we could build mundane computers with
normal components we could stick to the
convenient list of known compatible
parts and we could stay safely within the boundaries of modern technology we
could do reviews of stuff like smart baby monitors and actually okay well we
do have on that note we do have a video coming about the mimo smart baby monitor
so make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that but that's not what we
normally do no today we're going to be building a
48 terabyte storage server with 64 gigs
of RAM eight processing cores and 80 plus gold power supply and ample cooling
all in a case that's not much bigger
than a couple of shoe boxes welcome to
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I was first inspired to do this build when Silverstone showed me the DS 380 a
case that they boasted featured support for an ITX motherboard eight 3 and 1/2
in hard drives and four 2 and 1/2 in
ssds or hard drives to which I replied
well okay uh but what the heck Hardware are you expecting people to put in this
thing storage geeks on a budget are going to buy 12 or 16 Port raid cards
and put them in an ITX machine are you mad and they said no no no no no there's
a perfect motherboard for this thing the
ASRock rack c2750 d4i server slw workstation board
with a passively cooled Intel avaton 27508 Core CPU support for up to 64 gigs
of ECC DDR3 memory dual Intel i210
network card 12 SATA ports six SATA 3 from a pair of
Marvel controllers and six from the Intel controller two of which are SATA 3
and the other four of which are SATA 2 a PCIe adex expansion slot that you can
use for raid card expansion or in our case a 10 gbit Nick card and some really
sweet server grade remote monitoring and management stuff that I've never really
had the pleasure of playing around with before including power controls and even
a display output preview that runs in a little Java plugin in your browser so I
said heck yeah man now this board is cool in general but its most important
feature for this build was actually kind of hidden in that massive spec list and
it wasn't hard drive support but rather
RAM support we're going to be using Freez which calls for some base memory
about 8 gigs and then 1 gig of ECC so
that's error correcting RAM per 1 tbyte of raw storage space so given that we're
planning to use eight 6 TB 3 and 1/2 in drives in ZFS 2 it's about equivalent to
raid six and that two drives within a vdev can fail out right before any data
is lost but otherwise not necessarily that similar um well we're going to need
a whole lot of RAM aren't we 64 gigs is
possibly slightly Overkill but since the
options are going to be 32 gigs in you
know a regular 4dm motherboard or doubling it to 64 gigs in this
particular motherboard well we're better off going a little bit Overkill rather
than than risking losing data because we didn't have enough RAM so we've got four
sticks of intelligent memories 16 gig
dims that we're going to be using to keep our data nice and safe they're
right on the approved hardware list for this motherboard so feeling pretty good
about our chances which leads us to the storage drives we're using just about
the badasses storage drives on the market right now seates Enterprise
capacity drives they're designed for us large storage appliances in the most
demanding possible environments data centers where vibration from nearby
drives all around them needs to be compensated for and performance cannot
go down and failure is not an option and I mean not only do these bad boys come
prepared for a 247 or always on workload
with full drive encryption support and a huge 1.4 million hour meantime between
failure but compared to cate's own consumer NAS Drives their ratings are
based on 10 times the workload or 550
terabytes per year with a 5year warranty to back it up so I'm feeling pretty good
about these too but obviously these drives um what we're using as a small
business isn't necessarily going to be practical for everyone and these
Enterprise capacity drives might not make any sense for the typical home user
but for you guys there's the regular Nas and raid drives that are perfectly good
options for a 1 to eight Bay storage device and cool little tidbit that I
wasn't aware of is that Seagate sells them with a data recovery insurance plan
now that they're calling seate plus rescue that includes shipping both ways
a replacement drive that they send the data back to you on and no deductible or
limit to the cost of the recovery service with about a 90% success rate so
that's maybe something to consider I had no idea that was there until I was
researching this build now for the rest
of the hardware I had originally intended to install the 83 and 1/2 in
drives for mass storage with four ssds for operating Sy system and a large SSD
cache but further investigation revealed
that unless your frez is going to be used for a database workload or like a
mail server you may not benefit from an L2 Arc or SSD cache at all and even if
you would benefit you want to keep the size relatively small like 128 gigs or
256 gigs in most cases so I decided to
change gears and use my 1 TB ssds for
dedicated shares that can be assigned to individual video editors to use as
high-speed storage for Scratch discs This Server will have up to a 20 gbit
per second link to the rest of the network so it should be enough to keep
everyone's storage Snappy even if they're accessing SSD storage over their
own 10 gbit links then for power I've
gone with a Silverstone sfx 450 W modular 80 plus gold power supply so
this is actually the first time I've ever been thankful that a power supply has a removable 8 Pin CPU connector
since this board doesn't require one and there's not a lot of space for cable
management in this case so the setup
process for FAS once you read the highly recommended by the way 60 plus page PDF
written by cyber jock from the FAS forums is actually surprisingly
straightforward burn a disc and put it in the system with only the drive that
you want to use for your OS installed in my case an old 80 gig Intel x25 M gen 1
and the whole thing pretty much does itself once you boot it up shutter down
to install all your drives or don't the ASRock board has full support for hot
Swap and then you pretty much boot up and you're dumped at a command prompt
where actually things were surprisingly straightforward it might look a little
bit intimidating if you've never really dealt with that kind of thing before but
it's it's really not you're just going to select which Ethernet interface
you're going to check the IP address that was assigned to the system via DHCP
from your router and then you're going to go to some other computer on the
network enter that IP create a password
and that's pretty much it you can do the rest of it if you're not getting into
the more advanced features of freas through the web interface so then lonus
why Fraz with a ZFS file system for this build great question um initially I just
kind of wanted to try it since I've never played around with it before and I
heard it was great and I thought I might be able to save some money since the
three miixed controller setup on this ASRock board will not support a large
raid array across all the controllers and I'd need an addin Hardware raid card
which would add expense and limit me to the onboard gigabit networking ports in
teaming mode well after doing the necessary research I discovered that due
to the ludicrous RAM requirements both in terms of the amount you have to buy
and the necessity of ECC support you won't really be saving any money if you
want a really high capacity server like ours anyway and I discovered that freas
is surprisingly Limited in terms of how you can expand your arrays and whatnot
but I decided to go ahead with it anyway just so that I could try it and so that
I could Salvage my Lightning Fast networking something that will be
important if we have multiple editors working with 4K prores footage off the
same array at the same time where lots
of sequential performance is going to be key so at the end of all that how did it
perform then well here you go these numbers are for a 10 GB SSD based
workstation to our server so while it wasn't cheap there's no doubt that when
it comes to what we were after which was sequential performance for multiple
users we ended up with a pretty rocking
and compact little storage box here
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