Options and Options and Options!

[thedarkdad3]

Hey everyone,

 

 First off, I hope you are having a great week if not I hope it gets better. Let's start here, I have been running a QNAP NAS for 9-years and it's been running rock solid. 4GB ram | Intel Core 2 Duo with 5x 3TB Drives @ 10TB usable space! Now it's time to reinvest expand my storage and move on to a new setup. 

 

I purchased an HP Gen10 Server it's running a XEON Silver CPU (1 Socket) (for now 16gb ram) but I can expand to 192gb. The array will be x8 12TB Helium Drives. The reason I opted to go with a traditional server this time around is it gives me options to scale up or down and to install many options for images -distros. Examples? Vmware esxi, Hyper V, Windows Server 2019, FREENAS, Unbuntu etc etc 

 

 

The parts are now coming in and I am just torn. Do I just do freenas? Do I install vmware and freeenas on top of it? Should I just do Hyperv?

 

 

In short this holds alot of high res 4k movies and images from my GX85 and GH5 cameras along with 4k drone footage + dslr images and of course backups. 

 

 

 

Thoughts? 

 

EDIT: I forgot to add, please keep in mind i may or may not add a 32TB SAN (this will most likely happen) 

 

 

OLD NAS setup

*NAS*=QNAP TS-509 Pro/RAID5/(5)Seagate  3TB @ 10.5 TB
 

 

[alex75871]

FreeNAS is best run on bare-metal. Don't install a hyper-visor over the top.

 

This is the recommendation of the TrueNAS/FreeNAS developers.

 

If you are spending that much money on server-grade infrastructure then don't do something not recommended at the OS-layer compromising your storage solution.