Hi everyone!
So I'm planning to upgrade my home file server. Currently it's running on a SuperMicro X8DTT-F blade board with a Dell PERC H310 in IT mode.
I'm planning to switch out the SuperMicro board with an ASUS Z9PR-D12 motherboard that someone gave to me. This board is nice for me because I can reuse my DDR3 ECC memory from the SuperMicro board.
on an Asus PIKE 2008 8-Port SAS SATA card to activate the onboard RAID.
For my drives, I have a total of 9 x's 2TB, mostly Seagate, 4 of them are the same drives. All of the drives are consumer drives.
I need to emphasize that I want to use hardware that I already own, so please don't tell me that I need to buy 10 8TB drives!
The purpose of this serve is home backup as well as remote backup for my daughters NextCloud server, (NEVER buy an iPhone for your teenage daughters! The amount of pictures that my child can generate is staggering!).
My current server is setup with RAID 10 on an ext4 file system. I've been reading that zfs is a better route to go, but I'm unsure of the best configuration with the hardware that I have. One recommendation was to use all of the drives in a zfs pool, with a 512gb SSD for caching. Would I need the SSD if my RAID card already has cache memory?
I also want to have very aggressive power management, as most of the time the server will be sitting idle.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
zog
So I'm planning to upgrade my home file server. Currently it's running on a SuperMicro X8DTT-F blade board with a Dell PERC H310 in IT mode.
I'm planning to switch out the SuperMicro board with an ASUS Z9PR-D12 motherboard that someone gave to me. This board is nice for me because I can reuse my DDR3 ECC memory from the SuperMicro board.
on an Asus PIKE 2008 8-Port SAS SATA card to activate the onboard RAID.
For my drives, I have a total of 9 x's 2TB, mostly Seagate, 4 of them are the same drives. All of the drives are consumer drives.
I need to emphasize that I want to use hardware that I already own, so please don't tell me that I need to buy 10 8TB drives!
The purpose of this serve is home backup as well as remote backup for my daughters NextCloud server, (NEVER buy an iPhone for your teenage daughters! The amount of pictures that my child can generate is staggering!).
My current server is setup with RAID 10 on an ext4 file system. I've been reading that zfs is a better route to go, but I'm unsure of the best configuration with the hardware that I have. One recommendation was to use all of the drives in a zfs pool, with a 512gb SSD for caching. Would I need the SSD if my RAID card already has cache memory?
I also want to have very aggressive power management, as most of the time the server will be sitting idle.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
zog