Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:24 -0700 From: "Pepe (Jose) Amengual" <jose.amengual@gmail.com> To: Rick Romero <rick@havokmon.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Backup server Message-ID: <CAGrZ=ddXiORKCLZHKGQzpyUOiiPx4NWOqR5SM2TwdOCT9H-5Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net> References: <CF55D200.4C79F%nwolff@oar.net> <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net>
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you can run freenas if you want in one of this : http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/03/19/backblaze-storage-pod-4/ Controller is fully supported for freebsd. On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Rick Romero <rick@havokmon.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > It doesn't have 8x pcie - not sure how much a requirement of that is - but > I started with 2 of these for a 24tb raidz2 array w/4Tb drives (on both > primary and backup servers) I built last year and have been very happy with > them. Asus RS720-E7/RS12-E > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816110076 > > From NewEgg, it came with the optional Pike RAID card (512Mb cache) to > access all drives. Otherwise you're limited to 6 or 8, IIRC. On the primary > server I used 12 SATA, and 'statically' mounted another 2 SSDs internally > (w/ USB to SATA power adapters). It's large, airy, w/ good performance. > I really enjoyed working on them. > > Rick > > > Quoting Nick Wolff <nwolff@oar.net>: > > Hello, >> >> Does anybody have any recommendations for enterprise class servers to >> run backups to (using dump). Last gen hw for us doing this was a intel >> sr2500. We our currently on our own build of 8 stable but will be moving >> to 9 stable soon.(not sure if I want our backup server to be our first >> production 9 build though). We prefer turn key vendors so we can get >> good support contracts etc... But I am skilled enough to build this on my >> own if there vastly better case and board options going that path. >> >> 6 sata/sas 3.5in hotswap minimum(+ boot) 8 drives preferred (software >> raid.) >> 8x pcie 2.0 slot for Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S (10gb ethernet controller) >> Planning on 6 or 8 4tb constellation drives >> Redundant Power supplies >> >> I'm just looking for any experience anybody has with various hardware >> > to > >> figure out what is both going to work with freebsd and also what is >> going to be reliable with a good life span. >> >> Thanks for the help, >> >> Nick Wolff >> >> Backbone Routing Engineer >> OARnet >> 1224 Kinnear Road >> Columbus, OH 43212 >> Phone: (614) 247-1517 >> Fax: (614) 292-9390 >> email: nwolff@oar.net >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardwareTo >> unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >
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