From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 17:01:13 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21FB8809 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp101-6.vfemail.net (six.vfemail.net [108.76.175.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C4D2DD73 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:01:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=vfemail.net; h=date :message-id:from:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=yYwkApzsL QrZkujO/gLN+N/yZyddNC6Orur108CPGt8=; b=yT/JrLVGt1qN+P8V5+aOM2F08 cliwwyq8zyz3tFTeW6+lB+XjB71qHC3LqfbvNMhXXeX1K8wB5qcktKsQC9QwQJoQ lFhiMcRLFDY/NoApLlImJWtkJj099K2qqU86ZhM+UCe47K87m48Z+pfC2vTVz4Sm WLLIt8ZNesRm/AeOWY= Received: (qmail 9250 invoked by uid 89); 24 Mar 2014 16:54:28 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 9244, pid: 9247, t: 0.0744s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO www111) (cmlja0BoYXZva21vbi5jb20=@MTcyLjE2LjEwMC45Mw==) by 172.16.100.61 with ESMTPA; 24 Mar 2014 16:54:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 11:54:27 -0500 Message-ID: <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net> From: Rick Romero To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup server References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H5 (6.1.5) X-VFEmail-Originating-IP: OTguMTAzLjUzLjIzNw== X-VFEmail-AntiSpam: Notify admin@vfemail.net of any spam, and include VFEmail headers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Plaintext Message X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:01:13 -0000 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 : > 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"