New build advice

[Max_Hughes]

I’ve got a basic FreeNAS setup currently with 6 X 4tb dirves in a RAID Z2. Its now full so I wanted to add another 6 X 8th drives as another vdev then add it to the pool. However as my system can only take a MAXIMUM of 16GB RAM, I realised that this wouldn’t be enougth for the proposed 72Tb (48Tb avalable) pool given the reccomended 1GB/TB + 8GB system reccomendation.

 

So I am in the position of having to look at buying a new server before I can expand the pool. My system is currently in a Fractal R5 with a few modifications allowing me to squeeze 12 drived into it, but if im upgrading anyway I thought i might as well try and future proof it a bit more.

 

I have seen what seems like a good deal on a 24bay 4U system with 2 x Xeon E5-2630L v1 (Hex core Sandy Bridge from 2012) and 64GB RAM (8x8GB so expandable to 128Gb in the future) for £880. How does this sound to everyone else as a deal?

 

Given the extra CPU hoursepower I would like to be able to run some other VMs on this sytem at the same time. I was planning on eperimenting with a hypervisor (not sure which) and doing hardware passthrough for the SAS cards to a freeNAS install, and then running other VMs.

 

I think I remember Someone telling me there is a virtulisation bug with some of the old Xeons meaning the market if flooded with them because a lot of the big companies had to abandon them.

 

The main question I have is does anyone know what this issue was and if the CPUs above where affected?

 

If anyone has any other suggestions of comments I’d love to hear them.