![]() Vdev-1 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) Vdev-0 = 6 x 4 TB drives in RAID-z2 (6 Seagate Desktop drives - ST4000DM000-1F2168) HBA: LSI/Broadcom SAS9207-8i, 6Gbps SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA - flashed to IT Firmware: 20.00.07.00Ĭonnected to: two 6Gb/s 24-port 3.5" mini-SAS expander backplanes (80H10024001A0) ![]() 128 GB of 16GB sticks Samsung brand PC3-12800R, DDR3 Registered ECC Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 V2, 2.6GHz 8 Core (16 thread) System board: SuperMicro Motherboard X9SRL-F, LGA 2011/Socket R, IPMI For a home NAS, this chassis is huge, able to hold 48 data drives and two boot drives with a couple spaces internally for non-hot-swap drives. The three pools in this one system represent the three NAS systems I had before the consolidation. I have even put together some hardware just to test things out a time or two.įor a while I had three systems, all at once, at home but I am making some hardware changes right now and only one NAS is online. I made some mistakes along the way, learned some and I try to share some of those lessons learned experiences here in the forum. This is the 8th FreeNAS unit I have built for home. This one was built in 2018, but I reused the name from a previous build. Hope this is helping in a way if you've been searching for some info on these Dell machines. Running Freenas 11.1 on it and it survived a lot of (load-) testing including unplugging it randomly on purpose ( don't try this you have been warned!) Impression: works just great, loving it! The PERC H330 is capable of being switched to "HBA mode" (deep down in the config menu of the PERC H330) and that really did the trick for me. Intel Xeon E3-1220v5, 24GB ECC RAM, Dell PERC H330, IDRAC 8 express, 4x 10TB Seagate Exos X10 ST 100000NM0086, 2x Sandisk Cruzer Fit 32GB USB 2.0 as boot device, I haven't heard of anyone who successfully managed this with the "Mini Mono" but maybe it's possible EDIT: NO, it'll brick your Mini Mono! But afterwards surely the Dell R320 will complain that the PERC H 310 Mini is missing and will not fully boot, so: don't try to flash the PERC H310 Mini Mono to IT mode! I did manage to attach every single HDD to the PERC H310 Mini Mono in "non-raid mode" but as far as I understood this, to get everything to work 100% the HDDs should have been attached in "HBA mode" and this is (to my knowledge) only possible when you flash the PERC H 310 Mini Mono to "IT mode". Impression: ok, it worked in a way but because of the PERC H310 Mini Mono which I did not risk to flash to IT mode there was no chance of getting the SMART data out of the machine/HDDs which (for me) was too risky so I stopped using the R320 as a FreeNAS machine. Intel Xeon E5-2430L 2 GHz 6 cores, 32GB registered ECC DDR3 RAM (2x 16GB DIMM), Dell PERC H310 Mini Mono SAS Raid controller, IDRAC 7 Enterprise, Dell 350 Watt Hot swap power supply, 4x 10TB Seagate Exos X10 ST 100000NM0086, 2x Sandisk Cruzer Fit 32GB USB 2.0 as boot device, And ok, these are just my experiences so maybe someone else with much deeper IT wisdom may experienced something completely different. Been reading this forum for quiet some time and now I thought it's time to give a little back to the community, so I wanted to share my impressions with the Dell servers mentioned above so that anyone who's got some questionmarks about building his/hers FreeNAS on these kind of machines maybe gets some little pieces of information.
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