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HP ProLiant MicroServer
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you'll be better off with freenas on a usb stick than a hdd, it's a bit of a waste of a hdd if nothing else and once it's booted, the boot drive is pretty much sitting there idle with the OS sitting entirely in memory.
something to consider with freenas is that freenas8 is more geared towards business use, so not all of the fun stuff has been ported to it from freenas7 and it may or may not be in the future.
with 4 disks i'd say stick to freenas7, aside from anything performance will be better on a lower specced machine with freenas7 as the hardware requirements for v8 are a lot higher, whereas v7 will run on just about anything you've got laying around from the last 10-12 years or more.0 -
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you'll be better off with freenas on a usb stick than a hdd, it's a bit of a waste of a hdd if nothing else and once it's booted, the boot drive is pretty much sitting there idle with the OS sitting entirely in memory.
something to consider with freenas is that freenas8 is more geared towards business use, so not all of the fun stuff has been ported to it from freenas7 and it may or may not be in the future.
with 4 disks i'd say stick to freenas7, aside from anything performance will be better on a lower specced machine with freenas7 as the hardware requirements for v8 are a lot higher, whereas v7 will run on just about anything you've got laying around from the last 10-12 years or more.
They're putting the 'fun stuff' back into 8.1 though. It runs fine off the internal USB key also, but note freenas doesn't support wake on lan on the microserver
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is the 250gb disk it comes with mounted separately to the 4 internal drive bays?
if so, you could set the 4 big disks as a single array and set them to spin down after 30 minutes of idle time and then use the single disk as a download point for torrents or whatever so that the other disks don't keep getting spun up all the time for every little thing.
then just create a task to move everything over once a day or whatever for archiving to the RAID array.
good to know the fun stuff is coming back in to v8.1 of freenas tho, i was missing it.
edit: looks like they're jumping straight to v8.2, but there's lots of interesting stuff in there that would suit me, so i might give it a lash. 0 -
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if so, you could set the 4 big disks as a single array and set them to spin down after 30 minutes of idle time and then use the single disk as a download point for torrents or whatever so that the other disks don't keep getting spun up all the time for every little thing.
That was my plan. Got the bracket anyways just in case (for about 2.50£). Lets me try CentOS on the drive with a nice chunky filesystem like you mentioned.edit: looks like they're jumping straight to v8.2, but there's lots of interesting stuff in there that would suit me, so i might give it a lash.
Im probably going to try both CentOS & FreeNAS, and muck about. No reason not to :P
For FreeNAS8 what would be the recommended r/w for a flash drive to put internally?0 -
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i don't think it would affect performance much at all other than during boot time (which isn't going to be all that often anyway) so just whatever you can find should do fine.For FreeNAS8 what would be the recommended r/w for a flash drive to put internally?
your only real concerns around performance would be disk I/O and CPU/RAM.
the other thing to consider is that if you use freenas8 and ZFS as the file system (and with 4x 2tb disks you probably should), you'll want a good chunk of ram to get the best performance out of it. by default prefetching is disabled if you have less than 4gb of usable (i.e. not including that used by the OS itself) RAM as well, so you''ll definitely want to load it up with as much as you can get your hands on.
also, from reading through the forums, if you have over 6tb of storage, you'll want 1gb of ram per terabyte of storage to get the most performance out of it.
i have freenas8 running as a VM at home on ESX 5 (HP ML110 G6, Pentium G6950 w/8gb RAM) managing 8x 2tb disks as a single ZFS volume with dual parity (the ZFS equiv. to RAID6) and it was really sluggish compared to my old pre-built NAS even when it was allocated 4gb of ram (max. of about 30MB/s write performance v's 100MB/s in the old NAS). i tried adding more vCPU's, but the only thing that helped was giving it more RAM to play with.
my next upgrade will be putting 16gb of RAM in the ESX server, so i'll really be able to give it all the memory it needs to see how well it can perform with plenty of RAM.
I might also see if reducing the CPU grunt makes any difference to performance if it's got all the RAM it can eat. 0 -
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your only real concerns around performance would be disk I/O and CPU/RAM.
the other thing to consider is that if you use freenas8 and ZFS as the file system (and with 4x 2tb disks you probably should), you'll want a good chunk of ram to get the best performance out of it. by default prefetching is disabled if you have less than 4gb of usable (i.e. not including that used by the OS itself) RAM as well, so you''ll definitely want to load it up with as much as you can get your hands on.
Made sure to order an extra 4GB stick (It comes with 2GB)
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