On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:46 AM, Dan Dascalescu < bigbang7+opensola...@gmail.com <bigbang7%2bopensola...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Please recommend your up-to-date high-end hardware components for building > a highly fault-tolerant ZFS NAS file server. > > I've seen various hardware lists online (and I've summarized them at > http://wiki.dandascalescu.com/reviews/storage.edit#Solutions), but they're > on the cheapo side. I want to build a media server and be done with with for > a few years, (until the next generation storage media (holograms? > nanowires?) becomes commercially available. So please, knock yourselves out. > The bills for ZFS NAS boxes that I've seen run around $1k, and I'm willing > to invest up to $3k. > > Requirements, in decreasing order of importance: > 1. Extremely fault-tolerant. I'd like to be able to lose two disks and > still be OK. I also want any silent hard disk read errors that are detected > by ZFS, to be reported somehow. > 2. As quiet as it gets. > 3. Able to easily extend storage > 4. (low) If feasible, I'd like to be able to use a Blu-Ray drive with the > system. > > I also have a few software requirements, which I think are pretty > independent of the hardware: > a. Secure – I want to be able to tweak and control access at every level > b. Very fast network performance. The server should be able to stream 1080p > while doing a number of other tasks without issues. > c. Ability to serve all different types of hosts: NFS, SMB, SCP/SFTP > d. Flexible. I do a number of other things/experiments, and I’d like to be > able to use it for more than just serving files. > > Really only #1 (reliable) and #2 (quiet) matter most. I've been mulling > over this server for too long and want to get it over with. > > Looking forward to your recommendations, > Dan > > What i did was this: I got a norco 4020 (the 4220 is good too) Both of those cost around 300-350 dolars. That is a 4u case with 20 hot swap bays. Then i got a decent server board. I used supermicro mbd-x7se because it has 4 pci-x slots. I got 3 supermicro AOC-SAT2-mv8 cards for the sata ports (each has 8) 20 1tb seagate drives, but you could use any size which fits your budget. 8 gb ddr2 800 ecc memory 3 64 gb ssd's (2 for rpool mirror and 1 for l2arc) Intel q9550 cpu. This gives you a pretty beastly machine which has around 18-36 raw TB's I went with 3 raidz2 groups. I plan to expland it with a sas expander and another norco case. I hope this gives you some ideas.
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