From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 17:10:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3961FC6E for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:10:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22d.google.com (mail-ie0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06B14DEA for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 17:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f173.google.com with SMTP id rl12so5859448iec.18 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=rVlSB2uAJwqAoBKpjMxq/RipBB1WyPC3PKDzFCPSbkc=; b=viw6SNt0l8u3TQZPuKia4Ue+67pd5CDnrbicur3F/roDTmaiit5sIf8UK0jpVQjM1X FNJdFJdVozS0J5AK1uq8sP4taM8KSOCQ9OSZX+K2+y65YIAdzUGZrmbMU3jhN27G0G1p DpCS4reiZ7GB8y99Yc0hdavF3Zg8xACnkl7tvj/2KciSIc4NUyffBZ2Mt/TJnsVkD7vX 3nIYE6f3knvY+qnA1Ho06ogsV0mztcnqrZieoHkUFCMVB3WGAwSXcEl3RnCu9UvfimsX FzITilzALugjlqyg6BwyOjkFn8wt1V6jQE5GQg8RxuEVPwUb78kdKEJuugsvt3eQPIqC JGiA== X-Received: by 10.43.51.65 with SMTP id vh1mr53339890icb.24.1395681044468; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.223.43 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net> References: <20140324115427.Horde.NCK97fHLLad0suO43cgVhQ1@www.vfemail.net> From: "Pepe (Jose) Amengual" Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:10:24 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Backup server To: Rick Romero Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: freebsd-hardware 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 17:10:45 -0000 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 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 : > > 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 > " >