David Scharbach said the following, on 02-01-14 1:53 PM:
Supermicro may bit a bit overkill for the home server :) Although I have
considered it for myself at home… We used them where I used to work and they
are pretty nice for the money.
For myself, I opted to go with the Norco 4220, a Tyan MB with an integral
LSI-2008 based HBA, LSI based intel SAS expander card, 16GB of ECC, a low end
xeon and 13 3TB cheap seagate HDDs. This setup allows for 20 hot swap bays
connected to the SAS card, 2 2.5” SSDs connected to the MB via SATA for
cache/zil and a slim optical drive with a spare SAS channel that I could use to
connect to an external JBOD enclosure if needed. My drives have seen a maximum
temp of 39C and that is when doing a full scrub with the server in my utility
room in winter (furnace is on, heats the room up).
I agree that cheap HDDs suck, I have returned 3 of them in a little over a year
but ZFS and SMART are awesome at detecting early troubles. Just had another
bark at me for uncorrectable sector errors. Resilvering my RaidZ2 production
array does take a long time, but I have a RaidZ1 backup array so I would have
to lose 5 of 13 drives at the same time to affect all my data. Nice part is I
can still add 7 more drives to the case if needed.
There are number of option if you want to assemble something like a
storage server, but it's all limited if you want to connect a JBOD to an
existing server.
By limited I mean the cost going to be >= original equipment.
Which card did you use by the way?
Roman
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