[Cialug] Decent diy nas box

[Theron Conrey]

There are better sources for ZFS info than the FreeNAS forums. If you're
running ZFS, don't turn on dedup, and you'll be ok with smaller amounts of
RAM. The ZIL will just be smaller. (
https://pthree.org/2012/12/06/zfs-administration-part-iii-the-zfs-intent-log/
)

-theron

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:

> ​I think ZFS in general just likes ram.  If you listen to the FreeNAS guys,
> 16 is bare minimum even without de-duplication, but of course that depends
> on number of drives, amount of data, etc...​
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:06 AM, David Champion <dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yep, if you want to turn on de-duplication in FreeNAS you'll probably
> need
> > more RAM.
> >
> > For a relatively small volume without de-duplication, 8gb would be OK.
> >
> > -dc
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would mention as well, that FreeNAS really likes ram, so more is
> > better.
> > >  8)
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > These are pretty great deals as well:
> > > > https://unixsurplus.com/products/gpu-server-1u-
> > > > supermicro-3-bay-lff-server?variant=41179135444
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:48 AM, David Champion <
> dchamp1337 at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I've used an older model of these Dell T series servers for FreeNAS
> > > >> servers. This one has a quad core xeon and 8gb RAM, has 4 HD bays.
> > > >>
> > > >> https://computers.woot.com/offers/dell-poweredge-t30-intel-
> > > >> xeon-mt-server?ref=eml_w_nd_3_tl&ref_=pe_3185080_247127410
> > > >>
> > > >> -dc
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