Been building this server up for about 5 years, adding hard drives as needed.
Running unraid
E5-2698 v3
64gb ddr4 ecc
X99-E WS
P600 for transcoding
10gbit networking w/ 3gbit fibre WAN
15 HDDs of assorted sizes, totally 148TB, 132TB usable
Been building this server up for about 5 years, adding hard drives as needed.
Running unraid
E5-2698 v3
64gb ddr4 ecc
X99-E WS
P600 for transcoding
10gbit networking w/ 3gbit fibre WAN
15 HDDs of assorted sizes, totally 148TB, 132TB usable
Sound advice. I tend to script everything via Ansible, and it sounds like beyond the initial OS install this is a good candidate for automation. I’m not sure I needed another excuse to go hardware shopping, but yet here we are.
You’re the Ansible now. [I’m the captain now.jpg]
This is all automatable of course. I’m using SaltStack but the storage setup is no longer part of it. It used to be but then I migrated from LVMRAID mirrors to RAIDZ and I didn’t update the code to fix it. ZFS setup is just too easy. It’s one command more or less. I just have the exact command for each machine with the exact drives in them on file.