the site)
Also, I'm not sure what to do about drives. When I bought my 36 Drive array initially, I think I spent $7k CAD just on drives. and if I go up to a 3 or 4TB (lol) drive, it'll easily cost near that much or even more again. I'm REALLY happy with my Hitachi's, but I don't think I use them to their full potential enough to really justify the cost...
So in summary, looking for a cheap(er) low power setup to add to my current array. My current array consumes about 800W at idle. Noise isn't an issue as it lives in the basement.