jonathansayeb Posted April 5, 2019 Share Posted April 5, 2019 Hi all,I just bought a retired Dell r730xd 12 bays with the following specs for 1300usd: Xeon 12 core e5-2680 v332GB ECC Ram4x 4TB WD goldBroadcom nic 1gbe 4 portsRaid controller perc h7302x 750w power supply question 1: is that a good deal ?Question 2: Our main unraid server has 50 TB of footages and images for our media company and the tiny 512GB of cache only help during ingest of new content which makes our 10gbe network kind of pointless apart from filling those 512GB of cache.Here comes the question then, do you think I should use the new server as a freenas raid 5 speed beast to feed our editing team the content they need via 10gbe and do nightly backups to the unraid server or would you have another option?Cheers Sent from my LYA-L29 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
witalit Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 After using Freenas for many years I grew a hate for it so my opinion is probably biased towards unRAID now. Pretty sure LinusTechTips use unRAID for their storage server and speed does not seem to be an issue. Quote Link to comment
kizer Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Use a larger SSD or simply enable Turbo Mode which should speed up the writing to your system, but will require most of your drives to be spun up while writing to the array. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/50397-turbo-write/ There is also a Plugin for it. https://forums.unraid.net/topic/55671-plugin-ca-auto-turbo-write-mode/ Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 While you could certainly optimize hardware and OS options to extract the nth degree of performance, over the long term I think the cost of maintain two technology stacks would outweigh any benefits. Quote Link to comment
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