December 30, 20205 yr I'd be delighted if any of y'all could offer some advice on my prospective build and its purpose ☺️. I'll skip to the summary first, so you don't have to read through my blob of text explaining the specific circumstances (those will be below the parts list). To summarize: Budget: Around €1000 (excluding drives) How many drives do I need: Start out with 3x 16 TB and scale up as more storage is needed. Is expandability important: Yes. This server needs to fulfill our needs for at least 5 years. I estimate that we will need about 350 TB by 2025. Running any unRAID Add Ons: We'll run a docker container or 2 to mirror sync the whole server to Google Workspace, and to host web-based external access to the server. Type of hard drives planned to run: SAS drives, 16 TB for now, adding larger scale drives once those hit a better price/TB ratio. Spare parts that I want to use in the build: 3x Seagate ST16000NM004G 16 TB SAS drives Parts list (all refurbished): Case & motherboard: 1x SuperMicro CSE-826 X9DRD-7LN4F-JBOD, assembled with: CPU: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2630 V2 Memory: 16 GB DDR3 Registered ECC (no brand/model, but it's guaranteed compatible and installed correctly for the motherboard by the supplier) PSU: 2x Supermicro PWS-920P-SQ (920 Watt x2) Storage: Start with 2x ST16000NM004G for storage and 1x ST16000NM004G for parity (already owned). I'm thinking about getting 2x Samsung 860 Pro 512 GB for caching. (total price ~€ 865 ex VAT) Scenario: I joined a small but growing video company that has been growing from one employee to 7 employees in about 3 years. Where at first all video work was saved on one pc, now we're working with 2 small commercial NAS units and 2 windows pc towers to access all our archive files and working files. It's kind of a mess, but it works 😅. Files are grabbed from the respective server as needed and worked with on local workstations, the end result is then put back on the server. I'm looking to build a solution that unifies the storage spread across these servers, is relatively cheap, user friendly, low maintenance, moderately safe against data loss, and easy to expand when needed, so we are future proof for at least the next 5 years. Speed is not extremely important, because work is not done on the server itself. Unraid seems like a fitting solution. Questions: How does this config look to y'all? Anything obvious I'm missing? Anything I would need to take into consideration? Eventually we will have to expand this server with one or more SAS enclosures until we'd hit the Unraid max drives limit. This expansion is just a matter of installing an external SAS HBA and hooking an enclosure up to it, right? Any other tips considering the use case? I'd appreciate the help! Edited December 30, 20205 yr by skndd
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