Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:27 -0500 From: Rick Romero <rick@havokmon.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup server Message-ID: <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <CF55D200.4C79F%nwolff@oar.net> References: <CF55D200.4C79F%nwolff@oar.net>
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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"
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