Hi all,

I just bought a retired Dell r730xd 12 bays with the following specs for 1300usd:

 

Xeon 12 core e5-2680 v3

32GB ECC Ram

4x 4TB WD gold

Broadcom nic 1gbe 4 ports

Raid controller perc h730

2x 750w power supply

 

question 1: is that a good deal [emoji28]?

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 [emoji1635]

 

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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.

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/

 

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.